Meron Piotrkowski

Meron Piotrkowski, Faculty, Department of Religion, Princeton University
Visiting Fellow 2021-2022
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Meron M. Piotrkowski, born in Berlin in 1977, Ph.D. 2015 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Department of the History of the Jewish People and Contemporary Judaism), is a historian of antiquity, specializing in the Second Temple period. The focus of his research is on the Egyptian-Jewish Diaspora. He is the author of Priests in Exile: The History of the Temple of Onias and Its Community in the Hellenistic Period (Berlin and Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2019) and part of the team of commentators and contributors to the new Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum (vols. IV-VII; ed. by N. Hacham and T. Ilan).

Since August 2021, he is a Visiting Fellow at Princeton’s Department of Religion, working on the history of the Jewish community of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt during the Hellenistic-Roman and Byzantine periods. Within the framework of this research project, Piotrkowski examines Jewish papyri discovered at Oxyrhynchus and seeks to test, inter alia, the generally accepted hypothesis that Egyptian Jews and Judaism were completely annihilated as an immediate outcome of the Jewish Diaspora Revolt (115-117 CE).

Selected Publications

Books:

1) M. M. Piotrkowski, Priests in Exile: The History of the Temple of Onias in the Hellenistic Period (Berlin and Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2019).

2) M. M. Piotrkowski, Jewish Oxyrhynchus: The History of the Jewish Community of Oxyrhynchus Before and After 117 CE (in preparation).

 

Edited Books:

1)   M. Piotrkowski, G. Herman and S. Dönitz (eds.), Sources and Interpretation in Ancient Judaism (Leiden: Brill, 2018).

2)    N. Hacham and T. Ilan in collaboration with M. M. Piotrkowski and S. Szántó, Corpus Papyrorum       Judaicarum IV (Oldenbourg and Jerusalem: Walter de Gruyter and Magnes Press, 2020).

3)    N. Hacham and T. Ilan in collaboration with M. M. Piotrkowski and S. Szántó, Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum V (Oldenbourg and Jerusalem: Walter de Gruyter and Magnes Press, 2021) (forthcoming).

 

Articles in Peer-reviewed Journals:

1) “Theokratie am Extrem: Die Auflösung der Formen jüdischer Staatlichkeit und die Genese der 4. Philosophie,” Trumah 18 (2008): 228-237.

2) “When Did Alexander Yannai Capture which Gadara?” Jewish Studies Quarterly 18 (2011): 266-276.

3) “Josephus on Onias and the Oniad Temple,” Jewish Studies Quarterly 25 (2018): 1-16.

4) “‘Ich kam, sah und explodierte:’ Eine Episode aus dem Leben Sammy Gronemanns,” Naharaim 13 (2019): 189-202.

5) “Artapanus as a Source for the Building of the Temple of Onias,” Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 29 (2020): 197-214.

6) “On the Origin of the Jewish Historian Artapanus,” Scripta Classica Israelica 39 (2020): 73-83.

7) with E. Katvan, “Dr. Josephine Zürcher-Fallscheer (1866-1932): The Forgotten Female Doctor,” Journal of Health Law and Bioethics 8 (2020): 192-226 [Hebrew].

8) with Zs. Szántó, “‘Fragment F’ of the ‘History of Joseph’: Paris, Louvre E7738 A,” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 219 (2021):1-10. (in print).

 

Chapters in Collections:

1) “Re-evaluating 3 Maccabees: An Oniad Composition?” in Jüdisch-hellenistische Literatur in ihrem interkulturellen Kontext, ed. by M. Hirschberger (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2012) 117-142.

2) “Josephus on Hasmonean Kingship: The Example of Aristobulus I and Alexander Jannaeus,” in Antimonarchic Discourse in Antiquity, ed. by H. Börm (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2015) 249-267.

3) “‘Literary Jews:’ The Jewish Community of Oxyrhynchus in Light of Non-Documentary Texts on Papyrus,” in Sources and Interpretation in Ancient Judaism, ed. by M. M. Piotrkowski, S. Dönitz and G. Herman (Leiden: Brill, 2018) 143-173.

4) “Priests in Exile: On the Identity of the Oniad Jewish Community of Heliopolis,” in A Question of Identity: Social, Political, and Historical Aspects of Identity Dynamics in Jewish and Other Contexts, ed. by D. Rivlin-Katz, N. Hacham, G. Herman and L. Sagev (Berlin and Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2019) 165-182.

5) “The Aramaic Papyri and Ostraca of the Ptolemaic Period,” in Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum IV, ed. by T. Ilan and N. Hacham in collaboration with M.M. Piotrkowski and S. Szántó (Oldenbourg and Jerusalem: Walter de Gruyter and Magnes Press, 2020) 10-13, 14-43, 44-45.

6) with Zs. Scanto, “615 (P.Amherst 63). A Pseudo-Historical Account Mentioning Samaria and Jerusalem,” in Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum IV, ed. by T. Ilan and N. Hacham in collaboration with M.M. Piotrkowski and S. Szántó (Oldenbourg and Jerusalem: Walter de Gruyter and Magnes Press, 2020) 265-274.

7) “The Aramaic Inscriptions from Edfu,” in Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum IV, ed. by T. Ilan and N. Hacham in collaboration with M. M. Piotrkowski and S. Szántó (Oldenbourg and Jerusalem: Walter de Gruyter and Magnes Press, 2020) 285-290.

8) “679. A Prophecy Concerning Vespasian,” in Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum V, ed. by T. Ilan and N. Hacham in collaboration with M. M. Piotrkowski and S. Szántó (Oldenbourg and Jerusalem: Walter de Gruyter and Magnes Press, 2021) 188-190 (forthcoming).

9) “Magical Papyri (Introduction),” in Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum V, ed. by T. Ilan and N. Hacham in collaboration with M. M. Piotrkowski and S. Szántó (Oldenbourg and Jerusalem: Walter de Gruyter and Magnes Press, 2021) 191-192 (forthcoming).

10) “680. Apotropaic Prayer against Unclean Spirits,” in Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum V, ed. by T. Ilan and N. Hacham in collaboration with M. M. Piotrkowski and S. Szántó (Oldenbourg and Jerusalem: Walter de Gruyter and Magnes Press, 2021) 192-195 (forthcoming).

11) “681. Hebrew Magical-Prayer Amulet in Greek, found in Wales,” in Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum V, ed. by T. Ilan and N. Hacham in collaboration with M. M. Piotrkowski and S. Szántó (Oldenbourg and Jerusalem: Walter de Gruyter and Magnes Press, 2021) 195-198 (forthcoming).

 

Encyclopedia Entries:

1) “Temple, Leontopolis (Archaeology),” in Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism, ed. by L. T. Stuckenbruck and D. Gurtner (2 vols.; New York and London: T & T Clark, 2019) 760-763.

 

Book Reviews:

  • “Review of SALVESEN, A., S. PEARCE, M. FRENKEL (eds.) – Israel in Egypt: The Land of Egypt as Concept and Reality for Jews in Antiquity and the Early Medieval Period. (Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity, 110). Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden-Boston, 2020,” Bibliotheca Orientalis 78 (2021): 233-236. (in print).