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 (0th Ed. , S. 15–19). Darmstadt: wbg.
Books (Edited Collections)
- (Eds.). (). Taxation in the Achaemenid Empire. 0th Ed. 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 (0th Ed. , 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 (0th Ed. , S. 229–247). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
- . (). Section IV.B: Local Administration. Babylonia. In (Eds.), A Companion to the Achaemenid Persian Empire (0th Ed. , pp. 905–922). London: Routledge.
- . (). Taxation and Fiscal Administration in Babylonia. In (Eds.), Taxation in the Achaemenid Empire (0th Ed. , 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 (0th Ed. , 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. 0th Ed. 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), .