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Personal: Born: 29 October 1926, in Hartford, Connecticut.

Education: B.A. (Phi Beta Kappa, Valedictorian), Trinity College, Hartford, 1946; M.A. (in classics), Trinity College, 1947; Ph.D. (in classical philology), Harvard University, 1951 (diss.: "Cicero's Conception of Historiography"); L.H.D. (honorary), Trinity College, 1998.

Teaching Positions: Ford Foundation Teaching Fellow in Classics, Trinity College, 1951-52; Instructor in New Testament Greek, Hartford Seminary Foundation, 1951-52; Instructor in Classics, Trinity College, 1952-53; Instructor in Classics, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, 1953-55; Instructor in Humanities and History, Yeshiva and Stern Colleges, 1955-56; Assistant Professor of Classical Civilization, Yeshiva College, 1955-61; Associate Professor of Classical Civilization, Yeshiva College, 1961-66; Professor of Classics, Yeshiva University, 1966-present; Abraham Wouk Family Professor of Classics and Literature, Yeshiva University, 1993-present.

Fellowships and Awards: Guggenheim Foundation, Fellow; American Council of Learned Societies, Senior Fellow; Selected to conducted seminar for college teachers, National Endowment for the Humanities, "The Greek Encounter with Judaism in the Hellenistic Period," at Yeshiva University, Summers of 1980, 1983, 1985, 1989, 1992; "Classical and Christian Roots of Anti-Semitism," Summer of 1987; Award for excellence in teaching the classics, American Philological Association, 1981; Judaica Reference Book Award, Association of Jewish Libraries, 1985; Fellow, Annenberg Research Institute for Judaic and Near Eastern Studies, Philadelphia, PA, 1988-89; Elected Fellow, American Academy for Jewish Research, 1993; Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1994.

Books: 1. Scholarship on Philo and Josephus (1937-1962) (New York: Yeshiva University Press, 1963) 62 pp.

2. Critical edition of text, translation into English, and commentary on Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, Books 18-20 (Loeb Classical Library; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1965) 813 pp. (reissued in two volumes, 1981).

3. Prolegomenon to re-issue of M. R. James, The Biblical Antiquities of Philo (New York: Ktav, 1971) 169 pp.

4. Josephus and Modern Scholarship (1937-1980) (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1984) 1055 pp.

5. Co-editor, Josephan Studies (Japanese), 4 vols. (Tokyo: Yamamoto Shoten, 1985-86) 490, 544, 572, 574 pp.

6. Josephus: A Supplementary Bibliography (New York: Garland, 1986) 696 pp.

7. Co-editor, Josephus, Judaism and Christianity (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1987) 448 pp.

8. Co-editor, Josephus, the Bible and History (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1989) 473 pp.

9. Jew and Gentile in the Ancient World: Attitudes and Interactions from Alexander to Justinian (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993; paperback, 1996) 679 pp.

10. Studies in Hellenistic Judaism (Leiden: Brill, 1996) 677 pp.

11. Co-author, Jewish Life and Thought among Greeks and Romans: Primary Readings (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1996) 436 pp.

12. Co-editor, Josephus' Contra Apionem: Studies in Its Character and Context with a Latin Concordance to the Portion Missing in Greek (Leiden: Brill, 1996) 517 pp.

13. Studies in Josephus' Rewritten Bible (Leiden: Brill, 1998) 663 pp.

14. Josephus's Interpretation of the Bible (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998) 837 pp.

15. Flavius Josephus, Judean Antiquities 1-4: Translation and Commentary (Leiden: Brill, 2000) 582 pp.

Author of 138 articles: major articles include:

1. "The Orthodoxy of the Jews in Hellenistic Egypt," Jewish Social Studies 22 (1960) 212-37.

2. "Abraham the Greek Philosopher in Josephus," Transactions of the American Philological Association 99 (1968) 143-56.

3. "Hellenizations in Josephus' Version of Esther," Transactions of the American Philological Association 101 (1970) 143-70.

4. "Hengel's Judaism and Hellenism in Retrospect," Journal of Biblical Literature 96 (1977) 371-82.

5. "Pro-Jewish Intimations in Anti-Jewish Remarks Cited in Josephus' Against Apion," Jewish Quarterly Review 78 (1987-88) 187-251.

6. "A Selective Critical Bibliography of Josephus," in Louis H. Feldman and Gohei Hata, eds., Josephus, the Bible and History (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1989) 330-448.

7. "Proselytes and `Sympathizers' in the Light of the New Inscriptions from Aphrodisias," Revue des Etudes juives 148 (1989) 265-305.

8. "Josephus' Portrait of Joshua," Harvard Theological Review 82 (1989) 351-76.

9. "Prophets and Prophecy in Josephus," Journal of Theological Studies 41 (1990) 386-422.

10. "Origen's Contra Celsumand Josephus' Contra Apionem: The Issue of Jewish Origins," Vigiliae Christianae 44 (1990) 105-35.

11. "Josephus' Portrait of Moses," Jewish Quarterly Review 82 (1991-92) 285-328; 83 (1992-93) 7-50, 301-30.

12. "Josephus' Portrait of Nehemiah," Journal of Jewish Studies 43 (1992) 187-202.

13. "Some Observations on Rabbinic Reaction to Roman Rule in Third Century Palestine," Hebrew Union College Annual 63 (1992) 39-81.

14. "Josephus' Portrait of Joseph," Revue Biblique 99 (1992) 379-417, 504-28.

15. "Proselytism by Jews in the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Centuries," Journal for the Study of Judaism 24 (1993) 1-58.

16. "Josephus' Portrait of Solomon," Hebrew Union College Annual 66 (1995) 103-67.

17. "Torah and Greek Culture in Josephus," The Torah U-Madda Journal 7 (1997) 41-87.

18. "Josephus (CE 37-c.100)," in William Harbury et al., ed., The Cambridge History of Judaism 3 (1999) 901-21, 1189-97.

19. "Josephus' Biblical Paraphrase as a Commentary on Contemporary Issues," in Craig A. Evans et al., eds., The Interpretation of Scripture in Early Judaism and Christianity: Studies in Language and Tradition (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000) 124-201.