Prof. Hanna Liss is Full Professor and Chair of the Department of Bible and Jewish Exegesis at the Heidelberg Center for Jewish Studies and the University of Heidelberg, Germany. Her main research areas are medieval Jewish exegesis and commentary literature, research on the Masorah in Western European biblical and commentary literature and in modern Jewish Bible exegesis. She is Principal Investigator of the long-term projects “Corpus Masoreticum: The Inculturation of the Masorah in Western European Jewish Learning Culture from the 11th to the 14th Centuries” and “Bible Glossaries as Hidden Cultural Carriers: Judeo-French Cultural Exchange in the High Middle Ages.” She has written numerous articles on the northern French exegetical school and on Western European Masorah. Her most recent book publications are Jüdische Bibelauslegung (Mohr Siebeck, 2020) and Philology and Aesthetics: Figurative Masorah in Western European Manuscripts (editor in cooperation with Jonas Leipziger; Peter Lang, 2021).