Full-time Staff » Dr. Anne Fitzpatrick-McKinley
Head of School, School of Religions, Theology and Ecumenics
Lecturer in Early Judaism and the Near East
Contact:
- Room 5029, Arts Building
- Phone: 01-896-3397
- Email: fitzpaa@tcd.ie
Academic Degrees:
- 1994 Ph.D. (Dublin)
- 1988 B.A. (Dublin)
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
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
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.
Research projects:
Political Structures in Palestine from the Persian to the Roman periods
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.
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