Sacha
Stern
University College London
Bio
Sacha Stern is a Fellow of the British Academy and Professor of Rabbinic Judaism at the University College London’s Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies. He is an expert in Jewish history in late Antiquity, early rabbinic literature, and the history of calendars and time reckoning. Among his many publications, he is the author of Calendar and Community: A History of the Jewish Calendar, 2nd Century BCE to 10th Century CE (2001), Time and Process in Ancient Judaism (2003), and Calendars in Antiquity: Empires, States, and Societies (2012) and the editor of the Journal of Jewish Studies.
