Dieter Vieweger

Dieter Vieweger, a German Biblical scholar and Prehistorian Archaeologist, was born in Chemnitz, East Germany in 1958.

Dieter Vieweger

He studied Theology (Old Testament Studies) and Prehistoric Archaeology in Leipzig and Frankfurt on Main. He then held a number of distinguished research and educational positions.

Career to date

Education

From 1976 to 1981, Vieweger studied Protestant theology at the University of Leipzig, where he received his doctorate (Dr. theol.) in 1985. From 1986 to 1989, he was parish priest at the St. Thomas Church, Leipzig, church of Johann Sebastian Bach's choir Thomanerchor, and in 1987, he received his ordination at the St. Thomas Church. In 1989, he received his habilitation (Dr. theol. habil.) at the University of Leipzig. From 1994 to 1998, he studied prehistoric archaeology at the University of Frankfurt, and received his doctorate (Dr. phil.) there in 1998.

Excavation projects

Since 2001 he has run the Gadara Region Project. This project has focused on the interdisciplinary investigation of the Wadi al-'Arab south-west of Gadara and the excavation of its most prominent site, Tall Zira'a. Since 2003, the more-than-5000-year-old fascinating history of Palestine has been excavated there.

Memberships

  • since 1992 confidant of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes;
  • 1992–2005 member of the council of the German Protestant Institute of the Exploration of the Holy Land;
  • since 2005 member of the board of trustees for the Zeitschrift für Orientarchäologie (former Baghdader Mitteilungen and Damaszener Mitteilungen) at the German Archaeological Institute (DAI), Berlin;
  • since 2006 Senior Fellow of the Albright Institute, Jerusalem.
  • since 2007/2009 member of the German Archaeological Institute (since 2009 “Ordentliches Mitglied”).

Journals/books

  • 1994–2008 editor: Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins and Abhandlungen des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins;
  • Die Spezifik der Berufungsberichte Jeremias und Ezechiels im Umfeld ähnlicher Einheiten des Alten Testaments. Lang: Frankfurt a. M., Bern, New York 1986, ISBN 3-8204-8948-7
  • Die literarischen Beziehungen zwischen den Büchern Jeremia und Ezechiel. Lang: Frankfurt a. M., Bern, New York 1993, ISBN 3-631-40725-4
  • Zur Chronologie der Nekropole von Tamassos-Lambertis, Zypern. Dissertationsschrift Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt a. M. 1998.
  • Proseminar Altes Testament. Ein Arbeitsbuch. (with Siegfried Kreuzer) 2nd edition Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-17-019063-6
  • Archäologie der Biblischen Welt. UTB-Taschenbuch 2394, 2nd edition Göttingen 2006. ISBN 3-8252-2394-9
  • Wenn Steine reden. Archäologie in Palästina. Göttingen 2004. ISBN 3-525-53623-2
  • Das Geheimnis des Tells. Eine archäologische Reise in den Orient. (with Friederike Rave und Claudia Voigt) Zabern: Mainz 2005, ISBN 3-8053-3519-9 (for children).
  • 2010 Streit um das Heilige Land. Was jeder vom israelisch-palästinensischen Konflikt wissen sollte. 2nd edition Gütersloh 2010, ISBN 978-3-579-06757-5
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