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Professor of Judaic Studies
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies - Affiliate Faculty
Judaic Studies - Tenure-Track Faculty
3405 French Hall
513-556-2299
steven.bowman@uc.edu

Professional Summary

Studied at Smith and Mount Holyoke colleges, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, American School of Classical Studies in Greece. Taught, travelled, lectured widely (nationally and internationally) on the Jews and Greeks as the double helix of western civilization. Recently instituted Sephardi and Greek Holocaust Library and edited first volume. extensive research experience in European, Israeli and U.S. archives.

Education

PhD, The Ohio State University, 1974 (History).

Graduation, Boston Latin School, Boston, Massachusetts, 1960.

B.A., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 1964 (History).

Research Interests

Women in the Bible, Jews in Byzantium, Book of Yosippon, holocaust and resistance in Greece during World War II

Research Support

Travel Abroad Research, Fulbright-Hays . Date: 2010 to 2011. Status: Completed.

Research, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Date: 1978 to 1979. Status: Completed.

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Lady Davis. Status: Completed.

Peer Reviewed Publications

"Jewish Responses to Byzantine Polemics 9th - 11th Centuries in Shofar 28, no. 3 (2010), 103-115

"Jewish Responses to Byzantine Polemics 9th - 11th Centuries" in The Jewish Jesus. Revelation, Reflection, Reclamation, ed. Zev Garber (West Lafayette:  Purdue University Press, 2011), 181-203. (revised and expanded version of "Jewish Responses to Byzantine Polemics 9th - 11th Centuries"

"Antietam" in Civil War Campaigner 2 (2010), 61-67.

"Survival in Decline:  Romaniote Jewry post 1204" in  Jews of Byzantium:  Dialectics of Minority and Majority Cultures), ed. R. Bonfil et al. (Leiden: E.J. Brill,  2012), 101-132.

Encyclopedia Articles

:  Encyclopedia of the Jews in the Islamic World, [Leiden: Brill, 2010]: "Judeo-Greek", "Romaniots".

:  Cambridge Dictionary of Jewish Religion, History, and Culture. "Byzantium".

Reviews

:  Alex Metcalfe, The Muslims of medieval Italy, CHOICE (2010)

:  Madeline C. Zilfi, Women and Slavery in the Late Ottoman Empire, CHOICE, [2010]

:  The Old Testament in Byzantium, Paul Magdalino and Robert Nelson, eds. Washington. D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2010, Shofar, Vol. 30, No. 2, [Winter, 2012]

:  Orestis E. Vidalis. Confronting the Greek Dictatorship in the U.S.  NY: Pella,2009 in  Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora

: Martin Gilbert, In Ishmael's House, Christian Century

:Clinton Bailey, Bedouin Law from Sinai & the Negev.  Justice without Government.  New Haven and London:  Yale University Press 2009,  400 pp.  $70.00 in SPME

Work in Progress

"A Portrait of Grey."  Reflection by S. Bowman on the "That Jesus Cover" forthcoming in Shofar 30.3 (Spring 2012)

Lectures

(). . Cambridge University, UK.

Original (). . Yarnton Manor, Oxford University, Oxford, UK.

original (). . Hillel, Oxford University, Oxford, England UK.

original (). . Cambridge University, England, UK.

original (). . University of London, SOAS, United Kingdom.

original (). . SOAS, University of London, London, England, UK.

original (). . Hochschule fur Judische Studien, {Heidelberg University], Germany.

original (). . Maintz, Germany.

Events Organized

Workshop. FRIAS Workshop on the Holocaust (11/24/2010 to 11/26/2010), Freiburg University.

Symposium. Fulbright Gathering (01/26/2011 to 01/26/2011), Tel Aviv, Israel.

Other. Jacob and Jenny L. Lichter Lecture Series (1981 to 2012), University of Cincinnati.

Lecture. Co-cordinator Jacob and Jennie L. Lichter Series (1981 to 2012), University of Cincinnati.

Service

Other, Tel Aviv University .

Post Graduate Training & Education

1971-1973, , American School of Classical Studies, Athens, Greece.