• Date of Birth: August 21. 1940
  • Born City: Bronx
  • Born State/Country: NY
  • Parents: David & Jeanette Signer J.
  • Date of Death: November 22, 2023
  • Married: Elaine Z. Finkelstein, June 10, 1965.
  • Education:

    : B.A., Columbia, 1962; Ph.D., 1967; M.A. U. of Chicago, 1963.

  • Dissertation:

    “Studies in Ovid’s Heroides” (Columbia, 1967).

  • Professional Experience:

    Instr. Greek & Latin, Columbia, 1966-8; asst. prof.. classics, U. of Illinois, 1968-73; asso. prof., 1973-80; prof., 1980-2004; Lady Davis vis. Prof., Hebrew U, Jerusalem, 1983; mem. IAS, Princeton, 1993-4; asso. ed. for Latin, ICS Supplements; fellow, NEH, 1971-2, 1989; assoc. Center for Advanced Study, U. Illinois, 1983-4, 1994; Charles J. Goodwin Award, 1985.

  • Publications:

    “Nonnulla Lucretiana,” CP 61 (1966) 151-7; Ovid's Heroides (New York: Columbia U. Press, 1967); “Lucretius ii, 178-181,” Mnemosyne 20 (1967) 298-9; “Horace and Augustus. An Interpretation of Carm. i,35,” CP 63 (1968) 106-13; “Ennian Influence in Heroides 16 and 17,” Phoenix 22 (1968) 299-303; “Lucretius I,34.” Eranos68 (1970) 233-6; “Ovid's Briseis. A Study of Heroides III,” {Phoenix 25 (1971) 331-56; “A Note on Petronius Sat. 31.2,” CP 66 (1971) 183-6; “A Note on Ovid, Met. vi, 115-116,” AJP 93 (1972) 459-61; Ovid's Heroides(Princeton: Princeton U. Press, 1974); “Two Jokes,” Mnemosyne 28 (1975) 191-3; “The Oath of the Delian League,” Philologus 119 (1975) 256-8; “Wisdom, XVIII,9,” JSJ 7 (1976) 204; “Structure and Meaning in Propertius Book 3,” ICS 1 (1976) 160-73; “Hermippus, Pythagoras and the Jews,” REJ 135 (1976) 145-9; “A Note on the Greek Apocalypse of Baruch,” JSJ 7 (1976) 201-3; “Trees in Caecilius Statius,” Mnemosyne 30 (1977) 291; “Demo and the Sabbath,” Mnemosyne 30 (1977) 71-2; “Ezekielos 12-13 (TrGF 128),” AJP 98 (1977) 415-16; “Apion's Nickname,” AJP 98 (1977) 413-15; “Greco-Roman Light on Rabbinic texts,” ICS 5 (1980) 57-62; “Two Studies on Ezekiel the Tragedian,” GRBS 22 (1981) 167-78; “Tacitus and the Phoenix.” Phoenix 35 (1981) 260-1; “Mysticism and Apocalyptic in Ezechiel's Exagoge,” ICS 6 (1981) 272-93; “Ezekiel the Tragedian and the Primeval Serpent,” AJP 102 (1981) 316-20; “Vergil, Georgics 3,280-281,” MH 39 (1982) 217; “Ritualistic Formulae in Greek Dramatic Texts,” CQ 32 (1982) 233-4; “In gremiis mimarum mentum mentemque deponeres (Cicero, Phil. 13.11.24). A Postscript,” LCM 7 (1982) 115; “Lucretius 1.102-105,” CQ 32 (1982) 237; “A Philosophical topos at Vergil, Eclogues 6.37-8,” LCM 7 (1982) 42; The Exagoge of Ezekiel Cambridge: Cambridge u. Press, 1983); “The ‘Son of Man’ in Ps.-Philo Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum,” JThS34 (1983) 531-3; “More Roman Light on Rabbinic Texts,” ICS 8 (1983) 165-7; “Marginalia to Pseudo-Philo Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum and to the Chronicles of Jerahmeel,” REJ 142 (1983) 455-9; “Propertius 2,26A. The Poet as Lifesaver,” QUCC n.s. 16 (1984) 137-40; “Greco-Roman Light on Rabbinic texts, III,” SCI 7 (1983-4) 88-91; “Aristaeus, Orpheus and the laudes Galli,” AJP 105 (1984) 271-300; “Virgil's Dido and Euripides' Helen,” AJP 108 (1987) 167-8; “Polyphemus in an Armenian Apocryphal Work,” VT 37 (1987) 490-1; “Horatiana,” CQ 37 (1987) 524-6; “Horace's Maeonian Song,” AJP 108 (1987) 648; “Cacus and the Cyclops,” Mnemosyne 42 (1989) 101-2; “Tertullian and Propagation,” VChr 43 (1989) 397; “Horace Carm. 1,37,26,” Mnemosyne 43 (1990) 449; “Lucretius 4.1192-96,” Phoenix 44 (1990) 82-3; “Ovid Tr. 2.534,” Mnemosyne 43 (1990) 452-3; “Nonnulla onomastica,” JThS 43 (1992) 117; “Samuel's Vision in Pseudo-Philo's Liber antiquitatum biblicarum,” JBL 112 (1993) 310-11; “LAB 60.2: Whose Name is nomen tuum?,” JthS 44 (1993) 593-4; “Papyri Graecae Magicae XIII 477,” Phoenix 47 (1993) 261; “Aeneid 9.566,” LCM 19 (1994) 146; “Horace's voladictory: Carm. 2. 20,” CQ 45 (1995) 573-4; “A Note on Isaiah 51:6,” JBL 114 (1995) 291; “Hor. Carm. 3. 7,” Mnemosyne 48 (1995) 85; . A Commentary on Pseudo-Philo’s Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum, 2 vols. (Leiden & New York: Brill, 1996); “Nonnulla onomastica,” VChr 50 (1996) 210-11; “Two Conjectures in Horace, Odes,” CQ 46 (1996) 582-3; “AnthPal. 12.152,” CQ 47 (1997) 292; “Iliad 7.293ff.,” CQ 47 (1997) 292; “Thoughts on the Chronicles of Jerahmeel, Ps-Philo's Liber antiquitatum biblicarum, and Their Relationship,” StudPhilon 9 (1997) 239-63; “Two Greek Words in Genesis Rabbah,” SCI 16 (1997) 212-14; “Aeneid 4.622-3,” CQ 48 (1998) 313-14; “Lucretius' Creation,” MH 55 (1998) 119; “Violets and Violence: Two Notes,” CQ 48 (1998) 314-15; “Lucian's “Charon” and the Odyssey,” MD 43 (1999) 221-2; “Lucretius' Hunting Souls (3.726-728),” MH 56 (1999) 33; “Homer, Odyssey 17.221,” CQ 49 (1999) 315;  “Vergil, Aeneid 5.458-60,” CQ 49 (1999) 329-30; “Homer, Odyssey 1.132-3,” CQ 50 (2000) 290; “Homeric Iphigeneia,” CQ 50 (2000) 296-7; “Λακι in Greek Magical Texts,” CE 75 (2000) 341-2; “Livy's Demetrius,” Athenaeum 88 (2000) 547; “Aeneid12.391-2: iamque aderat Phoebo ante alios dilectus Iapyx / Iasides,” CQ 51 (2001) 308-9; “Apion, the Jews, and Human Sacrifice,” CQ 51 (2001) 318-19; “Aeneid 11.45-8,” Mnemosyne ser. 4 55 (2002) 94; “Empedocles' Cain,” MH 59 (2002) 12; “Ennius Sat.  65 V: subulo quondam marinas propter astabat plagas,” Mnemosyneser. 4 55 (2002) 88-9; “Miroslav Marcovich: 18 March 1919-14 June 2001,” SCI 21 (2002) 337-8; “Misor in Philo of Byblos,” CQ 52 (2002) 404; “Petronius Sat. 111.9,” MH 59 (2002) 63; “Ezekiel's Exagoge, One Play or Four?,” GRBS 43 (2002-3) 391-6; “Greek Lexicographical Addenda,” Glotta 79 (2003) 62-5; “Lucretiana,” ICS27-8 (2002-3) 131-2; “φαραν or βαραδ in Philo's QG,” JThS n.s. 54 (2003) 158-9; “Tyconius' Rules of Chronology: An Innovation,” VChr 58 (2004) 203-4; “The Date of Culex,” Phoenix 58 (2004) 345-7; “A Philonic Rejection of Plato,” Mnemosyne ser. 4 57 (2004) 488; “Apuleiana,” in Studia palaeophilologica: Professoris G. M. Browne in honorem oblata, ed. Stephen M. Bay (Champaign, IL: Stipes Publ. Co., 2004) 37-44; “Ovid Met. 6, 9: Idmon's Dye,” MH 61 (2004) 207; “Medea 1250: δυστυχης δ’ ἐγω γυνή,” CQ n.s. 54 (2004) 274; “ “Aeneid 1.567-8,” CQ n.s. 54 (2004) 299-300; “Seneca, Epistulae morales 12.5: Rulers and Roofs,” CQ n.s. 54 (2004) 311; “Philo, Lucretius, and anima,” CQ n.s. 54 (2004) 635-6; “Aeneid 12.570-1,” CQ n.s. 54 (2004) 636; “Aeneid 1.647-55,” CQ n.s. 55 (2005) 650-2; “Dido,” Mnemosyne, ser. 4, 58 (2005) 581-2; “Aeneid 3.56-7:  Quid non mortalia pectora cogis, / auri sacra fames,” Mnemosyne ser. 4, 58 (2005) 582-3; “Fiere,” CQ n.s. 55 (2005) 651-2; “God as Consuming Fire,” HThR 98 (2005) 219-22; “Lucretius, DRN 3.296-322,” ICS 30 (2005) 31-2; “Lucretius, DRN 3.962: aequo animoque agedum magnis concede, necesse est,” ICS 30 (2005) 33; “Ovid Metamorphoses 15.88-90,” CQ n.s. 55 (2005) 651; “Artapanus and the Flooding of the Nile,” CQ n.s. 56 (2006) 602-3;  “Artapanus Judaeus,” JJS 57 (2006) 210-21; “Apuleiana. 2,” CQ n.s. 57 (2007) 796-800;  “Horace AP 139: parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus,” MH 64 (2007) 59-61; “Notes on Ovid's Metamorphoses,” Mnemosyne ser. 4 60 (2007) 648-50; “Two Textual Notes on Theodotus,” CQ n.s. 57 (2007) 302-3; “Aeneid 3.635-7,” CQ n.s. 58 (2008) 698-9; “Dracontius and Ascanius,” in In pursuit of  Wissenschaft: Festschrift für William M. Calder III zum 75. Geburtstag, ed. Stephan Heilen (Hildeseheim & Zurich: Olms, 2008) 197-9;  “Miriam and St. Hippolytus,” VChr  62 (2008) 404-5; “Origen's version of Genesis 1.2,” JThS n.s. 59 (2008) 181-2; “Two Notes on Horace's Odes,” Athenaeum 96 (2008) 805; “King Lear 1.1.271-2,” Notes & Queries 56 (2009)“Tria Patristica,” VChr 64 (2010) 87-8; “A Pun in Vespa’s Iudicium coci et pistoris,” C&M 62 (2011) 231; “Where There’s Smoke There’s Fire,” Critical Quarterly 52 (2010) 4-8; “Quattuor Latina,” Mnemosyne ser. 4 64 (2011) 110-13; “Pseudo-Acro on Horace, Carm. 1.1.35-6,” CQ n.s. 62 (2012) 435; “Horace Sat. 1.4.10 Revisited,” Mnemosyne ser. 4 67 (2014) 293-4; “Asherah and Aphrodite: a Coincidence?,” CQ n.s. 65 (2015) 355-6.

    Kleine Schriften From Babel to Finnegan’s Wake: The Collected Papers of Howard Jacobson, ed. R. Scott Smith, ICS Supplement 8 (2009) 

  • Sources:

    WhAm 52 (1998) 2119.