Gabrielle Oberhänsli-Widmer

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Gabrielle Oberhänsli-Widmer (born June 16, 1957 in Menziken , Switzerland ) is Professor of Jewish Studies at the Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg .

Life

After training as a primary school teacher , Gabrielle Oberhänsli-Widmer taught at the comprehensive school in Kallern , at various secondary schools and at the Rämibühl literary school in Zurich .

She studied French and Hebrew languages ​​and literature in Zurich , Florence , Avignon , Lausanne and Lucerne and graduated in 1984 with a licentiate in Zurich. In 1988 she did her doctorate in Zurich. She then studied at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem . She worked as a lecturer in Hebrew, was a lecturer in medieval French literature and senior assistant in general religious history . Oberhänsli-Widmer completed his habilitation in Zurich in 1996.

At the University of Zurich she taught as adjunct professor for Jewish religious history. After a visiting professorship at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena in the field of Jewish Studies from 1999 to 2000 and an activity in this area as a visiting lecturer at the University of Bern in 2003 and 2004, she was appointed to the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg in 2004 Professor of Jewish Studies.

Gabrielle Oberhänsli-Widmer is a member of the editorial board of Judaica and Church and Israel . She also works on the board of the Jewish-Christian working group in the canton of Zurich.

Fonts (selection)

  • La complainte funèbre du haut moyen age français et occitan . A. Francke, Bern 1989, ISBN 3-7720-1675-8 (dissertation).
  • Biblical Figures in Rabbinical Literature. Parables and images of Adam, Noah and Abraham in the Midrash Bereschit Rabba (= udaica et Christiana. Vol. 17). P. Lang, Bern 1998, ISBN 3-906759-66-0 (habilitation thesis).
  • Job in Jewish antiquity and modernity. The history of the impact of Job in Jewish literature . Neukirchener, Neukirchen-Vluyn 2003, ISBN 3-7887-1945-1 .
  • Images of Evil in Judaism: Inspired by the Hebrew Bible, developed further in Jewish literature . Neukirchener Theologie, Neukirchen-Vluyn 2013, ISBN 978-3-7887-2671-3 .
  • Stefan Heym Ahasver (1981) , Church and Israel: KuI; Neukirchener theologische Zeitschrift 23 (2008), pp. 166–177, [1]

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. orient.uni-freiburg.de
  2. eurojewishstudies.org
  3. orient.uni-freiburg.de