Chair of the Old Testament and Semitic Studies

Research interests:

• form history of the Ancient Hebrew and West Semitic literature (wisdom, psalms, prophetic literature, narratives),
• history of traditions and religion of Ancient Israel in the first and second temple periods,
• exegesis, hermeneutics and theology of the Old Testament / Hebrew Bible,
• literary, form and reception history of the Book of Job.

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Research interests:

• Semitic philology,
• folkloristics,
• the comparative study of ancient narratives,
• the ideological and cultural aspects of ancient Near Eastern societies, 
• anthropology,
• evolutionary psychology,
• cognitive science of religion, which approaches he aspires to apply alongside with traditional philology in the study of historical texts,
• cognitive historiography.

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Research interests:

• history of Jewish ideas and identity and Jewish ethics,
• religion in modern-day Israel,
• history of Jewish ideas in 19th century,
• religious and cultural life of the Estonian Jewish community in the first half of the 20th century,
• reception history of the biblical book of Job in early rabbinic literature.

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Research interests:

• religious history of the ancient Near Eastern region,
• the early (pre-Hammurapi) Mesopotamian pantheon with a focus on the deities of magic and healing,
• parallels between the Old Testament and the ancient Near Eastern literatures,
• the religions and history of ancient and modern Iran. 

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Research interests:

• Semiotics of Abrahamic religions, with a focus on Judaism and Eastern Orthodox Christianity;
• modeling information dynamics within Jewish and other communities, considered as semiospheres; 
• Semiotics of Jewish identity, especially in terms of individual agency navigating within and among semiospheres;
• Juri Lotman and C.S. Peirce studies.

Research interests:

• religion(s) of Roman Syria,
• the cult of the goddess Atargatis,
• ancient mythology.

Research interests:

• exegesis, hermeneutics, and theology of the Old Testament / Hebrew Bible,
• the development, form, and interpretation history of the Books of Jonah and Joel,
• the influence of linguistic and literary studies methods on reading Old Testament narratives.

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Research interests:

• classical philology (Ancient Greek and Latin),
• the style and poetry of the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible (Septuagint),
• Old Greek Job.