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Johannes Seidel works as research assistant for Prof. Dr. Hannes Bezzel in the Department of Old Testament Studies at the Faculty of Theology at Friedrich Schiller University Jena. After acquiring a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Theology from the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg with study visits to Basel (EUCOR) and Jerusalem (Theologisches Studienjahr), he completed a Master’s degree in Christianity and Culture, with a focus on Old Testament Studies and a minor in Assyriology at the University of Heidelberg. He started his academic career at the University of Leipzig as part of a third-party funded project on West Semitic text amulets under the direction of Prof. Dr. Angelika Berlejung. His research focuses on concepts of nature in the Hebrew Bible, which he is investigating as part of a dissertation project on the cedar of Lebanon. The dissertation is supervised by Prof. Dr. Hannes Bezzel and Prof. Dr. Angelika Berlejung.