Event archive
The Abraham Berliner Center bundles research projects on the Hebrew Bible, Semitic languages, Jewish exegesis, Targum and Masora at the Heidelberg University of Jewish Studies. The annual Abraham Berliner Lectures are dedicated to these fields of research, either by strengthening our existing projects and expanding them with new insights, or by focusing on topics that are not yet in the spotlight. The lectures are often supplemented by workshops to bring our students and doctoral candidates into discussion with the latest international research approaches and personalities.
Abraham Berliner Lecture 2023
Prof. Dr. Meira Polliack (Tel Aviv University)
Lecture "A Medieval Foray into the Moral Development of Biblical Characters"
Abraham Berliner Lecture 2022
Daniel Stökl ben Ezra, PhD (École pratique des hautes études, Paris)
Lecture "AI-כ "י: Artificial "intelligence" and Hebrew manuscripts"
Abraham Berliner Lecture 2019
Abraham Berliner Lecture 2018
Prof. Dr. Ronny Vollandt (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich)
Lecture "'A translation in our language that the community understands': From the Targum to the Arabic versions of the Hebrew Bible"
Abraham Berliner Lecture 2017
Prof. Dr. Alberdina Houtman (Protestant Theological University Amsterdam)
Lecture "Your Eyes will see the Presence of the Lord in the Sanctuary: Temple Theology in Targum Isaiah"
Abraham Berliner Lecture 2016
Prof. Dr. Stefan Schorch (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)
Workshop "The Samaritan Torah in the context of Jewish literary culture of the 2nd century BCE"
Lecture "Samaritan-Hebrew manuscript culture and Samaritan Torah reading"
Yom ha-Atzma'ut Reception
Inaugural Ceremony: Abraham Berliner Lecture 2015
Prof. Dr. Hanna Liss, Opening Lecture: "Abraham Berliner and his position in the context of the science of Judaism"
Prof. Dr. Johannes Heil (HfJS), Ceremonial Greeting
Prof. Dr. Gerrit Kloss (University Heidelberg), Ceremonial Greeting
Prof. Dr. Guiseppe Veltri (University Hamburg, Association of Jewish Studies), Ceremonial Greeting
Prof. Dr. Jordan Penkower (Bar Ilan University), Keynote "The Oldest Complete Torah Scroll form the 12th - 13th Century"