Peter Stein (Semitist)

Peter Stein (* 1970 in Dresden ) is a German Semitist .

Life

After training as a toolmaker , he studied ancient oriental studies , Semitic philology and Protestant theology in Jena and Jerusalem from 1992 to 1998 . In 2002 he received his doctorate in Semitic Philology in Jena. From 2002 to 2010 he worked as a research assistant at the chair for Semitic Philology and Islamic Studies at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, where he completed his habilitation in 2009 in Semitic Studies. In 2010 he received a Heisenberg grant from the German Research Foundation . Since April 2011 he has been teaching as a lecturer in ancient Hebrew and Semitic languages ​​at the Protestant Theological Faculty of the University of Jena and the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Erfurt . In December 2017 he was awarded the title of Extraordinary Professor of Semitic Studies by the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena.

His research includes the languages, scripts and cultures on the Arabian Peninsula in pre-Islamic times, with a focus on Old South Arabic and Aramaic.

Fonts (selection)

• The central and neo-Babylonian royal inscriptions up to the end of the Assyrian rule. Grammatical research (= Jena contributions to the Middle East . Volume 3). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2000, ISBN 3-447-04318-0 (also master's thesis, Jena 1998).
• Studies on the phonology and morphology of Sabaean (= epigraphic research on the Arabian Peninsula . Volume 3). Leidorf, Rahden 2003, ISBN 3-89646-683-6 (also dissertation, Jena 2003).
• The old South Arabic minuscule inscriptions on wooden sticks from the Bavarian State Library in Munich (= epigraphic research on the Arabian Peninsula . Volume 5). Wasmuth, Tübingen / Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-8030-2200-4 (also habilitation thesis, Jena 2009).
• Textbook of the Sabaean language. 2nd part: Chrestomathie (= Subsidia et Instrumenta Linguarum Orientis . Volume 4,2). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2012, ISBN 978-3-447-06768-3 .
• Textbook of the Sabaean language. 1st part: Grammar (= Subsidia et Instrumenta Linguarum Orientis . Volume 4.1). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-447-10026-7 .
• with Abraham J. Drewes and Jacques Ryckmans : Les inscriptions sudarabes sur bois dans la collection de l'Oosters Instituut conservée dans la bibliothèque universitaire de Leiden. Texts révisé et adapté par Peter Stein. Edité par Peter Stein and Harry Stroomer . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 3-447-10589-5 .
• as editor: Hebrew Scriptures between Judaism and Christianity in the Middle Ages and early modern times. Contributions to the 45th International Hebrew Teachers' Conference (IÖKH) from May 8 to 10, 2015 in Erfurt (= Small investigations into the language of the Old Testament and its environment . Volume 21). Hartmut Spenner, Kamen 2016, ISBN 978-3-89991-179-4 .
• as editor with Manfred Krebernik , Sarah Köhler and Kai Lämmerhirt : Hilprecht Collection of Near Eastern Antiquities. Professor Hilprecht Collection of Babylonian Antiquities . Friedrich Schiller University, Jena 2017, ISBN 978-3-9818697-2-9 .

Web links

• apl. Prof. Dr. Peter Stein