Maren niehoff biography

          Personal Details: Date of Birth: ; Country of Birth: Germany; Date of Immigration to Israel:

        1. Maren Niehoff studied Judaism, Philosophy and Literature in Berlin, Jerusalem, and Oxford.
        2. Maren R. Niehoff is Max Cooper Professor of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University, and member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
        3. Full Professor and Max Cooper Chair, Department of Jewish Thought, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
        4. April in Mülheim) ist eine deutsch-israelische Historikerin, Judaistin, Religionswissenschaftlerin und Literaturwissenschaftlerin.

          5. Maren R. Niehoff is Max Cooper Professor of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University, and member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.!

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          Only every once in a while (and not that often in one scholarly generation) a book comes along that not only changes fundamentally the perspective on its chosen topic, but, through its novel methodology, will have major repercussions for other fields of scholarship as well.

          Maren Niehoff’s intellectual biography of Philo of Alexandria is such a work.

          As someone who herself has been guilty of ‘the eclecticism of modern scholars, who use passages from Philo’s later and earlier works interchangeably, without awareness of their respective historical and philosophical contexts’ (p.

          Maren Niehoff presents the first biography of Philo, arguing that his trip to Rome in 38 CE was a turning point in his life.

          226), this reviewer is in a good position to assess how, indeed, Niehoff’s reconstruction of the sequence of Philo’s work would change profoundly the way in which we read him. The crux of Niehoff’s new approach is the claim that Philo’s embassy to Rome (38-41CE) on behalf of the Jewish community in Alexandria, after an outbreak of ethnic violence, is a watershed for his oeuvre.

          From then on, the aut