Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Gerhard Langer

Co-Deputy Speaker of the Research Centre "Religion and Transformation"

Academic position:

Head of the Department of Jewish Studies

CV:

2004-2010 Leader of the interdisciplinary and interfaculty "Center for Jewish Cultural History" of the University of Salzburg
2001-2002 professorship substitution at the oriental Seminar at the University of Freiburg i. Br.
2000-2001 professorship substitution at the Department of Jewish-Christian Research at the University of Luzern
1999-2000 teaching activity at the Portland University (Oregon) (with Dependance in Salzburg)
1996 Habilitation treatise ("«Durch dein Blut lebe!» Ez 16 in der rabbinischen Rezeption")
Since 1993 department head of the Department of Jewish Studies in Salzburg
1993-2001 president of the coordinating comitee for christian-jewish cooperation in Austria
1988 Dr. theol. ("Von Gott erwählt - Jerusalem. Die Rezeption von Dtn 12 im frühen Judentum"), 1990 Mag. phil. (Jewish Studies, Ancient Semitic Philology)
Since 1984 Univ.-Ass.  at the Department of Old Testament Biblical Studies, later special field Biblical Studies and Church History
1983-1984 School teaching
1978-1983 Studies of Catholic Theology,Ancient Semitic Philology and Jewish Studies in Salzburg and Vienna, 1983 Mag. theol.
Born 1960 in Schwarzach i. Pongau/Salzburg

Research projects in connection with RaT:

Jüdische Kulturgeschichte in der Antike; rabbinische Literatur; rezeptionsgeschichtliche Untersuchungen zu biblischen Texten; Verarbeitung jüdischer Texte in deutschsprachiger Literatur; jüdisch-christliche "Begegnung" (Kulturtransfer etc.)

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