Sebastian Seemann M.A.
Research Associate | sebastian.seemann[at]hfjs.eu
Curriculum Vitae
Education
Since 2016
PhD project "New Edition of the Paris Okhla Recension and Its Relation to Inner- and Extrabiblical Masoretic Lists", Heidelberg Center for Jewish Studies (first advisor: Prof. Dr. Hanna Liss)
10/2005 – 08/2016
M.A. in Jewish Studies (major) and Protestant Theology (minor), Heidelberg Center for Jewish Studies/Heidelberg University
10/2003 – 09/2005
Studies in the History of Religions, Philipps-Universität Marburg
10/1996 – 06/2003
Studies at the Christian Theological Academy in Warsaw, Poland
Employment
Since 09/2020
Research Associate, Heidelberg Center for Jewish Studies, Chair of Bible and Jewish Biblical Interpretation, Project "Corpus Masoreticum"
12/2016 – 11/2019
Research Associate, Gradutate School 1728 "Theology as an Acadmic Discipline", Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main
01/2013 – 08/2016
Student Assistant, Collaborative Research Center 933 "Material Text Cultures", sub-project ""The Masora Text of the Hebrew Bible in its Various Material Forms in Western Europe" (PI Prof. Dr. Hanna Liss), Heidelberg University
02/2011 – 12/2012
Student Assistant, Collaborative Research Center 619 "Ritual Dynamics", sub-project B11 "Ritual Purity in Medieval Ashkenaz" (PI Prof. Dr. Hanna Liss), Heidelberg University
12/2009 – 02/2010
Student Assistant in the project "Josef ben Schim’on Kara's (ca. 1050–1125) Commentary to the Minor Prophets (Perush Tere Asar): Criticial Edition and Annotated Translation" (PI Prof. Dr. Hanna Liss), Heidelberg Center for Jewish Studies
09/2002 – 06/2003
Internship as teacher of religion, elementary school of Kluczbork/Polen
Scholarships
12/2019 – 08/2020
Scholarship by the Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main
Publications
Publications for download *
Lectures and Presentations
21.11.2022, Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Denver/USA: Sefer Okhla we-Okhla and the Appendices of the Bible Manuscripts
09.08.2022, 18th World Congress of Jewish Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Do the Genizah Fragments Constitute Independent Masoretic Collections? An Attempt to Evaluate Some Cambridge Fragments (T-S D1.84, T-S D1.87, T-S D1.105, and T-S D1.119) as a Case Study
19.11.2021, Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, San Antonio/USA: The missing lists in the recension Paris of Sefer Okhla
02.11.2021, Workshop Artists and Philologists: The Scribes of Micrographic Illustrations in Bibles and Prayer Books, Heidelberg Center for Jewish Studies: Annotations to ‘Yonah Pentateuch’ BL Add MS 2116
03.02.2020, Research Kolloquium at the Chair for Bible and Jewish Biblical Interpretation, Heidelberg Center for Jewish Studies: Neu-Edition der Okhla-Rezension Paris und ihr Verhältnis zu den inner- und außerbiblischen masoretischen Listen
24.11.2019, Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, San Diego/USA: Does Sefer Okhla we-Okhla Show Any Structure?
* The pdf files are made available in accordance with the repository policies of the publishers (Peter Lang).