ronny.vollandt@lmu.de

https://lmu-munich.academia.edu/RonnyVollandt

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3701-9429


Areas of Interest

Bible translations into Arabic, Jewish literature in Arabic, Jewish Cultural Heritage
in the Near East, Arabic and Hebrew Palaeography and Codicology,
Intercommunal transmission of knowledge

Historical Periods of Interest

Late Antiquity through 13th Centuries, 19th Century CE

Positions

2015 –

Professor for Judaic Studies (Judaistik), tenured.
Institute of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-
Universität (LMU), Munich, Germany

 

2013 – 2015

Senior Research Associate
Research Unit Intellectual History of the Islamicate World, Institute of Islamic
Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

 

2011 – 2012

Associated researcher (post-doc)
Section Hébraïque, Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes, CNRS, Paris,
France

 

Education

2011

PhD, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Semitic Philology,
University of Cambridge

 

2007

MA, Jewish Civilization, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

 

Awards and distinctions

2019

ERC Consolidator Grant

 

2019

ARCHES Award for Research Cooperation and. High Excellence in Science

 

2019

Teaching grant, Multiplikatoren-Programm”, Ludwig-Maximilians-
Universität (LMU), Munich (with Nathan Gibson)

 

2017

Alexander-Böhlig-Preis (for the book “Arabic Versions of the
Pentateuch. A comparative study of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Sources”)

 

Functions

2022 –

Director, Munich Research Centre of Jewish-Arabic Culture

 

2022

Dean of Studies, Faculty for the Study of Culture, LMU

 

2019 –

Member of Advisory Board, The Encyclopedia of Jewish-Christian Relations (EJCR)

 

2019 –

Chairman, German Association of Jewish Studies and Jewish Theology

 

2018 –

Member of Advisory Board, Early Manuscripts Electronic Library (EMEL)

 

2017 –

Editor-in-Chief, Judentum und Umwelt, series published by Peter Lang Publishing

 

2016 –

Member of Advisory Board, Jüdische Religion, Kultur und Geschichte, a series published by & Ruprech

 

2015 –

Member of Advisory Board, Collectanea Christiana Orientalia, a journal published by the University of Cordoba

 

2015 –

Member of Editorial Board, Biblia Arabica: Texts and Studies, a series published by Brill

 

2013 –

Member of Advisory Board, Intellectual History of the Islamicate World, a journal published by Brill

 

2009 –

Member of Advisory Board, Society for Judaeo-Arabic Studies