Curriculum Vitae
Since 2003
Full Professor and Chair of the Department of Bible and Jewish Exegesis, Heidelberg Center for Jewish Studies
2002
Habilitation and Venia Legendi in Jewish Studies, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
1995
PhD in Jewish Studies, Berlin/Jerusalem
2017/18: Senior Research Fellow at the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies, University of Hamburg; 2008: Alfried Krupp Senior Fellow at the Alfried Krupp Institute for Advanced Study Greifswald; 2003: Harry Starr Research Fellow in Judaica, Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge/MA. 2002: Moosnick Distinguished Professor of Hebrew Bible & Jewish Studies, Lexington Theological Seminary and the University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.
Other Research Projects
Project “Bible Glossaries as Cultural Carriers - Judeo-French Cultural Exchange in the High Middle Ages”
2023–40, funded by the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Project “Biblia Rabbinica: The Biblical Text in Rabbinic Literature – Collection of the Variant Readings on the Basis of the Babylonian-Yemenite Textual Tradition”
2020–26, funded by the German Research Foundation (1 Research Associate)
Member of the Study Group “Text & Textuality”
2017–21, funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation
Graduate School 1728 “Theology as an Academic Discipline”
2012–21, funded by the German Research Foundation (1 Research Associate)
Subproject B04 “Masoretic Text of the Hebrew Bible. The Masora Text of the Hebrew Bible in its Various Material Forms in Western Europe”
2011–23, Collaborative Research Centre 933 “Material Text Cultures. Materiality and Presence of Writing in Non-Typographic Societies”, Heidelberg University/Heidelberg Center for Jewish Studies, funded by the German Research Foundation (1 Research Associate)
Most Recent Books and Edited Volumes
Publications for download *
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