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CURRICULUM VITAE
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Joseph Witztum
Date of birth: 01.01.1976
Permanent address: 4 Ein Zurim, Apt. 4, Jerusalem.
Tel: 02-5719377 (home), 02-5883743 (work).
E-mail address: [email protected].
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Higher Education and Academic Appointments
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1994-1996
Yeshivat Sha'alavim.
1998-2000
Yeshivat Sha'alavim, Yeshivat Har Etzion.
(Study of rabbinic texts in Hebrew and Aramaic).
2000-2003
BA summa cum laude in Arabic Language and Literature and General
Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2003-2005
MA summa cum laude in Arabic Language and Literature, Hebrew
University of Jerusalem. MA thesis (The Word muḥṣ ināt in the
Qur’ān and its Exegesis) under the supervision of Etan Kohlberg and
Meir Bar-Asher.
2005-2011
PhD in Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University.
2010/2011
Research assistant to Patricia Crone, Institute of Advanced Studies,
Princeton.
September 2011 PhD granted. Title of dissertation: The Syriac Milieu of the Quran:
The Recasting of Biblical Narratives. Advisor: Michael Cook.
August 2011- September 2012. Post-Doctoral fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt
Stiftung. Advisor: Angelika Neuwirth. Hosted by the Corpus
Coranicum in Potsdam and affiliated with the research project based in
Berlin, Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe.
October 2012- June 2014. Mandel scholar at Scholion, The Hebrew University.
2014
Member of the Young Scholars Forum at the Israel Academy of
Sciences and Humanities.
Since 2014-- Lecturer, department of Arabic Language and Literature, Hebrew
University.
Since 2014-- Member of the editorial board of Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam.
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Academic Conferences Convened
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2012 Workshop convened together with Samer Rashwani and Mehrdad Abbasi.
Religious Narratives at the Crossroads of Scripture, Tradition and Culture:
Reflections on the Jonah Story, Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East in
Europe, Berlin, July 5-6, 2012.
2014 International Seminar convened together with Aaron Butts and Kristian Heal.
“A Fruitful Bough”: Joseph traditions in and outside the Bible”. Hebrew University,
January 14, 2014.
Awards and Prizes
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2002-2003 Dean’s list, Hebrew University.
2002-2003 Dean’s list, Hebrew University.
2003-2004 Rector’s prize for excellence in a MA, Hebrew University.
2004-2005 Rector’s prize for excellence in a MA, Hebrew University.
2007 Gorgias Press book grant.
2009-2010 Center for the Study of Religion Graduate Student Research Awards,
Princeton University.
2009-2010 Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation Fellowship in the Humanities, Princeton
University.
2011 Bayard and Cleveland Dodge Memorial Prize for PhD Dissertation.
2013 Shlomo Pines prize.
Lectures in Conferences
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Witztum, Joseph. “Chaste women in the Quran: an examination of Q 4:24”. Society
of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, San Diego, November 2007.
Witztum, Joseph. “Syriac traditions and Quranic re-castings of Biblical narratives”.
X Symposium Syriacum, Granada, September 2008.
Witztum, Joseph. “A re-examination of Surat Yūsuf (Q 12)”. The Qur’ān in its
Historical Context, University of Notre Dame, April 21, 2009.
Witztum, Joseph. “Surat Yūsuf and the Syriac tradition”. The Qur’ān in relation to
the religious traditions of the Near East in late antiquity, Institute of Advanced
Studies, Princeton, June 1-3, 2009.
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Witztum, Joseph. “Two passages from the Pentateuch in Ibn Isḥāq”. From Jahiliyya
to Islam, Hebrew University, July 5-10, 2009.
Witztum, Joseph. “Thrice upon a time: Intra-Quranic parallels in light of Biblical
narratives and Syriac homilies”. Berliner Seminar, Berlin, May 2, 2012.
Witztum, Joseph. “Variant traditions, relative chronology and the study of intraQurʾānic parallels”. From Jahiliyya to Islam, Hebrew University, June 25, 2012.
Witztum, Joseph. “The recasting of the Jonah story in Pirke De-Rabbi Eliezer”.
Religious Narratives at the Crossroads of Scripture, Tradition and Culture:
Reflections on the Jonah Story, Berlin, July 5, 2012.
Witztum, Joseph. “Anti-Jewish polemic in the Quran: Some observations”. Return to
the Origins: The Quran’s Reformation of Judaism and Christianity, University of
Nottingham, January 20, 2013.
Witztum, Joseph. “Genesis Rabba and the quest for the Jewish sources of the
Quran”. Genesis Rabbah: Text and Contexts, Princeton University, March 4, 2013.
Witztum, Joseph. “'Thou shalt not see Me': Moses' encounters with God in the
Quran”. Islam and its Past: Jahiliyya and Late Antiquity in the Qur'an and Tradition A one day conference honoring the scholarship of Professor Patricia Crone, UCLA,
October 28, 2013.
Witztum, Joseph. “Joseph in the Quran and Later Arabic Retellings”. “A Fruitful
Bough”: Joseph traditions in and outside the Bible”. Hebrew University, January 14,
2014.
Witztum, Joseph. “Anti-Jewish Polemics in the Quran”. A lecture in honor of
Michael Lecker’s Muhammad and the Jews. Ben Zvi Institute, March 13, 2014.
Witztum, Joseph. “The Study of Intra-Quranic Parallels: A Few Examples”. Writing
and Textuality in Jewish and Christian Antiquity. Humboldt University, August 26,
2014.
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Academic Teaching
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“Midrash between Judaism and Islam”, Hebrew University, first semester
2012-13.
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“The Quran in light of post-Biblical traditions: The Joseph narrative”, Hebrew
University, second semester 2013.
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“The vision of God in Islamic sources”, Hebrew University, first semester
2013-14.
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“Midrash in Syriac Literature”, Hebrew University, second semester 2014.
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“Guide Course in Quranic Exegesis”, Hebrew University, 2014-15.
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“Quran with the Commentary of al-Jalalayn”, Hebrew University, 2014-15.
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“Textual Variants of the Quran”, Hebrew University, 2014-15.
Languages
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Hebrew, English, Classical Arabic, Syriac, German, French.
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
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Witztum, Joseph. The Syriac Milieu of the Quran: The Recasting of Biblical
Narratives. Advisor: Michael Cook. September 2011 (doctoral dissertation).
Witztum, Joseph. “This one fulfilled what is written in that one”. Netuim 6 (2000):
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59-72 [in Hebrew].
Witztum, Joseph. “Q[uran] 4:24 revisited”. Islamic Law and Society 16 (2009): 1-33.
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Witztum, Joseph. “The foundations of the house (Q[uran] 2:127)”. Bulletin of the
School of Oriental and African Studies 72 (2009): 25-40.
Witztum, Joseph. Review of Gabriel Said Reynolds (ed.), The Qur’ān in Its
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Historical Context (London, 2008), Journal of the American Oriental Society 129
(2009): 325-29.
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Witztum, Joseph. “Joseph among the Ishmaelites: Q[uran] 12 in light of Syriac
sources”. In G. S. Reynolds (ed.), New Perspectives on the Qur’ān (London:
Routledge, 2011), 425-48.
Witztum, Joseph. “Ibn Isḥāq and the Pentateuch in Arabic,” Jerusalem Studies in
Arabic and Islam 40 (2013): 1-71.
Witztum, Joseph. “Variant traditions, relative chronology, and the study of intraQuranic parallels,” in: Islamic Cultures, Islamic Contexts (ed. B. Sadeghi et al.,
Leiden: Brill, 2014; forthcoming).
Witztum, Joseph. “Thrice upon a Time: Abraham’s Guests and the Study of IntraQuranic Parallels”, in the proceedings of the conference Return to the Origins: The
Quran’s Reformation of Judaism and Christianity, ed. H. Zellentin (submitted).
Witztum, Joseph. “The Quran and its Critical Study,” in preparation for M. BarAsher and M. Hatina (eds.), An Introduction to the Religion of Islam [in Hebrew].
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