Chair of the Old Testament and Semitic Studies

Ülikooli 18 - 309
50090 Tartu linn,
Tartu linn, Tartumaa
EST
Urmas Nõmmik
Urmas Nõmmik
Professor of Old Testament and Semitic Studies
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Ülikooli 18-309

Research interests:

  • form history of the Ancient Hebrew and West Semitic literature (wisdom, psalms, prophetic literature, narratives),
  • history of traditions and religion of Ancient Israel in the first and second temple periods,
  • exegesis, hermeneutics and theology of the Old Testament / Hebrew Bible,
  • literary, form and reception history of the Book of Job.

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Amar Annus
Amar Annus
Associate Professor of Near Eastern Religions
PhD
Ülikooli 18-309

Research interests:

  • Semitic philology,
  • folkloristics,
  • the comparative study of ancient narratives,
  • the ideological and cultural aspects of ancient Near Eastern societies, 
  • anthropology,
  • evolutionary psychology,
  • cognitive science of religion, which approaches he aspires to apply alongside with traditional philology in the study of historical texts,
  • cognitive historiography.

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Anu Põldsam
Anu Põldsam
Lecturer in Jewish Studies
PhD (Theology)
Ülikooli 18-309

Research interests:

  • history of Jewish ideas and identity and Jewish ethics,
  • religion in modern-day Israel,
  • history of Jewish ideas in 19th century,
  • religious and cultural life of the Estonian Jewish community in the first half of the 20th century,
  • reception history of the biblical book of Job in early rabbinic literature.

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Andreas Johandi
Andreas Johandi
Research Fellow in Near Eastern Religions
PhD (Religious Studies)
Ülikooli 18-309

Research interests:

  • religious history of the ancient Near Eastern region,
  • the early (pre-Hammurapi) Mesopotamian pantheon with a focus on the deities of magic and healing,
  • parallels between the Old Testament and the ancient Near Eastern literatures,
  • the religions and history of ancient and modern Iran. 

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Jason Van Boom
Jason Cronbach Van Boom
Visiting Research Fellow
MA (Philosophy)

Research interests:

  • Semiotics of Abrahamic religions, with a focus on Judaism and Eastern Orthodox Christianity;
  • modeling information dynamics within Jewish and other communities, considered as semiospheres; 
  • Semiotics of Jewish identity, especially in terms of individual agency navigating within and among semiospheres;
  • Juri Lotman and C.S. Peirce studies.
Sander Tulk
Sander Tulk
Junior Research Fellow in Theology
MA
Ülikooli 18-309A

Research interests:

  • exegesis, hermeneutics, and theology of the Old Testament / Hebrew Bible,
  • the development, form, and interpretation history of the Books of Jonah and Joel,
  • the influence of linguistic and literary studies methods on reading Old Testament narratives.

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Kristin Klaus
Junior Research Fellow in Religious Studies 0.5 p
MA (Classical Philology)
Ülikooli 18-309A

Research interests:

  • classical philology (Ancient Greek and Latin),
  • the style and poetry of the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible (Septuagint),
  • Old Greek Job.
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