Professor Philip Alexander FBA

Jewish Studies: Jews and Judaism and Late Antiquity (Dead Sea Scrolls; Bible Interpretation; Magic and Mysticism; Jewish-Christian Relations; Judaism and Hellenism)
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2005
Subjects
Religion

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

The Targum of Lamentations: Translated with a critical Introduction, Apparatus and Notes The Aramaic Bible 17B

Philip Alexander - Published in 2008 by The Liturgical Press: Collegeville, Minnesota

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 Sophie Gilliat-Ray FBA

Islam and Muslim communities in Britain; religious leadership, chaplaincy in public institutions, ethnographic research methodology.

Sophie Gilliat-Ray FBA

Professor Julius Lipner FBA

Sanskritic Hindu thought, including classical Vedanta, and 19th-century Bengal; comparative study, with special reference to Hinduism and Indian Christianity

julius-lipner.jpg

Sign up to our email newsletters

Join our mailing list to explore the ideas and impact of the British Academy. Get updates on research, funding, policy, international collaborations, and events that bring the humanities and social sciences to life.