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Dr. Zuleika Rodgers

Associate Professor/Head of Dept (Near & Middle Eastern Studies)

 rodgersz@tcd.ie

 3531896 2229


Biography

Having taken my undergraduate degree at Trinity, I wrote my Ph.D. on the first-century Judean historian Flavius Josephus under the supervision of Prof. Sean Freyne. During my doctoral research, I studied in Jeruslem at the École Biblique et Archéologique française de Jérusalem and the Ratisbonne Institute. I have been working in the area of Hellenistic Judaism, publishing and organising conferences and I am co-edited (with Prof. Honora Chapman) the Blackwell Companion to Josephus. I am now focusing my research on the study of the Jewish experience in Ireland.

Research Tags

  Flavius Josephus   Jewish identity in the Hellenistic world   Jewish studies   Modern Reception of Hellenistic Judaism   Second temple Judaism

Research Projects

 Digitisation of the holdings of the Weingreen Museum

Representations

Details Date
Member of the Royal Irish Academy Committee for Classical and Near Eastern Studies 2009
Zutot: Perspectives on Jewish Culture (Leiden; Brill), Member of Editorial Board 2014-
British Association for Jewish Studies, President 2013
British Association for Jewish Studies, committee member 2010
British Association for Jewish Studies, Web Officer 2016
International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, Irish Delegate to the Academic Working Group 2014
Alexander Street, Twentieth Century Religious Thought Library: Volume II Judaism. Advisory Board 2017
Program Chair, Society of Biblical Literature, Hellenistic Judaism Section 2007
Northern British Isles Jewish Studies Partnership 2015
Honorary Patron of the Holocaust Education Trust Ireland 2016
AHRC Project on the Reception of Josephus in Jewish Culture, University of Oxford (collaborator) 2015
Member of the Royal Irish Academy Committee for the Study of Near Eastern Religions 2007
Chair, National Undergraduate Awards (Religions and Theology section) 2009
Consultant for Leaving Certificate examinations in Religious Education, Dept of Education 2010
National Undergraduate Awards (panel judge) 2010
External Examiner for PhD thesis, University of Southampton 2009
External Examiner for PhD thesis, University of Reading
External Examiner for PhD thesis, Hebrew University Jerusalem 2011
Consultation, Junior Cycle Jewish Studies (NCCA) 2018

Languages

Language Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill Speaking
English Fluent Fluent Fluent
French Fluent Medium Medium
Greek Medium Basic Basic
Hebrew Medium Basic Medium

Memberships

Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies

Details Date From Date To
British Association for Jewish Studies President 2013-2014 Web officer 2017- Committee member 2009- 2009-
European Association of Jewish Studies 2010-
Northern British Isles Jewish Studies Partners 2015-
Program Chair, Hellenistic Judaism Session, Society of Biblical Literature 2007 2013
Society of Biblical Literature 2000 2014
Academy Committee Classical and Near Eastern Studies, Royal Irish Academy 2009 2012
Association of Jewish Studies 2005 2007
International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, Irish Delegate to the Academic Working Group 2014
International Association of Genocide Scholars 2014 2015
Canadian Society for Biblical Studies 2007 2008
Oriental Society of Toronto 2004 2006
Member of the Royal Irish Academy Committee for the Study of Near Eastern Religions 2007 2009
Zuleika Rodgers and Natalie Wynn, Reimagining the Jews of Ireland Historiography, Identity and Representation:, UK, Peter Lang Group, 2023, 1 - 227pp, Book, PUBLISHED  URL
Jews in Ireland and Multiple Marginalities: Some Reflections on Historiography, Identity and Representation in, editor(s)Zuleika Rodgers and Natalie Wynn , Reimagining the Jews of Ireland: Historiography, Identity and Representation, UK, Peter Lang, 2023, pp6 - 21, [Zuleika Rodgers, Katrina Goldstone, Natalie Wynn], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED  URL
Josephus, Titus Flavius Judaism Second Temple/Hellenistic Judaism, Elmer, Christine / McKenzie, Steven Linn / Römer, Thomas Chr. / Schröter, Jens / Walfish, Barry Dov / Ziolkowski, Eric, Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception , first, 14, Berlin, Boston, de Gruyter, 2017, pp733 - 741, [Zuleika Rodgers], Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, PUBLISHED
Zuleika Rodgers and Honora Howell Chapman, Companion to Josephus, UK, Wiley Blackwell , 2016, Book, PUBLISHED
A Twentieth-Century Irishman's First Century Palestine: George Moore's The Brook Kerith in, editor(s)Joel Baden, Hindy Najman and Eibert Tigchelaar , Sibyls, Scriptures, and Scrolls: John Collins at Seventy, Boston; Leiden, Brill, 2016, pp1128 - 1144, [Zuleika Rodgers], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED  URL
Josephus's Biblical Interpretation in, editor(s)Matthias Henze , A Companion to Biblical Interpretation in Early Judaism, Grand Rapids, MI and Cambrdige, UK, Eerdmans, 2012, pp436 - 464, [Zuleika Rodgers], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Zuleika Rodgers, with Anne Fitzpatrick McKinley and Margaret Daly-Denton , A Wandering Galilean: Essays in Honour of Sean Freyne, Leiden, Boston, Brill, 2009, Book, PUBLISHED  URL
Monarchy vs. Priesthood: Josephus, Justus of Tiberius, and Agrippa II in, editor(s)Zuleika Rodgers with Anne Fitzpatrick McKinley and Margaret Daly-Denton , A Wandering Galilean: Essays in Honour of Sean Freyne, Leiden, Boston, Brill, 2009, pp173 - 184, [Zuleika Rodgers], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Zuleika Rodgers, Josephus' "Theokratia" and Mosaic Discourse: The Actualisation of Revelation at Sinai., The Significance of Sinai: Traditions about Sinai and Divine Revelation in Judaism and Christianity, Leiden, Boston, edited by George J. Brooke, Hindy Najman, Loren T. Stuckenbruck , Brill, 2008, pp129 - 148, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Z. Rodgers, Making History: Josephus and Historical Method, Leiden, Brill, 2006, 471pp, Book, PUBLISHED
  

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Zuleika Rodgers, 'Prof. Jacob Weingreen: His Life, Scholarship and Near Eastern Collection'., The Annual Richard D. Barnett Memorial Lecture, Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society, Institute of Archaeology, University College London , January 2017, 2017, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Zuleika Rodgers, 'Re-Imagining the Jews of Ireland', In:'Re-Imagining the Jews of Ireland', 2017, TCD, Meetings /Conferences Organised, PRESENTED
Zuleika Rodgers, 'Jews in Ireland from British Subjects to Irish Citizens: 1916 and 2016', Annual Maccabean Society Lecture, Kings College London , 16 March, 2016, Maccabean Society , Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Zuleika Rodgers, ''History of Hebrew Scholarship at Trinity College Dublin"', Old Library, Trinity College Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, 2014, -, Exhibition, PUBLISHED
Zuleika Rodgers, 'Irish Attitudes to Israel', American Jewish Committee Talk, West Chester, NY, November, 2014, American Jewish Committee , Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Zuleika Rodgers, 'Jews and Political Discourse', July , In:British Association for Jewish Studies, Annual Conference , 2014, TCD, Meetings /Conferences Organised, PUBLISHED
Zuleika Rodgers, Trinity Monday Discourse on 'Jacob Weingreen', Trinity Monday Discourse, TCD, April, 2013, College, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Zuleika Rodgers, 'First Century Jews in Twentieth Century Ireland: George Moore's Essenes', Phebe McClatchy Conley Classics Lecture Series, California State University, Fresno , November, 2011, Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures , Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Zuleika Rodgers, Jan Willem van Henten, Shlomo Berger, 'Re-interpreting Hellenistic Judaism in the Nineteenth through Twenty-First Centuries', September, In:'Re-interpreting Hellenistic Judaism in the Nineteenth through Twenty-First Centuries', 2011, University of Amsterdam, Meetings /Conferences Organised, PUBLISHED
Zuleika Rodgers, Tradition and Innovation: Flavius Josephus and the Judean Priesthood, "HISTORIOGRAFIA E LITERATURA APOCALÍPTICA NO SÉC.I D.C.: ASPECTOS DA LITERATURA JUDAICA DO MEDITERRÂNEO ENTRE LEITURAS DO PASSADO E HISTORIOGRAFIA DO FUTURO", Universidade de Brasília , November, 2010, Prof. Vicente Dobroruka, Invited Talk, PRESENTED

  

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Awards and Honours

Award Date
Provost's Project Award 2018
Trinity Global Engagement Award 2018
Provost's Teaching Award 2013
Bat Kol Scholarship, Ratisbonne Institute, Jerusalem 1995
Bourse de L'École, École Biblique et Archéologique Française de Jérusalem 1993-1994
Trinity College Postgraduate Studies Award 1991-1994
Trinity College, Toplady Memorial Prize 1991
Trinity College, 1734 Bishop Forster Divinity Premium 1989
Trinity College, Lambert Prize for Biblical Greek 1989
Trinity College, 1984 Prize for Biblical Greek 1989
Trinity College, 1984 Prize for Biblical Greek 1988
Trinity College, Carson Biblical Prize 1988