Curriculum Vitae: Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra

 

● Current Position

2003-2006   Chargé de recherche, CNRS, Centre national de la recherche scientifique

                  Centre Paul-Albert Février (UMR 6125): Textes et documents de la Méditerranée antique et médiévale

 

● Higher Education

1998-2002   Ph.D., summa cum laude, Department of Comparative Religion,

                  Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel (HUJ).

                  Ph.D.-thesis: “The Impact of Yom Kippur on Early Christianity” (in English)

                  under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Guy G. Stroumsa.

1997-98      Intensive Talmud studies at the Shalom Hartman Center, Jerusalem.

1995-97      M.A. summa cum laude in Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University.

                  M.A.-thesis: “Yom Kippur in Earliest Christianity“ under the supervision of Prof. Guy G. Stroumsa.

1994-95     Rothberg-School for Overseas Students at the Hebrew University.

1992-94      B.A. in Protestant Theology at the University of Bern, Switzerland.

1991-92      B.A. in Protestant Theology at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany.

 

● Languages

Mother tongue:              German.

Modern languages:        Modern Hebrew, English, French, basic Italian and Arabic.

Ancient languages:        Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, Latin, Syriac, Armenian.

● Academic Employment

2003-2006   Mandel-fellow at SCHOLION, Center for Interdisciplinary Jewish Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

2005           Invited visiting lecturer at the University of Zürich (CH), faculty of theology, department of comparative religion.

2003           Visiting lecturer at the Institute for Jewish Studies, HUJ, certificate for Prayer.

2002-2003   Golda-Meir post-doctoral fellow, Department for the History of the Jewish People, HUJ.

2002           Preceptor of “Introduction to the New Testament and Christian Origins”

with Prof. John Gager, Department of Religion, Princeton University.

2001-2002  Visiting research fellow (“post-doc”), Department of Religion, Princeton University.

1996-2001   Assistant in the Department of Comparative Religion, HUJ.

1996-2001   Research assistant in various projects at Hebrew University. Translations from English and Hebrew to German.

1993-94      Tutor for freshmen students of Protestant Theology, University of Bern, Switzerland.

1993-94      Research assistant for the book “JHWH – ein Gott allein?”, Swiss Academy of Humanities (SAGW), Bern.

1992           Tutor for Ancient Greek, Faculty of Protestant Theology, Ruhr-Universität Bochum.

 

● Awards, Scholarships and Fellowships

2005           Invited visiting lecturer at the University of Zürich (CH).

2003-2006   Mandel Fellow, Scholion, Center for Interdisciplinary Jewish Studies, HUJ.

2002-2003   Golda Meir Post-doctoral Fellowship, HUJ.

2002           Shlomo-Pines Award, awarded by the Shlomo-Pines foundation.

2002           Kennedy-Leigh Prize, awarded by the Hebrew University for an outstanding Ph.D. thesis.

2001-2002   Rothschild Post-doc Fellowship.

1999-2001   Minerva Ph.D. Fellowship.

1999           Sir Sigmund Sternberg Prize, Jerusalem; awarded for the M.A. thesis.

1998-99     Ph.D. scholarship by the Dr. Nelly Hahne foundation, Germany.

1998          Minerva Award for the article “Yom Kippur in the Apocalyptic Imaginaire.”

 

● Additional Education after School

1990     Exam for Organ-Playing in Churches, level C.

1991     Three-months intensive course in French, Alliance Française and Accord, Paris.

1991     Two-months intensive course in Biblical Hebrew, University of Frankfurt.

1994     One-month intensive course in Modern Hebrew (level B), University of Heidelberg.

            Two-months intensive course in Modern Hebrew (level D), Hebrew University.

2002     “Professor 101,” Princeton University.

            One-month intensive course in spoken Arabic (intermediate level),

University of Bethlehem, French Cultural Institute, Jerusalem.

 

 

● Additional Employment and Social Activities

1989-1990      Civil Service: Technical assistant in the operation theatre, Jerusalem-Hospital, Hamburg, Germany.

1991-1992            Member of the student committee (“Fachschaftsrat”) at the faculty of theology at Bochum University

and delegate of the faculty at the national student committee of theology students in Germany (FAT).

1992-1994      Assistant in the “Drogen-Notschlafstelle Bern,“ a hostel for people addicted to drugs.

1996-2001            Care for a mentally ill man in Jerusalem.

1998-2001     Technical assistant for the interdisciplinary graduate seminar of

Rothenstreich Ph.D. fellows at the faculty of humanities, Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

 

 

● Hobbies

Piano, choir singing, traveling, chess.