Person Joachim Schaper

Joachim Schaper, geb. 1965, Ph.D., Universität Cambridge, 1993; Habilitation, Universität Tübingen, 1999; Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages, Universität Aberdeen; Mitherausgeber der Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments; zahlreiche Veröffentlichungen, insbesondere zur Prophetie und zu den Psalmen sowie zur Septuaginta, zur Geschichte Israels und zur Funktion von Texten und anderen Medien in antiken Religionen; President, International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament (2016-2019).

Joachim Schaper is Professor for Old Testament and is appointed to a Personal Chair in Hebrew, Old Testament and Early Jewish Studies at King's College, Aberdeen.

Born in 1965; 1993: PhD (Cantab); 1999: Habilitation; 2005-12: Reader, then Professor in Hebrew, Old Testament and Early Jewish Studies; since 2012: Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages at the University of Aberdeen; 2016-19: President of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament.