Past Member

Peter Schäfer

Affiliation

Historical Studies

From the American Philosophical Society:

…Peter Schäfer has published extensively about rabbinic literature and history, early Jewish mysticism, and Wissenschaft des Judentums. He edited the corpus of Hekhalot literature, the Talmud Yerushalmi and (with Sh. Shaked) magical texts from the Cairo Geniza. His most recent books are Judeophobia: Attitudes toward the Jews in the Ancient World, Cambridge, Mass. & London: Harvard University Press, 1997 (paperback edition 1998), Mirror of His Beauty: Feminine Images of God from the Bible to the Early Kabbalah, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002 (paperback 2004) and (as editor) The Bar Kokhba War Reconsidered: New Perspectives on the Second Jewish Revolt against Rome, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2003.

American Philosophical Society, "Peter Schäfer" (1997)

Dates at IAS

Member
School of Historical Studies
Member
School of Historical Studies
Spring

Degrees

Univerity of Freiburg, Germany
D.Phil.
1968

Honors

1994
Leibniz Prize
1993
Honorary Doctor, University of Utrecht