Simcha
Gross
University of Pennsylvania
Honorary Distinguished Fellowship
Research Topic
Babylonian Jewish Law and Society beyond Institutionalization
Bio
Simcha Gross is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and studies Jews over the first millennium of the common era in their Roman, Persian, and Islamic contexts. His first book, Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity, will be published by Cambridge University Press. He is currently a member at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.
Selected publications
- The History of the 'Slave of Christ': From Jewish Child to Christian Martyr (Gorgias Press, 2016)
- Edited, Jews and Syriac Christians: Intersections across the First Millennium (Mohr Siebeck, 2020)
