Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Manchester

RESEARCH DEGREES (PHD & MPHIL)

Graduation

The Centre welcomes students to study for a PhD at Manchester University in all areas of its expertise (see details of Centre Staff and their research interests), and particularly in the areas of Jewish History and Literature in Late Antiquity (including Dead Sea Scrolls), Jewish Background to Christian Origins, History of Jewish Law, Medieval Jewish Thought, Jewish Mysticism, Jewish Magic, Jewish-Christian Relations, Modern Anglo-Jewish History, Modern Jewish Thought. For details of archival and library holdings, see the Judaica collection held at the John Rylands Library.

Candidates may contact Professor Philip Alexander informally (e-mail: philip.alexander@manchester.ac.uk) with an outline PhD proposal.

For details of postgraduate student support, see PhD Studentships.

For general information about postgraduate study, including application procedures, fees, and information regarding the benefits of studying at Manchester as a foreign student, see www.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduate/

 

CURRENT JEWISH STUDIES RELATED PHDS AND MPHILS

Supervisor: Philip Alexander
1. Ann Conway-Jones, The Celestial Tabernacle in Gregory of Nyssa
2. Penelope Junkermann, The Relationship Between Song of Songs Rabbah and Targum to Song of Songs
3. Michael Tait, The Divine Bridegroom in Mark 2:18-20: Christology Upgraded
4. Rabbi Book, Traditions regarding the stones on the Hight Priest's breasplate

Supervisor: George Brooke
1. M. Haralambakis, The Testament of Job
2. Helen Jacobus, Calendars at Qumran
3. Marcus Tso, Ethics in the Sectarian Scrolls from Qumran
4. Christopher Davies, Reconsidering Rewritten Bible

Supervisor: Adrian Curtis
1. Elzbieta Lazarewicz-Wyrzykowska, M. M. Bakhtin's Ethical-Aesthetical Categories as a Methodology for Reading of the Book of Amos
2. Jennifer Williams, Approaches to Childlessness in the Hebrew Bible

Supervisor: Cathy Gelbin
1. Leanne Dawson, Lesbian Desire in Post-1945 German Texts (co-supervisor)
2. Rachel Ramsay, Writing Jewish and Turkish Cultural Memory into Contemporary German Literature (co-supervisor)
3. Elaine Ellery, Jewish Aspects in the Works of Gertrud Kolmar (co-supervisor)

Supervisor: Bernard Jackson
1. Nick Andrewes, Perspectival Poetics in Biblical Hebrew Discourse
2. Adam Frankenberg, The Theological and Philosophical Foundations of Non-Orthodox Halakhic Theory and Practice
3. Sonya Hadari, The rabbinic understanding(s) of human will as it relates to the halakhic requirement for a man to divorce his wife "willingly".
4. Sandra Jacobs, The Body as Object: A Gender-Critical Approach to the Treatment of the Body in Biblical Legislation and Early Akkadian Law Codes

Supervisor: Alex Samely
1. Hedva Rosen (Abel): Aspects of the Literary Structures of the Mekhilta
2. Andrew Wilshere: Rights and Responsibiliy: Levinas's critique of liberalism

Supervisors: Daniel Langton
1. Dan Garner, Antitheodicy, Atheodicy and Jewish Mysticism in Holocaust
2. Mike Savage, Teaching the Holocaust: A Cross-Disciplinary Critique of Holocaust Educational Activities
3. Owen Power, Hugh Schonfield: A Jewish Believer in Jesus
4. Simon Mayers, British Catholic Attitudes Towards Jews and Anglo-Jewish Attitudes Towards Catholics at the End of the 19th and Beginning of the 20th Century

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The Co-Directors of the Centre are:
Professor Philip Alexander, Professor of Post-Biblical Jewish Literature
Professor Bernard Jackson, Alliance Professor of Modern Jewish Studies
 

Centre for Jewish Studies, Department of Religions and Theology
University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL
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