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 David Fergusson FBA
The doctrines of creation and providence, relationship of church and state, engagement with the 'new atheism', and the history of Reformed theology, especially in Scotland
Professor Alec Ryrie FBA
Alec Ryrie is a historian of Protestant Christianity in general and of religion in early modern England and Scotland in particular. He is interested in the cultural, social, political and emotional history of religion, and has written on subjects including faith and doubt; martyrdom, violence and religious warfare; magic and deception; moderation and radicalism; childhood religious experience; and liturgy and prayer, formal and informal. He is currently researching the early history of global Protestant missions. He is co-editor of the Journal of Ecclesiastical History and (in 2019-20) president of the Ecclesiastical History Society. He is also a licensed Reader in the Church of England.
Professor Sabine Schmidtke FBA
Islamic Studies, Islamic and Jewish Intellectual History, Judeo-Arabic, Geniza, Shiism (Twelver Shiism and Zaydism), Yemen, History of Libraries, Islamic Theology (kalam) and Philosophy, Islamic manuscripts, Bible in Arabic, Muslim reception of the Bible, History of Oriental Studies, Correspondences as a Historial Source
