Profile
Abstract
Tilmann Gaitzsch studied Theology in Leipzig, Zurich, and Thessaloniki. Since 2020 he is working on his dissertation project on the medical history of the world of the Old Testament. The project is is supervised by prof. Angelika Berlejung. Simultaneously, he studied Archaeology at Tel Aviv University.
Since 2024, he is working as an assistant scholar at the chair for the history and religion of Israel and its environment.
Professional career
- 10/2015 - 09/2017
Teaching Assistant for Ancient Greek - 01/2016 - 09/2017
Research assistant for the project: Teaching Morality in Antiquity: Wisdom Texts, Oral Traditions, and Images - 09/2019 - 12/2022
Research assistant for the project: Between Materiality and Scribal Magic. West-Semitic Textual Amulets from the First Millenium BCE to the Rise of Islam - 09/2020 - 03/2021
Teaching Assistant for Old Testament Studies - since 09/2022
Research Assistant at the project: Reading the Holy Land
Education
- 10/2014 - 08/2020
Study of Theology at the universities of Leipzig, Thessaloniki, and Zürich - 10/2022 - 09/2023
International MA Ancient Israel Studies at Tel Aviv University - since 09/2022
PhD-Project in Old Testament Studies at Leipzig University and Bar-Ilan-University
- Languages and cultures of the Ancient Near East
- History of medicine and diseases
- Archaeology of the Southern Levant
- interplay between political and intellectual history
- Ancient Greek language and literature
- Ancient Hebrew language and literature
- Exegesis of the Old Testament
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Proseminar Old Testament
In the proseminar, the foundations for the historical-critical exegesis of the Texts of the Old Testament are taught. Additionale, there will be an introduction to other exegetical approaches. This way, the students will be able to produce an exegetical study of their own.