Institute of Judaic Studies, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Contact details
Platz der Göttinger Sieben 237073 Göttingen
Germany
Tel: +49 551 3926276
Email: hans-juergen.becker@theologie.uni-goettingen.de
https://http://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/55246.html
Head of Department/Director
Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Becker
Email: hans-juergen.becker@theologie.uni-goettingen.de
Activites
Awards degrees in Jewish Studies as a sole or major componentBA Evangelische Religion: Includes Old Testament; exegesis of biblical texts; interreligious dialogue.
Master of Education Evangelische Religion: Includes Biblical Theology of the Old Testament.
Doctorate.
In addition to Judaistic lectures, seminars and exercises, a four-hour course in rabbinic and modern Hebrew is offered every semester. The themes mainly concern ancient Judaism; but there are also events on Eastern and Central European Jewry of the 19th and 20th centuries. Since 1997, Jewish studies can be chosen as a major in the doctoral program in Protestant theology.
Offers courses in Jewish Studies
Provides supervision in Jewish studies for students working towards a research degree
Pursues academic research activities
Main research activities
In 1997, Jürgen Becker, formerly at the Institute for Jewish Studies in Berlin, was appointed the director of the institute This was the first time that a Judaic scholar (with research focus on rabbinic literature) has held this position. Prof. Becker is a member of both the Theological and Philosophical faculties. The research at the Institute for Jewish Studies today is Göttingen’s contribution to the efforts of an international research community.
The library has grown steadily since its inception and currently consists of over 8000 volumes covering the whole field of Jewish Studies, many on the literature of rabbinic Judaism. The stock is continually being extended with works on medieval and modern Judaism.
Since 1997 a collection of approximately 125 microfilm reels of the most important medieval manuscripts in classical Judaism has been built up.
The institute members consist of a professor, an academic assistant and a lecturer in rabbinic and modern Hebrew.
In addition to lectures, seminars and tutorials in Judaism, a 4-hour course in rabbinic and modern Hebrew is offered every semester. The themes mainly concern ancient Judaism; there are, however, lectures on eastern and middle-European Judaism in the 19th and 20th centuries. Since 1997 Jewish Studies can be chosen as the main subject in the doctoral programme in evangelical theology.
Research areas include Rabbinic literature and theology; Early Jewish mysticism, Kabbalah, Hasidism; German and Hebrew Jewish literature of the 20th century.
There is a Jewish Studies library
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