Carl S. Ehrlich

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Carl S. Ehrlich (* 1956 in Amherst , Massachusetts ) is an American professor of Hebrew Bible and Biblical Archeology at York University in Toronto .

Life

Carl S. Ehrlich was born in 1956 to Leonard H. Ehrlich and Edith Ehrlich in Amherst, Massachusetts, USA. He studied at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in Freiburg and in Jerusalem Jewish Studies, Biblical Archeology and Oriental Studies and was at the Harvard University 1991 Ph. D. doctorate . Since 1999 he has been Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible and Coordinator of the Jewish Studies Program at York University in Toronto.

For his scientific work he has received numerous prizes and research grants as well as invitations to visiting professorships in North America and Germany. He taught for several semesters at the University for Jewish Studies in Heidelberg as well as at the Humboldt University in Berlin and at the Church University in Wuppertal. In 2006 he took up the Franz Rosenzweig visiting professorship at the University of Kassel.

Fonts (in selection)

  • Messiah ideas in Judaism. In: Arguing about Jesus of Nazareth? On the way to a non-anti-Jewish Christology. Bad Boll 1993.
  • The Philistines in Transition: A History from approx. 1000–730 BCE (= Studies in the History and Culture of the Ancient Near East , Volume 10). Leiden, New York, Cologne 1996.
  • “Anti-Judaism” in the Hebrew Bible: The Case: Ezekiel. In: Vetus Testamentum Volume 46, 1996.
  • "You shouldn't make yourself an image of God". The second word from Sinai in the context of the Jewish interpretation of the Decalogue. In: Albrecht Grözinger, Johannes von Lüpke (Hrsg.): In the beginning was the word. Interdisciplinary theological perspectives. Neukirchen-Vluyn 1998.
  • The search for Gat and the new excavations at Tell es-Safi. In: EA Knauf, U. Hübner (Ed.): No country for itself. Studies on cultural contact in Canaan. Israel / Palestine and Ebirnari, Friborg 2002.
  • Humanity's Place in the Divine Scheme. A Contextual and Gender Sensitive Reading of the Creation Accounts in Genesis. In: Michael Graetz (ed.): A life for Jewish art: memorial volume for Hannelore Künzl. Heidelberg 2003.
  • Bible and Judaism. Contributions from the Christian-Jewish conversation. Zurich 2004.
  • Understanding Judaism. Origins, Beliefs, Practices, Holy Texts, Sacred Places. London 2004 (translated into French and Dutch).
  • with Marsha White as editor: Saul in Story and Tradition (= research on the Old Testament ). Tübingen 2005.
  • as editor: Literatures of the Ancient Near East. An Introduction. Lanham, MD 2006.

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personal data
SURNAME Ehrlich, Carl S.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Amherst , Massachusetts, USA