Ulrich Hübner (archaeologist)

Ulrich Hübner (born April 16, 1952 in Neunkirchen (Saar) ) is a German Protestant theologian , biblical archaeologist . From 1994 to 2017 he was professor at the Institute for Old Testament Studies and Biblical Archeology at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel .

Life

Ulrich Hübner studied from 1973 to 1979 in Mainz , Basel , Bethel and Tübingen the subjects Protestant Theology, Ancient Near Eastern Languages ​​and Near Eastern Archeology. In 1979 he passed the First Theological Examination. From 1984 to 1986 he completed the vicariate in Bad Kreuznach .

From 1979 to 1984 Ulrich Hübner worked as a research assistant for the Old Testament and Biblical Archeology at the Evangelical Theological Faculty of the University of Mainz. At the same time, from 1980 to 1984 he was teaching Biblical Hebrew at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Mainz . After the vicariate, Ulrich Huebner was assistant for Old Testament and Biblical Archeology at the Theological Faculty in Heidelberg from 1986 to 1994, where he received his doctorate in 1991 under Manfred Weippert . The subject of the dissertation, which was awarded the Hanns Lilje Prize for the promotion of theological science by the Göttingen Academy of Sciences in 1992, was The Ammonites. Investigations into the history, culture and religion of a Transjordan people in the 1st millennium BC Chr.

Ulrich Hübner has been Professor of the Religious History of Israel and Archeology of Palestine and Syria and Director of the Institute for Old Testament Studies and Biblical Archeology at the Theological Faculty of the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel since 1994. From 2004 to 2006 he was dean of the theological faculty at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel .

Ulrich Hübner also worked on numerous excavations on Tell es-Seba , Hirbet al-Mšaš in the Negev (1974–1975), on Tell el-Oreme ( Kinneret ) / Galilee (1982–1985) and in Gadara (Umm Qais) / Northern Jordan (1998) participated. In 1999 he worked temporarily in the museum in Hama / Syria .

From 1998 to 2012 Ulrich Hübner was chairman of the German Association for the Exploration of Palestine . He is co-editor of the book series Asia and Africa of the Center for Asian and African Studies at the University of Kiel.

Since 1997 and 2001 respectively co-director and director of the Petra Regional Survey in South Jordan. Since 1996 he has been leading the archaeological surveys in the region around Petra in southern Jordan and the excavations on Umm Saisaban. He wrote several articles in the Biographical-Bibliographical Church Lexicon (BBKL).

He has been retired since 2017.

Works

• The Ammonites. Investigations into the history, culture and religion of a Transjordan people in the 1st millennium BC Chr. (Treatises of the German Palestine Association 16), Wiesbaden 1992, ISBN 978-3447032759
• Games and toys in ancient Palestine . (Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 121), Friborg - Göttingen 1992, ISBN 978-3525537558
• HÜBNER U. / KAMLAH J. / REINFANDT L. (edd.), The Silk Road - Trade and Cultural Exchange in a Eurasian Route Network (Asia and Africa. Contributions from the Center for Asian and African Studies at the Christian Albrechts University Kiel, Vol. 3 ), 2nd edition Hamburg 2005, ISBN 978-3930826636
• HÜBNER U. / RICHTER A. (edd.), Water - Food, Cultural Property, Political Weapon (Asia and Africa. Contributions from the Center for Asian and African Studies at the Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Vol. 9), Hamburg-Schenefeld 2004 ; ISBN 978-3930826834
• HÜBNER U. (ed.), Palestine exploranda. Studies on the exploration of Palestine in the 19th and 20th centuries on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the German Association for the Study of Palestine (Treatises of the German Palestine Association 34), Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 978-3447048958

Web links

• Theological Faculty of the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel Prof. Dr. theol. Ulrich Huebner