Anke Joisten-Pruschke

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Anke Joisten-Pruschke , née Anke Joisten (born September 19, 1960 in Rüsselsheim am Main ) is a German Iranist and Protestant theologian .

Life

From 1983 Anke Joisten studied at the University of Mainz Iranian Studies as the first major, Protestant theology as the second major and Egyptology as a minor . In 1985 she married the physicist Thomas Pruschke . with whom she has two children. She took part in the second excavation campaign in Kinneret on the Sea of ​​Galilee for two months . In the summer of 1987 she did religious studies in Kyoto and in November 1987 passed her first theological exam.

Subsequently, as a doctoral student at Volkmar Fritz ( University of Gießen ), she began a religious-historical work on the Aramaic Elephantine papyri . In January and February 1990, she participated as a documentary in the German expedition group led by Volkmar Fritz to explore the Iron Age mining settlements in Ain Fenan in the Arava Depression in Jordan . Then she studied the multicultural and multireligious life in Japan until the end of 1991 , especially the history and culture of the Chinese Jews .

In 1992 Joisten-Pruschke interrupted her doctoral thesis and became vicar in the main Protestant parish in Wiesbaden-Biebrich . In April 1994 she passed her second theological exam. Then she was a special intern at the Church and Israel working group in Heppenheim until July 1995 . From August to October 1994 she worked again as an archaeological volunteer in Kinneret. In July 1995 she became parish vicar (half-time) and from January 1996 to November 1997 she was a research assistant and documentary at the Erfelden Synagogue , the documentation center for the history of rural Jewry in Hesse of the Hessian State Center for Political Education . This resulted in the two publications on the history of the Jews in Biebesheim am Rhein and Augsburg .

In 2001 Joisten-Pruschke became a pastor in the school service. She also investigated the history of the Jews in Augsburg during the emancipation period (1750–1871). In 2003 she continued her doctoral thesis with Hans-Jürgen Becker and Philip G. Kreyenbroek at the University of Göttingen . In May 2008, she was with her dissertation for Dr. phil. PhD .

She then became a lecturer for the Aramaic language and for Iranian archeology at the Department of Iranian Studies at the University of Göttingen. She has been a lecturer in the Protestant Theology / Old Testament department at the University of Mainz since 2015 .

Publications

  • The religious life of the Jews of Elephantine in the Achaemenid period. (Dissertation) Göttinger Orientforschungen, Volume III, Iranica series . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 3-447-05706-8 .
Reviews:
Günter Vittmann: Enchoria. Volume 31 (2008/09), pp. 219-230 .
Ingo Kottsieper: The religious life of the Jews of Elephantine in the Achaemenid period . In: Journal of Near Eastern Studies . Volume 72 (2013), pp. 299-306.
Stephen A. Kaufman: Review. In: The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists. Volume 46 (2009), pp. 241-242 ( JSTOR 24519631 ).
Holger Gzella: Boekbespreking. In: Bibliotheca Orientalis. 65, issue 5-6, 2008, pp. 734-742.
Robert A. Kugler: Review. In: Review of Biblical Literature. 06/2009 .
  • History of the Jews in Biebesheim. (= Erfelder. Issue 1). Forum Verlag, Riedstadt 1997, ISBN 3-9805630-2-2 ( Online , 2008, PDF; 9.9 MB).
  • Light from Aramaic Documents. In: John Curtis, St John Simpson (Ed.): The World of Achaemenid Persia: History, Art and Society in Iran and the Ancient Near East. IB Tauris, London 2010, ISBN 1-84885-346-7 , pp. 41-50.
  • The history of the Jews of Augsburg during the emancipation period 1750–1871. In: Augsburg contributions to the regional history of Bavarian Swabia. (= Volume 12: New Research on the History of the City of Augsburg ). Augsburg 2011, pp. 279-349.
  • Jewish and Christian relations with Zoroastrianism. In: Sarah Stewart (Ed.): The Everlasting Flame. Zoroastrianism in History and Imagination. Tauris, New York 2013, ISBN 978-1-78076-809-0 , pp. 28-33.
  • Feudalism in the Sasanian Empire? In: Shervin Farridnejad, Rika Gyselen, Anke Joisten-Pruschke (eds.): Fascination Iran. Contributions to the Religion, History and Art of Ancient Iran. Commemorative letter for Klaus Schippmann. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 3-447-10419-8 , pp. 129-138.
Associate Editor
  • Christine Allison, Anke Joisten-Pruschke, Antje Wendtland (eds.): From Daena to Din. Religion, culture and language in the Iranian world: Festschrift for Philip Kreyenbroek on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 3-447-05917-6 (foreword).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German Mining Museum Bochum : Archaeometallurgical and mining archeological investigations in Fenan and in the area of ​​the southern Wadi Arabah, Jordan (accessed on June 26, 2016).
  2. ↑ Seminar for Iranian Studies at the University of Göttingen: Dr. Anke Joisten-Pruschke
personal data
SURNAME Joisten-Pruschke, Anke
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Joisten, Anke (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Iranist and Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Rüsselsheim am Main