Near and Middle Eastern Studies

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Dr. Zuleika Rodgers

Dr. Zuleika Rodgers

Associate Professor/Head of Dept, Near & Middle Eastern Studies

3531896 2229http://people.tcd.ie/rodgersz

Biography

Having taken my undergraduate degree at Trinity, I wrote my Ph.D. on the first-century Judean historian Flavius Josephus under the supervision of Prof. Sean Freyne. During my doctoral research, I studied in Jeruslem at the École Biblique et Archéologique française de Jérusalem and the Ratisbonne Institute. I have been working in the area of Hellenistic Judaism, publishing and organising conferences and I am co-edited (with Prof. Honora Chapman) the Blackwell Companion to Josephus. I am now focusing my research on the study of the Jewish experience in Ireland.

Publications and Further Research Outputs

  • A Twentieth-Century Irishman's First Century Palestine: George Moore's The Brook Kerith in, editor(s)Joel Baden, Hindy Najman and Eibert Tigchelaar , Sibyls, Scriptures, and Scrolls: John Collins at Seventy, Boston; Leiden, Brill, 2016, pp1128 - 1144, [Zuleika Rodgers]Book Chapter, 2016, URL
  • Josephus, Titus Flavius Judaism Second Temple/Hellenistic Judaism, Elmer, Christine / McKenzie, Steven Linn / Römer, Thomas Chr. / Schröter, Jens / Walfish, Barry Dov / Ziolkowski, Eric, Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception , first, 14, Berlin, Boston, de Gruyter, 2017, pp733 - 741, [Zuleika Rodgers]Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2017
  • Jews in Ireland and Multiple Marginalities: Some Reflections on Historiography, Identity and Representation in, editor(s)Zuleika Rodgers and Natalie Wynn , Reimagining the Jews of Ireland: Historiography, Identity and Representation, UK, Peter Lang, 2023, pp6 - 21, [Zuleika Rodgers, Katrina Goldstone, Natalie Wynn]Book Chapter, 2023, URL
  • Zuleika Rodgers and Natalie Wynn, Reimagining the Jews of Ireland Historiography, Identity and Representation:, UK, Peter Lang Group, 2023, 1 - 227ppBook, 2023, URL
  • Z. Rodgers, Making History: Josephus and Historical Method, Leiden, Brill, 2006, 471ppBook, 2006
  • Justice for Justus: a re-examination of Justus of Tiberias' role in Josephus' Autobiography in, editor(s)B. McGing and J. Mossman , The Limits of Ancient Biography, Swansea, The Classical Press of Wales, 2006, pp169 - 192, [Z. Rodgers]Book Chapter, 2006
  • Josephus's Biblical Interpretation in, editor(s)Matthias Henze , A Companion to Biblical Interpretation in Early Judaism, Grand Rapids, MI and Cambrdige, UK, Eerdmans, 2012, pp436 - 464, [Zuleika Rodgers]Book Chapter, 2012
  • Zuleika Rodgers, with Anne Fitzpatrick McKinley and Margaret Daly-Denton , A Wandering Galilean: Essays in Honour of Sean Freyne, Leiden, Boston, Brill, 2009Book, 2009, URL
  • Monarchy vs. Priesthood: Josephus, Justus of Tiberius, and Agrippa II in, editor(s)Zuleika Rodgers with Anne Fitzpatrick McKinley and Margaret Daly-Denton , A Wandering Galilean: Essays in Honour of Sean Freyne, Leiden, Boston, Brill, 2009, pp173 - 184, [Zuleika Rodgers]Book Chapter, 2009
  • Zuleika Rodgers, Josephus' "Theokratia" and Mosaic Discourse: The Actualisation of Revelation at Sinai., The Significance of Sinai: Traditions about Sinai and Divine Revelation in Judaism and Christianity, Leiden, Boston, edited by George J. Brooke, Hindy Najman, Loren T. Stuckenbruck , Brill, 2008, pp129 - 148Conference Paper, 2008
  • Zuleika Rodgers and Honora Howell Chapman, Companion to Josephus, UK, Wiley Blackwell , 2016Book, 2016
  • Introduction in, editor(s)Z. Rodgers , Z. Rodgers, Making History: Josephus and Historical Method, Leiden, Brill, 2006, pp1 - 22, [Z. Rodgers]Book Chapter, 2006
  • Zuleika Rodgers, ''History of Hebrew Scholarship at Trinity College Dublin"', Old Library, Trinity College Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, 2014, -Exhibition
  • Zuleika Rodgers, 'Prof. Jacob Weingreen: His Life, Scholarship and Near Eastern Collection'., The Annual Richard D. Barnett Memorial Lecture, Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society, Institute of Archaeology, University College London , January 2017, 2017Invited Talk
  • Zuleika Rodgers, 'Jews in Ireland from British Subjects to Irish Citizens: 1916 and 2016', Annual Maccabean Society Lecture, Kings College London , 16 March, 2016, Maccabean SocietyInvited Talk
  • Zuleika Rodgers, 'Irish Attitudes to Israel', American Jewish Committee Talk, West Chester, NY, November, 2014, American Jewish CommitteeInvited Talk
  • Zuleika Rodgers, Trinity Monday Discourse on 'Jacob Weingreen', Trinity Monday Discourse, TCD, April, 2013, CollegeInvited Talk
  • Zuleika Rodgers, 'First Century Jews in Twentieth Century Ireland: George Moore's Essenes', Phebe McClatchy Conley Classics Lecture Series, California State University, Fresno , November, 2011, Department of Modern and Classical Languages and LiteraturesInvited Talk
  • Zuleika Rodgers, 'Josephus between Monarchy and Priesthood', Seminar in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity, University of Toronto , December, 2005, Seminar in Ancient Judaism and Early ChristianityInvited Talk
  • Zuleika Rodgers, 'Mediating Divine Will: Priests and Kings in the Writings of Josephus', Prophetic Imagination session, Association for Jewish Studies, Washington DC, December , 2005Invited Talk
  • Zuleika Rodgers, 'Re-Imagining the Jews of Ireland', In:'Re-Imagining the Jews of Ireland', 2017, TCDMeetings /Conferences Organised
  • Zuleika Rodgers, 'Jews and Political Discourse', July , In:British Association for Jewish Studies, Annual Conference , 2014, TCDMeetings /Conferences Organised
  • Zuleika Rodgers, Jan Willem van Henten, Shlomo Berger, 'Re-interpreting Hellenistic Judaism in the Nineteenth through Twenty-First Centuries', September, In:'Re-interpreting Hellenistic Judaism in the Nineteenth through Twenty-First Centuries', 2011, University of AmsterdamMeetings /Conferences Organised
  • Zuleika Rodgers, 'Workshop on the Reception of Hellenistic Judaism from the 18th Century to the Present', July , 2007, TCDMeetings /Conferences Organised
  • Zuleika Rodgers, 'Academic Colloquium in Honour of Prof. Sean Freyne', 2007, 2007, TCDMeetings /Conferences Organised
  • Zuleika Rodgers, 'Making History: Josephus and Historical Method', 2004, 2004, TCDMeetings /Conferences Organised
  • HETI, A. McElligott, A. Kramer, Z. Rodgers, 'Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial: New Perspectives'', November, 2009, 2009Meetings /Conferences Organised
  • Zuleika Rodgers, Monarchy vs. Priesthood: Josephus, Justus of Tiberias and Agrippa II, SBL Josephus Group, Washington DC, November, 2006Invited Talk, URL
  • Zuleika Rodgers, Josephus' Biblical Interpretation, Irish Biblical Association Evening Lecture, Trinity College Dublin, November, 2008, Irish Biblical AssociationInvited Talk
  • Zuleika Rodgers, Tradition and Innovation: Flavius Josephus and the Judean Priesthood, "HISTORIOGRAFIA E LITERATURA APOCALÍPTICA NO SÉC.I D.C.: ASPECTOS DA LITERATURA JUDAICA DO MEDITERRÂNEO ENTRE LEITURAS DO PASSADO E HISTORIOGRAFIA DO FUTURO", Universidade de Brasília , November, 2010, Prof. Vicente DobrorukaInvited Talk
  • Zuleika Rodgers, Retrospective Rivalry? Josephus and Justus of Tiberias , "HISTORIOGRAFIA E LITERATURA APOCALÍPTICA NO SÉC.I D.C.: ASPECTOS DA LITERATURA JUDAICA DO MEDITERRÂNEO ENTRE LEITURAS DO PASSADO E HISTORIOGRAFIA DO FUTURO", Universidade de Brasília, November, 2010, Prof. Vicente DobrorukaInvited Talk
  • Zuleika Rodgers, Translating Theocracy: Flavius Josephus and Biblical Interpretation, "HISTORIOGRAFIA E LITERATURA APOCALÍPTICA NO SÉC.I D.C.: ASPECTOS DA LITERATURA JUDAICA DO MEDITERRÂNEO ENTRE LEITURAS DO PASSADO E HISTORIOGRAFIA DO FUTURO", Universidade de Brasília, November, 2010, Prof. Vicente DobrorukaInvited Talk

Research Expertise

  • Title
    Digitisation of the holdings of the Weingreen Museum
    Summary
    Funding Agency
    PRTLI, Long Room HUB

Other Humanities, Other Humanities, Philosophy, Ethics and Religion, History and Archaeology, History and Archaeology, Philosophy, Ethics and Religion,

Recognition

  • Trinity College, 1984 Prize for Biblical Greek 1989
  • Trinity College, 1984 Prize for Biblical Greek 1988
  • Trinity College Postgraduate Studies Award 1991-1994
  • Trinity Global Engagement Award 2018
  • Bourse de L'École, École Biblique et Archéologique Française de Jérusalem 1993-1994
  • Provost's Teaching Award 2013
  • Provost's Project Award 2018
  • Trinity College, 1734 Bishop Forster Divinity Premium 1989
  • Trinity College, Toplady Memorial Prize 1991
  • Bat Kol Scholarship, Ratisbonne Institute, Jerusalem 1995
  • Trinity College, Lambert Prize for Biblical Greek 1989
  • Trinity College, Carson Biblical Prize 1988
  • Academy Committee Classical and Near Eastern Studies, Royal Irish Academy 2012
  • Member of the Royal Irish Academy Committee for the Study of Near Eastern Religions 2009
  • British Association for Jewish Studies President 2013-2014 Web officer 2017- Committee member 2009-
  • International Association of Genocide Scholars 2015
  • International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, Irish Delegate to the Academic Working Group
  • Association of Jewish Studies 2007
  • Society of Biblical Literature 2014
  • European Association of Jewish Studies
  • Program Chair, Hellenistic Judaism Session, Society of Biblical Literature 2013
  • Canadian Society for Biblical Studies 2008
  • Northern British Isles Jewish Studies Partners
  • Oriental Society of Toronto 2006
  • External Examiner for PhD thesis, Hebrew University Jerusalem 2011
  • British Association for Jewish Studies, committee member 2010
  • External Examiner for PhD thesis, Hebrew University Jerusalem 2011
  • External Examiner for PhD thesis, University of Reading
  • Consultation, Junior Cycle Jewish Studies (NCCA) 2018
  • British Association for Jewish Studies, Web Officer 2016
  • British Association for Jewish Studies, Web Officer 2016
  • Member of the Royal Irish Academy Committee for the Study of Near Eastern Religions 2007
  • British Association for Jewish Studies, President 2013
  • British Association for Jewish Studies, President 2013
  • External Examiner for PhD thesis, University of Reading
  • Member of the Royal Irish Academy Committee for the Study of Near Eastern Religions 2007
  • Member of the Royal Irish Academy Committee for Classical and Near Eastern Studies 2009
  • Alexander Street, Twentieth Century Religious Thought Library: Volume II Judaism. Advisory Board 2017
  • Member of the Royal Irish Academy Committee for Classical and Near Eastern Studies 2009
  • Consultant for Leaving Certificate examinations in Religious Education, Dept of Education 2010
  • National Undergraduate Awards (panel judge) 2010
  • Consultation, Junior Cycle Jewish Studies (NCCA) 2018
  • External Examiner for PhD thesis, University of Southampton 2009
  • Program Chair, Society of Biblical Literature, Hellenistic Judaism Section 2007
  • AHRC Project on the Reception of Josephus in Jewish Culture, University of Oxford (collaborator) 2015
  • AHRC Project on the Reception of Josephus in Jewish Culture, University of Oxford (collaborator) 2015
  • Program Chair, Society of Biblical Literature, Hellenistic Judaism Section 2007
  • Alexander Street, Twentieth Century Religious Thought Library: Volume II Judaism. Advisory Board 2017
  • Northern British Isles Jewish Studies Partnership 2015
  • Honorary Patron of the Holocaust Education Trust Ireland 2016
  • Zutot: Perspectives on Jewish Culture (Leiden; Brill), Member of Editorial Board 2014-
  • International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, Irish Delegate to the Academic Working Group 2014
  • Northern British Isles Jewish Studies Partnership 2015
  • International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, Irish Delegate to the Academic Working Group 2014
  • Honorary Patron of the Holocaust Education Trust Ireland 2016
  • Zutot: Perspectives on Jewish Culture (Leiden; Brill), Member of Editorial Board 2014-
  • National Undergraduate Awards (panel judge) 2010
  • British Association for Jewish Studies, committee member 2010
  • External Examiner for PhD thesis, University of Southampton 2009
  • Chair, National Undergraduate Awards (Religions and Theology section) 2009
  • Chair, National Undergraduate Awards (Religions and Theology section) 2009
  • Consultant for Leaving Certificate examinations in Religious Education, Dept of Education 2010