Participation in the Cluster of Excellence
- Field of research A Transcultural entanglement and disentanglement
- Head of project A3-38 Elite Networks in Hellenistic Babylonia between Continuity and Change
Professor Dr. Kristin Kleber
Head of Department
Research Foci
- Mesopotamia in the first millennium BC
- Ancient Near Eastern Legal History
- Economic and Social History of Babylonia
- Money, currency and metal in the ancient Near East
CV
Academic Education
- PhD 2008, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (Germany)
Positions
- Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, University of Münster
- Full Professor in Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Associate Professor in Languages and Cultures of the Ancient Near East, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Fellow of the Gerda Henkel-Stifung, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Honors
- ERC Consolidator Grant – European Research Council (ERC)
- Preis für Antike Rechtsgeschichte – Universität Innsbruck, Stabsstelle für Forschungsförderung und Qualitätssicherung in der Forschung
External Functions
- Universität Münster (Research Advisory Board of the Faculty of Philology (FB 09), Chairwomen)
- Dutch governmental institution (Academic Advisory Board of the NINO - Netherlands Institute of the Near East. Leiden / The Netherlands, Member, Chairwomen in 2019/20)
Teaching
Vorlesungen
- Vorlesung: Introduction to Ancient Near Eastern Studies [GM1.2] [099247]
[ - | | wöchentlich | Di | RS 2 | Prof. Dr. Kristin Kleber]
[ - | RS 52 | Prof. Dr. Kristin Kleber] - Vorlesung: Mesopotamian Religion [AM2a.2 / AM3a.2] [099260][ - | | 14-täglich | Mo | RS 2 | Prof. Dr. Kristin Kleber]
[ - | | 14-täglich | Mo | RS 2 | Prof. Dr. Kristin Kleber]
[ - | Prof. Dr. Kristin Kleber]
[ - | RS 2 | Prof. Dr. Kristin Kleber]
Seminare
- Seminar: Late Babylonian Epigraphy: The Editing of Cuneiform Tablets from Babylon [M20] [099183]
[ - | | wöchentlich | Di | RS 52 | Prof. Dr. Kristin Kleber] - Seminar: Neo- and Late Babylonian Archival Texts [VMa.2(Akk4)] [M5.2] [099255]
[ - | | wöchentlich | Di | RS 52 | Prof. Dr. Kristin Kleber]
Praktika
- Praktikum: Practical Experience (3 Weeks) [M17] [099179]
(in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Florian Kreppner, Prof. Dr. Siegfried Richter, Prof. Dr. Angelika Lohwasser, Prof. Dr. Alexandra von Lieven, Prof. Dr. Gesa Schenke)
[21.03.2025 | n. V. | Prof. Dr. Florian Kreppner] - Praktikum: Practical Experience (3 Weeks) [M18] [099180]
(in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Florian Kreppner, Prof. Dr. Siegfried Richter, Prof. Dr. Angelika Lohwasser, Prof. Dr. Alexandra von Lieven, Prof. Dr. Gesa Schenke)
[21.03.2025 | n. V. | Prof. Dr. Florian Kreppner] - Praktikum: Practical Experience (6 Weeks) [M19] [099181]
(in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Florian Kreppner, Prof. Dr. Siegfried Richter, Prof. Dr. Angelika Lohwasser, Prof. Dr. Alexandra von Lieven, Prof. Dr. Gesa Schenke)
[21.03.2025 | n. V. | Prof. Dr. Florian Kreppner] - Forschungspraktikum: Directed Independent Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Studies [M14.2] [099168]
[n. V. | Prof. Dr. Kristin Kleber] - Forschungspraktikum: Research Training in Ancient Near Eastern Studies [M15.2] [099172]
[10.01.2025 | n. V. | Prof. Dr. Kristin Kleber] - Forschungspraktikum: Research and Writing for Publication in Ancient Near Eastern Philology [M16.2] [099176]
[10.01.2025 | n. V. | Prof. Dr. Kristin Kleber]
Sonstige Lehrveranstaltung
- Sonderveranstaltung: Vorbesprechung B.A.-AKÄV und M.A.-SKÄA
(in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Florian Kreppner, Prof. Dr. Angelika Lohwasser, Prof. Dr. Gesa Schenke)
[ - | RS 2 | Prof. Dr. Florian Kreppner]
Seminar
Praktika
- Praktikum: Practical Experience (3 Weeks) [M18] [097257]
(in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Florian Kreppner, Prof. Dr. Angelika Lohwasser, Prof. Dr. Gesa Schenke) - Praktikum: Practical Experience (6 Weeks) [M19] [097258]
(in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Florian Kreppner, Prof. Dr. Angelika Lohwasser, Prof. Dr. Gesa Schenke) - Praktikum: Practical Experience (3 Weeks) [M17] [097256]
(in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Florian Kreppner, Prof. Dr. Angelika Lohwasser, Prof. Dr. Gesa Schenke) - Forschungspraktikum: Research and Writing for Publication in Ancient Near Studies [M 16.2] [097253]
- Forschungspraktikum: Research Training in Ancient Near Eastern Studies [M 15.2] [097249]
Sonstige Lehrveranstaltung
- Sonderveranstaltung: Vorbesprechung B.A.-AKÄV und M.A.-SKÄA
(in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Florian Kreppner, Prof. Dr. Angelika Lohwasser, Prof. Dr. Gesa Schenke)
Vorlesungen
- Vorlesung: Introduction to Ancient Near Eastern Studies [GM1.2] [095252]
- Vorlesung: Babylon – History and Legend [AM2a.2 = PO14 AM2a(AO) / AM3a(AO)] [095247]
Seminar
Praktika
- Praktikum: Practical Experience (3 Weeks) [M18] [095178]
(in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Florian Kreppner, Prof. Dr. Angelika Lohwasser, Prof. Dr. Gesa Schenke) - Praktikum: Practical Experience (6 Weeks) [M19] [095179]
(in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Florian Kreppner, Prof. Dr. Angelika Lohwasser, Prof. Dr. Gesa Schenke) - Praktikum: Practical Experience (3 Weeks) [M17] [095177]
(in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Florian Kreppner, Prof. Dr. Angelika Lohwasser, Prof. Dr. Gesa Schenke) - Forschungspraktikum: Directed Independent Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Studies [M14.2] [095166]
- Forschungspraktikum: Research Training in Ancient Near Eastern Studies [M15.2] [095170]
- Forschungspraktikum: Research and Writing for Publication in Ancient Near Eastern Philology [M16.2] [095174]
Sonstige Lehrveranstaltung
- Sonderveranstaltung: Vorbesprechung B.A.-AKÄV und M.A.-SKÄA
(in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Florian Kreppner, Prof. Dr. Siegfried Richter, Prof. Dr. Angelika Lohwasser)
Seminare
- Seminar: The World's Dependence on Signs: Akkadian Omens [VMb (Akk5) / M 5.4 (Akk9)] [093167]
- Seminar: The Akkadian Epic of Creation Enuma Elîs [AM 1c (Akk3)] [093160]
- Seminar: Documentation of Cuneiform Texts (with excursion) [AM 2b / AM 3b] [093164]
- Seminar: The Antiquities of the Vorderasiatisches Museumm in Berlin [093152]
- Seminar: Late Babylonian Archival Texts [093275]
Praktika
- Praktikum: Practical Experience (3 Weeks) [MA PO22 M18] [093257]
(in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Florian Kreppner, Prof. Dr. Angelika Lohwasser, Prof. Dr. Gesa Schenke) - Praktikum: Practical Experience (6 Weeks) [MA PO22 M19] [093258]
(in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Florian Kreppner, Prof. Dr. Angelika Lohwasser, Prof. Dr. Gesa Schenke) - Praktikum: Practical Experience (3 Weeks) [MA PO22 M17] [093256]
(in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Florian Kreppner, Prof. Dr. Angelika Lohwasser, Prof. Dr. Gesa Schenke) - Praktikum: Practicum [MA PO15 M18] [093267]
(in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Florian Kreppner, Prof. Dr. Angelika Lohwasser, Prof. Dr. Gesa Schenke) - Praktikum: Practicum [MA PO15 M19] [093268]
(in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Florian Kreppner, Prof. Dr. Angelika Lohwasser, Prof. Dr. Gesa Schenke) - Praktikum: Practicum [MA PO15 M20] [093269]
(in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Florian Kreppner, Prof. Dr. Angelika Lohwasser, Prof. Dr. Gesa Schenke) - Forschungspraktikum: Research and Writing for Publication in Ancient Near Eastern Philology [MA PO15 M11.2] [093264]
- Forschungspraktikum: Research Training in Ancient Near Eastern Studies [MA PO22 M15.2] [093249]
- Forschungspraktikum: Research and Writing for Publication in Ancient Near Studies [MA PO22 M16.2] [093253]
- Forschungspraktikum: Research Training in Ancient Near Eastern Philology MA [PO15 M10.2] [093260]
Vorlesung
Seminar
Praktika
- Praktikum: Practical Experience (3 Weeks) [MA PO22 M 17 = PO15 M18] [091261]
(in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Florian Kreppner, Dr. Suzana Hodak, Prof. Dr. Alexandra von Lieven) - Praktikum: Practical Experience (6 Weeks) [MA PO22 M19 = MA PO15 M20] [091263]
(in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Florian Kreppner, Dr. Suzana Hodak, Prof. Dr. Alexandra von Lieven) - Praktikum: Practical Experience (3 Weeks) [MA PO15 M19] [091262]
(in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Florian Kreppner, Dr. Suzana Hodak, Prof. Dr. Alexandra von Lieven) - Forschungspraktikum: Directed Independent Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Studies [MA PO15 M12.2] [091258]
- Forschungspraktikum: Research Training in Ancient Near Eastern Studies [MA PO22 M15.2 = PO15 M10.2] [091250]
Seminare
- Seminar: History as Instrument: Reception and Reconceptualization of the Early History of Mesopotamia in the Late Period [AM 2b / AM 3b / M 21] [098968]
- Hauptseminar: Akkadian Historiographical Texts [VMb (Akk5) / M 5.4 (Akk9)] [098972]
Praktika
- Praktikum: Practical Experience II [M 19] [099218]
(in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Florian Kreppner, Prof. Dr. Angelika Lohwasser, Prof. Dr. Gesa Schenke) - Praktikum: Practical Experience [M 20] [099219]
(in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Florian Kreppner, Prof. Dr. Angelika Lohwasser, Prof. Dr. Gesa Schenke) - Praktikum: Practical Experience I [M 18] [099217]
(in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Florian Kreppner, Prof. Dr. Angelika Lohwasser, Prof. Dr. Gesa Schenke) - Forschungspraktikum: Research Training in Ancient Near Eastern Philology [M 10.2] [099210]
- Forschungspraktikum: Research and Writing for Publication in Ancient Near Eastern Philology [M 11.2] [099214]
Kolloquium
- Kolloquium: Colloquium on the Cultural History of the Ancient Near East
(in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Florian Kreppner)
Vorlesungen
- Vorlesung: Introduction to Ancient Near Eastern Philology [GM 1b / M 5a.1] [097154]
- Vorlesung: Agatha Christie in the Near East [AM 2a / AM 3a] [097148]
Seminar
Praktika
- Praktikum: Practical Experience I [M 18] [097232]
(in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Florian Kreppner, Prof. Dr. Angelika Lohwasser, Prof. Dr. Gesa Schenke) - Praktikum: Practical Experience II [M 19] [097233]
(in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Florian Kreppner, Prof. Dr. Angelika Lohwasser, Prof. Dr. Gesa Schenke) - Praktikum: Practical Experience [M 20] [097234]
(in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Florian Kreppner, Prof. Dr. Angelika Lohwasser, Prof. Dr. Gesa Schenke) - Forschungspraktikum: Research Training in Ancient Near Eastern Philology [M 10.2] [097220]
- Forschungspraktikum: Research and Writing for Publication in Ancient Near Eastern Philology [M 11.2] [097224]
- Forschungspraktikum: Directed Independent Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Philology [M 12.2] [097228]
Sonstige Lehrveranstaltung
Seminare
- Proseminar: Philological Sources for the Ancient Near East [GM 2b] [095253]
- Seminar: Ishtar's Descent into the Underworld [AM 1c (Akk3)] [095254]
- Seminar: Neo-Babylonian Legal and Administrative Documents [M 5.3] [095259]
- Seminar: Assyria and Its Neighbors in the First Millennium BCE [AM 2b / AM 3b] [095256]
- Hauptseminar: Akkadian Sources for the History and Politics of Assyria in the First Millennium [VMb (Akk5) / M 5.4 (Akk9)] [095257]
Praktika
- Praktikum: Practical Experience II [M 19] [095203]
(in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Florian Kreppner, Prof. Dr. Angelika Lohwasser, Prof. Dr. Gesa Schenke) - Praktikum: Practical Experience I [M 18] [095202]
(in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Florian Kreppner, Prof. Dr. Angelika Lohwasser, Prof. Dr. Gesa Schenke) - Praktikum: Practical Experience [M 20] [095204]
(in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Florian Kreppner, Prof. Dr. Angelika Lohwasser, Prof. Dr. Gesa Schenke) - Forschungspraktikum: Research Training in Ancient Near Eastern Philology [M 10.2] [095194]
- Forschungspraktikum: Research and Writing for Publication in Ancient Near Eastern Philology [M 11.2] [095198]
Übung
- Tutorium: Cuneiform School and Exercises in Akkadian Grammar [095209]
(in cooperation with Olga Neufeld)
Vorlesungen
- Vorlesung: Introduction to Ancient Near Eastern Philology [GM 1b / M 5a.1] [093137]
- Vorlesung: Of Gods and Heroes: Introduction to Mesopotamian Literature [AM 2a / AM 3a] [093144]
Seminare
- Seminar: Akkadian Readings: The Erra Epic [VMa (Akk4) /M 5.2 (Akk7)] [093147]
- Seminar: Sumerian Literary Texts [VMa (Sum3) / M 6a.1 (Sum5) / M 14.2 (Sum3/7)] [093148]
Praktika
- Praktikum: Practical Experience II [M 19] [093178]
(in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Florian Kreppner, Prof. Dr. Alexandra von Lieven, Prof. Dr. Gesa Schenke) - Praktikum: Practical Experience I [M 18] [093168]
(in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Florian Kreppner, Prof. Dr. Alexandra von Lieven, Prof. Dr. Gesa Schenke) - Praktikum: Module Fundamentals of Didactics of Physics [093169]
(in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Florian Kreppner, Prof. Dr. Alexandra von Lieven, Prof. Dr. Gesa Schenke) - Forschungspraktikum: Research and Writing for Publication in Ancient Near Eastern Philology [M 11.2] [093174]
- Forschungspraktikum: Directed Independent Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Philology [M 12.2] [093170]
(in cooperation with Nikita Artemov) - Forschungspraktikum: Research Training in Ancient Near Eastern Philology [M 10.2] [093164]
Sprachkurs
- Vorlesung: Introduction to Ancient Near Eastern Studies [GM1.2] [099247]
Publications
- . (). Rezension zu: Uri Gabbay / Shai Gordin (Hrsg.), Individuals and Institutions in the Ancient Near East. A Tribute to Ran Zadok. Orientalistische Literaturzeitung, 118(6), 383–384. doi: 10.1515/olzg-2023-0122.
Review Articles (Journals)
- . (). Die Edition und Erforschung von neubabylonischen Keilschrifttafeln aus Babylon. Alter Orient Aktuell, 19, 4–9. doi: 10.17879/17988509117.
Research Article (Book Contributions)
- . (). Pferdestärken für den Kampf. Pferdezucht und Pferdehaltung im Alten Orient. In (Hrsg.), Das Pferd in der Antike. Von Troia bis Olympia (S. 15–19). Darmstadt: wbg.
Books (Edited Collections)
- (Eds.). (). Taxation in the Achaemenid Empire. Wiesbaden. Harrassowitz.
Articles
Research Articles (Journals)
- . (). Tablet Format and Book-keeping in Eanna: A Dossier on Long-Distance Trade from the Reign of Nabonidus. Archiv für Orientforschung: internationale Zeitschrift für die Wissenschaft vom Vorderen Orient, 2021(54), 66–71.
Research Article (Book Contributions)
- . (). Introduction: Taxation in the Achaemenid Empire. In (Eds.), Taxation in the Achaemenid Empire (pp. 1–9). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
- . (). Zur Logistik eines Heiligtums. Lagerhaltung und Kultbetrieb in Eanna. In (Hrsg.), Uruk – Altorientalische Metropole und Kulturzentrum. 8. Internationales Kolloquium der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft, 25-26 April 2013 in Berlin (S. 229–247). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
- . (). Section IV.B: Local Administration. Babylonia. In (Eds.), A Companion to the Achaemenid Persian Empire (pp. 905–922). London: Routledge.
- . (). Taxation and Fiscal Administration in Babylonia. In (Eds.), Taxation in the Achaemenid Empire (pp. 13–152). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
- . (). As Skilful as Croesus. Evidence for the Parting of Gold and Silver by Cementation from Second and First Millennium Mesopotamia and Egypt. In (Eds.), White Gold: Studies in Early Electrum Coinage (pp. 17–34). N/A: Selbstverlag / Eigenverlag.
- (Hrsg.). (). Grenzüberschreitungen. Studien zur Kulturgeschichte des Alten Orients. Festschrift für Hans Neumann zum 65. Geburtstag am 9. Mai 2018. Münster. Zaphon Verlag.
Supervised Doctoral Studies
Verhelst, Nicolaas Elite Networks in Hellenistic Babylonia: beyond Continuity and Change Meijer, Michèle Identifying Borrowings between Eastern Mediterranean Cults Talks
- Kleber, Kristin : „Die 'Medische Mauer' und die babylonische Wasserlinie“. Gastvortrag, Universität Leipzig, .
- Kleber, Kristin : „Governance in Babylon.“ Gastvortrag bei einer Sitzung des Babylon-Beirates., Online (Veranstalter: Berlin), .