News
Winter Semester 2024/25
Project events
- February 6th: public lecture "The new edition of Pesher Habakkuk (1QpHab)" by Professor Noam Mizrahi (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), 12 – 14 pm (c. t.), room 013
Project guests
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Professor Noam Mizrahi (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), visiting scholar for a week in February 2025
Summer Semester 2024
Project events
- April 25th: project workshop with Davide D'Amico (Université de Lorraine)
- May 13th-15th: international conference "Egyptian Demotic Papyri and the Dead Sea Scrolls" at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- September 5th-9th: project workshop "Scribes in Late Period Egypt, Babylonia, and Yehud/Judea" at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Project guests
- PD Dr. Walter Bührer (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg), visiting professor for entire semester
- Dr. Fabio Porzia, Istituto di Scienze del Patrimonio Culturale (ISPC) Roma, visiting scholar during June and July
Winter Semester 2023/24
Project news
- Open access publication by Joseph Cross on "Mouvance and the art of fiction in performance in manuscripts of a Demotic Egyptian novella" in Manuscript and Text Cultures, vol. 2, no. 2 (March 2024) [article link]
- Open access publication by Sarah Schulz on "Discovering Eschatological Leadership in the Book of Isaiah. The Motif of Animal Peace between Messianic Hope and New Creation" in Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, vol. 135, no. 4 (November 2023) [article link]
Project events
- November 9th: project workshop with Dr. Elisabeth Sawerthal (King's College London)
- February 15th: project workshop with Prof. David Vanderhooft (Boston College)
Summer Semester 2023
Project news
- Open access publication by Maximilian Rechholz on "Seshat and Lady Wisdom: Prov 8 in Light of the Demotic Book of Thoth" in Vetus Testamentum (June 2023) [article link]
Project events
- April 14th-15th: project workshop with Prof. Julia Rhyder (Harvard University)
- May 20th: project workshop with Prof. Jacqueline Jay (Eastern Kentucky University)
- September 1st-3rd: project workshop "Prophetic-apocalyptic Literature from Late Period Egypt", hosted by Maren Schentuleit at University College Oxford
Project guests
- PD Dr. Reettakaisa Sofia Salo (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen), visiting professor for entire semester
- Prof. Klaus-Peter Adam (Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago), visiting researcher during May
Winter Semester 2022/23
Project news
- All research positions have been filled!
- Franziska Küster began working with us as a student assistant
- Open access publication by Robert Kade on "The Many Paths into the Chamber of Darkness" in Die Welt des Orients 52:2 (December 2022) [article link] [read more at the DEMBIB blog]
Project guests
- PD Dr. Benjamin Ziemer (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg), visiting professor for entire semester
- Prof. David M. Carr (Union Theological Seminary New York City), visiting researcher during January and February [listen to an interview with Prof. Carr at the DEMBIB blog]
Summer Semester 2022
Project events
- September 30th-October 1st: project workshop "Demotic and Hebrew Bible Narrative Literature" hosted by Prof. Dr. Thomas Römer at Collège de France, Paris
Project guests
- PD Dr. Sarah Schulz (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg), visiting professor for entire semester