Monika Bernett

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Monika Bernett (born January 1, 1959 in Munich ) is a German ancient historian .

Monika Bernett passed the state examination for teaching at grammar schools for German and history in 1985 . From 1990 to 1994 she worked as a research assistant at the chair of Heinz-Wolfgang Kuhn at the Institute for New Testament Theology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (LMU). The doctorate took place in 1994 with a thesis on the subject of Causarum cognitio. Cicero's analysis of the political crisis of the late Roman Republic at LMU. Bernett then became a research assistant at Christian Meier's chair at the Institute for Ancient History. In 1998 she received a habilitation grant from the German Research Foundation ; her habilitation took place again in Munich in 2002 with a thesis on The Imperial Cult in Judea among the Herodians and Romans. Studies on the political and religious history of Judea from 30 BC until 66 AD 2002/03 she taught as a substitute professor at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg , where she has been Aloys Winterling's chair for ancient history and historical anthropology for eight semesters since the 2006/07 winter semester . Since the summer semester 2011 she has been teaching at the University of Munich (LMU) as a private lecturer in ancient history.

Bernett's research focuses on the end of the Roman Republic and the history of religion, especially Judea in antiquity. In her habilitation, she defended the thesis that the imperial cult in Roman Judea was increasingly criticized both by the anti-Roman priesthood and by the population and that this, as a point of conflict between Romans and Jews, played a greater role in the outbreak of the Jewish uprising in AD 66. Played.

Fonts

  • Causarum cognitio. Cicero's analysis of the political crisis of the late Roman Republic (= Palingenesia . Vol. 51). Steiner, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-515-06639-X (also: Munich, University, dissertation, 1994).
  • with Othmar Keel : moon, bull and cult at the city gate. The stele of Betsaida (et-Tell) (= Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis. Vol. 161). Universitäts-Verlag et al., Freiburg (Switzerland) et al. 1998, ISBN 3-525-53798-0 .
  • The imperial cult in Judea among the Herodians and Romans. Studies on the political and religious history of Judea from 30 BC to 66 AD (= Scientific studies on the New Testament . Vol. 203). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-16-148446-9 (also: Munich, University, habilitation paper, 2002; review ).
  • as editor with Wilfried Nippel and Aloys Winterling : Christian Meier for discussion. Authors' colloquium at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research Bielefeld, 3. – 5. June 2004. Steiner, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-515-09148-0 .

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Remarks

  1. Review by Monika Schuol: Monika Bernett, Der Kaiserkult in Judäa under the Herodians and Romans. Studies on the political and religious history of Judea from 30 BC to 66 AD, Tübingen 2007. In: Klio, Volume 90, Issue 2 (2008), pp. 504–505, here: p. 504.