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All of this is ultimately based on the fact that the Heidelberg Faculty of Theology has trained numerous doctoral students from many
countries. Since 1991, over five hundred doctorates have been awarded, among them more than one hundred young academics from thirty
countries. Many Heidelberg colleagues have also been and still are very
active internationally with lecture tours and academic exchange and
cooperation relationships, with a particular focus on the USA, China,
Israel, South Korea, South Africa, Hungary, and Russia. (Unfortunately, the good contacts with younger colleagues in leading religious advisory positions in Russia were completely blocked already years before
the war of aggression against Ukraine, and contacts in Hungary and
China are also severely restricted today.)
Intensive cooperative relationships exist with Charles Sturt University in Canberra, Australia, the Free University of Amsterdam, the Universities of Helsinki and Zurich, several universities in South Korea,
among them Seoul Theological University, Hanshin University and
Soongsil University, as well as in the USA with Emory, Yale, Princeton, Notre Dame, and the University of Chicago – not only between
individual colleagues, but also with groups of colleagues and groups
of doctoral students. Compared to this wealth of activities, this report
presents only a partial spectrum of the international activities of Heidelberg Theology in more detail.
I will briefly mention further examples:
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Prof. Manfred Oeming has been carrying out excavations in Israel
every year since 2004 in conjunction with archaeologists from Tel
Aviv – first in Ramat Rahel then, since 2012, in Azekah – in which up
to 150 students from up to fifteen nations take part every year. This
project is also generously funded by the Manfred Lautenschläger
Foundation. Prof. Oeming was vice rector of the Heidelberg University of Jewish Studies from 1997 to 2005 and is still a member of
its Senate today. He was also a guest lecturer in Jerusalem.
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