Kontakt
Institut für den Nahen und Mittleren Osten
Veterinärstr. 1
D-80539 München
E-Mail:
Anna.Busa@lmu.de
Initially trained in Hebrew/Aramaic philology and rabbinic literature, I earned a bi-nationally supervised PhD from the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris/ Goethe University, Frankfurt working on the medieval fluid text corpus of Pirqa de-Rabbenu ha-Qadosh from the Cairo Geniza. While writing my PhD thesis, I was simultaneously employed as a research associate at the Seminar for Jewish studies in Frankfurt where I taught Hebrew and Aramaic grammar, rabbinic literature as well as Jewish medieval history to undergraduate and graduate levels.
Having been initiated to manuscripts early on during my studies, persuing this interest finally led me to Paris, consequently my research interests mainly revolve around manuscript studies, book history, social history, research methodology and theory formation. My current post-doc project ‚Medieval Jewish literacy beyond the elite: popular ethical books from the Cairo Geniza‘ deals with medieval popular ethical texts which I am using as a lens to investigate medieval Jewish urban literacy through book historical and sociological approaches.
Areas of Interest
Manuscript studies, Book history, Social history, research methodology
Historical Periods of Interest
Early medieval period (9th to 12th)
Anna Busa is member of the Munich Research Center for Jewish-Arabic Cultures. For further information consult the profile on the website.
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