Prof Philip Alexander - personal details

Role: Professor of Post-Biblical Jewish Literature

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Tel: 0161 275-3977

Location: Samuel Alexander Building-SG.13
School of Arts, Histories and Cultures
The University of Manchester
Manchester
M13 9PL

Websites

• School of Arts, Histories and Cultures

Began his academic career as a Classicist, then switched to the study of Hebrew and Semitic languages, but has retained a fundamental interest in the problem of how to contextualize Rabbinic Judaism in the Graeco-Roman world of late antiquity. From 1992-95 was President of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.

Profile:

• MA, DPhil (Oxford ), FBA
• Professor of Post-Biblical Jewish Studies
• Co-Director, University of Manchester Centre for Jewish Studies
• Joined the University in 1972