Renate Smithuis, Ph.D.
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Lehrstuhl Bibel und Jüdische Bibelauslegung
Anschrift:
Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg
Landfriedstraße 12
D-69117 Heidelberg
Tel.: (+49) (0) 6221 / 54-192-34
E-Mail: renate.smithuis@hfjs.eu
Web: hfjs.academia.edu/RenateSmithuis
Raum A2.10 (Altbau, 2. Stock)
Berufliche Tätigkeiten
- Seit 12/2018: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Lehrstuhl für Bibel und Jüdische Bibelauslegung bei Corpus Masoreticum: Die Inkulturation der Masora in die jüdische Gelehrsamkeit Westeuropas im 11. bis 13. Jahrhundert. Digitale Erschließung einer vergessenen Wissenskultur (Langzeitvorhaben)
- 4/2015 – 9/2018: Principal Investigator for the “Catalogue of Codices, Scrolls and Other Texts in Hebrew Script at the [John Rylands] University Library Manchester” project
- 9/2009 – 9/2018: Lecturer in medieval Jewish Studies, The University of Manchester;
- 10/2006 – 8/2009: Research Associate AHRC Rylands Cairo Genizah Project, The University of Manchester
- 10/2003 – 9/2006: Assistant Librarian, Genizah Project, The John Rylands University Library of Manchester, The University of Manchester
Akademischer Werdegang
- 2000 – 2004: PhD „Abraham ibn Ezra the Astrologer and the Transmission of Arabic Science to the Christian West“ bei Professor Philip S. Alexander, The University of Manchester
- 1991 – 1997: BA/MA „Old Style“ Semitic Languages and Cultures (Arabic), Universiteit van Amsterdam
- 1990 – 1996: BA/MA „Old Style“ Semitic Languages and Cultures (Hebrew/Aramaic), Universiteit van Amsterdam
Publikationen
In Vorbereitung
- R. Smithuis, L. McGuinness, D. Juste, Abulafia’s Secrets of the Torah: Flavius Mithridates’ Latin Translation, the Hebrew Text, and an English Version (Turin: Nino Aragno Editore).
Herausgeberschaften
- G. J. Brooke and R. Smithuis (eds.), Jewish Education from Antiquity to the Middle Ages: Studies in Honour of Philip Alexander, Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity series 100 (Leiden: Brill, 2017).
- R. Smithuis and P.S. Alexander (eds.), From Cairo to Manchester: Studies in the Rylands Genizah Fragments, Journal for Semitic Studies Supplement 31 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).
Wissenschaftliche Beiträge
- R. Smithuis, “Preaching to his Daughter: Jacob Anatoli’s Goad for Students (Malmad ha-talmidim),” in Brooke and Smithuis (2017), 341–97.
- R. Smithuis, “Short Introduction to the Rylands Genizah Collection,” in Smithuis and Alexander (2013), 1–32.
- P.S. Alexander and R. Smithuis, “Notes on Artefactual Aspects of the Rylands Genizah,” in Smithuis and Alexander (2013), 33–59.
- R. Smithuis and P.S. Alexander, “Targum Manuscripts in the Rylands Genizah,” in Smithuis and Alexander (2013), 61–99.
- E. Lev and R. Smithuis, “A Preliminary Catalogue of the Medical and Para-Medical Manuscripts in the Rylands Genizah Collection, Together with the Partial Edition of Two Medical Fragments (B 3229 and A 589),” in Smithuis and Alexander (2013), 157–96.
- G. Bohak and R. Smithuis, “Four Amulets and an Exorcism from the Rylands Genizah Collection,” in Smithuis and Alexander (2013), 213–32.
- S. Sela and R. Smithuis, “Two Hebrew Fragments from Hitherto Unknown Redactions of Sefer ha-Mivharim and Sefer ha-Še’elot,” Aleph 9.2 (2009): 225–40.
- R. Smithuis, “Abraham Ibn Ezra’s Astrological Works in Hebrew and Latin: New Discoveries and Exhaustive Listing,” Aleph 6 (2006): 239–338.
- R. Smithuis, “Science in Normandy and England under the Angevins: The Creation of Abraham Ibn Ezra’s Latin Works on Astronomy and Astrology,” in G. Busi (ed.), Hebrew to Latin – Latin to Hebrew: The Mirroring of two Cultures in the Age of Humanism, Berlin/Torino: Nino Aragno Editore, 2006, 23–57.
Online-Publikationen
- Online image collection and catalogue of the c. 15,000 Rylands Genizah fragments (c. 26,000 images online, most of the work done 2005–2009): http://enriqueta.man.ac.uk/luna/servlet/ManchesterDev~95~2.
Bearbeitete Zeitschriften
- K. Stuerzenhofecker and R. Smithuis (eds.), Judaism and Gender Studies – Melilah: Manchester Journal of Jewish Studies 13 (forthcoming 2019).
- Editorial committee incl. R. Smithuis, Journal of Semitic Studies seit 57:1 (2012)
- D.R. Langton and R. Smithuis (eds.), Melilah: Manchester Journal of Jewish Studies 7-10 (2010–2013).
- B. Jackson, D.R. Langton, E. Nissan and R. Smithuis (eds.), Melilah: Manchester Journal of Jewish Studies 6 (2009).
Forschungsinteressen
- Mittelalterliche und frühmoderne jüdische Bibelauslegung, Philosophie, Kabbalah und Wissenschaften
- Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters und der Renaissance
- Vermittlung des Lernens (Hebräisch, Arabisch, Latein)
- Jüdische Manuskripte
- Cairo Genizah
Letzte Änderung:
24.06.2020

