The William P. and Dewilda N. Harris German/Dartmouth Distinguished Visiting Professor
Rüdiger Schmitt, a specialist in the archaeology & religious history of ancient Israel, will join Dartmouth’s Religion Department in the Winter term 2010 as Harris German/Dartmouth Distinguished Visiting Professor. Rüdiger Schmitt has received a Master of Theology at Hamburg University (Germany) in 1990, and holds a Doctoral Degree in Theology from Groningen University (The Netherlands, 1994 ), as well as a Habilitation Degree from Münster University (Germany, 2004). Currently Rüdiger Schmitt is working as a research group leader in the Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics in Modern and Pre-Modern Cultures” at Münster University and as visiting Professor at the University of Bremen.
His publications include over 30 articles and dictionary entries and three books (Philistäische Terrakottafigurinen: Archäologische, ikonographische und religionsgeschichtliche Beobachtungen zu einer Sondergruppe palästinischer Kleinplastik der Eisenzeit, Groningen 1994; Bildhafte Herrschaftsrepräsentation im eisenzeitlichen Israel, AOAT 283, Münster 2001; Magie im Alten Testament, AOAT 313, Münster 2004.
He has recently completed a draft for a book on Family Religion in Ancient Israel (jointly with Rainer Albertz), which will be published by Eisenbrauns, and is currently working on a book on “Holy War” in the Old Testament and its history of reception.
Winter 2010
