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Miriam
Pucci Ben Zeev
Emeritus Full Professor, Department of Jewish History
Link: https://cris.bgu.ac.il/en/persons/miriam-ben-zeev
e-mail: miriambz@bgu.ac.il
EDUCATION
B.A.+M.A.: 1968-1972. University of Padova
(Italy), Department of Ancient History. Advisor: Prof. Franco Sartori. Title of thesis: La rivolta ebraica
al tempo di Traiano.
Ph.D.: 1972-1977, Jerusalem, The Hebrew
University. Advisors: Prof. Alexander Fuks, Prof. Menachem Stern. Title of
thesis: The Rebellion of the Jews During the Reign of Trajan.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
1975/6: Lecturer on Greek and Latin
literature
Ben Gurion University, Department of
General Studies.
1976-1978: Teacher of Latin - Ben Gurion
University, Department of General Studies.
1977: Teacher of Latin (Summer Courses) -
The Hebrew University, Department of General History.
1978—: Lecturer on Jewish History, Second
Temple Period Ben Gurion University, Department of History (full time position)
1978/9: Lecturer on Roman history (part
time position) - The Hebrew University, Department of General History.
1982: Senior Lecturer — Ben-Gurion
University of the Negev, Department of History
1983: Tenured — Ben-Gurion University of
the Negev, Department of History 2000: Associate Professor, Dept of History,
BGU.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Positions in academic administration:
1998/9: Head of the sub-department of Jewish History, in the Department of
History, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Educational activities
Courses taught:
1. Ben Gurion University, Department of
History: The Jews of Rome Between the Republic and the Empire.
2. Jewish Rights vis-a-vis the Rights of
Other Population Groups in the Roman World: The Testimony of the Inscriptions
and the Literary Sources.
3. The Historical Reliability of Josephus
Flavius’ Writings.
4. Jewish Hellenism.
5. Greek Authors and Their Attitude Toward
the Jews.
6. What Did the Romans Think of the Jews?
7. The Emperor Augustus, King Herod and the
Jews.
8. The Jews in Egypt in the Third and
Second Centuries BCE.
9. Jews, Greeks and Egyptians at Alexandria
in the Roman Period.
10. Proselytism and Anti-Judaism in the
Second Temple Period.
11. What did it Mean to Be a Woman in the
Roman World?
12. The Jewish Papyri: Seven Hundred Years
of History.
13. Roman Politics and the Jews.
14. Jewish Revolts Against Roman Power.
15. Introduction to the History of the
Jewish People in the Second Temple Period (538 BCE — 70 CE).
16. Roman Government and the Greco-Jewish
Conflict at Alexandria, at Caesarea, in Syria and in Asia Minor.
17. The Jews in Babylonia.
18. Diaspora Judaism in the Second Temple
Period.
19. The Jews at Elephantine in the Fifth
Century BCE.
PUBLICATION IN JUDAICA
Books
1. La rivolta ebraica al tempo di Traiano (The Jewish Revolt at the
Time of Trajan), Biblioteca di studi antichi, no. 33, ed. Giardini, Pisa 1981
2. Jewish Rights in the Roman World, Texts
and Studies in Ancient Judaism 74, ed. by Martin Hengel and Peter Schäfer,
J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), Tübingen, 1998.
Refereed articles
- "Il movimento insurrezionale in Giudea (117-118 d.C.)"
(The Rebellion in Judea, 117-118 CE), Scripta Classica Israelica, 4, 1978, pp.
63-76.
- "Qualche nota sulla tradizione letteraria della rivolta
ebraica al tempo di Traiano" (Some Comments on the Literary Tradition of
the Jewish Revolt at the Time of Trajan), Rivista Storica dell’Antichità, 9,
1979, pp. 61-67.
- "Traiano, la Mesopotamia e gli Ebrei" (Trajan,
Mesopotamia and the Jews), Aegyptus, 59, 1979, pp. 168-189.
- "Sull’ipotesi di una rivolta ebraica in Cirenaica nel I sec.
a.C." (On the Hypothesis of a Jewish Rebellion in Cirenaica in the First
Century BCE), Rendiconti dell’Ist. Lombardo, 113, 1979, pp. 123-126.
- "Alexandria ad Aegyptum" (Alexandria of Egypt), Rivista
Storica dell’Antichità, 5, 1979, pp. 195-205 "Il significato del termine
apoikia nell’opera di Filone Alessandrino" (The Meaning of the Term
Apoikia in the Work of Philo), Athenaeum, 59, 1981, pp. 498-499.
- (An unknown Source on a Possible Treaty
Between Hyrcanus I and the Partians), Zion, 46, 1981, pp. 331-338.
- "Some Historical Remarks on Rufinus’
Historia Ecclesiastica (H.E. IV, 2, 1-5)," Rivista Storica dell’Antichità,
11, 1981, pp. 123-128.
- (Josephus Flavius’ View on the
Relationship Between the Jews and the Parthians), in: Josephus Flavius:
Historian of Eretz-Israel in the Hellenistic-Roman Period, ed. U. Rappaport,
Jerusalem 1982, pp. 117-129.
- "La rivolta ebraica in Egitto
(115-117 d.C.) nella storiografia antica" (The Jewish Revolt in Egypt
(115-117 CE) in the Ancient Historiography), Aegyptus, 62, 1982, pp. 195-217.
- "Sullo sfondo politico dei moti insurrezionali ebraici del
116-117 d.C." (On the Political Background of the Jewish Revolts in
116-117 CE), Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, 141, 1982-3, pp. 265-277.
- "C.P.J. II, 158, 435 e la rivolta
ebraica al tempo di Traiano" (C.P.J. II, 158, 435 and the Jewish Revolt at
the Time of Trajan), Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphie, 51, 1983, pp.
95-103.
- "Jewish-Parthian Relations in
Josephus," The Jerusalem Cathedra, 1983, pp. 13-25.
- (The Jewish Revolt in Egypt at the Time
of the Emperor Trajan), in: Nation and History: Studies in the history of the
Jewish People, I, ed. M. Stern, Jerusalem 1983, pp. 125-139.
- (The Jewish Revolt at the Time of the
Emperor Trajan), in: Judea and Rome: The Jewish Revolts, ed. U. Rappaport,
Jerusalem 1983, pp. 117-129.
- "A Note on Johanan Levy
(1901-1945)," Athenaeum, 62, 1984, pp. 644-645.
- "Cosa pensavano i romani degli ebrei?" (What Did the Romans Think of the Jews?), Athenaeum, 65, 1987, pp.
335-359.
- (The Attitude of the Romans Toward the
Jews), in: Greece and Rome in Eretz-Israel, ed. A. Kasher, G. Fuks, U.
Rappaport, Jerusalem 1989, pp. 15-35.
- "Greek Attacks Against Alexandrian
Jews During Emperor Trajan’s Reign," Journal for the Study of Judaism in
the Persian, Hellenistic and Roman Times, 20, 1, 1990, pp. 227-235.
- "New Perspectives in the
Jewish-Greek Hostilities in Alexandria During the Reign of Emperor
Caligula," Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic
and Roman Times, 21, 2, 1990, pp. 227-235.
- "The Reliability of Josephus
Flavius: The Case of Hecataeus’ and Manetho’s Accounts of Jews and Judaism:
Fifteen Years of Contemporary Research (1979-1990)," Journal for the Study
of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic and Roman Times, 24, 1, 1993, pp.
215-234.
- "Roman Documents in Josephus’
Antiquities: What Was Josephus’ Source?," Scripta Classica Israelica, 13,
1994, pp. 46-59.
- "Publius Dolabella, Marcus Antonius
and the Jews," Athenaeum, 82, 1994, pp. 31-40. "Caesar and the Jewish
Law," Revue Biblique, 102, 1995, pp. 28-37.
- "Seleukos of Rhosos and the
Jews," Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic and
Roman Times, 26, 2, 1995, pp. 113-121.
- "Did the Jews Enjoy a Privileged
Position in the Roman World?" Revue des etudes Juives, 154, 1995, pp.
23-42.
- "Josephus, Bronze Tablets and Greek
Inscriptions," Ant. Class. 64, 1995, pp. 211-215. "Ceasar’s Decrees
in the Antiquities: Josephus’ Forgeries or Authentic Roman Senatus
Consulta?" Athenaeum, 84, 1996, pp. 71-91.
- "Jewish Rights in the Roman World:
New Perspectives," Te’udah, 12, Studies on the Jewish Diaspora in the
Hellenistic and Roman Period, ed. B. Isaac and A. Oppenheimer, Tel Aviv 1996,
pp. 39-53.
- "Who Wrote a Letter Concerning
Delian Jews?" Revue Biblique, 103, 1996, pp. 237-243. "Polybius,
Josephus and the Capitol in Rome," Journal for the Study of Judaism in the
Persian, Hellenistic and Roman Times, 27, 2, 1996, pp. 21-30.
- "When Was the Title ‘Dictator
Perpetuus’ Given to Caesar?" Ant. Class., 69, 1996, pp. 251-253.
"Ant. XIV, 185-267: A Problem of Authenticity," in: Classical Studies
in Honor of David Sohlberg, ed. R. Katzoff, Ramat Gan 1996, pp. 193-221.
- "Six Roman Documents," Jewish
Studies in a New Europe: Proceedings of the Fifth Congress of Jewish Studies in
Copenhagen 1994, ed. by U. Haxen et al., Copenhagen 1998, pp. 99-107.
- "Augustus’ Policy and Asian
Jews" forthcoming in Te’udah, ed. M. Mor and A. Oppenheimer. "Were
They Seditious? The Jews of Rome in the Sixties BCE," forthcoming in a
volume in the memory of Professor Baruch Sermoneta, ed. R. Bonfil.
- "The Sovereignty Over the Vestments
of the High Priest: a Chapter in the Jewish-Roman Relationship,"
forthcoming in: Gli ebrei nell’impero romano, ed. A. Lewin, Editrice La
Giuntina, Firenze.
- “New Insights into Roman Policy in Judaea
on the Eve of the Bar Kokhba Revolt,” Journal for the Study of Judaism,
49 (2018), 84-107.
- "Jewish Identities in Ancient Times:
the Case of Artapanus.“ Materia Giudaica 24 (2019),
151-159.
- “Eusebius and Hadrian’s Founding of Aelia
Capitolina in Jerusalem,” Electrum 26 (2019), Jerusalem and Judaea.
Studies on History, Archaeology and Numismatics, ed. Edward Dabrowa,
119-128.
- “New Perspectives on the ‘War of Qitos’,”
in: Tra politica e religione: I Giudei nel mondo greco-romano. Studi in onore di Lucio
Troiani,
ed. Livia Capponi, Milano: Editoriale Jouvence 2019, 205-224.
- “Might Antiochus’ Measures in Judea Have
Had an Impact on those later Enacted by Hadrian?” Materia Giudaica 25
(2020), 411-417.
-
“116-117 de notre ère. Les révoltes de la diaspora juive à l’époque
de Trajan.” In Histoire des Juifs: Un voyage en 80 dates de
l’Antiquité à nos jours. Ed. Pierre Savy et al. (Paris:
Presses Universitaires de France, 2020), 103-109.
- “130 de notre ère. La transformation de
Jérusalem en colonie romaine.” In Histoire des Juifs: Un voyage
en 80 dates de l’Antiquité à nos jours. Ed. Pierre Savy et al. (Paris:
Presses Universitaires de France, 2020), 111-117.
- "Tacitus
and the Origins of the Jewish People.” (Hebrew). In A Work of Wisdom (Exod.
35: 33): Studies in Honor of Professor Bezalel Bar-Kochva. Vol. 1. Ed. Stephanie Binder et al. (Tel Aviv: Tel
Aviv University, 2021), 243-257.
Unrefereed articles
- Review of: A. Kasher, The Jews in
Hellenistic and Roman Egypt, in: Athenaeum, 69, 1981, pp. 240-241.
- Review of: A.M. Rabello, Effetti personali della ‘patria
potestas’ (Personal Aspects of the ‘Patria Potestas’), Milano 1979, Athene e
Roma, 1982, pp. 199-200.
- Review of Josephus Flavius: Historian of
Eretz-Israel in the Hellenistic-Roman Period, ed. U. Rappaport, Jerusalem 1983)
in Athenaeum, 62, 1984, pp. 380-381.
- Review of: The Great Jewish Revolt, ed.
A. Kasher, Jerusalem 1983) in: Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian,
Hellenistic and Roman Times, 14, 2, 1984, pp. 205-207.
- Review of: A. Kasher, Jews and
Hellenistic Cities in Eretz-Israel, ed. M. Hengel, P. Schäfer, Tübingen 1990,
Scripta Classica Israelica, 11, 1991/2, pp. 184-188.
- Review of: Laura Boffo, Inscrizione
greche e latine per lo studio della Bibbia (Greek and Latin Inscriptions for
the Study of the Bible), Brescia 1994, Athenaeum, 85, 1997, pp. 647-651.
- "Demetrios — Fragmente"
(Demetrius — Fragments), forthcoming in Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart,
ed. D. S. Browning, B. Janowski, E. Juengel.
- "Diaspora — Aufstände"
(Diaspora — The Revolt), forthcoming in Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart,
ed. D. S. Browning, B. Janowski, E. Juengel.
Presentation of papers at conferences
1977: The Rebellion of the Jews During the
Reign of Trajan. Congress of Classical Studies, Jerusalem.
1980: The Greco-Jewish Stasis in Alexandria
in Early Hadrianic Time. Congress of Classical Studies, Jerusalem.
1981: On the Tendentiousness of Josephus’
Historical Writings. International Colloquium: Josephus Flavius, Historian of
Eretz-Israel. University of Haifa.
The Jewish Revolt in Egypt (115-117 CE) in
Ancient Historical Sources. The Eight Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem.
1985: The Attitude of the Roman World
Toward Jews and Judaism. International Colloquium: Greece and Rome in
Eretz-Israel. Haifa — Tel Aviv.
Greek Attacks Against Alexandria’s Jews at
the Beginning of the Second Century CE. The Ninth World Congress of Jewish
Studies, Jerusalem.
1990: The Jews in the Work of Manetho.
Congress of Classical Studies, Haifa.
1991: Roman Policy and Diaspora Jews.
International Colloquium: The Jewish Diaspora in the Hellenistic and Roman
Periods — the Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies — Tel Aviv, January 2-3,
1991.
1992: A Roman Senatus Consultum Concerning
the Jews. Congress of Classical Studies. University of Tel Aviv.
1993: Did the Jews Enjoy a Privileged
Position in the Roman World? The Eleventh World Congress of Jewish Studies,
Jerusalem.
1994: The Legal Position of the Jews in
Roman Time. The Jewish Law Association — Eight Biennial International
Conference, 20-23 June, 1994, Jerusalem.
Caesar’s Decrees in the Antiquities:
Josephus’ Forgeries or Authentic Roman Senatus Consulta? Fifth Congress of the
European Association for Jewish Studies, Copenhagen, 14-18 August 1994.
1995: Augustus’ Policy and Asian Jews.
International Colloquium: The Relations Between Jews and Gentiles in the Period
of the Second Temple, Mishnah and Talmud. Haifa, November 13-17.
1997: The Significance of Textual
Corruptions in the Greek and Roman Documents Quoted by Josephus. The Twelfth
World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, July 29 — August 5.
Marcus Antonius and the Jews.
Twenty-ninth Annual Conference of the
Association for Jewish studies, Boston, Massachusetts, December 21-23.
1998: C.P.J. II, 153 and Ant. XIX, 280-285.
Do They Really reflect One and the Same Edict Issued by Claudius?
Sixth Congress of the European Association
for Jewish Studies, Toledo, 19-23 August.
1999: ‘Il diritto di vivere secondo le leggi dei padri’ nelle fonti
storiche e nella realta` della Giudea romana.
Diritto e processo criminale nella Giudea romana. Giornata di
studio in occasione della pubblicazione del libro ‘Il processo contro Gesu`’.
Seminar Presentations
1995: Department of History of Religion,
University of Udine (Italy) Department of Antiquities, Pavia (Italy)
1996: Department of Jewish History,
University of Haifa Department of Classics, Paris (France)
1997: Department of History, University of
Udine (Italy)
1998: Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies,
Oxford (England)
Present academic activities
Research in progress
In preparation: From Caesar to Augustus:
Roman Policy and the Jews The Jews in Egypt in Hellenistic Times.
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