Holger Michael Zellentin (born January 17, 1976)
His work focuses on late Ancient Near and Middle East religions, the Quran in its historical context, Hellenistic Judaism and anthropology of ancient religion.
Biography
Early life and education
Zellentin received his Diplôme des Études Universitaires Générales from the University of Strasbourg in 1998, a Doctoraal degree (BA cum MA) from the University of Amsterdam in 2001, Master of Arts in religions of late antiquity from the Department of Religion and Department of Classics at Princeton University in 2004 and a Ph.D. from the Department of Religion at Princeton University in 2007.
Career
Zellentin has previously taught at the University of Cambridge, the University of Nottingham, the Graduate Theological Union, the University of California, Berkeley, and Rutgers University.
Since 2019 he has been Professor of Religious Studies with a special focus on Judaic Studies at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen.
Zellentin served as a Board Member of the British Association for Jewish Studies for five years.
Selected works
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[Reviews of Rabbinic Parodies of Jewish and Christian Literature:
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Loren R. Spielman, Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations 9 (2014)
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[Reviews of The Qur'ān's legal culture. The Didascalia Apostolorum as a point of departure:
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Lev Weitz, Review of Quranic Research, vol. 1 no. 5, 2015
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Stephen Shomaker, Journal of Early Christian Studies 24 (2016): 134-135.
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[Reviews of Law Beyond Israel: From the Bible to the Qur'an:
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Papadopulos, N. (2023). Holger M. Zellentin, Law Beyond Israel: From the Bible to the Qur’an. Theology, 126(3), 225-226.
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