Daniel R. Schwartz

[1] He is a scholar of Hellenistic Judaism, Flavius Josephus, the Second Temple Period, and the book 2 Maccabees.

He earned a Ph.D in Jewish History from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1980, studying under Menahem Stern.

[3] In 2011 he was appointed academic head of the Scholion Interdisciplinary Research Center in Jewish Studies.

Aryeh Kasher of Tel Aviv University, whose review of Agrippa I includes numerous disagreements with Schwartz, describes the biography as "an impressive work full of original and stimulating ideas.

The result was published in 1995 as Hasmonean Judea in the Hellenistic World: Chapters in Political History (Jerusalem: Zalman Shazar Center).