Hannah M. Cotton - Brief resume#

Hannah M. Cotton (D.Phil. Oxon. 1977) is Professor of Classics and Ancient History, and holder of the Shalom Horowitz Chair in Classics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She edited the Latin and Greek papyri from Masada (Masada II: The Latin and Greek Documents, 1989, with Joseph Geiger), and the Greek papyri from Nahal Hever published in Aramaic, Hebrew and Greek Texts from Nahal Hever, Discoveries in the Judaean Desert XXVII 1997 (with A. Yardeni).

She has written extensively on the legal documents from the Judaean Desert, juxtaposing them with rabbinic literature and papyri from other parts of the Roman World. Between 1991 and 2004 she served as editor of Scripta Classica Israelica, the yearbook of the Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies, and between 2002 and 2006 she edited and published with Guy Rogers in three volumes the writings of her teacher and life-long friend, Professor Sir Fergus Millar, formerly Camden Professor of Ancient History in the University of Oxford, and one of the most influential ancient historians of the 20th and 21st centuries.

She is the co-ordinating editor of an ongoing international project, supported by the Deutsche Vorschungsgemeindschaft (DFG) and the Hebrew University, known as the Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae-Palaestinae (CIIP) — an attempt to create a comprehensive multilingual corpus of all inscriptions, both published and unpublished from the fourth century BCE to the seventh century CE, from the territories of Israel and Palestine.