Seth Schwartz

Seth Schwartz is an American historian and is the Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Classical Jewish Civilization at Columbia University. Schwartz earned the B.A. from Yeshiva University in 1979, and the Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1985.

Books

• The Ancient Jews from Alexander to Muhammad, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014
• Were the Jews A Mediterranean Society: Reciprocity and Solidarity in Ancient Judaism, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010.
• Imperialism and Jewish Society, 200 BCE to 640 CE, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001.
• Josephus and Judaean Politics, Leiden: Brill, 1990.
• With R. Bagnall, A. Cameron and K. Worp, Consuls of the Later Roman Empire, Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1987.

Awards

2001: National Jewish Book Award in Scholarship for Imperialism and Jewish Society: 200 B.C.E. to 640 C.E.