• Tessa Rajak (née Goldsmith, born 2 August 1946 in London) is a British historian and Emeritus Professor of Ancient history at the University of Reading...
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    which further popularized the myth narrative. According to historian Tessa Rajak, the Masada myth's prominence in the collective memory of Israel has...
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  • Josephus © 2011–2023 by Peter Lundström — Some Rights Reserved — V. 4.0 Tessa Rajak, The Jewish Dialogue With Greece and Rome: Studies in Cultural and Social...
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  • γὰρ ἄξω εἰρήνην ἐπὶ τοὺς ἄρχοντας εἰρήνην καὶ ὑγίειαν αὐτῷ translation Tessa Rajak Jewish perspectives on Hellenistic rulers 2007 p261 "Because a child...
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    archaeologist specialising in the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age of Greece Tessa Rajak (1946), ancient historian, primarily focused on Judaism in the Hellenistic...
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  • Bond, Senior Lecturer in the New Testament at University of Edinburgh Tessa Rajak, Emeritus Professor of Ancient History at the University of Reading Philip...
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    Classical Antiquity (Princeton University Press, 2004, 2006), p. 449; Tessa Rajak, "Was There a Roman Charter for the Jews?" Journal of Roman Studies,...
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    made against the authenticity of the James passage by scholars such as Tessa Rajak is that the passage has a negative tone regarding the High Priest Ananus...
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  • and the East A N Sherwin-White 229–73 8b The Jews under Hasmonean rule Tessa Rajak 274–309 8c Egypt, 146–31 BC Dorothy J Thompson 310–26 9 The senate and...
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    yotserekha, barukh meqaddeshekha, "Blessed be the One who created.. " Tessa Rajak Translation and Survival p. 304 "... masekhet sefer torah (1: 8-9), and...
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    Susan Treggiari, and Gail Trimble. Griffin taught Gillian Clark and Tessa Rajak as undergraduates. Her doctoral students include Hannah Cotton, Professor...
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  • γὰρ ἄξω εἰρήνην ἐπὶ τοὺς ἄρχοντας εἰρήνην καὶ ὑγίειαν αὐτῷ translation Tessa Rajak Jewish perspectives on Hellenistic rulers 2007 p261 "Because a child...
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    House of Herod. Herodian kingdom List of Hasmonean and Herodian rulers Rajak, Tessa (1996), "Iulius Agrippa (2) II, Marcus", in Hornblower, Simon (ed.),...
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    World: Essays in Honour of Miriam Griffin, edited by Gillian Clark and Tessa Rajak (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002) Confessions. Books I–IV (Cambridge :...
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  • funded Greek Bible in the Graeco-Roman World Project (2001 to 2006) with Tessa Rajak at the University of Reading. Pearce was a collaborator on the AHRC project...
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    AJ XIV 185–267; 301–323; XVI 160–178; XIX 278–311. Jos., AJ XIV 228. Rajak, Tessa (2007), 'Document and Rhetoric in Josephus: Revisiting the "Charter"...
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  • and they have one daughter, the British ancient historian, Professor Tessa Rajak.[where?][citation needed] His obituary in The Times gives his date of...
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    considers Beth She'arim of international importance (Volume 1, p. 309-11); Tessa Rajak considers its importance regional ("The rabbinic dead and the Diaspora...
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  • Sidney Jellicoe 1996-1998 John Lowden 1998-2000 Eugene Ulrich 2005–2006 Tessa Rajak 2007–2008 Jennifer Dines 2009–2010 Anneli Aejmelaeus 2011–2012 John Lee...
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     xxix–xxxv.. Information is from the Introduction, by Martin Goodman. Rajak, Tessa (2016). "Josephus, Jewish Resistance, and the Masada Myth". In Collins...
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  • Goodman 1994 Norman Solomon 1993 Bernard Jackson 1992 Stefan Reif 1991 Tessa Rajak 1990 A. Peter Hayman 1989 Nicholas de Lange 1988 Geza Vermes 1987 Philip...
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    World: Essays in honour of Miriam Griffin, Edited by Clark, Gillian and Rajak, Tessa, 181-191. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Library resources about Temple...
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    location: Rajak, Tessa (March 1981). "Roman Intervention in a Seleucid Siege of Jerusalem?". Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies. 22 (1): 65–81. Rajak hypothesizes...
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    "Beyond Comparison: M. Sergius, Fortunae victor". In Clark, Gillian; Rajak, Tessa (eds.). Philosophy and Power in the Graeco-Roman World: Essays in Honour...
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  • Judaism, Brill, pp. 577–602, ISBN 978-90-04-33283-6, retrieved 2024-01-20 Rajak, Tessa (2001-01-01), "INSCRIPTION AND CONTEXT: READING THE JEWISH CATACOMBS...
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  • SYNAGOGUE. Brown Judaic Studies, 2020. https://doi.org/10.26300/jpsj-rm51 Rajak, Tessa. "Synagogue and Community in the Graeco-Roman Diaspora." 22-38 in Jews...
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    des Alten Testaments, für das Septuaginta-Unternehmen, Göttingen 1914. Rajak, Tessa, Translation and survival: the Greek Bible of the ancient Jewish Diaspora...
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  • of the Jews, especially the Hasmonean practice of forced conversion Rajak, Tessa (2015). "Idumaea". Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Classics. Oxford University...
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    University Press. p. 1042. ISBN 1-397-80521-8. Lieu, Judith; North, John; Rajak, Tessa (2013). The Jews Among Pagans and Christians in the Roman Empire. Routledge...
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    Brill's Series in Jewish Studies 3. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. Rajak, Tessa. 1983. Josephus: The Historian and His Society. London: Duckworth. Reeder...
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