Ernst-joachim Waschke

Biography

"Born in 1966 in Erfurt     education   1987-1994 studied Protestant Theology and Semitic Studies at the University of Leipzig , the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Free University of Berlin   1991 Semitic studies minor   1994 First Theological Examination at the University of Leipzig   1994-1995 study visit to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as a scholarship holder of the DAAD   1995-1997 PhD student at the Institute for Old Testament Science of the University of Leipzig as a scholarship holder of the state of Saxony   1998 Ph.D. theol. with the dissertation ""Euphemisms in the Hebrew Bible"". Supervisor: Prof. Dr. med. Siegfried Wagner   2003 Habilitation and gaining the venia legendi for the subject Old Testament at the church college Bethel , Habilitationsschrift: ""The vowels of the law: The Samaritan Toralesung as a text witness of the Torah""     Professional activities   1997-1999 Research Assistant for Semitic Studies at the Institute of Semitic Studies and Arabic Studies, Free University Berlin, Department of Semitic Studies   1998 Researcher at the Gustaf Dalman Institute of the University of Greifswald, Faculty of Theology   1998-1999 part-time vicariate in Delitzsch (ecclesiastical province of Saxony) Since April 1999 Lecturer for Hebrew and Old Testament at the Kirchliche Hochschule Bethel , Bielefeld   2000-2004 also press officer of the Kirchliche Hochschule Bethel   April-July 2003 Honorary Fellow, Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies , University College London   since July 2003 Privatdozent for Old Testament at the Kirchliche Hochschule Bethel, Bielefeld   Since 2004 contact lecturer at the church university Bethel for studies in Israel   since 2009 professor of biblical studies at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg"  

Research Interest

 Theology