Meron-Martin Piotrkowski

Faculty/College:

The Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies/Wolfson College

Current Projects

Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum IV-VI; book project: Jewish Oxyrhynchus: The History of the Jewish Community of Oxyrhynchus Before and After 117 CE 

Courses Taught:

ON SHERD AND PAPYRUS: JEWS IN ANCIENT DOCUMENTS FROM HELLENISTIC AND ROMAN EGYPT (MT23) 

Biography: 

Meron Piotrkowski joined the University of Oxford in the fall of 2023. He earned his BA from the Freie Universität Berlin (his hometown), and his MA and PhD from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Before coming to Oxford, he spent the last two years at Princeton University and at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton. 

Educational Background:

BA Freie Universität Berlin; MA, PhD The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 

Research Interests:

My research interests are: Ancient Judaism, Ancient Jewish History and Historiography, The Jews of Egypt in Antiquity, Papyrology 

Recent Publications: 

Meron M. Piotrkowski, “‘Herodes unterm Hakenkreuz und Josephus der Fälscher:’ Hugo Willrich and the Study of the Jews in Antiquity,” in “A Vision of the Days”: Studies in Early Jewish History and Historiography in Honor of Daniel R. Schwartz, ed. by N. Hacham, R. Brody, M. M. Piotrkowski and J.W. van Henten (Leiden: Brill, 2023) 443-472. 

N. Hacham, R. Brody, M. M. Piotrkowski and J.W. van Henten, “A Vision of the Days”: Studies in Early Jewish History and Historiography in Honor of Daniel R. Schwartz (Leiden: Brill, 2023). 

Meron M. Piotrkowski, “Rabbinization in Egypt? The Papyrological Evidence from Late Antique Egypt,” in Rabbinization and Diversity, ed. by R. Boustan, G. Herman, E. Krakowski, and D. Stökl-Ben Ezra, 38pp. (forthcoming). 

Links: 

https://oxford.academia.edu/MeronMPiotrkowski