About The Author & Editor
About The Author
Hyam Maccoby
Hyam Maccoby (1924-2004) was Emeritus Fellow of the Leo Baeck College, London and Research Professor at the Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Leeds. He published many books and articles, and they include: Revolution in Judaea: Jesus and the Jewish Resistance (Taplinger, 1980); Judaism on Trial: Jewish-Christian Disputations in the Middle Ages (The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 1982); The Sacred Executioner: Human Sacrifice and the Legacy of Guilt (Thames and Hudson, 1982); The Mythmaker: Paul and the Invention of Christianity (Harper and Row, 1986); Judas Iscariot and the Myth of Jewish Evil (Macmillan, 1992); and Antisemitism and Modernity: Innovation and Continuity (published posthumously by Routledge, 2006). His play The Disputation (Calder Publications, 2001), a dramatization of the 1263 Barcelona Disputation, was made into a Channel 4 film in 1986 and has been performed on stage in London (New End Theatre, 2001) and widely performed in the United States.
About The Editor
Deborah Maccoby
Deborah Maccoby (the Author’s daughter) holds an M.A and M. Litt (for a thesis on the poetry of Emily Brontë) from the University of Oxford. Her literary biography of the Anglo-Jewish First World War poet Isaac Rosenberg — God Made Blind: Isaac Rosenberg: is Life and Poetry — was published in 2000 by the Symposium Press. She worked as a Production Assistant at the BBC World Service before taking early retirement in 2008. She has written book reviews for The Jewish Chronicle, The Jewish Quarterly and the BBC Arabic Service and has also written talks on literary anniversaries for the BBC World Service Talks and Features Department. She is currently a regular book reviewer for the Jewish Voice for Labour website. She has recently been the General Editor of the first edition of a book by the renowned American-Jewish scholar Norman Finkelstein: I’ll Burn that Bridge When I Get to It: Heretical Thoughts on Cancel Culture, Identity Politics and Academic Freedom (2nd edition, Or Books, 2025). She now lives in Leeds.
