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Gabriele Fassbeck, who taught a course (REL
112) in the Department during the Spring 2003 semester,
joined the Department full-time as a Visiting Assistant Professor,
for the 2003-4 school year. Her appointment, which was been
renewed
for 2004-5, is made possible by the Department's Aaron Aronov
Endowment. In the Fall of 2005, she returned, with her family,
to pursue her career in Germany.
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She is a native of the thriving (formerly Roman) city of
Cologne, Germany, who always wanted to become an archaeologist.
However, in 1996 she earned her Ph.D. in New Testament studies
from the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
for a dissertation entitled "Der Tempel der Christen: Traditionsgeschichtliche
Untersuchungen zur Aufnahme des Tempelkonzepts im frühen
Christentum". She specialized in Judaic Studies, History and
Protestant Theology at the universities of Cologne, Marburg,
Bonn and Heidelberg and completed her pastoral training with
the Evangelische Kirche im Rheinland and the Evangelische
Kirche in Berlin-Brandenburg. During her graduate studies
at Heidelberg University, she taught classes in the field
of New Testament and at the Justus-Liebig-Universität
Giessen she worked as an assistant to the chair of Old
Testament and Biblical Archaeology (Prof. Dr. Volkmar Fritz),
teaching classes in Biblical Hebrew, Second Temple literature
and the archaeology of Palestine. Her position in Giessen
involved participation in archaeological field work at Tel
Kinrot (Tell el-Oreme) / Galilee as a member of staff.
Dr. Fassbeck is a member of the Society
of Biblical Literature and the Deutscher
Palästina-Verein. She is also member of the board
of editors of Zeitschrift
für Neues Testament.
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Dr. Fassbeck's current research interests cover the area
of ancient Judaism and early Christianity with special emphasis
on the history and theology of the Jerusalem temple, domestic
religion, non-canonical writings and NT-period archaeology.
She participates in the interdisciplinary research project
Neues
Testament und antike Kultur which is in the process of
publishing a four volume textbook for students of the New
Testaments, drawing upon scholarly work in the fields of New
Testament and Judaic studies, history, anthropology and sociology.
As a Visiting Assistant Professor, she has been invited to
teach REL 112 (Introduction
to the New Testament) and an upper-level seminar in her
area of expertise (REL
372), and REL
346 (The Bible and Archaeology).
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Recent Publications and Current Research
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Curriculum
Vitae (PDF)
Recent Publications
(PDF)
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The research project for Dr. Fassbeck's time as Visiting
Assistant Professor at UA is dedicated to the topic of "private
religion in ancient Judaism". She plans to combine textual
and archaeological sources to develop a comprehensive picture
of everyday religious practice in the Greco-Roman period of
Palestine.
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