Dr. Kay Joe Petzold

Research Associate 2018–2020

Curriculum Vitae

Education

2015

PhD in Jewish Studies, Heidelberg Center for Jewish Studies
"Raschi und die Masorah. Untersuchung der Rezeptionspraxis der Masorah in der Kommentarliteratur des Rav Salomo ben Isaaq" (first advisor: Prof. Dr. Hanna Liss)

2005

M.A. in Assyriology and Jewish Studies, Heidelberg University/Heidelberg Center for Jewish Studies

1995 – 2005

Studies in Assyriology and Jewish Studies, Heidelberg University/Heidelberg Center for Jewish Studies

Employment

2018 – 2020

Research Associate, Heidelberg Center for Jewish Studies, Chair of Bible and Jewish Biblical Interpretation, Project "Corpus Masoreticum"

2011 – 2018

Research Associate, Heidelberg University, Collaborative Research Centre 933 of the German Research Foundation "Material Text Cultures", Sub-Project B04 "The Masora Text of the Hebrew Bible in its Various Material Forms in Western Europe"

2005 – 2017

Consultant, German Bible Society

2011

Officer (IEB), Bundeswehr, Dezernat Interkulturelle Einsatzberatung, ZOpInfo in Mayen

1991 – 1995

Regular Soldier, 2nd Paratroops Battalion 252, Nagold

Publications

Books

Petzold, Kay Joe. 2019. Masora Und Exegese: Untersuchungen Zur Masora Und Bibeltextüberlieferung Im Kommentar Des R. Schlomo Ben Yitzchaq (Raschi). Berlin: de Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110627121.

Petzold, Masora und Exegese (2019)
Open Access

Articles

Petzold, Kay Joe. 2021. "Rashi in the Masorah: The Figurative Masorah in Ashkenazi Manuscripts as Parshanut", in: Philology and Aesthetics. Figurative Masorah in Western European Manuscripts, ed. Hanna Liss in cooperation with Jonas Leipziger (Berlin: Peter Lang), 203–223.

 

 

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Petzold, Kay Joe. 2021. “Rashi in the Masorah: The Figurative Masorah in Ashkenazi Manuscripts as Parshanut.” In Philology and Aesthetics: Figurative Masorah in Western European Manuscripts, edited by Hanna Liss, 203–23. Realms of Judaism 85. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
Petzold, Kay Joe. 2019. Masora und Exegese: Untersuchungen zur Masora und Bibeltextüberlieferung im Kommentar des R. Schlomo ben Yitzchaq (Raschi). Berlin: de Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110627121.
Liss, Hanna, and Kay Joe Petzold. 2019. “Masorah, Masoretes: I.B. Judaism: Medieval Ashkenaz; II. Visual Arts.” In Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, edited by Christine Helmer, 17:1274–80. Berlin: de Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/ebr.masorahmasoretes.
Petzold, Kay Joe. 2017. “Die Kanaan-Karten des R. Salomo Ben Isaak (Raschi) – Bedeutung und Gebrauch mittelalterlicher hebräischer Karten-Diagramme.” Das Mittelalter 22 (2): 332–50. https://doi.org/10.1515/mial-2017-0020.
Liss, Hanna, and Kay Joe Petzold. 2017. “Die Erforschung der westeuropäischen Bibeltexttradition als Aufgabe der Jüdischen Studien.” In Judaistik im Wandel, edited by Andreas Lehnardt, 189–210. Berlin / München / Boston: de Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110523478-016.

Lectures and Presentations as Part of Corpus Masoreticum

08.07.2020, International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds: Masorah Figurata: Esoteric Repositories and the Boundaries of Hidden Knowledge (accepted, but canceled)

24.11.2019, Society of Biblical Literature, Annual Meeting, San Diego: The Appearance and Utilization of Okhlah we-Okhlah List Material in Figurative Masora Compositions (Abstract)

12.10.2019, Universität Bamberg, Institut für Orientalistik, Workshop "Writing as Intermediary": Masora Figurata. Written Images and Hidden Subjects in Ashkenazi Hebrew Bibles (Programme)

18.11.2018, Society of Biblical Literature, Annual Meeting, Denver: Masorah Figurata as Visualized Parshanut

09.05.2018, Masorah Workshop: Philology & Aesthetics, Heideberg Center for Jewish Studies: Masorah and Rashi Commentary in MS Vat. Ebr. 14 (Programme)