Holger Zellentin

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  Nottingham
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  UK
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• Holger.Zellentin@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

Studies of Religion in Strasbourg, Amsterdam, Jerusalem, Philadelphia and Princeton; taught Rabbinics and Late Antique Judaism in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and in Berkeley, California; beginning 2011 Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Nottingham

Expertise Summary

Rabbinic and Hellenistic Judaism in the Near and Middle East, especially literary criticism, historiography, and cross-cultural exchange.

Research Summary

Rabbinic Literature of Early Byzantium and Sasanian Persia, Hellenistic Judaism and Christianity, Greek Novels, and early Islamic Literature.

Recent Publications

• ZELLENTIN, H.M., 2011. Rabbinic Parodies of Jewish and Christian Literature Mohr Siebeck.
• ZELLENTIN, H.M., 2009. The End of Jewish Egypt- Artapanus’s Second Exodus. In: OSTERLOH, K.L. AND GARDNER, G., ed., Antiquity in Antiquity, Jewish and Christian Pasts in the Greco-Roman World Mohr Siebeck. 27-73
• ZELLENTIN, H.M., 2009. Review: The Origins of Judaism: From Canaan to the Rise of Islam (Robert Goldenberg) Henoch: Studies in Judaism and Christianity from Second Temple to Antiquity. 39, 430-2
• ZELLENTIN, H.M. AND IRICINSCHI, E., 2008. Making Selves and Marking Others: Identity and Late Antique Heresiologies. In: ZELLENTIN, H.M. AND IRICINSCHI, E., ed., Heresy and Identity in Late Antiquity Mohr Siebeck. 1-27

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Past Research

Rabbinic Literature, Hellenistic Jewish Literature, Late Antique Heresy

Future Research

Late Antique religious groups beyond the Christian and Rabbinic Orthodoxies.

• ZELLENTIN, H.M., 2011. Rabbinic Parodies of Jewish and Christian Literature Mohr Siebeck.
• ZELLENTIN, H.M., 2009. The End of Jewish Egypt- Artapanus’s Second Exodus. In: OSTERLOH, K.L. AND GARDNER, G., ed., Antiquity in Antiquity, Jewish and Christian Pasts in the Greco-Roman World Mohr Siebeck. 27-73
• ZELLENTIN, H.M., 2009. Review: The Origins of Judaism: From Canaan to the Rise of Islam (Robert Goldenberg) Henoch: Studies in Judaism and Christianity from Second Temple to Antiquity. 39, 430-2
• ZELLENTIN, H.M. AND IRICINSCHI, E., 2008. Making Selves and Marking Others: Identity and Late Antique Heresiologies. In: ZELLENTIN, H.M. AND IRICINSCHI, E., ed., Heresy and Identity in Late Antiquity Mohr Siebeck. 1-27
• ZELLENTIN, H.M., 2008. Review: Avot De-Rabbi Natan: Synoptische Edition Beider Versionen (Hans-Juergen Becker and Christoph Berner) Hebrew Studies. 49, 363-365
• ZELLENTIN, H.M. AND IRICINSCHI, E., ed., 2008. Heresy and Identity in Late Antiquity Mohr Siebeck.
• ZELLENTIN, H.M., 2008. Review: Elements of Ancient Jewish Nationalism (David Goodblatt) AJS (Association of Jewish Studies) Review. 32, 397-400
• ZELLENTIN, H.M., 2008. Margin of Error: Women, Law, and Christianity in Bavli Shabbat 116a–b. In: ZELLENTIN, H.M. AND IRICINSCHI, E., ed., Heresy and Identity in Late Antiquity Mohr Siebeck. 339-363
• ZELLENTIN, H.M., 2007. Rabbanizing Jesus, Christianizing the Son of David: The Bavli's Approach to the Secondary Messiah Traditions. In: RIVKA ULMER, ed., Discussing Cultural Influences: Text, Context, Non-Text in Rabbinic Judaism University Press of America. 99-128
• ZELLENTIN, H.M., 2004. How Plutarch Gained his Place in the Tosefta Zutot: Perspectives on Jewish Culture. 4, 19-28