The Collaborative Research Centre 1136 “Education and Religion in Cultures of the Mediterranean and Its Environment from Ancient to Medieval Times and to the Classical Islam” at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Germany), funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation), currently invites applications for 14 research positions (doctoral students and postdocs).
Detailed information HERE.
One of the position pertains to Coptic studies,
sub-project B 05: Scriptural Exegesis and Educational Traditions in Coptic-Speaking Egyptian Christianity in Late Antiquity: Shenoute, Canon 6
Doctoral Student (payscale: TV-L E 13, two-thirds of the regular working time)
The project examines the reception and the exegesis of the Bible in texts from Egypt’s cenobitic monasticism, with a focus on the works of the abbot Shenoute († 465). The aim of the study is fourfold: to explore, using digital tools and methods, the exegetical and rhetorical strategies of the abbot, in particular, the grammar and pragmatics of biblical quotations, to understand the relationship between author and recipients, to analyse their respective level of education and to trace the interaction between Christian, Ancient Egyptian and Classical/Hellenistic educational traditions in Shenoute`s exegetical practice.
The successful candidate for the research position should have
M.A. (or equivalent) in Coptic Studies, Theology/Biblical Studies/Religious Studies, Egyptology, Christian Oriental Studies, Classics or related fields
Very good knowledge of Coptic (good working knowledge of Ancient Greek highly desirable)
Familiarity with databases and online research and the willingness and ability to be trained in the use of a variety of Digital Humanities tools and methods
For further information please contact Prof. Dr. Heike Behlmer aegypten@uni-goettingen.de.
Alin Suciu 
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