Angelika Berlejung

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Angelika Berlejung (* 1961 in Heidelberg ) is a German Protestant theologian in the field of the Old Testament and an ancient orientalist .

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In 1980 Angelika Berlejung began to study theology, Assyriology and Semitic studies at the University of Heidelberg , moved to the University of Munich and finished her studies in 1988. From 1986 she also stayed in Brussels , Berlin and London for study purposes . A teaching position for the Old Testament, she received at the University of Koblenz-Landau 1992/1993, 1993, she went as a research assistant at the University of Rostock and 1995 at the University of Heidelberg, where she worked for two years.

1997 Berlejung in Heidelberg became a doctor of theology doctorate . Her dissertation is entitled The Theology of Images. Production and dedication of cult images in Mesopotamia and the Old Testament image polemics . The following year she received a teaching position for theology at the University of Friborg (Switzerland) . She was also awarded the Ruprecht Karls Prize in 1998. The very next year she became professor for the languages ​​and cultures in Syria and Palestine at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven .

In 2002 Berlejung participated in the Encyclopedia of the Material Culture in the Biblical World , in 2003 she was a lecturer at the Humboldt University in Berlin and in 2004 she was appointed full professor for Old Testament studies at the theological faculty of the University of Leipzig . It works there to this day. In 2006 she was a visiting professor at the University of Basel , worked as co-director on the excavation in Qubur al-Walayida in 2007 and was a visiting professor in Stellenbosch and Pretoria in 2008 . This year she founded with Joachim Friedrich Quack and Annette Zgoll the series Oriental Religions in Antiquity and became a board member of the German Association for the Study of Palestine appointed (to 2012), for which they, together with Jens Kamlah the magazine of the German Palestine Association issued . In 2009 she was appointed associate professor at the Department of Ancient Studies at Stellenbosch University / South Africa. Since 2014 she has been co-director of the excavation in Ashdod-yam (Israel) together with Alexander Fantalkin of Tel Aviv University.

Since 2015 she has been co-director of the Minerva Center, Research on Israel and Aram in Biblical Times, together with Aren Maeir ( Bar Ilan University / Israel), with whom she also publishes the series Research on Israel and Aram in Biblical Times . In 2017 she was appointed Visiting Honorary Full Professor for Biblical Archeology at the Bar Ilan University, in the same year, on February 10, 2017, she was elected a full member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences . Since 2018 she has been a member of various scientific boards such as the Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society (Open Access Univ. Vienna), the project "Transforming Memories of Collective Violence" (Basel) or the Expert Panel of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) Cult4 (Theology and Religion Sciences) Bruxelles / Belgium and together with Gideon Bohak (Tel Aviv University) leads the project "Between Materiality and Scribal Magic: West-Semitic Textual Amulets from the First Millennium BCE to the Rise of Islam". Berlejung deals with the history and religious history of Israel and its environment, with ancient oriental iconography , with Semitic epigraphy, Palestine archeology and cultural anthropology .

Works

  • The theology of images. Production and dedication of cult images in Mesopotamia and the Old Testament image polemics . Freiburg (Switzerland), Göttingen 1998; ISBN 978-3-525-53308-6 .
  • Together with JC Gertz, K. Schmid, M. Witte, Basic Information Old Testament, chap. "Sources and Methods" and "History and Religious History of Ancient Israel", Göttingen 2006, 2007 2 , 19-185 Together with JC Gertz, K. Schmid, M. Witte, Basic Information Old Testament, expanded and revised edition, chap. "Sources and Methods", "History and Religious History of Ancient Israel" and the "1. Book of the Maccabees ”and the“ 2. Book of Maccabees ", Göttingen 2008 3 , 2010 4 , 2016 5 , 21-192.569-584 Together with JC Gertz, K. Schmid, M. Witte, Handbook of the Old Testament, T&T Clark, New York / London 2012
  • Small fonts with a big impact - for the use of text amulets in ancient times . In: Schriftträger - Textträger: on the material presence of the written in early societies / [International Colloquium Textträger / Schriftträger, summer semester 2010 University of Heidelberg], ISBN 9783110371345 .
  • The Aramaeans in Palestine and in the Old Testament . In: D. Weltecke (ed.): New Aramaic Studies. Past and present . Schola Nisibina 1, Frankfurt a. a. 2017, 17-46.
  • Masks in the Old Testament? Masks in Ancient Palestine / Israel! In: A. Berlejung / J. Filitz (ed.): The Physicality of the Other: Masks as a Means of Encounter / The corporeality of the other: masks as a medium of encounter . ORA 27, Tübingen 2018.
  • Catalog of the anthropomorphic masks of the southern Levant from the pre-ceramic Neolithic B to the beginning of the Hellenistic period (9th millennium – 4th century BC) . In: A. Berlejung / J. Filitz (ed.): The Physicality of the Other: Masks as a Means of Encounter / The corporeality of the other: masks as a medium of encounter . ORA 27, Tübingen 2018, 397-550.
Editing
  • Edited with Aren Maeir: Researches on Israel and Aram: Autonomy, Interdependence and Related Issues. Proceedings of the First Annual RIAB Center Conference, Leipzig, June 2016. (Research on Israel and Aram in Biblical Times (RIAB), Vol. 1.) Tübingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-16-157719-2 .
  • Edited with Christian Frevel : Handbook of theological basic concepts for the Old and New Testament (HGANT) . Darmstadt 2016 (5th edition), ISBN 978-3-534-26774-3 .
  • with Jan Christian Gertz (Ed.): Basic information Old Testament . Göttingen 2010 (4th edition) ISBN 978-3-8252-2745-6 .
  • with Bernd Janowski and Gernot Wilhelm (eds.): Letters . ( Texts from the environment of the Old Testament , vol. 3), Gütersloh 2006, ISBN 978-3-579-05287-8
  • Ed. With Raik Heckl : Mensch und König - Studies on the Anthropology of the Old Testament . Freiburg im Breisgau 2008, ISBN 978-3-451-29638-3 .
  • Ed. With Bernd Janowski: Death and Beyond in ancient Israel and in its environment . (Conference publication, Leipzig 2007), Tübingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-16-149776-6 .
  • Helga Weippert : Under olive trees. Studies on the archeology of Syria-Palestine, cultural history and exegesis of the Old Testament . Collected essays, celebratory donation for Helga Weippert on May 4, 2003, Ed .: Angelika Berlejung and Hermann Michael Niemann , Münster 2006, ISBN 978-3-934628-68-7 .

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SURNAME Berlejung, Angelika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian in the field of the Old Testament and an ancient orientalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg