Jewish Studies, Department of Theology & Religious Studies, King's College London
Contact details
Virginia Woolf Building22 Kingsway
London
WC2B 6NR
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7848 7080
Email: trs@kcl.ac.uk
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/jewish-studies
Contact person
Prof. Andrea Schatz
Email: andrea.schatz@kcl.ac.uk
Head of Department/Director
Prof. Dr. Marat Shterin
Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2637
Email: marat.shterin@kcl.ac.uk
Activites
Awards degrees in Jewish Studies as a sole or major componentBA Religion, Philosophy & Ethics
BA Religion, Politics & Society
MA Religion
Offers courses in Jewish Studies
Provides supervision in Jewish studies for students working towards a research degree
Pursues academic research activities
Degrees offered
MA
MA; MPhil
PhD
Main research activities
Jewish Studies at King’s is an interdisciplinary network of students and scholars associated with King’s College London. Our research draws on anthropology, history, linguistics, literary studies, religious studies, sociology and related fields to explore Jewish life in its various Christian, Muslim and secular contexts from antiquity to the present moment.
When we study and teach the Hebrew Bible, Second Temple Judaism, rabbinic literature, medieval Iberia, early modern Jewish worlds and Jewish modernity in global contexts, we almost always encounter texts, narratives, practices and issues more than once. This is of particular interest to us: together, we explore Jewish texts and cultures not only within their specific historical contexts, but also in terms of their creative reception and transmission and in relation to current questions and debates.
Jewish Studies at King’s is a lively place of academic interaction and exchange locally and internationally. The centre is involved with the University of Amsterdam and the Open University of Israel in organising an International Winter School in Jewish Studies for MA and PhD students (Athens 2019, Prague 2020, Madrid 2022). It also offers reading groups, a research seminar, and the annual Maccabaean Lecture, and it regularly organises international workshops and conferences.
Research interests include Jewish intellectual and cultural history in early modern and modern Europe; Jewish-Christian contacts between Venice and Amsterdam, Berlin and London; The European Enlightenment and its critics
Jewish and postcolonial perspectives on religion, secularism, and the ‘Orient’; Jewish print cultures & the Digital Humanities; Second Temple Judaism, particularly the Jewish legal schools (Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, ‘Zealots’) and popular religious movements; The Dead Sea Scrolls and the archaeology of Qumran; Alexandrian Judaism, Philo of Alexandria, and the ‘Therapeutae’; Women and gender within early Judaism and Christianity, especially regarding women in leadership roles; The History of ancient Israel and Judah until the Bar Kokhba period (ca. 140 CE); The priesthood; Prophecy;
Judean and Israelite Identity, particularly in the post-exilic period; Archaeology; Biblical and Classical Hebrew; Northwest Semitic Languages.
There is a Jewish Studies library
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