Alexander Panayotov has a PhD in Jewish Studies from the University of
St Andrews which he was awarded in 2004. He has been a research fellow
at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem between 2002 and 2003, the
American School of Classical Studies at Athens in 2005, the University
of St Andrews between 2006 and 2008, the W. F. Albright Institute of
Archaeological Research in Jerusalem in 2011 and the University of
Cambridge, between 2010 and 2013. He was a Marie Curie COFUND research
fellow at the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Aarhus University,
Denmark, between 2014 and 2017.
His research interests are in the history of the Jews in the Roman and
Byzantine Empire and in Jewish epigraphy and archaeology. He also has
worked on topics related to Byzantine social history and Jewish and
Christian pseudepigrapha and apocrypha.
He has edited and published Jewish inscriptions from the Balkans, the
Aegean and the north coast of the Black Sea, together with David Noy and
Hanswulf Bloedhorn, in Inscriptiones Judaicae Orientis, Band I: Eastern
Europe, (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2004). He is also the editor, together
with James Davila and Richard Bauckham, of the first volume of Old
Testament Pseudepigrapha: More Noncanonical Scriptures, (Grand Rapids:
Eerdmans 2013).