Seth Schwartz is an American historian and is the

Lucius N. Littauer Lucius Nathan Littauer (January 20, 1859 – March 2, 1944) was an American politician, businessman, and college football coach. He served in the United States House of Representatives from New York for five terms between 1897 and 1907. Littauer ...

Professor of Classical Jewish Civilization at

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. Schwartz earned the B.A. from

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in 1979, and the Ph.D. from

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 The Jewish Book Council (Hebrew: ), founded in 1944, is an organization encouraging and contributing to Jewish literature.Historians of antiquity American historians Historians of Jews and Judaism {{US-historian-stub