Robert Wenning

Robert Wenning (born March 12, 1946 in Rheine ) is a German archaeologist . He teaches archeology of the Middle East and biblical archeology in Münster and Eichstätt .

Life

Robert Wenning studied Classical Archeology , History and German Philology at the University of Münster and was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. He spent two following years at the University of Beer Sheva in Israel with excavations, teaching and research on the Persian period.

Back in Münster, he conducted research at the Seminar for the History of Contemporary and Religious History of the Old Testament on Greek imports and Roman sculptures in Israel and Iron Age burials in Palestine.

From 1990 to 1993 Wenning had a research center for historical Palestine studies at the University of Osnabrück . This was followed by a guest semester at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (New Jersey) . He completed his habilitation at the Chair of Classical Archeology at the University of Eichstätt in July 1995 and received the Venia legendi for Biblical and Classical Archeology. From 1995 to February 2008 Robert Wenning researched and taught "Archeology of the Middle East" at the University of Bonn . The main topics of the research were: gods of the Nabataeans , Jews and Christians in pagan environments, identity systems of the Nabataeans. Wenning has been teaching at the Institute for Ancient Near Eastern Philology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Münster since February 2008 . He also has an extraordinary professorship at the University of Eichstätt.

From 2000 to 2008 Wenning was a board member of the German Association for the Exploration of Palestine and a scientific advisor to the magazine Welt und Umwelt der Bibel .

Works

• The Galatian Athemes of Attalus I [the first] An investigation into the existence and after-effects of Pergamene sculpture. In: Pergamene research . Vol. 4. de Gruyter, Berlin 1978, ISBN 3-11-007053-7 .
• The Nabataeans - Monuments and History. An inventory of the archaeological findings . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1987, ISBN 3-525-53902-9 .
• The Nabatean Empire: Its Archaeological and Historical Legacies , in: H.-P. Kuhnen, Palestine in Greco-Roman times . Handbuch der Archäologie Vorderasien II 2, Munich 1990, pp. 367-415.
• Petra : ancient rock city between Arab tradition and Greek norm. (Ed. With Thomas Weber). Zabern, Mainz 1997 ( Antike Welt , special issue; Zabern's illustrated books on archeology ) ISBN 3-8053-1983-5 .
• Dealing with death in Israel and Judah. Burials in Judah during the royal period . In: Theologische Viertelschrift 177,2, 1997, pp. 81–157.

Web links

• Literature by and about Robert Wenning in the catalog of the German National Library
• University of Münster website, curriculum vitae, bibliography
• Writings by Robert Wenning in Propylaeum-DOK