List-publications

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS (updated December 2018)

                                                    

DOCTORAL DISSERTATION

  1. 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

  1. M. R. Niehoff, The Figure of Joseph in Post-Biblical Jewish Literature, 1992, 178 pp. Brill, Leiden. #1

  2. M. R. Niehoff, Philo on Jewish Identity and Culture, 2001, 319 pp. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen.

  3. M. R. Niehoff, Jewish Exegesis and Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria, 2011, 222 pp. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Paperback edition 2014. Polonsky Prize 2011.

  4. 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:

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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
  4. 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.

  1. 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).

  1. M. R. Niehoff and Reinhard Feldmeier (eds.), Abrahams Aufbruch. Philon von Alexandria, De Migratione Abrahami (SAPERE 30; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2017).

 

CHAPTERS IN COLLECTIONS:

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4.  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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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)
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
  26. 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.+
  27. 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.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. M. R. Niehoff, Origen’s Commentaries on the Old Testament, forthcoming in: R. Heine (ed.), The Oxford Handbook to Origen (Oxford: Oxford University Press). 
  4. 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.
  5. 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:

  1. M. R. Niehoff, (1988), The Figure of Joseph in the Targums, Journal of Jewish Studies 39, pp. 234-50.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. M. R. Niehoff, (1993) The Characterisation of Ruth in the Midrash [in Hebrew], Jerusalem Studies in Jewish Thought 11, pp. 49-78.
  5. M. R. Niehoff, (1993) The Buber-Rosenzweig Translation within the Jewish-German Tradition, Journal of Jewish Studies 44, pp. 258-79.
  6. 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.
  7. M. R. Niehoff, (1995) What is in a Name? Philo's Mystical Philosophy of Language, Jewish Studies Quarterly 2, pp. 220-52.
  8. 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. 

  1. M. R. Niehoff, (1995) The Return of Myth in Genesis Rabbah on the Akeda, Journal of Jewish Studies 46, pp. 69-87.
  2. M. R. Niehoff, (1996) Two Examples of Josephus' Narrative Technique in his "Rewritten Bible", Journal for the Study of Judaism 27, pp. 31-45.
  3. M. R. Niehoff, (1996) Jacob Weil's Contribution to a Modern Concept of Aggadah, Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook 41, pp. 21-49.
  4. M. R. Niehoff, (1996) The Phoenix in Rabbinic Literature, Harvard Theological Review 89, pp. 245-65.
  5. M. R. Niehoff, (1998) Jellinek's Concept of Aggadah [in Hebrew], Jewish Studies 38, pp. 119-27.  
  6. M. R. Niehoff, (1999) Jewish Identity and Jewish Mothers: Who was a Jew according to Philo? Studia Philonica Annual 11, pp. 31-54.
  7. 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.
  8. M. R. Niehoff, (2004) Mother and Maiden, Sister and Spouse: Sarah in Philonic Midrash, Harvard Theological Review 97, pp. 413-44.
  9. M. R. Niehoff, (2006) Creatio ex Nihilo Theology in Genesis Rabbah in light of Christian Exegesis, Harvard Theological Review 99, pp. 37-64.
  10. M. R. Niehoff, (2007) Homeric Scholarship and Bible Exegesis in Alexandria. Evidence from Philo's 'Quarrelsome' Colleagues, Classical Quarterly 57, pp. 166-82.
  11. M. R. Niehoff, (2007) Did the Timaeus create a textual community? Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 47, pp. 161-91.
  12. M. R. Niehoff, (2008) Questions and Answers in Philo and Genesis Rabbah, Journal for the Study of Judaism 39, pp. 337-66.
  13. 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.
  14. M. R. Niehoff, (2010) The Joseph Story in Philo's Writings: from Text to Character [in Hebrew], in: Beit Mikra 55, pp. 107-122.
  15. M. R. Niehoff, (2010) Philo’s Role as a Platonist in Alexandria, Études Platoniciennes 7, pp. 35-62.
  16. M. R. Niehoff, (2011) Philo’s Exposition in A Roman Context, Studia Philonica Annual 23, pp. 1-21.
  17. M. R. Niehoff, (2012) Philo and Plutarch as Biographers: Parallel Reactions to Roman Stoicism, Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 52, pp. 361-92.
  18. M. R. Niehoff, (2012) Commentary Culture in the Land of Israel from an Alexandrian Perspective, in: Dead Sea Discoveries 19, pp. 442-63.
  19. 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.
  20. M. R. Niehoff, (2015), Eusebius as a Reader of Philo, Adamantius 21, pp. 185-94.
  21. M. R. Niehoff, (2016), Justin Martyr’s Timaeus in light of Philo’s, Studia Philonica Annual 28, 375-92.
  22. 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).
  23. M. R. Niehoff, Plutarch at Rome. On the Control of Anger in Context, forthcoming in Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies.
 

OTHER PUBLICATIONS:

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. M. R. Niehoff, Philo, in: M. Finkelberg (ed.), The Homer Encyclopedia, 2011, Wiley Blackwell, Oxford, Vol. 2, pp. 654-55.
  4. M. R. Niehoff, Alexandria (Dachartikel), in: D. Diner (ed.), Enzyklopädie jüdischer Kulturen, 2011,  J. B. Metzler, Stuttgart, pp. 28-33.
  5. 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.

  1. M. R. Niehoff, Philo of Alexandria. Annotated Bibliography, in: Oxford Bibliographies Online. 2013, Oxford University Press, New York/Oxford.
  2. 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.

 

Detailed List of Publications

updated December 2018

 

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