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van Henten, Professor Jan Willem

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Position: Lecturer/Professor
Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Dept of History, European Studies and Religion
Kloveniersburgwal 48
Amsterdam
1012 CX
Netherlands
http://www.uva.nl/en/profile/h/e/j.w.vanhenten/j.w.van-henten.html

Teaches (T) and/or researches (R) in:

1. Bible and Related Literature: TR
1: Hebrew Bible: R
2: Bible translations: T
Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha: TR
Dead Sea Scrolls and Qumran studies: TR
New Testament: TR
8: Modern interpretation: R
2. History of the Jewish People: TR
Second Temple period: TR
11: Late Antiquity: T
12: Medieval: T
13: Early Modern: T
14: Modern: T
18: Epigraphy: T
3. Religion and Religious Movements: T
22: Jewish religion - general: T
23: Rabbinic Judaism: T
27: Hasidism: T
28: Reform Judaism: T
29: Orthodox Judaism: T
30: Religion in the State of Israel: T
31: Comparative Religion: T
6. Literature (other than Biblical and Rabbinic): TR
Ancient (including Hellenistic): TR
7. Languages: T
58: Judeo-Greek: T

Description

Jan Willem van Henten studied History and Theology at Leiden University, specializing in Ancient History, Judaism in the Second Temple Period and New Testament. His PhD (Leiden 1986) concerns martyrdom and the construction of Jewish identity in 2 and 4 Maccabees. He taught Judaism and New Testament at the Universities of Amsterdam, Leiden and Utrecht and is full professor of New Testament, Early Jewish and Early Christian Literature at the University of Amsterdam since 1993. He is currently also director of the Graduate School for Humanities and vice-dean of the Faculty of Humanities.

His courses concern the introduction to and interpretation of the Bible, the history, religion and literature of Judaism as well as the New Testament and Christian origins. He contributes to the MA-programme in Religious Studies (including the English taught programme in Biblical Studies and a course on religion andviolence). His research projects concern Jewish literature fromantiquity, especially a commentary on Jewish Antiquities 15-17 by the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus (in preparation for the Brill Josephus project), martyrdom among Jews and Christians, as well as the reception of the Bible in contemporary culture.

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