Professor Philip Alexander FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2005
- Subjects
- Religion
- Sections
- Theology and Religious Studies
Current post
The University of Manchester Emeritus Professor of Post-Biblical Jewish Literature
Past appointments
University of Manchester Professor of Post-Biblical Jewish Literature
1995 - 2010
Publications
From Cairo to Manchester: Studies in the Rylands Genizah Fragments in the Journal of Semitic Studies Supplement 31
Philip Alexander, edited with Renate Smithuis - Published in 2013 by Oxford University Press: Oxford
Companions to the Dead Sea Scrolls: The Mystical Texts
Philip Alexander - Published in 2005 by Continuum: London,
The Targum of Canticles: Translated with a Critical Introduction, Apparatus and Notes The Aramaic Bible 17A
Philip Alexander - Published in 2003 by The Liturgical Press: Collegeville, Minnesota
Serekh ha-Yahad and Two Related Texts, with G. Vermes Discoveries in the Judaean Desert XXVI
Philip Alexander - Published in 1998 by Clarendon Press: Oxford
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Reinhard Kratz FBA
Reinhard Kratz's research interests focus on the origin of the Hebrew Bible with special emphasis on Pentateuch, historical books, prophets and psalms, the Dead Sea Scrolls (Qumran) and the history of ancient Judaism in Persian and Hellenistic-Roman times
Professor Judith Lieu FBA
The New Testament, in particular the Johannine literature; early Christianity, its literature and thought, in the Graeco-Roman and Jewish first- and second-century contexts
Professor Mark Edwards FBA
Religious mentality of the late Roman world (250-550 A.D,), with special emphasis on theological tendencies in philosophy and the philosophical elements of Christian thought
