Betina Faist

Betina I. Faist (* 1950 ) is a German ancient orientalist .

Betina Faist studied history at the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature at the Universidad de Buenos Aires between 1984 and 1991 . She finished her studies with a master’s degree . The topic of the Spanish-language master's thesis was the analysis and function of speeches at Polybios . From 1991 to 1997 she studied Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the Ancient Near Eastern Department of the University of Tübingen . In 1998 Wolfgang Röllig did his doctorate with a dissertation on the subject of trade in the Central Assyrian Empire between the 14th and 11th centuries BC. Chr. Supported by a postdoctoral fellowship at the Tübingen Graduate College "Anatolia and its neighbors. Cultural interrelationships and the development of civilization from the Neolithic to the Roman Empire ”, she continued her research between 1998 and 2000 in Tübingen.

In 2000 Faist became a research assistant in the Assur project at the Free University of Berlin , where she worked on Neo-Assyrian legal and administrative documents from the Assur finds in the Berlin Museum of the Near East . She remained there until 2010 as an Academic Counselor to the Department of Assyriology of the seminar for Languages and Cultures of the Middle East of the University of Heidelberg changed. There she completed her habilitation in 2017 with the thesis Assyrian jurisprudence in the 1st millennium BC. Chr. And received venia legendi for the subject "Assyriologie / Ancient Near Eastern Studies". Since 1997 Faist has also worked as a philologist for the excavation in Emar , Syria, which is funded by the German Research Foundation .

Her research focuses on exploring northern Mesopotamia and Syria in the 2nd millennium BC. As well as Assyria in the 1st millennium BC Chr.

Fonts (selection)

Long-distance trade of the Assyrian Empire between the 14th and 11th centuries BC Chr. (= Old Orient and Old Testament . Volume 265). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster 2001, ISBN 3-927120-79-0 .
Editor with Hartmut Blum , Peter Pfälzner and Anne-Maria Wittke : Bridge Land Anatolien? Causes, extent and modes of cultural exchange between Anatolia and its neighbors. Attempto, Tübingen 2002, ISBN 3-89308-346-4 .
New Assyrian legal documents III. (= Scientific publications of the German Orient Society . Volume 110). SDV, Saarwellingen 2005, ISBN 3-930843-95-1 .
Editor with Margarete van Ess and Reinhard Dittmann : “It was a long time ago. We are all the more pleased ”. Contributions to the Middle East for Uwe Finkbeiner (= Baghdader Mitteilungen . Volume 37). Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 2006.
Everyday texts from neo-Assyrian archives and libraries in the city of Assur (= studies on the Assyrian texts. Volume 3). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-447-05647-2 .

Cuneiform texts from the Neo-Assyrian period, part 4. Neo-Assyrian legal documents IV (= scientific publications of the German Orient Society. Volume 132). SDV, Saarwellingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-447-06458-3 .

with Peter Pfälzner: A History of the City of Mardama (n) , dubsar Volume 17, pp. 347–391, Münster 2020 ISBN 978-3-96327-102-1

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SURNAME	Faist, Betina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Faist, Betina I.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German ancient orientalist
DATE OF BIRTH	1950