Lehmhaus, Lennart

Lennart Lehmhaus is an assistant professor at the Institute for Jewish Studies at the University of Tübingen, Germany. His research and teaching interests include ancient Jewish cultures and literatures, mainly rabbinic and talmudic texts; premodern medicine, knowledge, and sciences; and trajectories of Jewish traditions, motifs, and customs into contemporary Jewish and Israeli culture. He is founding editor of the series ASK—Ancient Cultures of Sciences and Knowledge (Mohr Siebeck) and coordinator of the collaborative research network “Between Encyclopaedia and Epitome—Talmudic Strategies of Knowledge-Making in the Context of Ancient Medicine and Sciences” (Tübingen University, University College London, Free University, Berlin).