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Full-time Staff » Dr. Anne Fitzpatrick-McKinley

Dr. Anne Fitzpatrick-Mc Kinley, photo by Catherine Hezser

Head of School, School of Religions, Theology and Ecumenics

Lecturer in Early Judaism and the Near East

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Academic Degrees:

  • 1994 Ph.D. (Dublin)
  • 1988 B.A. (Dublin)

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Posts:

  • 2010 - Head of School
  • 2008 - 2010 Head of Department
  • Member of the Royal Irish Academy Committee for the Study of Near Eastern Religions
  • 1999- Lecturer in Second Temple Judaism, Trinity College Dublin

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Teaching and Departmental Responsibilities:

  • Head of School
  • Member of the School Executive
  • Member of the Executive, Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies
  • Academic co-ordinator for Masters in Theology
  • College Tutor
  • JF The Bible and Jewish and Christian Origins (Origins ofJudaism in the Persian and Hellenistic Periods)
  • JF Sources, Documents and Literacy
  • SF/JS Diasporas in Antiquity
  • SF/JS Intellectual Trends in Early Judaism
  • SF/JS Judah under Empire (From the Neo-Assyrian Period to the Maccabean Revolt)
  • SS The Jews of Egypt

Current Postgraduate Students:

Philip Crowe (Ph.D. student)
The Temple Economy in the Second Temple Period

Ronald Geobey (PhD student)

Heidi O'Rourke (M. Litt. student)
Amun and Yahweh: An Examination of the Jewish Temple of Elephantine during the Persian Period

Magdalena Szklarz (M. Litt. student)
The Book of Job

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Research Interests:

Israelite Religion in its Near Eastern Context; The history and development of Torah with special interest in the question of Near Eastern Identities; General Israelite history and religion; The Jews of Egypt from the Persian to Roman periods; The Persian period and the developments of the traditions about Ezra and Nehemiah.

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Research projects:

Political Structures in Palestine from the Persian to the Roman periods

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Publications:

Books:

  • Persia, Jerusalem and Local Politics. Brill, 2010 (forthcoming).
  • A Wandering Galilean: Essays in Honour of Sean Freyne, Edited by Z. Rodgers, with M.Daly-Denton and A. Fitzpatrick-McKinley. Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, Brill, 2009. (http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=210&pid=32761)
  • The Transformation of Torah from Scribal Advice to Law. Sheffield: JSOTS 287, 1999

Selected Articles:

  • "Yhwh and the gods of Palestine: a study of the seal and inscriptional evidence", Proceedings of the Irish Biblical Society, January 2000, 19-39.
  • "Les grandes institutions juives: la Torah", 377-395 in Histoire du Christianisme, ed. J.M. Mayeur, L. Pietri, A. Vauchez, M. Verand, Paris, Desclee, 2000.
  • "Synagogue Communities in the Graeco-Roman Cities", 55-87 in Jews in the Hellenistic and Roman Cities, ed. J.R. Bartlett, London, Routledge, 2002.
  • "Ezra Nehemiah and some early Greek lawgivers", 17-48 in Rabbinic Law in its Roman and Near Eastern Context, ed. C. Hezser, Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck, 2003.
  • "What did Nehemiah and Ezra do for Judaism?", in A Wandering Galilean: Essays in Honour of Sean Freyne, Edited by Z. Rodgers, with M.Daly-Denton and A. Fitzpatrick-McKinley. Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, Brill, 2009.

Contact: jwelch@tcd.ie | Last updated: Sep 20 2011 | Back to top