Full-time Staff » Dr Zuleika Rodgers

Lecturer in Jewish Studies,Director of the Herzog Centre, Curator of the Weingreen Museum

Contact:

Room 5037, Arts Building
Phone: 01-896-2229
Email: rodgersz@tcd.ie

Academic Degrees:

BA, PhD Dublin

Posts and Positions:

2010- Head of Department
2009-2011 Director of Teaching and Learning, Undergraduate
2006 - Lecturer in Jewish Studies
2006- Director, Herzog Centre for Jewish and Near Eastern Religion & Culture

As Director of the Herzog Centre for Jewish and Near Eastern Religions and Culture, Dr. Rodgers organises with the co-operation of colleagues, research seminars, public lectures, and an educational programme focussed on teaching Jewish culture and history in schools.

Curator of the Weingreen Museum for Biblical Antiquities

Executive Committee, Centre for Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies, TCD
From 2007, Program Chair Unit, with Anette Yoshiko Reed of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, of the Society of Biblical Literature's Hellenestic Judaism Section. See the SBL website for information on submitting a paper proposal for presentation at the annual meeting.
Member of the Committee of the British Association of Jewish Studies,(until 2016, president-elect 2014)
Editorial board of Zutot: Perspectives on Jewish Culture
Member of the European Society of Jewish Studies
Member of the Royal Irish Academy Committee for Classical and Near Eastern Studies, 2009-
National Representative, Academic Working Group of the International Taskforce on Holocaust Education Remembrance and Research
Honorary Patron, Holocaust Education Trust Ireland
Member of the Royal Irish Academy Committee for the Study of Near Eastern Religions (2007-2009)
Chair, National Undergraduate Awards of Ireland (Religions and Theology) 2009.
2004-2005, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Project on Ancient Cultural Engagement, York University, Toronto.

The PACE project 'approaches the problems of ancient cultural interaction by building its resources around such writers as Polybius, Josephus, Diodorus Siculus, and others. We want to encourage both high-level scholarly and general public encounters with these authors in their complicated historical situations.' The resources provided to facilitate these encounters are available to scholars and the general public through PACE's well organised and accessible website.

1999-2006, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies, Trinity College, Dublin

This is a collaborative venture of research and teaching between the Department of Religions& Theology and the Department of Classics at Trinity College, Dublin. Cultural interaction between the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds - an interchange that forms the very basis of Western civilization - lies at the heart of our project. While serving as Post-Doctoral fellow, Dr. Rodgers taught courses in the School of Religions & Theology, and the Department of Classics, organized research seminars, public lecture series and two international conferences. The proceedings of the International Josephus Colloquium that took place in Dublin in September 2004 and which included contributions from scholars from Europe, the US, the Middle East, Asia and Australia, is published as Making History: Josephus and Historical Method by Brill. Dr. Rodgers currently sits on the executive committee and through the Centre for Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies she has recieved PRTLI funding for a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Near Eastern Archaeology for 2008-2009 to develop an on-line digital catalogue for the Weingreen Museum.

1998-1999, Elrington Post-Doctoral Fellow, School of Hebrew, Biblical and Theological Studies, Trinity College, Dublin.
1995 (01-06), Bat Kol Scholarship for Doctoral Studies, Ratisbonne Institute, Jerusalem
1993-1994, Scholarship of the École Biblique et Archéologique Française de Jérusalem

Teaching and Departmental Responsibilities

Head of Department
Director of the Herzog Centre for Jewish and Near Eastern Religion and Culture
Director of Teaching and Learning (Undergraduate)
Curator of the Weingreen Museum of Biblical Antiquities
Post-graduate Research student co-ordinator
College Tutor
Academic Director, Certificate in Holocaust Education

Courses

Year 1: The Bible and Jewish and Christian Origins (Judaism in the Roman Period)
Year 1: An Introduction to Jewish Civilization from Antiquity to the Modern Period
Year 1: Sources, Documents and Literacy
Years 2 and 3: Response to Empire: Rome and the Judeans
Years 2 and 3: Jewish Diaspora from Antiquity to the Modern Period
Years 2 and 3: Jews in the Medieval World
Years 2 and 3: Jews and European Society from 1750
Year 4: Holocaust Representation
M. Theol: Biblical Interpretation from Antiquity to the Enlightenment
Academic Director, Certificate in Holocaust Education

Research Interests and Projects

Judaism in the Greek and Roman Periods, particularly the writings of Flavius Josephus
Conference on Reception of Hellenistic Judaism :

Re-interpreting Hellenistic Judaism in the Nineteenth through Twenty-First Centuries
Amsterdam, September 12-14, 2011

Call for papers by the Institute for Culture and History, University of Amsterdam &the Centre for Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies, Trinity College Dublin: http://www.tcd.ie/Religions_Theology/mnes/

Weingreen Museum of Biblical Antiquities: Digitisation Project

The Weingreen Museum of Biblical Antiquities contains over 2,000 objects from the Ancient Near East and North Africa. The collection is an important College holding and is of interest to both scholars and the broader community. The first stage of the digitisation of the catalogue has begun with the aid of the Long Room Hub Initiative. Through the Centre for Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies and PRTLI funding, a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Near Eastern Archaeology will work on the development of the project in 2008-2009.

Herzog Centre Research Seminar

As Director of the Herzog Centre, I organise an interdisciplinary research seminar for scholars involved in the study of Jewish history and culture

Postgraduate Students:

Dr Rodgers is currently supervising PhD research students:

Natalie Wynn

Emily Parker

Stephen Murray

Barbara de Bergin

Paul Perry

David Simmonds

Publications:

"Monarchy vs. Priesthood: Josephus, Justus of Tiberius, and Agrippa II," in Z. Rodgers, M. Daly-Denton and A. Fitzpatrick-McKinley (eds.), A Wandering Galilean: Essays in Honour of Sean Freyne. Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, Brill, 2009.
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)
"Flavius Josephus," in Companion to Jewish Biblical Interpretation in the Hellenistic and Early Roman Period. Edited by M. Heinze, Forthcoming November 2009.
"Josephus' "Theokratia" and Mosaic Discourse: The Actualisation of Revelation at Sinai," in The Significance of Sinai: Traditions about Sinai and Divine Revelation in Judaism and Christianity. Edited by: George J. Brooke, Hindy Najman, Loren T. Stuckenbruck. Editorial Assistance: Eva Mroczek, Brauna Doidge and Nathalie Lacoste. 2008.
"Justice for Justus: A re-examination of Justus of Tiberias' Role in Josephus' Autobiography" in Biographical Limits in the Ancient World (eds. J. Mossman and B. McGing). Classical Press of Wales, 2006.
Making History: Josephus and Historical Method. Leiden: Brill, 2006. Editor, Proceedings of the International Josephus Colloquium, Dublin.

Book Reviews:

Reviews in Religion and Theology 6 (2) 1999:
J. McLaren, Turbulent Times? Josephus and Scholarship on Judaea in the First Century CE
Reviews in Religion and Theology 6 (3) 1999:
S. Mason (ed.) Understanding Josephus: Seven Perspectives

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