Helga Weippert
Helga Weippert (born May 4, 1943 in Stuttgart ; † March 13, 2019 ) was a German scholar of the Old Testament.
Weippert studied Protestant theology in Basel , Göttingen and Tübingen and received his doctorate in 1971 at the University of Basel with Hans Joachim Stoebe on the prose speeches of the Book of Jeremiah . From 1979 to 1981 she taught the Old Testament and Biblical Archeology at the University of Utrecht , and from 1983 at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . Since 1998 she has lived in France with her husband, the professor emeritus of the Old Testament Manfred Weippert .
From 1992 to 1998 she was Herbert Donner's successor as chairwoman of the German Association for the Exploration of Palestine . For the handbook of archeology , she wrote the volume Palestine in the pre-Hellenistic period . Jens Kamlah called this volume "the most important German manual on biblical archeology".
Fonts
A bibliography can be found in: Helga Weippert: Under olive trees. Studies on the archeology of Syria-Palestine, cultural history and exegesis of the Old Testament. Collected Essays. Fixed on May 4, 2003 . Edited by Angelika Berlejung and Hermann Michael Niemann . Ugarit Verlag, Münster 2006, ISBN 978-3-934628-68-7 , pp. 473-480.
Web links
- Author portrait on the website of the CH Beck publishing house
Individual evidence
- ^ German Association for the Exploration of Palestine: Obituary , accessed on May 5, 2019.
- ↑ P. David (Ed.): Theology in public. Contributions from the Kiel Theological University Days from 1997 to 2006. Hamburg 2007, p. 275.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weippert, Helga |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Old Testament scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 4, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 13, 2019 |