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Position: Professor in Rabbinic Judaism
Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies, University College London
Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies
Foster Court
Gower Street
London
WC1E 6BT
United Kingdom
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewish/
Teaches (T) and/or researches (R) in:
1. Bible and Related Literature: TR
4: Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha: T
Dead Sea Scrolls and Qumran studies: TR
6: New Testament: T
2. History of the Jewish People: TR
9: Ancient Near East: R
Second Temple period: TR
Late Antiquity: TR
12: Medieval: R
18: Epigraphy: R
19: Palaeography: R
3. Religion and Religious Movements: TR
Rabbinic Judaism: TR
24: Sectarianism in antiquity, including Gnosticism and Samaritan studies: T
25: Karaism: R
4. Jewish Thought and Philosophy: R
5. Rabbinic Literature: TR
Early (including Talmud, Mishnah, Midrash): TR
Medieval: TR
6. Literature (other than Biblical and Rabbinic): TR
Ancient (including Hellenistic): TR
43: Medieval (including scientific, poetry, Genizah studies): R
9. Contemporary Studies: TR
67: Anthropology, Ethnography and Folklore: R
71: Interfaith studies (including Jewish-Christian relations, Jewish-Muslim relations): T
76: Jews and the Sciences: R
10. Jewish Studies and Resources: R
81: Codicology: R
Other subjects:
Calendars: Research
History of science (astronomy): Research
Description
Prof. Sacha Stern has researched and published on early rabbinic literature and history, but his main area of research is the ancient and medieval history of time reckoning and calendars, from the perspectives of the history of science and of social history.
He is PI of Fritz Thyssen Stiftung project on \'Saadya Gaon\'s works on the calendar\' (2021-23).
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