Catherine Hezser

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Catherine Hezser (born June 30, 1960 in Wuppertal ) is a German Judaist .

Life

She studied Jewish Studies, Theology and Philosophy at the Universities of Münster and Heidelberg and at the Jewish Theological Seminary . She graduated with a Dr. theol. ( University of Heidelberg 1986) and a Ph.D. in Jewish Studies (Jewish Theological Seminary 1992). After spending two years as a Senior Research Fellow at King's College (Cambridge) (1992–1994), she went to the Free University of Berlin to complete her habilitation in Jewish Studies ( Berlin 1997). She then did research as a scholarship holder of the Yad Hanadiv - Rothberg Foundation at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and received a Heisenberg professorship from the German Research Foundation . From 2000 to 2005 she was Al and Felice Lippert Professor of Jewish Studies at Trinity College Dublin and Director of the Herzog Center for Jewish and Middle Eastern Religions and Cultures. She has been teaching at SOAS at the University of London since 2005 .

Her research areas are the history, literature and culture of the Jews in Hellenistic and Roman-Byzantine Palestine. According to her own statement, she is particularly interested in sociological and anthropological approaches to rabbinical literature , in old Jewish everyday life and in the Greco-Roman and early Christian context in which Jews lived.

Fonts (selection)

  • Pay metaphors and the world of work in Mt 20, 1–16. The parable of the workers in the vineyard in the context of rabbinical wage parables . Göttingen 1990, ISBN 3-7278-0699-0 .
  • Form, function, and historical significance of the rabbinic story in Yerushalmi Neziqin . Tübingen 1993, ISBN 3-16-146148-7 .
  • The social structure of the rabbinic movement in Roman Palestine . Tübingen 1997, ISBN 3-16-146797-3 .
  • Jewish literacy in Roman Palestine . Tübingen 2001, ISBN 3-16-147546-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hezser, Catherine. In: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar Online. degruyter.com, accessed on June 16, 2020 (founded by Joseph Kürschner , constantly updated, restricted online edition).
personal data
SURNAME Hezser, Catherine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Judaist
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal