Israel in Egypt: the land of Egypt as concept and reality for Jews in antiquity and the early Medieval period
- Submitting institution
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University of Southampton
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 67492639
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.1163/9789004435407
- Publisher
- Brill
- ISBN
- 9789004435391
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
- 31 - Theology and Religious Studies
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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2
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This 270,000-word (not including indices or list of abbreviations) edited volume offers new perspectives and approaches to the study of Jews of the ancient and early mediaeval worlds and their association with Egypt, as inhabitants of Egypt, or as Jews in other lands reflecting on traditions and memories about Egypt as home to Jewish communities. The scope of the project is unprecedented in bringing together the Hellenistic period and the medieval world in the study of ancient Egypt. The volume is the product of a 2016 project, funded by the Oxford Seminar for Advanced Jewish Studies (OSAJS). £140,000 funded a project team of 8 visiting research fellows and 5 ECR postdoctoral fellows, drawn from the UK, Europe, North America and Israel. The programme included a two-day international conference (20-21 June 2016) hosted by the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. With Alison Salvesen, I co-directed the project from the development of the project concept to submission of the volume. The volume comprises 25 chapters, written by members of the project team (including two ECRs) and conference participants, together with an Introduction and extensive indices. I was responsible for co-authoring the Introduction with Alison Salvesen (my contribution = c.2,600 words), with overall responsibility for editing Part One of the volume (Ancient World) (=176,995 words) and for producing the list of abbreviations (xi-xiv), the chronological table (pp. 9-24), and the primary source indices (pp. 667-698) and contributed half of the work on the General index (pp. 649-666). My own chapter (18,375 words) offers a new approach to situating the Jewish philosopher Philo in relation to the city of Alexandria and positive Alexandrian traditions about the early monarchs of Ptolemaic dynasty. I was responsible for finalising the proofs and submitting the final manuscript with all subsequent checks through to publication.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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