Political History of Hasmonean and Herodian Judaea; Roman History: Romulus to Theodoric; Hellenistic History: Ipsus to Actium; Roman History through Epigraphy and Numismatics.

• Topics in Greek and Roman History (CLAS 115b) (Fall 2007)
  
  Hellenistic Monarchy and Judaea

Review of Tamar Landau, Out-Heroding Herod: Josephus, Rhetoric, and the Herod Narratives, Journal for the Study of Judaism (forthcoming).

"Hasmonean and Herodian Fortresses"; "Idumaea"; "Herodian Dynasty"; and "Herod." The Dictionary of Early Judaism (forthcoming).

Contributing Author, "The Temple Objects On Judaean Coins." The Numismatist (forthcoming).

"The Dated Coins of Herod the Great: Towards a New Chronology." Journal for the Study of Judaism 37.2 (2006) 212-240.

"The Dated Coins of King Herod: Roman Client Kingship, Accommodation and the Power of Image in the Herodian Dynasty." Fourth Annual Harvard Graduate Student Conference on International History: Empires and Imperial Control in Comparative Historical Perspective (forthcoming).

Office: Rabb 138

Office Hours (Fall 2007 only): Mondays, 3:20 p.m. - 4:50 p.m., and Wednesdays, 6:40 p.m. to 8:10 p.m., or by appointment

Phone: (781) 736-2190

Email: amarshak@brandeis.edu

Adam Kolman Marshak received a B.A. in History and Classics from Stanford University and an M.A. and M.P. in History from Yale University. His Ph.D. in History is expected in December 2007, from Yale, where he wrote his dissertation on Herod the Great and the Power of Image: Political Self-Presentation in the Herodian Dynasty. A student of the political history of the Greco-Roman world, specifically Greco-Roman Judaea, his principal areas of research are Political History of Hasmonean and Herodian Judaea; Roman History: Romulus to Theodoric; Hellenistic History: Ipsus to Actium; and Roman History through Epigraphy and Numismatics.

He has extensive teaching experience in Classical History at Yale, where he held a prestigious Yale University Prize Teaching Fellowship. In fall 2007, Professor Marshak taught a new topics course in the CLAS 115b series of "Topics in Greek and Roman History": "Hellenistic Monarchy and Judaea," while Professor Cheryl L. Walker was on sabbatical. The course will was cross-listed in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies.

Photograph of Adam Kolman Marshak by Brandeis Campus Card Office, August 2007.

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