JONATHAN J. PRICE
The Fred and Helen Lessing Chair of Ancient History
Tel Aviv University
ADDRESS
Department of History Tel Aviv University Ramat Aviv 6997801 Israel Phone: +972 3 640 9454/ 9779 Fax: +972 3 640 9457 E-mail: price@post.tau.ac.il
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Home: 18 Klausner St. Jerusalem 9338816 Israel Phone: +972 2 672 5266 Fax: +972 2 671 7443
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PERSONAL
Born: 3 November 1956 in St. Louis, Mo. USA Marital Status: Married, five children
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Citizenship: American and Israeli
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EDUCATION
Haverford College: B.A. in Classics, 1978; Phi Beta Kappa, High Honors
Princeton University: M.A. in Classics, 1982
Ph.D. in Classics, 1988
Hebrew University, Lady David Doctoral Fellow, 1983-1985
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
1987-88 Princeton University Classics Lecturer
1987-90 Middlebury College Classics Asst. Professor; chair, 1988-89
1990-91 Hebrew University Jewish History Visiting Lecturer
1991-92 Tel Aviv University Classics/History Visiting Lecturer
1992-93 Ben Gurion University Ancient History Visiting Lecturer
1992-99 Tel Aviv University Classics/History Senior Lecturer; tenure 06/99
2000-11 Tel Aviv University Classics/History Associate Professor
2011- Tel Aviv University Classics/History Full Professor
2017 - Tel Aviv University The Fred and Helen Lessing Chair of Ancient History
ADMINISTRATION, COMMITTEES, SERVICE
2000-2 Tel Aviv University Undergraduate Advisor, History Department
2000-2 Tel Aviv University Liaison for Foreign Guests, Humanities Faculty
2004-06 Tel Aviv University Director of International Academic Relations
2005-7 Tel Aviv University Ph.D. Committee, School of History
2006-7 Tel Aviv University Steering Committee, “Melamdim” Program, TAU and Hartman Institute
2008-11 Tel Aviv University Development Committee, History Department
2008-11 Fulbright Foundation Selection Committee for Doctoral Fellowships
2009 Tel Aviv University Chair, Promotion Committee for Candidate in Humanities Faculty
2010-14 Tel Aviv University Chair, Classics Department
2011- Tel Aviv University Chair, Oversight Committee for M.A. Program in Ancient Israel
2011 Bar Ilan University Promotion Committee (to full professor)
2011 Open University Search Committee for tenure-track appointment
2012 Hebrew University Promotion Committee (to full professor)
2012-- Tel Aviv University Scholarships Committee, School of History
2012-- Tel Aviv University Thomas Arthur Arnold Scholarships Committee
2013 Dan David Foundation Selection Committee for Dan David Prize
2013-- Tel Aviv University Oversight Committee, Collaboration with Oxford U.
2013-- Tel Aviv University Appointments Committee, School of Cultural Studies
2013-16 Tel Aviv University Oversight Committee, Liberal Arts Program in English
2015 Dan David Foundation Selection Committee for Dan David Prize
2015-- Tel Aviv University School of History Committee on Ph.D. Students
2016-- Tel Aviv University Chair, History Department
2001-- Several promotion committees for all ranks within Tel Aviv University
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL AWARDS AND GRANTS
Lady Davis Graduate Fellowship, The Hebrew University (1983-85)
Whiting Fellowship, Princeton University (1985-86)
Ada Howe Kent Research Fellowship, Middlebury College (1988)
American Philosophical Society Research Fellowship (1988)
Lucius N. Littauer Foundation Research Grant, Principal Investigator (1990)
Fulbright Research Grant (1990-91)
Guastalla Fellowship (1992-95)
Ish-Shalom Prize in Jewish History, Yad Ben-Zvi, Jerusalem (1994)
Research Grant, Principal Investigator, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture (1996, 1991)
Three-year Research Grant, Principal Investigator, Israel Science Foundation (1994-97)
Junior Fellow, The Center for Hellenic Studies (1997-98)
Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, Jerusalem (2002-03)
Two-year Research Grant, Principal Investigator, Israel Science Foundation (2009-11)
Corresponding Member in the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (elected 2011)
Four-year Research Grant, Principal Investigator, Israel Science Foundation (2012-2016)
Four-year grant from Humanities Fund, Yad Hanadiv, for M.A. Program in Classics (I was author, program involves three other universities) (2013-2017)
Fellow, Princeton Institute for Advanced Study (Autumn 2014)
COURSES RECENTLY TAUGHT
Literacy in Antiquity; Polybius and Hellenistic Historiography; The Provincial Historians of the Roman Empire; Rhetoric in Theory and Practice in Greece and Rome; Literary Patterns in Ancient Historiography; The Invention of History; Ancient and Modern Theories of History; Tacitus and the Tyrant; Historiographical Thought in Antiquity; The Roman Near East; The Problem of Julius Caesar; The Materials of Ancient History; Greek Epigraphy in Greece and Rome; History and Historians from Herodotus to the Middle Ages; Internal War in the Greek and Roman Worlds; Livy and “exemplary History”; Augustus, the First Emperor.
Papers AND CONFERENCES (since 2001)
2001 York University, Toronto, Canada: Flavian Josephus in Flavian Rome, International Conference: “Josephus’ mimesis of Thucydides: A Test Case”
2002 Barcelona, Spain: International Association of Greek and Latin Epigraphy, 12th International Conference: “Greeks, Romans, Jews and Others in the Iudaea/Syria Palaestina: ‘A Civilization of Epigraphy’: Jerusalem and Caesarea”
2002 Philadelphia, PA: American Philological Association, Annual Conference: “The Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae”
2003 Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, Annual Conference: “The Problem of Stasis in Josephus”
2003 Rome: Josephus Between Jerusalem and Rome, International Colloquium: “Josephus the Provincial Historian”
2003 Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies, International Conference: “Mommsen and the Jews”
2003 Jerusalem: Judaisms in Antiquity, International Conference: “What is Jewish about Jewish Epigraphy?”
2003 Jerusalem: Co-Organizer of International Conference at The Institute for Advanced Studies, “A Civilization of Epigraphy”. My paper (with Shlomo Naeh): “Transcription as a Cultural Phenomenon in Antiquity”
2005 Boston: American Philological Association, Annual Conference: “Jews and Greeks in Jaffa: New Light on the Inscriptions in the Ustinov Collection, Oslo”
2005 Philadelphia, PA: Society of Biblical Literature, Annual Conference: “Unpublished Inscriptions from Beth She‘arim: Palaeography and History”
2005 Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies, International Conference: “The Ustinov Collection in Oslo”
2006 Greifswald, Germany: Josephus and the New Testament – The New Testament and Josephus. Mutual Perceptions, International Conference: “Josephus’ Place in the Dialogue on the Destruction of the Temple”
2007 Cambridge, England: International Josephus Seminar: “The Failure of Rhetoric in Josephus’ Bellum Iudaicum”
2007 Oxford, England: International Association of Greek and Latin Epigraphy, 13th International Conference: “Semitic Languages in the Epigraphy of the Graeco-Roman Near East: The Case of Judaea/Syria Palaestina”
2008 Regensburg, Germany: Thucydides – A ‘Violent Teacher’?: History and its Representations, International Conference: “Thucydides and Flavius Josephus: Stasis and Mimesis”
2008 Jerusalem: Jewish Views of the After-Life and Burial Practices in Second Temple Judaism: Evaluating the Talpiot Tomb in Context, International Conference sponsored by Princeton Theological Seminary and Mishkenot Sha’ananim: “The Mariam Ossuary in Greek”
2008: Chicago: American Philological Association, Annual Conference: “How to Read an Ossuary Inscription”
2008 University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada: Globalizing the History of Historical Writing: The Plenary Conference of the Oxford History of Historical Writing: “Josephus”
2009 Tel Aviv: Judaea/Palaestina, Babylon and Rome: Jews in the Roman, Parthian and Sassanian Empires: International Conference in Honour of Aharon Oppenheimer: “The necropolis at Jaffa and its relation to Beth She‘arim”
2010 Athens: Thucydides’ Techniques: Between Historical Research and Literary Representation, International Conference: “Difficult Statements in Thucydides”
2010: Groningen: Second Groningen Qumran Institute Symposium: “The Jewish Population of Jerusalem from the First Century B.C.E. to the Early Second Century C.E.: The Epigraphic Record”
2011: San Francisco: American Schools of Oriental Research: “The Place of Synagogue Inscriptions in the Epigraphic Culture of the Roman Near East”
2012 Aix-en-Provence: Judaism and the Political and Religious Challenge of the Roman Empire: “The Perception of Rome in Greek Authors, mostly during the Imperial Period”
2012 Chicago: Society of Biblical Literature: “Jewish Synagogue Inscriptions and History” (organizer of panel)
2012 Philadelphia: American Philological Association: “The Multi-lingual Synagogue Inscriptions in Syria and Iudaea/Palaestina”
2012 Berlin: Association Internationale d'Épigraphie Grecque et Latine: “The Media and Audiences of the Aramaic and Hebrew Inscriptions in Roman Syria and Palestine”
2013 Margharita di Savoia, Italy: Ancient Literary and Visual Representations of the Roman Civil Wars of the 40s and 30s BCE: “Civil War and Empire in Appian of Alexandria”
2013 Ghent: The International Network for Theory of History: The Future of the Theory and Philosophy of History: “The Origins of the Philosophy of History”
2013 Jerusalem, Van Leer Institute: Coping with Change: Adapting Religions and Adopting Transformations in the Late Antique Eastern Mediterranean: “The Different Faces of Euergetism in Syria and Iudaea/Palaestina in Late Antiquity: The Evidence of Synagogue Inscriptions”
2013 Tel Aviv (conference organizer): The Future of Rome: Roman, Greek, Christian and Jewish Perspectives: “Three Greek Views on the Past and Future of the Roman Empire”
2014 Aix-en-Provence, Citizenship(s) and Political-Religious Self-Definitions in the Roman Empire: “Greek Intellectual Communities in the Roman Empire”
2014 Yale University, Multilingualism and the Transfer of Cultures in Antiquity: “Language, Audience and Locality: The Problem of Synagogue Inscriptions”
2015 Hebrew University, Journeys in the Roman East:Imagined and Real: “Lucian’s Verae Historiae”
2016 Tel Aviv University, The Eighth Conference in Byzantine Studies: “The International Community in Beth She‘arim, Its Extent and Significance”
2016 Zichron Ya‘akov , Israel (conference co-organizer), Languages and Empire: “The Names of God in Jewish Inscriptions”
2017 Tel Aviv University, Language and Text: International Conference in Honor of Margalit Finkelberg, co-organizer
2017 Rome, l’École Française de Rome, Regarding Roman Power: Imperial rule in the eyes of Greeks and Romans, Jews and Christians, and Others: “Structural weaknesses in Rome’s power – Historians’ views on Roman stasis”
INVITED PUBLIC LECTURES (since 2001, various on Classics, Ancient History, Epigraphy)
2001: Washington University, Princeton University, Tel Aviv University
2002: Johns Hopkins University, Tel Aviv University
2003: Princeton University, Tel Aviv University
2004: Washington University, Yad Ben Zvi (Jerusalem).
2005: Institute for Advanced Study (Jerusalem); Yeshiva University
2006: Haverford College, Jewish Theological Seminary, Swarthmore College, University of Pennsylvania
2007: Hebrew University
2008: Colgate University, Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Jewish Theological Seminary, New York University, Swarthmore College, Tel Aviv University, University of Toronto, Yad Ben Zvi (Jerusalem), Yeshiva University
2009: Hebrew University, New York University, Tel Aviv University, Yad Ben Zvi (Jerusalem) Yeshiva University
2010: Tel Aviv University, Yad Ben Zvi (Jerusalem).
2011: Tel Aviv University, The Rector’s Lectures (13 lectures): “From Jerusalem to Rome: Thirty Years which Changed the World”
2014: Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Princeton University. Colgate University. Middlebury College.
2015: Tel Aviv University. The National Library of Israel.
2017: Washington University. University of Bern.
2017: Academic organizer of research/study day at Yodfat (Israel) for History students and faculty from universities and colleges in Israel. Lecture: “Yodfat Then and Now”
STUDENTS SUPERVISED
Ory Amitay, M.A., Tel Aviv University, 1997-98: “The Life and Works of Brasidas”
Amir Meital, M.A., Tel Aviv University, 2003: “Natural Disasters in Thucydides”
Veronese, Anna, M.A., Hebrew University, 2008-2010: “The Inscriptions of the Jaffa Necropolis”
Uriah Sack, M.A., Tel Aviv University, 2010-: “Virtus in Sallust”
Ayelet Peer, Ph.D., Tel Aviv University, 2005-2010: “Rewriting History: A Thematic Analysis of Julius Caesar’s Bellum Civile”.
Eva Tyrell, Ph.D., Bern University and Tel Aviv University (co-tutelle), 2013-17: “Historiographic Narratives in Bibilcal and Early Greek Tradition”
Matan Orion, Ph.D., Tel Aviv University, 2013-16: “Gentiles in the Jerusalem Temple”
Moshe Manor, Ph.D., Tel Aviv University, 2013-: “Meta-Rhetoric in Greek Oratory”
Steven Ben Yishai, Ph.D., Hebrew University, 2014-: “Josephus' Tyrants and the Aristocratic Ethos in Rome”