Prof. Dr. Andreas Lehnardt

Chair of Judaic Studies

Lehnardt, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Andreas

Religious Studies II
Professor

Jewish Studies

Visitor Address:

Taubertsberg III (9184)
Wallstraße 7-7a
55122 Mainz, DE
Taubertsberg III - 01-501

Phone: +49 6131 39 20312

Email: lehnardt@uni-mainz.de

Portrait Lehnardt, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Andreas

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Contents

  1. Chair of Judaic Studies
  2. Biography
  3. Fields of Research
  4. Research Projects
  5. Memberships
  6. Publications (Selection)
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Biography

  • 1965 Born in Duisburg
  • 1984-94 Studies in Judaistik and Theology in Münster, München, Bonn, Köln, Jerusalem, Tübingen, Berlin
  • 1990-93 Research Assistant at the Institutum Judaicum Delitzschianum, Münster University with H. Lichtenberger
  • 1995-98 Researcher at the Institut for Ancient Judaism and hellenistic Religion, Tübingen University,
  • 1999 PhD in Judaic Studies at the Free University Berlin
  • 2004 Research assistant in the translation Project Talmud Yerushalmi (eds. M. Hengel, P. Schäfer, H.-J. Becker, G. Hüttenmeister, F. Avemarie)
  • 28.6.2004 Full Professor for Judaic Studies in Mainz
  • 07/2005 - 02/2007 Speaker of the Arbeitskreises Jüdische Studien at the Johannes Gutenberg-University
  • 2007-2016 - Member of the ExCom German Association of Jewish Studies. ExCom EAJS Oxford
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Fields of Research

  • Haskala
  • Jewish Prayer
  • Jewish Writings from the Hellenistic-roman Period
  • Minhagim
  • Rabbinic Literature (Talmud and Midrasch)
  • Samaritans
  • Hebrew and Aramaic binding fragments
  • Jewish Epigraphy
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Research Projects

  • The Old Jewish Library at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität – (financed by Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Weiterbildung, Forschung und Kultur Rheinland-Pfalz, Landesbausparkasse Rheinland-Pfalz, Freunde der Universität Mainz e. V., Landesverband der Jüdischen Gemeinden Rheinland-Pfalz, IAK Jüdische Studien an der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität)
  • Le-Haman, A Frankfurt Purim-Spiel. Edition, Commentary and Analysis (subsidized by the Forschungsfond at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz and the Fritz Thyssen-Stiftung Köln) (mehr) (accomplished)
  • Hebrew and Aramaic Binding fragments in Trier and Mainz (Historisch-kulturwissenschaftliche Forschungszentrum Mainz – Trier)
  • "Genizat Germania" – Hebrew and Aramaic Binding fragments in German Archives and Libraries (subsidized by the German Research Council)
  • Collaboration with the Translation project „Übersetzung des Talmud Yerushalmi“, ed. by Peter Schäfer, Martin Hengel, Friedrich Avemarie, Hans-Jürgen Becker, Frowald Gil Hüttenmeister.
  • Collaboration with DFG-Projekt: Erstellung eines wissenschaftlichen feministischen Kommentars zu der Ordnung Mo’ed („Festzeiten“) des Babylonischen Talmud
  • Newly discoverd Jewish tombstones on the Mainzer "Judensand" (Projektkooperation with the Salomon Ludwig-Steinheim Institut)
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Memberships

  • Association for Jewish Studies
  • European Association for Jewish Studies
  • Société des Études Samaritaines
  • Studium in Israel (Shalav)
  • Verband der Judaisten in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland e.V.
  • World Union of Jewish Studies
  • Gesellschaft zur Erforschung der Geschichte der Juden e.V.
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Publications (Selection)

Complete publication list

  • The Anti-Samaritan Attitude as Reflected in Rabbinic Midrashim, in: Religions 2021,12(8),
    Religions | Free Full-Text | (mdpi.com)
  • (Hrsg.), European Genizah. Newly Discovered Hebrew Binding Fragments in Context. European Genizah Texts and Studies 5, Leiden, Boston 2020.
  • Die Genisa der ehemaligen Synagoge Freudental. Eine Dokumentation, Freudentaler Blätter 11, Freudental 2019.
  • From Bobowa to Magenza to Jerusalem, The Biography of Avraham Shlomo Stub – between Hasidism and Zionism, in: Scripta Judaica Cracoviensia 13 (2015), pp. 67–80.
  • Ein Einbandfragment des halachischen Midrasch Sifra in der Staats- und Landesbibliothek Dresden, in: Judaica. Beiträge zum Verstehen des Judentums 72 (2016), pp. 129–139.
  • Genisa – Die materielle Kultur des deutschen Judentums im Spiegel neu entdeckter synagogaler Ablageräume, in: Nathanael Riemer (ed.), Einführungen in die materiellen Kulturen des Judentums, Jüdische Kultur 31, Wiesbaden 2016, pp. 173–202.
  • The Binding Fragments of Midrash Tanhuma (Buber) from the Municipal Library of Trier, in: Isaac Kalimi (ed.), Bridging between Sister Religions. Studies of Jewish and Christian Scriptures Offered in Honor of Prof. John T. Townsend, The Brill Reference Library of Judaism 51, Leiden, Boston 2016, pp. 217–238.
  • (collab. with Simcha Emanuel), מעין ספר המקצועות למסכת בבא מציעא - שריד חדש מגניזת אירופה, in: Ginze Qedem 13 (2017), pp. 25–38; English Summary p. 118*.
  • Midrash Bereshit Rabbah in Christian Bindings: A Newly Discovered Medieval Ashkenazic Manuscript Fragment from Jena, in: Klaas Spronk / Eveline Staalduine-Sulman (ed.), Hebrew Texts in Jewish, Christian and Muslim Surroundings, Studia Semitica Neerlandica 69, Leiden, Boston 2018, pp. 170–187.

 

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