Dr. Sabine Arndt
Book (edited):
Crossing Borders: Hebrew Manuscripts as a Meeting-place of Cultures (Oxford, 2009) [with P. van Boxel], 134 pp.
Monograph in preparation:
Judah ha-Cohen and the Emperor’s philosopher: Dynamics of Transmission at Cultural Crossroads (Oxford, 2025)
Articles:
‘The Handling of Diagrams in Medieval Scientific Manuscript Transmission: The Sefer ha-marʾim le-Eqlides and its First Proposition’, in E. Baumgarten et al. (ed.), Perception and Awareness: Artefacts and Imageries in Medieval European Jewish Cultures (Turnhout, 2024).
‘Science as a Meeting-place of Cultures: The Court of Emperor Frederick II and Judah ben Solomon ha-Kohen’s Midrash ha-Hokhmah’, in P. van Boxel and S. Arndt (ed.), Crossing Borders: Hebrew Manuscripts as a Meeting-place of Cultures (Oxford, 2009), 85-98.
‘A Pious Ode ‘To Joy’’, in Studia Rosenthaliana 38/39 (2006), 266-267.
Review:
Backhaus, F. (ed.), ‘Die Frankfurter Judengasse. Jüdisches Leben in der frühen Neuzeit’, in Forschung Frankfurt 4/2006, 94 [in German].
‘Between Translation and Commentary: the Function of Old French in Medieval Hebrew Bible Glossaries’, Les textes allographes français et italiens au moyen âge, Heidelberg, Germany, 2024.
‘Lost in Translation: The Arabic, Latin, and Hebrew Versions of Pseudo-Euclid's Book of Mirrors’, Leeds International Medieval Congress, Leeds, UK, 2023.
‘Copying Mistakes or Mistaken Copyists: On the Interplay Between Text and Diagrams in the Sefer ha-Mar’im’, Leeds International Medieval Congress, Leeds, UK, 2022.
‘The Transmission of Texts and Diagrams in Sefer ha-Mar’im’, Digital Workshop Hebrew Mathematics: New Perspectives for Editions and Terminological Research, Hamburg, Germany, 2021.
‘'The Diagrams were Incomplete and I did not Want to Copy Them ...’: Mathematical Optics in Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts’, Conference Visual and Material in Medieval and Early Modern Jewish Culture, Münster, Germany, 2017.
‘Mathematics in an Intercultural Exchange: The Correspondence Between Judah ben Solomon ha-Cohen and the Emperor’s Philosopher’, Conference The Medieval Mediterranean: Cultural, Religious and Economic Exchanges, Leeds, UK, 2017.
‘Science and Scientists at Cultural Crossroads: The Midrash ha-Hokhmah of Judah ben Solomon ha-Cohen’. Symposium The Medieval Hebrew Manuscript Today, New York City, USA, 2013.
‘The Oldest Hebrew Encyclopaedia of Science and its (Missing) Diagrams’. Workshop Medieval Manuscripts: Visual Layout and Cognitive Content in Cross-Cultural Perspective, Budapest, Hungary, 2012.
‘Science as a Meeting-Place of Cultures’, Lecture Series 'Crossing Borders', Oxford, UK, 2010.
Curriculum Vitae
| Education | |
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| 08/2016 | University of Oxford. Doctor of Philosophy in Oriental Studies Thesis title: Judah ha-Cohen and the Emperor’s philosopher: Dynamics of Transmission at Cultural Crossroads |
| 10/2005 | University of Amsterdam. Master of Arts in Semitic Languages and Cultures (specialisation Hebrew, Aramaic and Jewish Studies; minor subjects: Arabic language and literature; Jewish philosophy) |
Employments
| Employments | |
|---|---|
| 03/2023 – present | Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Postdoctoral research fellow in the project Bible Glossaries as Hidden Cultural Carriers |
| 05/2016 – 03/2023 | Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster |
| Since 10/2018 | Course co-ordinator, postdoctoral research and teaching fellow at the Institute for Jewish Studies |
| 05/2016 – 09/2018 | Postdoctoral research fellow in the project The Visual in the Medieval Jewish World |
| 12/2009 – 09/2014 | Bodleian Libraries, Oxford. Project manager of the Genizah Digitization Project |
| 03/2009 – 11/2009 | Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. Co-curator of the exhibition Crossing Borders: Hebrew Manuscripts as a Meeting-place of Cultures at the Bodleian Libraries |
| 10/2007 – 01/2009 | Justus Liebig University, Gießen. Lecturer at the Institute for Protestant Theology (subject: Judaism in Late Antiquity) |
| 11/2005 – 12/2008 | Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main. Research assistant in the research group Knowledge Culture and Social Change |
| 10/2004 – 09/2005 | Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana, Amsterdam. Cataloguer of early Hebrew printed books |
| Honours and Awards | |
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| 01/2011 | AHRC Doctoral Studentship awarded by the British Arts & Humanities Research Counsel |
| 01/2011 | Scatcherd European Scholarship awarded by the University of Oxford |
| 01/2006 | Scriptieprijs (=dissertation award) awarded by the foundation ‘Friends of the Juda Palache Institute’ |
| Professional Memberships |
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| Association for Jewish Studies |
| European Association for Jewish Studies |