Seth Schwartz

Seth Schwartz is the Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Classical Jewish Civilization and professor of history and of classics at Columbia University. He is the author of Imperialism and Jewish Society, 200 BCE to 640 CE (2001), which received the National Jewish Book Award and was a finalist for the Koret Book Award, Were the Jews a Mediterranean Society? Reciprocity and Solidarity in Ancient Judaism (2010), and The Ancient Jews from Alexander to Muhammad (2014). He is a social, cultural, and political historian of ancient Jews, with strong interests in their Hellenistic, Roman, and early Christian environments.