Gabrielle Oberhänsli-Widmer

Gabrielle Oberhänsli -Widmer (born 16 June 1957 Menziken, Switzerland ) is Professor of Jewish Studies at the Albert- Ludwigs- University of Freiburg.

Life

After training as a primary school teacher Gabrielle Oberhänsli -Widmer taught at the School Kallern, at various high schools and at Literargymnasium Rämibühl in Zurich.

She studied French and Hebrew language and literature in Zurich, Florence, Avignon, Lausanne and Lucerne and graduated in 1984 with a master's in Zurich. In 1988, she holds a doctorate in Zurich. She then studied at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She worked as a lecturer in Hebrew, was a lecturer in medieval French literature and senior assistant general history of religion. Oberhänsli -Widmer was habilitated in 1996 in Zurich.

At the University of Zurich, she taught as Adjunct Professor of Jewish religious history. After a visiting professor at the Friedrich -Schiller- University of Jena in the area Jewish Studies from 1999 to 2000, and his activities in this field as a guest speaker at the University of Bern in 2003 and 2004, she was in 2004 at the Albert- Ludwigs- University of Freiburg Professor of Jewish Studies.

Gabrielle Oberhänsli -Widmer is on the editorial board for the journals Judaica and church and Israel. She also works on the board of Jewish-Christian Association in Canton Zurich with.

Writings (selection )

  • Moyen âge français et occitan La complainte funebre du haut. A. Francke, Bern 1989, ISBN 3-7720-1675-8 (dissertation).
  • Biblical Figures in the rabbinic literature. Parables and pictures of Adam, Noah and Abraham in the Midrash Bereshit Rabba ( = udaica et Christiana. Vol. 17). P. Lang, Bern 1998, ISBN 3-906759-66-0 ( habilitation thesis ).
  • Job in Jewish antiquity and modernity. The action story of Job in the Jewish literature. Neukirchener, Neukirchen 2003, ISBN 3-7887-1945-1.
  • Images from evil in Judaism: Inspired by the Hebrew Bible, further thought in Jewish literature. Neukirchener theology, Neukirchen, 2013, ISBN 978-3-7887-2671-3.
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