Sarah Pearce

Sarah Pearce
Born	1965 London
Nationality	British
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Oxford, University of London
Doctoral advisor	Geza Vermes, Martin Goodman
Academic work
Discipline	Classics
Institutions	University of Southampton
Notable works	Philo, The Land of the Body: Studies in Philo's Representation of Egypt The words of Moses: studies in the reception of Deuteronomy in the Second Temple Period

Sarah J. K. Pearce is Ian Karten Professor of History and Head of the School of Humanities at the University of Southampton. She is known in particular for her work on Jews in the Hellenistic world and the Roman Empire, especially the life and work of Philo of Alexandria.

Career

Pearce read Divinity at the University of London gaining her BA in 1988. She moved to the Oriental Institute of the University of Oxford and gained her D.Phil. in 1995 with a dissertation on the reception of the Bible in the Second Temple period. Her work was published in an expanded version in 2013 as The words of Moses: studies in the reception of Deuteronomy in the Second Temple Period.

Pearce moved to the University of Southampton in 1996 firstly as a Parkes Fellow and then as the first Ian Karten Fellow. She became lecturer, senior lecturer and then Professor of History. She is a member of the University of Southampton's Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations. Pearce was a co-director of the AHRB funded Greek Bible in the Graeco-Roman World Project (2001 to 2006) with Tessa Rajak at the University of Reading. Pearce was a collaborator on the AHRC project based at the University of Oxford (2013 to 2016) on The Reception of Josephus in Jewish Culture from the Eighteenth Century to the Present.

Pearce is working on a new English translation and commentary on Philo's On the Decalogue for the Philo of Alexandria Commentary Series.

Selected publications

• ed. The image and its prohibition in Jewish antiquity (Journal of Jewish Studies Supplement Series, Oxford, 2013)
• The words of Moses: studies in the reception of Deuteronomy in the Second Temple Period (Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck, 2013)
• ed. with J Jordan and A Kushner Jewish journeys: from Philo to Hip Hop. (Parkes-Wiener Series on Jewish Studies, Elstree, Vallentine Mitchell, 2010)
• ed. with Tessa Rajak and J Aitken Jewish perspectives on Hellenistic rulers (Berkeley, University of California Press, 2007)
• The Land of the Body: Studies in Philo's Representation of Egypt (Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck, 2007)
• ed. with S Jones Jewish local patriotism and self-identification in the Graeco-Roman period (Sheffield Academic Press, 1998)
• ed. with S Jones and T Kushner Cultures of ambivalence and contempt: studies in Jewish and non-Jewish relations (Elstree, Vallentine Mitchell, 1997)
• ed. with S Jones and T Kushner Cultures of contempt and ambivalence: studies in Jewish-non-Jewish relations (Elstree, Vallentine Mitchell, 1997)

External links

• University of Southampton staff page