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Position: Lecturer/Professor
College of Jewish Studies
Hochschule für Jüdische Studien (College of Jewish Studies)
Landfriedstraße 12
Heidelberg
69117
Germany
Teaches (T) and/or researches (R) in:
1. Bible and Related Literature: TR
Hebrew Bible: TR
Bible translations: TR
Bible versions: TR
5: Dead Sea Scrolls and Qumran studies: T
Medieval exegesis: TR
Modern interpretation: TR
2. History of the Jewish People: TR
9: Ancient Near East: T
10: Second Temple period: T
Medieval: TR
19: Palaeography: T
3. Religion and Religious Movements: T
22: Jewish religion - general: T
23: Rabbinic Judaism: T
25: Karaism: T
28: Reform Judaism: T
4. Jewish Thought and Philosophy: T
34: Medieval Philosophy: T
36: Jewish Mysticism: T
5. Rabbinic Literature: TR
Medieval: TR
6. Literature (other than Biblical and Rabbinic): TR
Medieval (including scientific, poetry, Genizah studies): TR
Literary criticism: TR
7. Languages: TR
50: Ancient Near Eastern Languages: T
51: Hebrew: T
52: Greek: T
53: Aramaic: T
10. Jewish Studies and Resources: TR
Scholarship, history of: TR
Teaching and Study of Judaism: TR
Codicology: TR
Hebrew Printing: TR
On-line resources: TR
11. Digital Humanities: TR
Digital humanities: TR
Other subjects:
Medieval Jewish Commentaries : Teach and Research
Masorah : Teach and Research
Description
Hanna Liss completed her Ph.D. in Jewish Studies in 1995 at the Free University Berlin; she achieved her Habilitation 2002 and venia legendi in Jewish Studies at the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg. In 2002, she was the first Moosnick Distinguished Professor of Hebrew Bible & Jewish Studies at Lexington Theological Seminary, Lexington, KY.
Since 2003, she is Full Professor and Chair of the Department of Bible and Jewish Thought at the Heidelberg Center for Jewish Studies, and University of Heidelberg, Germany. Her main research areas are Medieval Jewish Exegesis and Medieval Jewish Thought, Research on the Masorah in Western European Bible- and Commentary-Literature, Modern Jewish Bible-exegesis and hermeneutics.
She is Prinicipal Investigator of various projects on Parshanut Literature and Masorah Research. The long-term-project ‘Corpus Masoreticum’ (funded by the German Research Foundation) has started in 2018. Her recent book projects are Jüdische Bibelauslegung (UTB Jüdische Studien), Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck (2019; forthcoming); Tanach. Lehrbuch der jüdischen Bibel, 4th edition revised and enlarged, Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2019; Creating Fictional Worlds: Peshat Exegesis and Narrativity in Rashbam’s Commentary on the Torah (Studies in Jewish History and Culture 25), Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2011.
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