Prof. Dr. Idan Dershowitz

Lebenslauf & Forschung

Geboren 1982.
Studium (BA und MA) und PhD an der Hebrew University in Jerusalem sowie mehrere Jahre Yeshiva-Studium.
2017 Aufnahme an die Harvard Society of Fellows.
Seit 2020 Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Hebräische Bibel und Exegese an der Universität Potsdam.

Arbeiten von Idan Dershowitz’ erschienen unter anderem im Journal of Biblical Literature, Vetus Testamentum sowie in der Zeitschrift für alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, aber auch in der New York Times.
Anfang 2021 wird sein Buch zur materiellen Redaktion der Hebräischen Bibel bei Mohr Siebeck erscheinen. Derzeit forscht Derschowitz zur Kompositionsgeschichte des Deuteronomiums.

Mitgliedschaften

Society of Biblical Literature (SBL)
International Association of Egyptologists (IAE)

Publikationen (Auswahl)

Bücher

The Dismembered Bible: Cutting and Pasting Scripture in Antiquity (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2021; forthcoming)

Artikel etc.

“MORDECAI, SON OF JAIR (HEBREW BIBLE/OLD TESTAMENT),” Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception(EBR) 18, De Gruyter (2020; forthcoming) 

“NAOMI (HEBREW BIBLE/OLD TESTAMENT),” Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception (EBR) 18, De Gruyter (2020; forthcoming)

“Four Unidentified Fragments from 4QJoba (4Q99),” Revue de Qumrân (RevQ) 32:1 (2020), with Rebekka Luther

“Response to: ‘Was There Ever an Implicit Acceptance of Male Homosexual Intercourse in Leviticus 18?’ by George M. Hollenback,” Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (ZAW) 131:4 (2019)

“The Secret History of Leviticus,” The New York Times (2018)

“Revealing Nakedness and Concealing Homosexual Intercourse: Legal and Lexical Evolution in Leviticus 18,” Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel (HeBAI) 6:4 (2017)

“Darius II Delays the Festival of Matzot in 418 BCE,” TheTorah.com: A Historical and Contextual Approach (2017)

“KENATH,” Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR) 15, De Gruyter (2016 [online], 2017 [print])

“KENAZ, BROTHER OF CALEB,” Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR) 15, De Gruyter (2016 [online], 2017 [print])

“KENAZ, SON OF ELAH,” Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR) 15, De Gruyter (2016 [online], 2017 [print])

“KENAZ, SON OF ELIPHAZ,” Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR) 15, De Gruyter (2016 [online], 2017 [print]) 

“Man of the Land: Unearthing the Original Noah,” Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (ZAW) 128:3 (2016): 357–373

“The Guilt of the Slanderer and the Sotah: Between Certainty and Uncertainty,” TheTorah.com: A Historical and Contextual Approach (2015)

"Computerized Source Criticism of Biblical Texts," Journal of Biblical Literature 134:2 (2015), with Moshe Koppel, Navot Akiva, and Nachum Dershowitz

“Flowing with Fat and (Bee) Honey,” Vetus Testamentum (VT) 64:4 (2014)

“Unsupervised Decomposition of a Document into Authorial Components,” Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2011): 1356–1364, with Moshe Koppel, Navot Akiva, and Nachum Dershowitz.

“A Land Flowing with Fat and Honey,” Vetus Testamentum (VT) 60:2 (2010): 172–176