Jens Kamlah

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Jens Kamlah (* 1962 ) is a Protestant theologian and Biblical archaeologist .

Life

From 1983 to 1990 he studied Protestant theology (as well as ancient oriental studies , Egyptology and prehistory and early history ) in Mainz and Tübingen . Since 1983 he has participated in numerous archaeological excavations in Palestine and Lebanon, especially since 1987 in the Tübingen excavations in Hirbet ez-Zeraqon (Jordan). From 1991 to 1999 he was a research assistant and assistant in Tübingen. After receiving his doctorate in 1999 in Tübingen with a biblical-archaeological dissertation, he was a research assistant at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel from 1999 to 2005 . After completing his habilitation in 2005 in the Old Testament subject in Kiel, he has been Academic Councilor since 2005 , and since 2008 as an adjunct professor at the Biblical-Archaeological Institute in Tübingen, which he has headed since 2010. Since 2012 he has been chairman of the German Palestine Association . Since August 2018, after a call to the University of Kiel was rejected, he has been teaching as professor of biblical archeology at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, the only chair for exclusively biblical archeology at German universities.

His research interests are biblical archeology / Palestine archeology / excavation archeology of the Levant, religious history of the Levant, world and environment of the Old Testament, history of Israel / Judas and their neighboring peoples, archeology and cultural history of Phenicia and agriculture and social history in ancient Palestine.

Works (selection)

  • The Zeraqōn Survey 1989–1994. With contributions to the methodology and historical evaluation of archaeological surface investigations in Palestine (= treatises of the German Palestine Association. Volume 27.1). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2000, ISBN 3-447-04245-1 (also dissertation, Tübingen 1999).
  • as editor with Ulrich Hübner and Lucian Reinfandt: The Silk Road. Trade and cultural exchange in a Eurasian network of routes (= Asia and Africa. Contributions from the Center for Asian and African Studies (ZAAS) at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel. Volume 3). EB-Verlag, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-930826-63-1 .
  • as editor: Temple building and temple cult. Architecture and cultic paraphernalia of temples in the Levant (2nd - 1st Mill. BCE). Proceedings of a Conference on the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Institute of Biblical Archeology at the University of Tübingen (28 - 30 May 2010) (= Treatises of the German Palestine Association. Volume 41). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2012, ISBN 978-3-447-06784-3 .
  • as editor with Rolf Schäfer and Markus Witte: Magic and magic in ancient Palestine and in its environment. Colloquium of the German Association for the Exploration of Palestine from November 14 to 16, 2014 in Mainz (= treatises of the German Palestine Association. Volume 46). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2017, ISBN 3-447-10781-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ evangelisch.de of May 13, 2019: Bible: Solomon Temple and a sensational find. Jens Kamlah holds the only chair in Biblical Archeology , accessed on May 16, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Kamlah, Jens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran theologian, biblical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1962