Prof Alexander Samely
Professor of Jewish Thought
- Database for the Analysis of Anonymous and Pseudepigraphic Jewish Literature of Antiquity: several hundred works profiled according to the Manchester-Durham Inventory of literary description
- Database of Bible Interpretation in the Mishnah
- Typology of Ancient Jewish Literature (AHRC) Project Website
- The whole of the Inventory of literary description online as html.
Overview
Contact:Religions and Theology, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, Samuel Alexander BulidingThe University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PLEmail: alex.samely@manchester.ac.ukTel. (0)161-2753072Biography
MA in Philosophy Frankfurt 1985, MSt in Jewish Studies in the Graeco-Roman Period Oxford 1984, DPhil Oriental Studies (Targums) Oxford 1989. I led a major AHRC project on the "Typology of Pseudepigraphic and Anonymous Jewish Literature c.200 BCE to 700 CE" between 2007 and 2012. It produced a new approach to the description of ancient Jewish literature, the so-called Manchester-Durham Inventory.
See for the Manchester-Durham Inventory of literary description online (as html):
http://www.otherliteratures.co.uk/inventory/1.html
For more than 200 ancient Jewish works profiled according to the Inventory and linked through the databse, see: http://literarydatabase.humanities.manchester.ac.uk.
And for a description of the project, see : http://www.manchester.ac.uk/ancientjewishliterature/
Further information
Link: Centre for Jewish Studies
I am an editor of the monograph series Studia Judaica published by Walter de Gruyter (Berlin), together with Charlotte Fonrobert (Stanford), Elisabeth Hollender (Frankfurt), Günter Stemberger (Vienna) and Irene Zwiep (Amsterdam).
Related information
Publications
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article