Claude Mathilde Cohen-Matlofsky (Second Temple Judaism scholar)
Claude Mathilde Cohen-Matlofsky (born in 1958) is a French historian. She received her PhD from the Sorbonne in 1989 and specializes in the social history of Hellenistic and early Roman Judaea-Palaestina. She has taught at the Sorbonne, at the University of Ottawa and at the University of Toronto. Claude Cohen-Matlofsky is currently the Co-director of the “Séminaire Qumrân de Paris” and teaches at the EPHE Paris. She is also a lecturer and researcher at the Institut Universitaire d’Études Juives, Paris. Claude Cohen-Matlofsky is a Research Associate at the LEM/CNRS. Her main areas of research are: Qumranic studies, Flavius Josephus, Prosopography, Burial practices, Halakhah.
Books:
Cohen-Matlofsky, Claude (2001). Les Laïcs en Palestine d’Auguste à Hadrien: étude prosopographique, Paris: Honoré Champion, (doctoral dissertation). ISBN2745300067
Cohen-Matlofsky, Claude (2012). Flavius Josèphe, les ambitions d’un homme, Paris, L’Harmattan. ISBN978-2-336-00528-7
Book review:
Cohen-Matlofsky, Claude (2016). Marcello FIDANZIO (ed.), The Caves of Qumran: Proceedings of the International Conference, Lugano 2014, (STDJ 118; Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2016). 361 pp. ISBN 978-90-04-31649-2.
Chapters in collective volumes:
Cohen-Matlofsky, Claude (2021). “The Qumran Cemetery (ies?) in Context: a Comparative Study of Burial Practices in Hellenistic and Roman Judaea-Palaestina and Nabatea”, in When the Sun Rises the Earth, They Shall Bless (4Q503) Professor Claus-Hunno Hunzinger Memorial Volume, The Qumran Chronicle Vol. 28-29, pp. 239-274.
Cohen-Matlofsky, Claude (2020). “Women at Qumran ? Reconsidering the Textual and Archaeological Data”, in Sacred Texts and Disparate Interpretations: Qumran Manuscripts Seventy Years Later Proceedings of the International Conference Held at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, 24–26 October 2017, Edited by H. Drawnel, STDJ 133, pp. 143-165.
Cohen-Matlofsky, Claude (2013). “The Imperfect “Tomb of Jesus and Family”” in Charlesworth, J. H., ed. The Tomb of Jesus and His Family: Exploring Ancient Jewish Tombs Near Jerusalem’s Walls, Proceedings of the Third Princeton Symposium on Judaism and Christian Origins, January13-16 2008, Grand Rapids, Eerdmans, pp. 76-107.
Main articles:
Cohen-Matlofsky, Claude (2012). “Hazon Gabriel : a Social Historian’s Point of View” https://www.academia.edu/16765883/HAZON_GABRIEL_A_SOCIAL_HISTORIAN_POINT_OF_VIEW
Cohen-Matlofsky, Claude (2012). “Onomastics and Statistics in Second Temple Judaism” https://www.academia.edu/14955666/ONOMASTICS_AND_STATISTICS_IN_SECOND_TEMPLE_JUDAISM
Cohen-Matlofsky, Claude (2014). “Réflexions sur Qumrân: les manuscrits, le site et les origines de la mystique dans l’Antiquité”, in The Qumran Chronicle, Vol. 22, pp. 73-122 https://www.academia.edu/14546701/R%C3%89FLEXIONS_SUR_QUMR%C3%82N_LES_MANUSCRITS_LE_SITE_ET_LES_ORIGINES_DE_LA_MYSTIQUE_DANS_LANTIQUITE.
Cohen-Matlofsky, Claude (2015). “Resurrection, from the Hebrew Bible to the Rock-Cut Tombs: an Inscribed Concept”, The Qumran Chronicle, Vol. 23, pp. 425-451 https://www.academia.edu/27886839/RESURRECTION_FROM_THE_HEBREW_BIBLE_TO_THE_ROCK_CUT_TOMBS_AN_INSCRIBED_CONCEPT.
Cohen-Matlofsky, Claude (2016). “Flavius Josephus, the Man and His Ambitions: a Prosopographic Study”, PJRB,Vol. 15: 99-117 https://www.academia.edu/23025766/FLAVIUS_JOSEPHUS_THE_MAN_AND_H S_AMBITIONS_A_PROSOPOGRAPHIC_STUDY
Cohen-Matlofsky, Claude (2017). “Qumran and Vicinity: an Interpretation of the Scroll Caves, Their Contents and Functions”, QC, Vol. 25: 547-584 https://www.academia.edu/35986182/Qumran_and_Vicinity_an_Interpretation_of_the_Scroll_Caves_their_Contents_and_Functions.
Cohen-Matlofsky and Steve Mason, (2018). “Flavius Josephus’ Silence on the Qumran Phenomenon”, The Qumran Chronicle, Vol. 26, pp. 179-188 https://www.academia.edu/38285287/Flavius_Josephus_Silence_on_The_Qumran_Phenomenon.
Cohen-Matlofsky, Claude (2019). “The Halakhah in the Making at Qumran Where Women are concerned”, The Qumran Chronicle, Vol. 27, pp. 83-99. https://www.academia.edu/43033066/The_Halakhah_in_the_Making_at_Qumran_Where_Women_are_Concerned
Cohen-Matlofsky, Claude (2021). “Woman or Women at Qumran ? : Setting the Problematic Anew”, The Qumran Chronicle, Vol. 30, pp.141-153.