Maren R. Niehoff is Max Cooper Chair of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University and a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

Her research focuses on Hellenistic and rabbinic Judaism as well as early Christianity and Greco-Roman culture and philosophy. She is currently completing a commentary on Philo of Alexandria’s treatise Every Good Man is Free (Leiden: Brill) and edits several collections of articles, among them: The Art of Contextualizing Philo of Alexandria (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2024); Die Frühen RAC-Bände und der Nationalsozialismus (Leiden: Brill/Schöningh 2025, together with Francesco Zanella);  Palaestina on the Map of Late Antique Mobility and Migration (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck); Zionist Agendas in Israeli Scholarship? [in Hebrew], as a guest co-editor of a special issue of Zion.

Within ROMANA, she will write a monograph entitled Justin Martyr – Advocate of Roman Christianity (commissioned by the Cambridge Elements in Early Christian Literature, submission date 2027). Moreover, she will explore exegetical and cultural tensions between diverse rabbinic collections in view of their Greco-Roman context.