Guy Stroumsa

Guy G. (Gedalyah) Stroumsa (hebreiska: גי (גדליה) סטרומזה), född 27 juli 1948 i Paris, är Martin Buber-professor emeritus i jämförande religionsforskning vid Hebreiska universitetet i Jerusalem och professor emeritus i studiet av de abrahamitiska religionerna vid Oxfords universitet, där han också är emeritus fellow vid Lady Margaret Hall. Han är även medlem av Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Stroumsa har dubbelt medborgarskap, såväl israeliskt som franskt.Guy G. Stroumsa, Curriculum Vitae på AcademiaNew Abrahamic Religions Chair appointed at Oxford, på Oxford Universitys webbplats.

Akademisk karriär Guy Stroumsa avlade 1969, vid 21 års ålder, sin kandidatexamen (Bachelor of Arts) vid Hebreiska universitetet ”med beröm” godkänd (cum laude). Han studerade därefter vid Harvard University där han 1975 erhöll sin magisterexamen (Master of Arts) och 1978 disputerade som filosofie doktor (Doctor of Philosophy). Mellan åren 1978 och 2009 var han verksam vid Hebreiska universitetet i Jerusalem där han år 1991 utnämndes till Martin Buber-professor i jämförande religionsforskning. Sedan 2009 innehar han tjänsten som professor emeritus. Samma år tillträdde han som professor i studiet av de abrahamitiska religionerna vid Oxfords universitet, och från 2013 innehar han den tjänsten som professor emeritus.

Guy Stroumsa är en judisk forskare med franskt ursprung som har stor kännedom om de abrahamitiska traditionerna och som har givit betydande bidrag till studier om religion i allmänhet.

Publikationer

Böcker Another Seed: Studies in Gnostic Mythology (Nag Hammadi Studies 24; Leiden: Brill, 1984) Savoir et salut: traditions juives et tentations dualistes dans le christianisme ancien (Paris: Le Cerf, 1992) Hidden Wisdom: Esoteric Traditions and the Roots of Christian Mysticism (Studies in the History of Religions 70; Leiden: Brill, 1996) [reviderad och utökad pocketutgåva, 2005] = La sapienza nascosta: Tradizioni esoteriche e radici del misticismo cristiano (Rome: Arkeios, 2000) Barbarian Philosophy: The Religious Revolution of Early Christianity (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1999) Tillsammans med Jacques Le Brun, Les juifs présentés aux chrétiens: textes de Léon de Modène et de Richard Simon, introduits et commentés (Paris: Belles Lettres, 1998) La formazione dell'identita cristiana (Brescia: Morcelliana, 1999) Kanon und Kultur: Zwei Studien zur Hermeneutik des antiken Christentums (Berlin, New York: de Gruyter, 1999) La fin du sacrifice: Mutations religieuses de l'antiquité tardive (Collège de France; Paris: Odile Jacob, 2005) = La fine del sacrificio: Le mutazioni religiose della tarda antichita (Turin: Einaudi, 2006) = The End of Sacrifice: Religious Transformations of Late Antiquity (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2009) Le rire du Christ et autres essais sur le christianisme antique (Paris: Bayard, 2006) A New Science: The Discovery of Religion in the Age of Reason (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010). The Making of the Abrahamic Religions in Late Antiquity (Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2015)

Böcker som redaktör Tillsammans med Sh. Shaked & D. Shulman: Gilgul: Transformations, Revolutions and Permanence in the History of Religions, Honor of R. J. Z. Werblowsky (Suppl. to Numen 50; Leiden: Brill, 1987) Tillsammans med Sh. Shaked & I. Gruenwald: Messiah and Christos: Studies in the Jewish Origins of Christianity, presented to David Flusser at the Occasion of his Seventy Fifth Birthday (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1992) Tillsammans med O. Limor: Contra Judaeos: Ancient and Medieval Polemics Between Christians and Jews (Texts and Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Judaism: Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck; 1995) Tillsammans med H. G. Kippenberg: Secrecy and Concealment: Studies in the History of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Religions (Studies in the History of Religions 65; Leiden: Brill, 1995) Shlomo Pines, Studies in the History of Religion (The Collected Works of Shlomo Pines, volume IV; Jerusalem: Magnes, 1996) Tillsammans med G. Stanton: Tolerance and Intolerance in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 1998; Pocketutgåva, Cambridge, 2008) Tillsammans med A. Kofsky: Sharing the Sacred: Religious Contacts and Conflicts in the Holy Land, 1st.–15th century (Jerusalem: Ben Zvi; 1998) Tillsammans med A. Baumgarten & J. Assmann, Soul, Self, Body in Religious Experience: Studies in the History of Religions (Leiden: Brill, 1998) Tillsammans med D. Shulman: Dream Cultures: Explorations in the Comparative History of Dreaming (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999) Tillsammans med J. Assmann, Transforming the Inner Self in Ancient Religions (Leiden: Brill, 1999) Tillsammans med D. Shulman, Self and Self Transformation in the History of Religions (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001; Paperback edition, Oxford, 2002) Tillsammans med Jan Assmann, Archiv für Religionsgeschichte 3 (2002), "Das 17. Jahrhundert und die Ursprünge der Religionsgeschichte" (Munich, Leipzig: Saur) Tillsammans med M. Finkelberg, Homer, the Bible, and Beyond: Literary and Religious Canons in the Ancient World (Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture, 2; Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2003) Tillsammans med O. Limor, Christians and Christianity in the Holy Land: From the Origins to the Latin Kingdoms (Turnhout: Brepols, 2006) Gershom Scholem and Morton Smith: Correspondence, 1945–1982 (Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture; Leiden: Brill, 2008) Tillsammans med Markus Bockmuehl, Paradise in Antiquity: Jewish and Christian Views (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010) Tillsammans med R. Bonfil, O. Irshai & R. Talgam, Jews of Byzantium: Dialectics of Minority and Majority Cultures (Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture: Leiden: Brill, 2011) Tillsammans med B. Dignas & R. Parker, Priests and Prophets among Pagans, Jews and Christians (Leuven: Peeters, 2013). Tillsammans med A. Silverstein & M. Blidstein, Oxford Handbook of the Abrahamic Religions (Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2015)

Artiklar "Which Jerusalem?," Cathedra 11 (1979), 119–124 (in Hebrew) Tillsammans med F. F. Church, "Mani's Disciple Thomas and the Psalms of Thomas", Vigiliae Christianae 34 (1980), 47–55. "Chaldaean Oracles", Numen 27 (1980), 162–172 (Review article). "The Gnostic Temptation", Numen 27 (1980), 278–286 (Review article). "Le couple de l'Ange et de l'Esprit; traditions juives et chrétiennes", Revue Biblique 88 (1981), 42–61. "Aher: a Gnostic", B. Layton, ed., The Rediscovery of Gnosticism, II (Suppl. to Numen, 41; Leiden: Brill, 1981), 228–238. "Ascèse et Gnose: aux origines de la spiritualité monastique", Revue Thomiste 81 (1981), 557–576. "Polymorphie divine et transformations d'un mythologème: l'Apocryphon de Jean et ses sources", Vigiliae Christianae 35 (1981), 412–434. "Aspects de l'eschatologie manichéenne", Revue de l'Histoire des Religions 198 (1981), 163–181. "The Hidden Closeness: on the Church Fathers and Judaism", Mehkarei Yerushalaim be-Mahshevet Ysrael 2 (1982), 170–175] (på hebreiska; Review article). "Origen on God's Incorporeality: Context and Implications", Religion 13 (1983), 345–358. "Form(s) of God: Some Notes on Metatron and Christ", Harvard Theological Review 76 (1983), 269–288. "Monachisme et marranisme chez les manichéens d'Egypte", Numen 29 (1983), 184–201. "König und Schwein: zur Struktur des manichäischen Dualismus", J. Taubes, ed., Gnosis und Politik (Paderborn: Fink-Schoningh, 1984), 141–153. "Gnostics and Manichaeans in Byzantine Palestine", M. Livingstone, ed., Studia Patristica 10 (Kalamazoo: Cistercian Press, 1985), 273–278. "Die Gnosis und die christliche 'Entzauberung der Welt'", W. Schluchter, ed., Max Webers Sicht des antiken Christentums: Interpretation und Kritik (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1985), 486–508. "Seal of the Prophets: the Nature of a Manichaean Metaphor," Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 7 (1986), 61–74. "Esotericism in Mani's Thought and Background", L. Cirillo, ed., Codex Manichaicus Coloniensis (Cosenza: Marra, 1986), 153–168. "The Manichaean Challenge to Egyptian Christianity", B. Pearson & J. Goehring, eds, The Roots of Egyptian Christianity (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1986), 307–319. "Old Wines and New Bottles: on Patristic Soteriology and Rabbinic Judaism", S.N. Eisenstadt, ed., The Origins and Diversity of Axial Age Civilizations (Albany: SUNY Press, 1986), 252–260; "Alter Wein und neue Schlauche: Über patristische Soteriologie und rabbinisches Judentum", S. N. Eisenstadt, Hrg., Kulturen der Achsenzeit: Ihre Ursprünge und Ihre Vielfalt (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1987), vol II, 38–51. [tysk översättning]. "Myth into Metaphor: the Case of Prometheus", Sh. Shaked, D. Shulman & G. G. Stroumsa, eds., Gilgul:Transformation, Revolution and Permanence in the History of Religions, Honour of R. J. Zwi Werblowsky (Suppl. to Numen; 50; Leiden: Brill, 1987), 309–323. "The Words and the Works: Religious Knowledge and Salvation in Augustine and Faustus of Milevis", S. N. Eisenstadt & I. F. Silver, eds., Cultural Traditions and Worlds of Knowledge: Explorations in the Sociology of Knowledge (Knowledge and Society, 7; Greenwich, Conn. & London; JAI Press, 1988), 73–84. Tillsammans med S. Stroumsa, "Anti-Manichaean Polemics in Late Antiquity and under Early Islam", Harvard Theological Review 81 (1988), 37–58. "Mythos und Erinnerung: Jüdische Dimensionen der gnostischen Revolte gegen die Zeit", Judaica 44 (1988), 15–30. "Vetus Israel: les juifs dans la littérature hiérosolymitaine d'époque byzantine", Revue de l'Histoire des Religions 205 (1988), 115–131. "Religious Contacts in Byzantine Palestine", Numen 36 (1989), 16–41. "Caro salutis cardo: Shaping the Person in Early Christian Thought", History of Religions 30 (1990), 25–50. "Paradosis: Traditions ésotériques dans le christianisme des premiers siècles", La fable apocryphe, II, Apocrypha 2 (Turnhout: Brepols, 1991), 133–153. "Titus of Bostra and Alexander of Lycopolis: a Patristic and a Platonist Refutation of Manichaean Dualism", R. T. Wallis, ed., & J. Bregman, ass. ed. Neoplatonism and Gnosticism (Studies in Neoplatonism, Ancient and Modern, 6; Albany: S.U.N.Y. Press, 1991), 339–351. "Moses' Riddles: Esoteric Trends in Patristic Hermeneutics", Sh. Biedermann & B. A. Scharfstein, eds., Interpretation in Religion (Philosophy and Religion, 2; Leiden: Brill, 1992), 229–248. "The Early Christian Fish-Symbol Reconsidered", I. Gruenewald, Sh. Shaked & G. G. Stroumsa, eds., Messiah and Christos: Studies in the Jewish Origins of Christianity, in Honour of David Flusser (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1992), 199–205. "Herméneutique biblique et identité: l'exemple d' Isaac", Revue Biblique 99 (1992), 529–543. "Gnosis and Judaism in Nineteenth Century Christian Thought", Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, 2 (1992), 45–62. Återutgiven i Ch. Schulte, E. Goodman-Thau, G. Mattenklott, eds., Kabbalah und Romantik (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1994), 43–57. "Anti-Cathar Polemics and the Liber de duobus principiis ", B. Lewis & F. Niewöhner, eds., Religionsgespräche im Mittelalter (Wolfenbütteler Mittelalter-Studien, 4; Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1992), 169–183. "Interiorization and Intolerance in Early Christianity", J. Assmann, ed., Die Erfindung des inneren Menschen (Studien zum Verstehen fremder Religionen, 6; Guttersloh: Mohn, 1993), 168–182. "Le radicalisme religieux du christianisme ancien", A. Le Boulluec & E. Patlagean, eds., Retours aux Ecritures (Bibliothèque de l' Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes; Louvain: Peeters,1993), 347–374; "Early Christianity as Radical Religion: Context and Implications", Israel Oriental Studies 14 (1994), 173–193. [lätt reviderad engelsk översättning]. "Religious Transformations and Societal Changes", Ü. Kirdar & L. Silk, eds., A World Fit for People (New York, London, New York Univ. Press, 1994), 253–263.