Charlotte Hempel | |
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Occupation(s) | Professor of Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Judaism |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | King's College London (PhD) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Religious Studies |
Sub-discipline | Dead Sea Scrolls ·Hebrew Bible ·Second Temple Judaism |
Institutions | University of Birmingham |
Main interests | Damascus Document ·Community Rule ·4QMMT ·Hebrew Bible |
Notable works | The Qumran Rule Texts in Context:Collected Studies ·T&T Clark Companion to the Dead Sea Scrolls ·The Community Rules:A Commentary (Mohr Siebeck 2020) |
Website | www |
Charlotte Hempel is a scholar of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament.
Hempel was born in Germany and initially studied at the University of Mainz. After a move to the King's College London she completed first a BA (Hons) in Biblical studies (1988–1991) followed by a PhD on The Laws of the Damascus Document (1991–1994). [1]
Hempel's first academic position was at the University of Birmingham as Edward Cadbury Research Fellow (1995–1997). She then held the position as Sutasoma Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge (1997–1999). For the next six years she interrupted her career after starting a family and spent most of that season in the United States,where she was for a time a Fellow at the Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Maryland. In 2005 she returned to Birmingham as a Birmingham Fellow (2005–2008) then senior research fellow (2008–2010),senior lecturer (2010–2013),reader (2013–2016) and since 2016,professor of Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Judaism. [2]