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Position: Professor of Jewish Religion in Past and Present Times
Center for Religious Studies (Evangelisch-Theologische Fakultät), Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Ruhr University Bochum)Centrum für Religionswissenschaftliche Studien (Center for Religious Studies)
Universitätsstr. 90a
Bochum
D-44789
Germany
Teaches (T) and/or researches (R) in:
1. Bible and Related Literature: TR
4: Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha: T
5: Dead Sea Scrolls and Qumran studies: T
Medieval exegesis: TR
2. History of the Jewish People: TR
10: Second Temple period: T
Late Antiquity: TR
Medieval: TR
Early Modern: TR
14: Modern: T
Regional and National (i.e. in North Africa, Greece, Eastern Europe, Germany, Middle East, Spain, India, South America, United States, etc): TR
20: Historiography: T
3. Religion and Religious Movements: TR
22: Jewish religion - general: T
Rabbinic Judaism: TR
26: Sabbateanism: T
Comparative Religion: TR
4. Jewish Thought and Philosophy: TR
Jewish Mysticism: TR
5. Rabbinic Literature: TR
38: Early (including Talmud, Mishnah, Midrash): T
Medieval: TR
41: Jewish law (including Halachic studies, Responsa): T
6. Literature (other than Biblical and Rabbinic): TR
Medieval (including scientific, poetry, Genizah studies): TR
44: Early modern (including scientific, poetry): T
7. Languages: T
51: Hebrew: T
54: Arabic, including Judeo-Arabic: T
8. Art, Architecture and Performing Arts: TR
Art (including iconography): TR
62: Music and Musicology: T
9. Contemporary Studies: T
65: Jews in the United States: T
66: Ethiopian Jewry: T
68: Jewish identity and assimilation: T
71: Interfaith studies (including Jewish-Christian relations, Jewish-Muslim relations): T
74: Gender studies (including Women in Judaism, Feminism): T
Description
My research interests center around medieval Jewish, Christian, and Muslim relations and cultural exchanges in Western Europe and the Islamic world, anbd to a lesser extent Byzantium. I am especially the intersections of gender and medicine in medieval religious polemic, representations of shared religious practices, literary and visual depictions of animals and their meanings, and imaginings about the lost tribes of Israel.