Dr. G. Wilhelm Nebe

Curriculum Vitae

• Grown up in Dortmund.
• Protestant theology, Greek and philosophy in Bethel, Heidelberg and Münster.
• First theological examination.
• 1968-1972 Research fellow at the Qumran-project at the University of Heidelberg (Prof. Dr. Dr. Karl Georg Kuhn).
• Languages of the Orient at the University of Heidelberg.
• 1972-1975 Scholarshipholder of the Studentenwerk Villigst.
• 1972-2014 Free scientific collaborator of Klaus Beyer.
• 1991 PhD-equivalent at the University of Heidelberg.
• 1993 statement of equivalent habilitation.

Teaching

• 1993-1995 substitution of the chair of Jewish Studies (C3) at the Gerhard-Mercator-University Duisburg (equivalent of habilitation had been stated).
• 1993-2020 teaching fellow for Semitic Studies at the University of Heidelberg.
• 1999-2013 in addition teaching fellow for Hebrew linguistics at the College of Jewish Studies Heidelberg (Hochschule für Jüdische Studien "Hebräische Sprachwissenschaft").
• 2016-2021 teaching Aramaic linguistics and "(Jewish) Targum Aramaic" at the University of Salzburg ("Syriac Theology").
  

Main research area

Canaanite and Aramaic language and culture, history and literature of the Jewish people throughout antiquity, Hebrew and Aramaic epigraphy and linguistics, the dead sea scrolls and the manuscripts of the Cairo Geniza.