Gesa Schenke

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Gesa Schenke is a German papyrologist and coptologist .

Life

Gesa Schenke studied classical philology and anthropology at Pitzer College in Claremont, California (BA), as well as Egyptology, classical archeology and Greek philology at LMU Munich and the University of Cologne (MA). In 2000 she received her doctorate from the University of Cologne . She then worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Classical Studies at the University of Cologne, at the Institute for Area Studies at the University of Leiden and most recently in the project The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity at the University of Oxford . Since October 2019 she has been Professor of Coptology at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster

Her research interests are early Coptic literary texts; Greek and Coptic papyrology; Egypt from the Romans to the early Middle Ages.

She is the oldest daughter of the Berlin New Testament scholar and coptologist Hans-Martin Schenke .

Fonts (selection)

  • Appearance and reality. Use of jewelry in the Roman Empire. A socio-economic study based on picture and document . Louvain 2003, ISBN 90-429-1172-7 (dissertation).
  • The Testament of Iob . Paderborn 2009, ISBN 978-3-506-76861-2 .
  • The Coptic hagiographic dossier of St. Kolluthos, doctor, martyr and faith healer . Louvain 2013, ISBN 978-90-429-2720-9 .
  • Coptic documents from the early Arabic period . Paderborn 2016, ISBN 3-506-78529-X .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Personal details in October 2019 University of Münster .
personal data
SURNAME Give, Gesa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German papyrologist and coptologist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century