Hans-Jürgen Becker (Judaist)

Hans-Jürgen Becker (* 1956 in Oberhausen ) is a German Judaist and university professor.

Life

From 1975 to 1980 Becker studied Protestant theology in Göttingen and, after the first theological exam, from 1980 to 1985 Jewish history and literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . After the parish vicariate of the Hannoversche Landeskirche in Groß Lengden , he worked from 1985 to 1994 as a research assistant on the translation of the Hekhalot literature, then on the synoptic edition of the Talmud Yerushalmi, DFG projects at the Institute for Jewish Studies at the Free University of Berlin . After graduating as Dr. theol. 1988 at theAt the Kirchlichen Hochschule Berlin he was research assistant to Peter Schäfer from 1994 to 1997 and member of the department for Hebrew text research and the Leibniz project “The Talmud Yerushalmi in the Greco-Roman Context” at the Institute for Jewish Studies at the Free University of Berlin. After completing his habilitation in 1996 at the Free University of Berlin for Jewish Studies, he has been teaching since 1997 as Professor of New Testament and Ancient Judaism and Head of the Institute for Jewish Studies at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . He is a member of the Association of Judaists in Germany and the European Association for Jewish Studies.

His main research interests are rabbinical literature and theology, intertextual exegesis of the New Testament, early Jewish mysticism, Kabbalah, Hasidism and German and Hebrew-language Jewish literature of the 20th century.

Web links

• Georg-August-University Goettingen