Anneli Aejmelaeus
Anneli Aejmelaeus (born September 18, 1948 in Mikkeli ) is a Finnish Protestant theologian and professor of the Old Testament and Near Eastern culture and literature at the University of Helsinki (Finland).
Life
Aejmelaeus studied Protestant theology at the University of Helsinki and was one of Ilmari Soisalon-Soininen's students . In 1982 she was promoted to Dr. theol. PhD and then had various teaching and research assignments at the University of Helsinki.
In 1991 Aejmelaeus was appointed to the chair for the Old Testament with special emphasis on Septuagint research at the University of Göttingen . As one of the leading experts in text history and textual criticism of the Septuagint, she headed the Göttingen Septuagint company from 1993 to 2000 (as successor to Robert Hanhart ). In 2008 she returned to Helsinki, where she held a professorship for the Old Testament and Near Eastern culture and literature in the theological faculty until her retirement on October 1, 2016.
Aejmelaeus is married to the theology professor Lars Aejmelaeus and has two daughters. She is an ordained pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland .
Research priorities
Aejmelaeus' research focuses on the textual history of the Old Testament, including that of the Septuagint. Together with Raija Sollamo , she is the most prominent representative of the Helsinki School founded by Ilmari Soisalon-Soininen , whose focus is on researching the history of text and translation technology of the Septuagint on the basis of syntactic phenomena.
Her main works are Parataxis in the Septuagint. A Study of the Renderings of the Hebrew Coordinate Clauses in the Greek Pentateuch (1982) and the essay volume On the Trail of the Septuagint Translators (2nd edition 2007). She is also the author of numerous essays and lexicon articles in the field of the Old Testament and Septuagint research, in particular on the Pentateuch , the Samuel books , the Book of Jeremiah and the Psalms .
Aejmelaeus is currently head of the international research project Textual Criticism of the Septuagint .
literature
- Kuka kukin on: Who's Who in Finland. Otava, Helsinki 2011, p. 26, ISBN 978-951-1-24712-8 .
Web links
- Homepage of Anneli Aejmelaeus at the University of Helsinki
- List of publications by Anneli Aejmelaeus
- English-language homepage of the research group Textual Criticism of the Septuagint
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Aejmelaeus, Anneli |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish Protestant theologian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 18, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mikkeli |