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 Parker FBA
The textual criticism of the New Testament; the study of Greek & Latin manuscripts of the New Testament; editing the New Testament; digital tools for textual scholarship
Professor Francis Clooney FBA
Classical Hindu scriptural interpretation, particularly ritual Mimamsa and theological Vedanta traditions, and Srivaisnava devotional tradition; comparative theology, grounded in Hindu-Christian studies; Catholic missionary traditions in India
