LIST OF PUBLICATIONS (updated December 2018)
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION
- M. R. Niehoff, The Figure of Joseph in Post-Biblical Jewish Literature (accepted by Oxford University 1989), under the supervision of Prof. Geza Vermes (#2).
BOOKS
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M. R. Niehoff, The Figure of Joseph in Post-Biblical Jewish Literature, 1992, 178 pp. Brill, Leiden. #1
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M. R. Niehoff, Philo on Jewish Identity and Culture, 2001, 319 pp. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen.
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M. R. Niehoff, Jewish Exegesis and Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria, 2011, 222 pp. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Paperback edition 2014. Polonsky Prize 2011.
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M. R. Niehoff, Philo of Alexandria. An Intellectual Biography. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018.
German translation commissioned by Mohr Siebeck (Tübingen).
Hebrew translation commissioned by Ha-Kibbutz Ha-Meuhad (Tel Aviv)
BOOKS EDITED:
- M. R. Niehoff, R. Meroz and J. Garb (eds.), AND THIS IS FOR YEHUDA. Studies presented to our friend, Professor Yehuda Liebes, on the Occasion of his sixty-fifth Birthday [in Hebrew], 2012, 527 pp. The Bialik Institute and the Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem.
- Y. Amir z”l and M. R. Niehoff (eds.), Philo of Alexandria. Writings [in Hebrew], vol. 5, part one: Allegorical Exegesis, 2012, 421 pp. Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities/Bialik Institute, Jerusalem.
- M. R. Niehoff (ed.), Homer and the Bible in the Eyes of Ancient Interpreters, (Jerusalem Studies in Culture and Religion 16), 2012, 372 pp. Brill, Leiden
- M. R. Niehoff (ed.), Philo of Alexandria. Writings [in Hebrew]
vol. 4, part 2: Allegorical Exegesis and Philosophical Treatises, 2015, 463 pp. The Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities/the Bialik Institute, Jerusalem.
- M. R. Niehoff (ed.), Journeys in the Roman East: Imagined and Real
Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2017. Reviewed at a special panel of the Society of Biblical Literature Meeting in Denver (November 2018).
- M. R. Niehoff and Reinhard Feldmeier (eds.), Abrahams Aufbruch. Philon von Alexandria, De Migratione Abrahami (SAPERE 30; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2017).
CHAPTERS IN COLLECTIONS:
- M. R. Niehoff, Moses Mendelssohn's Translation of Judah Halevi's Elegy on Zion [in Hebrew], in: A. Ravitzky (ed.), The Land of Israel in Modern Jewish Thought, 1998, Isaac Ben Zvi Publications, Jerusalem, pp. 313-25.
- M. R. Niehoff, Philo's Views on Paganism, in: G. Stanton and G. G. Stroumsa (eds.), Tolerance and Intolerance in Early Judaism and Christianity, 1998, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 135-58.
- M. R. Niehoff, Alexandrian Judaism in 19th Century Wissenschaft des Judentums: Between Modernity and Christianity, in: A. Oppenheimer (ed.), Jüdische Geschichte in hellenistisch-römischer Zeit. Wege der Forschung: vom alten zum neuen Schürer, 1999, R. Oldenburg Verlag, München, pp. 9-28.
- M. R. Niehoff, New Garments for Biblical Joseph, in: Chr. Helmer (ed.), Biblical Interpretation. History, Context and Reality, 2005, Society of Biblical Literature, Atlanta, pp. 33-56.
- M. R. Niehoff, Philo's Contribution to Contemporary Alexandrian Metaphysics, in: A. Jacobsen, J. Ullrich and D. Brakke (eds.), Beyond "Reception": Judaism, Christianity and Antiquity, 2007, Peter Lang, Bern, pp. 35-55.
- M. R. Niehoff, Philo's Scholarly Inquiries into the Story of Paradise, in: M. Bockmuehl and G. G. Stroumsa (eds.), Paradise among Jews and Christians, 2010, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 28-42.
- M. R. Niehoff, Recherche homérique et exégèse biblique à Alexandrie : un fragment sur la Tour de Babel préservé par Philon, in: S. Inowlocki-Meister et B. Decharneux (eds.), Philon d'Alexandrie : un penseur à l'intersection des cultures gréco-romaine, orientale, juive, et chrétienne, Actes du colloque de Bruxelles, 26-28 juin 2007, 2011, Turnhout, Brepols, pp. 83-103. (= chap. 5 in # 4)
- M. R. Niehoff, Philons Beitrag zur Kanonisierung der griechischen Bibel, in: E.-M. Becker und S. Scholz (eds.), Kanon in Konstruktion und Dekonstruktion, 2012, de Gruyter, Berlin/New York, pp. 329-44.
- M. R. Niehoff, The Implied Audience of the Letter of James, in: G. Anderson, R. Clements and D. Satran (eds.), Bible Exegesis among Jews and Christians. New Approaches, 2013, Brill, Leiden pp. 57-77.
- M. R. Niehoff, Jüdische Bibelexegese im Spiegel alexandrinischer Homerforschung, in: R. Feldmeier, F. Albrecht and T. Georges (eds.), Biblische Notizen 148, 2011 (Freiburg: Herder), special issue on Alexandria – Stadt der Bildung und Religion, pp. 19-34.
- M. R. Niehoff, Homer visits Philo [in Hebrew], in: ead., R. Meroz and J. Garb (eds.), AND THIS IS FOR YEHUDA. Studies presented to our friend, Professor Yehuda Liebes, on the Occasion of his sixty-fifth Birthday, 2012, the Bialik Institute and the Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, pp. 39-52.
- M. R. Niehoff, Philo and Plutarch on Homer, in: ead. (ed.), Homer and the Bible in the Eyes of Ancient Interpreters, 2012, Brill, Leiden, pp. 127-54.
- M. R. Niehoff, Is Hellenistic Judaism vital for the Israeli Academy? [in Hebrew], in: B. Isaac and J. Price (eds.), Z’manim 117 (special issue, proceedings of a workshop at the Israeli Academy of Sciences), 2012, pp. 52-7.
- M. R. Niehoff, Jüdische Bibelinterpretation zwischen Homerforschung und Christentum, in: R. Feldmeier and T. Georges (eds.), Alexandria. Stadt der Bildung und Religion (COMES 1), 2013, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, pp. 341-360.
- M. R. Niehoff, Halacha, Nomos oder Tugend im hellenistischen Judentum?, in: F. Horn, U. Volp, R. Zimmermann (eds.), Ethische Normen des frühen Christentums. Gut – Leben – Leib – Tugend (WUNT), 2013, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, pp. 193-206.
- M. R. Niehoff, Biographical Sketches in Genesis Rabbah, in: R. Boustan et al. (eds.), Envisioning Judaism. Studies in Honor of Peter Schäfer on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday 2013, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, vol. 1, pp. 265-86.
- M. R. Niehoff, The Emergence of Monotheistic Creation Theology in Hellenistic Judaism, in: S. Kattan Gribetz and L. Jenott (eds.), In the Beginning: Jewish and Christian Cosmogony in Late Antiquity, 2013, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, pp. 85-106.
- M. R. Niehoff, Die Sapientia Salomis and Philon – Vertreter derselben alexandrinisch-jüdischen Religionspartei?, in: K.-W. Niebuhr (ed.), Sapientia Salomonis (SAPERE Bd. XXIV), 2016, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, pp. 257-71.
- M. R. Niehoff, Les juifs d’Alexandrie à l’école de la critique textuelle de païen, in C. Méla and F. Möri (eds.), 2014, Alexandrie la divine, Geneva, pp. 733–40.
- M. R. Niehoff, Accommodating the Political: Philo’s King Metaphor, in: M. Witte and S. Behnke (eds.), The Metaphorical Use of Language in Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature, 2015, De Gruyter, Berlin, pp. 331-344.
- M. R. Niehoff, Wie wird man ein mediterraner Denker? Der Fall Philon von Alexandria, in: M. Dabag, D. Haller, N. Jaspert A. Lichtenberger (eds.), Ein Pluriverses Universum. Zivilisationen und Religionen im antiken Mittelmeerraum, 2015, Ferdinand Schöningh, München, 355-68.
- M. R. Niehoff, 'The Power of Ares' in Philo's Legatio, in: Pouvoir et puissances chez Philon d'Alexandrie, ed. by F. Calabi, O. Munnich, G. Reydams-Schils, and E. Vimercati, 2016, Brepols: Turnhout, pp. 129-139.
- M. R. Niehoff, ”Not Study is the Main Objective, but Action”. (Pirqe Avot 1:17). A Rabbinic Maxim in Greco-Roman Context”, in: M. Bar-Asher Siegal, Chr. Hayes and T. Novick (eds.), From Text to Context in Ancient Judaism: Studies in Honor of Steven Fraade, 2016, Supplements to the Journal of Ancient Judaism, pp. 455-72.
- M. R. Niehoff, Origen’s Commentary on Genesis as a Key to Genesis Rabbah, in: S. Kattan Gribetz, D. Grossberg, M. Himmelfarb and P. Schäfer (eds.), Genesis Rabbah in Text and Context, 2016, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, pp. 129-153.
- M. R. Niehoff, Philo’s Rationalization of Judaism, in: Yohanan Friedman and Christoph Markschies (eds.), Rationalization of Religion, The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Berlin Brandenburger Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin 2015/16, pp. 21-44.
- M. R. Niehoff, Desires Crossing Boundaries: Romance and History in Josephus’ Antiquities, in: J. Baden, H. Najman and E. Tigchelaar (eds.), Sibyls, Scriptures, and Scrolls: John Collins at Seventy, 2016, Leiden, Brill, pp. 973-91.+
- M. R. Niehoff, Between Social Context and Personal Ideology: Philo’s Changing Views of Women, in: E. Schuller and M.-Th. Wacker (eds.), Early Jewish Writings, The Bible and Women 3.1 (Atlanta: SBL Press, 2017), 187-203.
German translation: Zwischen gesellschaftlichem Kontext und individueller Ideologie. Die Entwicklung des Frauenbildes bei Philo von Alexandria, in: E. Schuller and M.-Th. Wacker (eds.), Frühjüdische Schriften. Die Bibel und die Frauen 3.1, 2017, Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, pp. 174-190.
Spanish and Italian translations forthcoming.
- M. R. Niehoff, Parodies of Educational Journeys in Josephus, Justin Martyr and Lucian, in: ead. (ed.), Journeys in the Roman East: Imagined and Real, 2017, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, pp. 203-24.
- M. R. Niehoff, Philo and Josephus fashion themselves as religious Authors in Rome, forthcoming in E.-M. Becker and J. Rüpke (eds.), Stimmen des Autors, 2019, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, pp. 83-103.
- M. R. Niehoff, Origen’s Commentaries on the Old Testament, forthcoming in: R. Heine (ed.), The Oxford Handbook to Origen (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
- M. R. Niehoff, Colonizing and Decolonizing the Creation of the World. A Dispute between Origen and Rabbi Hoshaya, in: M. Blidstein, S. Ruger and D. Stökl Ben Ezra (eds.), Scriptures, Sacred Traditions, and Strategies of Religious Subversion: Studies in Discourse with the work of Guy G. Stroumsa (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2018), 113-29.
- Maren Niehoff, “Homer between Celsus, Origen and the Jews of Caesarea”, forthcoming in Rahel Zelnik and Jonathan Price (eds.), Text and Intertext in Greek Epic and Drama: Essays in Honor of Margalit Finkelberg, London: Routledge.
ARTICLES IN JOURNALS:
- M. R. Niehoff, (1988), The Figure of Joseph in the Targums, Journal of Jewish Studies 39, pp. 234-50.
- M. R. Niehoff, (1992) Do Biblical Characters speak to themselves? Modes of Representing Inner Speech in Early Biblical Narrative, Journal of Biblical Literature 111, pp. 577-595.
- M. R. Niehoff, (1992) A Dream which is not interpreted is like a letter which is not read, Journal of Jewish Studies 43, pp. 58-84.
- M. R. Niehoff, (1993) The Characterisation of Ruth in the Midrash [in Hebrew], Jerusalem Studies in Jewish Thought 11, pp. 49-78.
- M. R. Niehoff, (1993) The Buber-Rosenzweig Translation within the Jewish-German Tradition, Journal of Jewish Studies 44, pp. 258-79.
- M. R. Niehoff, (1993) Associative Thinking in Rabbinic Midrash: The Example of Abraham's and Sarah's Journey to Egypt [in Hebrew], Tarbiz 62, pp. 339-61.
- M. R. Niehoff, (1995) What is in a Name? Philo's Mystical Philosophy of Language, Jewish Studies Quarterly 2, pp. 220-52.
- M. R. Niehoff, (1995) Zunz' Concept of Aggadah as an Expression of Jewish Spirituality [in Hebrew], Tarbiz 65, pp. 423-59.
English translation: (1998) Zunz' Concept of Aggadah as an Expression of Jewish Spirituality, Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook 43, pp. 3-24.
- M. R. Niehoff, (1995) The Return of Myth in Genesis Rabbah on the Akeda, Journal of Jewish Studies 46, pp. 69-87.
- M. R. Niehoff, (1996) Two Examples of Josephus' Narrative Technique in his "Rewritten Bible", Journal for the Study of Judaism 27, pp. 31-45.
- M. R. Niehoff, (1996) Jacob Weil's Contribution to a Modern Concept of Aggadah, Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook 41, pp. 21-49.
- M. R. Niehoff, (1996) The Phoenix in Rabbinic Literature, Harvard Theological Review 89, pp. 245-65.
- M. R. Niehoff, (1998) Jellinek's Concept of Aggadah [in Hebrew], Jewish Studies 38, pp. 119-27.
- M. R. Niehoff, (1999) Jewish Identity and Jewish Mothers: Who was a Jew according to Philo? Studia Philonica Annual 11, pp. 31-54.
- M. R. Niehoff, (2003) Circumcision as a Marker of Identity: Philo, Origen and Genesis Rabbah on Gen. 17:1-14, Jewish Studies Quarterly 10, pp. 89-123.
- M. R. Niehoff, (2004) Mother and Maiden, Sister and Spouse: Sarah in Philonic Midrash, Harvard Theological Review 97, pp. 413-44.
- M. R. Niehoff, (2006) Creatio ex Nihilo Theology in Genesis Rabbah in light of Christian Exegesis, Harvard Theological Review 99, pp. 37-64.
- M. R. Niehoff, (2007) Homeric Scholarship and Bible Exegesis in Alexandria. Evidence from Philo's 'Quarrelsome' Colleagues, Classical Quarterly 57, pp. 166-82.
- M. R. Niehoff, (2007) Did the Timaeus create a textual community? Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 47, pp. 161-91.
- M. R. Niehoff, (2008) Questions and Answers in Philo and Genesis Rabbah, Journal for the Study of Judaism 39, pp. 337-66.
- M. R. Niehoff, (2010) The Symposium of Philo's Therapeutae: Displaying Jewish Identity in an increasingly Roman World, Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 50, pp. 95-117.
- M. R. Niehoff, (2010) The Joseph Story in Philo's Writings: from Text to Character [in Hebrew], in: Beit Mikra 55, pp. 107-122.
- M. R. Niehoff, (2010) Philo’s Role as a Platonist in Alexandria, Études Platoniciennes 7, pp. 35-62.
- M. R. Niehoff, (2011) Philo’s Exposition in A Roman Context, Studia Philonica Annual 23, pp. 1-21.
- M. R. Niehoff, (2012) Philo and Plutarch as Biographers: Parallel Reactions to Roman Stoicism, Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 52, pp. 361-92.
- M. R. Niehoff, (2012) Commentary Culture in the Land of Israel from an Alexandrian Perspective, in: Dead Sea Discoveries 19, pp. 442-63.
- M. R. Niehoff, (2013) A Jewish Critique of Christianity from second century Alexandria. Revisiting Celsus’ Jew, Journal of Early Christian Studies 21, pp. 151-75.
- M. R. Niehoff, (2015), Eusebius as a Reader of Philo, Adamantius 21, pp. 185-94.
- M. R. Niehoff, (2016), Justin Martyr’s Timaeus in light of Philo’s, Studia Philonica Annual 28, 375-92.
- M. R. Niehoff, A Jew for Roman Tastes. The Parting of the Ways in Justin’s Dialogue with Trypho from a Post-Colonial Perspective, forthcoming in Journal of Early Christian Studies 27 (2019).
- M. R. Niehoff, Plutarch at Rome. On the Control of Anger in Context, forthcoming in Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS:
- Y. Amir z”l, and M. R. Niehoff, Philo Judaeus, in: F. Skolnik and M. Berenbaum (eds.), Encyclopaedia Judaica: Second Edition. 22 vols. 2007, Thomson Gale, Detroit, Vol. 16 pp. 59-64.
- M. R. Niehoff, Philo: Allegorical Commentary, Exposition of the Law, Joseph, in: J. J. Collins and D. C. Harlow (eds.), The Dictionary of Early Judaism, 2010, WM. B. Erdman’s Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, pp. 822-3, 1070-2, 1074-6.
- M. R. Niehoff, Philo, in: M. Finkelberg (ed.), The Homer Encyclopedia, 2011, Wiley Blackwell, Oxford, Vol. 2, pp. 654-55.
- M. R. Niehoff, Alexandria (Dachartikel), in: D. Diner (ed.), Enzyklopädie jüdischer Kulturen, 2011, J. B. Metzler, Stuttgart, pp. 28-33.
- M. R. Niehoff, Philo, The Allegorical Commentary 1.31-62;
M. R. Niehoff Philo, The Life of Moses 1.1-44, 2.12-51;
Introduction and Commentary, in: L. Feldman, J. Kugel and L. Schiffman (eds.), Outside the Bible: Ancient Jewish writings Related to Scripture, 2013, Nebraska University Press, Nebraska, pp. 902-15, 959-88.
- M. R. Niehoff, Philo of Alexandria. Annotated Bibliography, in: Oxford Bibliographies Online. 2013, Oxford University Press, New York/Oxford.
- M. R. Niehoff, Josephus and Philo in Rome, in: H. Chapman and Z. Rodgers (eds.), A Companion to Josephus in his World, Wiley Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 135-46.
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