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Dr. Zuleika Rodgers
Associate Professor/Head of Dept, Near & Middle Eastern Studies

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

Peer-Reviewed Publications

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 - 227pp Book, 2023 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

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

Zuleika Rodgers and Honora Howell Chapman, Companion to Josephus, UK, Wiley Blackwell , 2016 Book, 2016

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, 2009 Book, 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 - 148 Conference Paper, 2008

Z. Rodgers, Making History: Josephus and Historical Method, Leiden, Brill, 2006, 471pp Book, 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

Introduction in, editor(s)Z. Rodgers , Z. Rodgers, Making History: Josephus and Historical Method, Leiden, Brill, 2006, pp1 - 22, [Z. Rodgers] Book Chapter, 2006

Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications

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, 2017 Invited Talk, 2017

Zuleika Rodgers, 'Re-Imagining the Jews of Ireland', In:'Re-Imagining the Jews of Ireland', 2017, TCD Meetings /Conferences Organised, 2017

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 Society Invited Talk, 2016

Zuleika Rodgers, 'Jews and Political Discourse', July , In:British Association for Jewish Studies, Annual Conference , 2014, TCD Meetings /Conferences Organised, 2014

Zuleika Rodgers, 'Irish Attitudes to Israel', American Jewish Committee Talk, West Chester, NY, November, 2014, American Jewish Committee Invited Talk, 2014

Zuleika Rodgers, ''History of Hebrew Scholarship at Trinity College Dublin"', Old Library, Trinity College Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, 2014, - Exhibition, 2014

Zuleika Rodgers, Trinity Monday Discourse on 'Jacob Weingreen', Trinity Monday Discourse, TCD, April, 2013, College Invited Talk, 2013

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 Literatures Invited Talk, 2011

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 Amsterdam Meetings /Conferences Organised, 2011

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 Dobroruka Invited Talk, 2010

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 Dobroruka Invited Talk, 2010

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 Dobroruka Invited Talk, 2010

HETI, A. McElligott, A. Kramer, Z. Rodgers, 'Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial: New Perspectives'', November, 2009, 2009 Meetings /Conferences Organised, 2009

Zuleika Rodgers, Josephus' Biblical Interpretation, Irish Biblical Association Evening Lecture, Trinity College Dublin, November, 2008, Irish Biblical Association Invited Talk, 2008

Zuleika Rodgers, 'Academic Colloquium in Honour of Prof. Sean Freyne', 2007, 2007, TCD Meetings /Conferences Organised, 2007

Zuleika Rodgers, 'Workshop on the Reception of Hellenistic Judaism from the 18th Century to the Present', July , 2007, TCD Meetings /Conferences Organised, 2007

Zuleika Rodgers, Monarchy vs. Priesthood: Josephus, Justus of Tiberias and Agrippa II, SBL Josephus Group, Washington DC, November, 2006 Invited Talk, 2006 URL

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 Christianity Invited Talk, 2005

Zuleika Rodgers, 'Mediating Divine Will: Priests and Kings in the Writings of Josephus', Prophetic Imagination session, Association for Jewish Studies, Washington DC, December , 2005 Invited Talk, 2005

Zuleika Rodgers, 'Making History: Josephus and Historical Method', 2004, 2004, TCD Meetings /Conferences Organised, 2004

Research Expertise

Projects

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

Keywords

Flavius Josephus; Jewish identity in the Hellenistic world; Jewish studies; Modern Reception of Hellenistic Judaism; Second temple Judaism

Recognition

Representations

Member of the Royal Irish Academy Committee for Classical and Near Eastern Studies 2009

Zutot: Perspectives on Jewish Culture (Leiden; Brill), Member of Editorial Board 2014-

British Association for Jewish Studies, President 2013

British Association for Jewish Studies, committee member 2010

British Association for Jewish Studies, Web Officer 2016

International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, Irish Delegate to the Academic Working Group 2014

Alexander Street, Twentieth Century Religious Thought Library: Volume II Judaism. Advisory Board 2017

Program Chair, Society of Biblical Literature, Hellenistic Judaism Section 2007

Honorary Patron of the Holocaust Education Trust Ireland 2016

Northern British Isles Jewish Studies Partnership 2015

AHRC Project on the Reception of Josephus in Jewish Culture, University of Oxford (collaborator) 2015

Member of the Royal Irish Academy Committee for the Study of Near Eastern Religions 2007

Chair, National Undergraduate Awards (Religions and Theology section) 2009

Consultant for Leaving Certificate examinations in Religious Education, Dept of Education 2010

National Undergraduate Awards (panel judge) 2010

External Examiner for PhD thesis, University of Reading

External Examiner for PhD thesis, University of Southampton 2009

External Examiner for PhD thesis, Hebrew University Jerusalem 2011

Consultation, Junior Cycle Jewish Studies (NCCA) 2018

Awards and Honours

Provost's Project Award 2018

Trinity Global Engagement Award 2018

Provost's Teaching Award 2013

Bat Kol Scholarship, Ratisbonne Institute, Jerusalem 1995

Bourse de L'École, École Biblique et Archéologique Française de Jérusalem 1993-1994

Trinity College Postgraduate Studies Award 1991-1994

Trinity College, Toplady Memorial Prize 1991

Trinity College, 1734 Bishop Forster Divinity Premium 1989

Trinity College, Lambert Prize for Biblical Greek 1989

Trinity College, 1984 Prize for Biblical Greek 1989

Trinity College, 1984 Prize for Biblical Greek 1988

Trinity College, Carson Biblical Prize 1988

Memberships

British Association for Jewish Studies President 2013-2014 Web officer 2017- Committee member 2009- 2009-

European Association of Jewish Studies 2010-

Northern British Isles Jewish Studies Partners 2015-

Program Chair, Hellenistic Judaism Session, Society of Biblical Literature 2007 – 2013

Society of Biblical Literature 2000 – 2014

Academy Committee Classical and Near Eastern Studies, Royal Irish Academy 2009 – 2012

Association of Jewish Studies 2005 – 2007

International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, Irish Delegate to the Academic Working Group 2014

International Association of Genocide Scholars 2014 – 2015

Canadian Society for Biblical Studies 2007 – 2008

Oriental Society of Toronto 2004 – 2006

Member of the Royal Irish Academy Committee for the Study of Near Eastern Religions 2007 – 2009