Guido Pfeifer Professor of Ancient Legal History, History of European Private Law and Civil Law, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main Resident at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften: 2022–2026 (Goethe Fellow) Research topic at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften: »Identification and Integration between Law and Religion: Everyday Legal Life of Jewish Exile and Diaspora Communities in Mesopotamia and Egypt in the 1st Millennium BCE« Project outline: The (legal) historical-philological research project is guided by the question of the extent to which legal systems can give social groups of different ethnic, religious, or other characteristics a common normative framework in a foreign environment. To this end, Pfeifer deals with document texts that were written in Jewish exile and diaspora communities in Mesopotamia and Egypt in the 1st millennium BC, the so-called »Al Yahudu Tablets« and the »Elephantine Papyri«. The Al Yahudu Tablets are cuneiform clay tablets in the Akkadian language in which marriage and inheritance documents as well as legal and property disputes are documented; the papyri written in Aramaic script deal with contemporary religious practice. Both groups of texts have not yet been exhaustively examined from a legal-historical perspective. Above all, however, they provide a direct insight into the everyday life of Jewish law in antiquity. (Guido Pfeifer) Scholarly profile of Guido PfeiferGuido Pfeifer has been Professor of Ancient Legal History, History of European Private Law and Civil Law at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main since 2007. He conducts research on the legal cultures of antiquity from Mesopotamia through ancient Greece to ancient Rome and their reception up to modern times. He is co-editor of Zeitschrift für Altorientalische und Biblische Rechtsgeschichte and KritV | CritQ | CRit – Kritische Vierteljahresschrift für Gesetzgebung und Rechtswissenschaft.Website: Please find more information about Guido Pfeifer here. Main areas of research: Ancient Near Eastern Law, Ancient History of Law, Roman Law, History of European Private LawSelected publications:
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