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Legal Procedures in the New Testament in Light of Jewish and Roman Law: Between Jurisprudence and Theology
Sept. 30, 2025
Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg invites applications for scholarships to attend the Wittenberg Center on “Legal Procedures in the New Testament in Light of Jewish and Roman Law: Between Jurisprudence and Theology” taking place from 26-28th of January 2026.
Deadline for applications: 15 October 2025
Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg invites applications for scholarships to attend the Wittenberg Center on “Legal Procedures in the New Testament in Light of Jewish and Roman Law: Between Jurisprudence and Theology” taking place from 26-28th of January 2026. These scholarships are intended for advanced Bachelor’s and Master’s students as well as early-stage PhD candidates. The scholarships cover the accommodation, meals, and a partial subsidy for travel expenses.
The Seminar is jointly organized by the universities of Halle-Wittenberg, Jerusalem, and Zurich (Annette Weissenrieder, Orit Malka, Ulrike Babusiaux, and Stefan Krauter). The seminar, conducted in an integrated interdisciplinary format by specialists in the New Testament, tannaitic law, and Roman law, will focus on the themes of legal procedure and communal structure.
Questions of legal procedure and political community structure will serve as case studies for exploring the broader interrelations among the corpora. Following an introduction to the relevant legal literatures, the seminar will proceed in the format of close reading and textual discussion of selected sources from the New Testament, rabbinic literature (with emphasis on the Mishnah and the Tosefta), the Jewish historian Josephus, and Roman law.
Through this comparative analysis, students will gain deeper insight into the legal traditions, more broadly, into how intertextual study can illuminate the complex relationships among the three corpora and their mutual influence within the shared cultural space of the Mediterranean.
The deadline for submissions is 15 October 2025. Please submit a short CV and a letter of motivation to:
Contact: Annette.Weissenrieder@theologie.uni-halle.de