Patrick Angiolillo
Adjunct Assistant Professor of History
Patrick Angiolillo is a historian of religion and the ancient world, specializing in the history and literature of early Judaism, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Greco-Roman world.
More About Me
Patrick’s research and teaching focus broadly on cross-cultural and interreligious comparisons in the study of the ancient world. He is particularly interested in literary and cultural interactions across Jewish and Greek texts and traditions in the Hellenistic and early Roman periods. His first monograph, a comparative study of ancient Jewish prayers in Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic, will be published by Mohr Siebeck.
Patrick was the 2021-2022 WE Trust Fellow in Interdisciplinary Classics at NYU and the recipient of a Doctoral Scholarship from the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Studies (MFJC). He was also the honorary recipient of the 2022-2023 Association for Jewish Studies (AJS) Dissertation Completion Fellowship. Patrick is also a Content Editor for the online web-journal, Ancient Jew Review (AJR) and was a staff member on the Huqoq Excavation Project in the Galilee region of Israel.
Research Interests
- Early Judaism and the Dead Sea Scrolls
- Ancient Prayer and Religious Practices
- Ritual Studies
- Hellenistic History
- Biblical and Extrabiblical literature
Representative Courses
- HIS 2870: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
- HIS 2045: Cults in the Ancient World
- HIS 2025: Greco-Roman Religions
- HIS 3257: Antiquity and the Enlightenment