Zuleika Rodgers, Lecturer in Jewish Studies, Head of Department

I wrote my Ph.D. on the first-century Judean historian Flavius Josephus and I have been working in the area of Hellenistic Judaism, publishing and organising conferences. I am currently co-editing (with Prof. Honora Chapman) the Blackwell Companion to Josephus in his World. I am now focusing my research on Jewish intellectual history, in particular the reception of Hellenistic Judaism from the period of the Enlightenment. I have run two workshops on this theme, one with colleagues in the University of Amsterdam. I am supervising six Ph.D./M.Litt. students working on topics such as Philo of Alexandria, Irish Jewish communal responses to the pogroms in Eastern Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and Irish attitudes towards Zionism from 1948 to 1973.

I currently serve as Co-Chair for the Hellenistic Judaism Section at the Society of
Biblical Literature, I sit on the executive of the British Association for Jewish Studies (president elect for 2014) and I am on the editorial board of Zutot: Perspectives on Jewish Culture. I was a member of the Royal Irish Academy Committee for the Study of Near Eastern Religions and now serve on Royal Irish Academy Committee for Classical and Near Eastern Studies. I am the national representative on the Academic Working Group of the International Taskforce on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research.

Publications

• "Josephus’s Biblical Interpretation" in Companion to Jewish Biblical Interpretation in the Hellenistic and Early Roman Period. Edited by M. Henze. Eerdmans, 2012.
• "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)
• "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.

Teaching:

JF, Introduction to Jewish Civilisation from Antiquity to the Present
SF/JS, Jews in the Medieval World
SF/JS, Jews and European Society from 1750
SF/JS, Response to Empire: Judeans and Rome
SF/JS, Great Jewish Books
SS, Holocaust Representation in Film and Literature

Academic Director, Certificate in Holocaust Education