Prof. Dr. Markus Witte

Theologische Fakultät (HU)

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Markus Witte is member of the Excellence Cluster Topoi since October 2009. In Topoi, his main field of research is the construction of space and time in the Hebrew Bible and in its ancient translations in Greek (Septuagint) and Latin (Vetus Latina, Vulgate). This theme is a part of preparing  a revised edition of the „Hebräisches und Aramäisches Wörterbuch zum Alten Testament“ (in cooperation with Dr. J.F. Diehl).

Other research topics of Witte are the history of the Jewish literature of the hellenistic era (esp. the wisdom books) and the anthropology and theology of the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible.
 

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Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Theologische Fakultät

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Burgstraße 26
10178 Berlin
Deutschland

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+49 030 2093-5936

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+49 030 2093-5937
 
 

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Activities

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""Die älteste Weltkarte des Menschengeschlechts" - Die Konstruktion von Raum und Zeit in der biblischen Völkertafel (1. Mose 10)"
part of the Workshop Critique of the Map

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"Raum-zeitliche Koordinaten in genealogischen Konstruktionen der jüdisch-hellenistischen Literatur"
part of the Conference Genealogie und Migration. Antike Wanderungsmythen

 

Curriculum Vitae

Since 1/2010 Director of the „Institut Kirche und Judentum – Zentrum für christlich-jüdische Studien an der Humboldt-Universität“ (www.ikj-berlin.de)
Since 10/2009 Chair for exegesis and literature of the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible, Humboldt-University.
2006-2008 Dean of the faculty of protestant theology at Goethe-University Frankfurt/M.
2001–2009 Chair for the study of the Old Testament, Goethe-University Frankfurt/M.
2000 Heisenberg-awardee of the DFG (research project to the biblical book of the Judges and to the biblical psalms of history).
1998–2000 Visting professor for the Old Testament at the Goethe-University, Frankfurt/M.
1997–1998 Vicar of the evangelical church of Hessen and Nassau in Wetzlar.
1997 Postdoctoral lecture qualification at the Philipps-University, Marburg, with the dissertation Die biblische Urgeschichte. Redaktions- und theologiegeschichtliche Beobach­tungen zu Genesis 1,1 – 11,26 (Berlin/New York 1998), Venia legendi for the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible. Private lecturer, Philipps-University, Marburg.
1995–1996 Lectureship for the Old Testament at the University of Bayreuth.
1993 Doctorate at the Philipps-University, Marburg, with the dissertation Vom Leiden zur Lehre. Der dritte Redegang (Hiob 21 – 27) und die Redaktionsge­schichte des Hiobbuches (Berlin/New York 1994).
1984–1990 Study of theology at the universities of Frankfurt/M., Erlangen and Marburg.
1964 Born in Frankfurt/M.