Catherine Hezser is Professor of Jewish Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She specialises in rabbinic Judaism, the early history of Judaism in the Near Middle East, and the social history of the Jews in Roman Palestine during late antiquity.

Education

Hezser received her PhD from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in 1992. Her doctoral thesis was Form, Function, and Historical Significance of the Rabbinic Story in Yerushalmi Neziqin.[1] This was published the following year by Mohr Siebeck as a monograph.[2] Before her PhD, she studied Jewish Studies, Theology and Philosophy at the universities of Münster and Heidelberg.[3]

Career and research

Hezser was a Senior Research Fellow at Kings College Cambridge, 1992-94 where she worked on a project on early Judaism and Christianity with Keith Hopkins. She received her Habilitation in 1997 from the Freie Universität Berlin.[4] She was a Yad Hanadiv - Rothberg Foundation Fellow at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and was then awarded a Heisenberg Professorship by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. She was the Al and Felice Lippert Professor of Jewish Studies at Trinity College Dublin 2000-05, whilst also serving as the Director of the Herzog Centre for Jewish and Near Eastern Religions and Cultures. She has been at SOAS since 2005.

Hezser was Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo in 2020.[5] She has written, edited, and co-edited 15 books. In 2020, a petition supported a campaign to save her job as the only Chair in Jewish Studies at SOAS.[6]

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  1. ^ Hezser, Catherine (1993). Form, function, and historical significance of the rabbinic story in Yerushalmi Neziqin (Thesis) (in German). OCLC 722506196.
  2. ^ "Book - Form, function, and historical significance of the rabbinic story in Yerushalmi Neziqin - Catherine Hezser 1960- c1993". Jewish Theological Seminary library. Retrieved 2021-12-20.
  3. ^ Faculti (2016-11-28). "What is the Sun God Helios Doing in Late Antique Synagogues?". Faculti. Retrieved 2021-12-20.
  4. ^ Hezser, Catherine (2001). Jewish Literacy in Roman Palestine. Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism. Vol. 81 (1 ed.). Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck. ISBN 978-3-16-147526-9.
  5. ^ Phone, Visiting address Domus TheologicaBlindernveien 9 0371 OSLO Norway Mail address P. O. Box 1023 Blindern NO-0315 OSLO Norway; fax. "Professor Catherine Hezser - The Faculty of Theology". www.tf.uio.no. Retrieved 2021-12-20.((cite web)): CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  6. ^ Rocker, Simon (25 August 2020). "Only chair of Jewish studies at Soas survives cuts". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 2021-12-20.
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