Faculty of Theology


Born in Göttingen in 1982
2002–2009: Studies in Protestant Theology in Göttingen, Jerusalem, and Berlin
2009: First theological examination at the “Evangelisch-lutherische Landeskirche Hannovers”
2009–2025: Research assistant / Akademische Rätin a.Z. (academic councillor) / Akademische Oberrätin a.Z. (senior academic councillor) at the Chair of Old Testament I at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg (Prof. Dr. H. Pfeiffer)
2015: Theological Doctorate (Dr. theol.) in Old Testament
2022: Completion of habilitation and Venia Legendi for Old Testament
2022: Interim professorship at HU Berlin (Prof. Dr. Dr. B. U. Schipper)
2023: Admission to the DFG's (German Research Foundation) Heisenberg Program
2024–2025: Interim professorship at LMU Munich (Prof. Dr. Friedhelm Hartenstein)
since 10/2025:Professor of Old Testament at Georg August University Göttingenn


  • Literary and editorial history of the Old Testament
  • (Religious) history of Judaism in the Persian and Hellenistic periods
  • Emergence and transformation of Jewish identity(ies) in the Second Temple period
  • Concepts of leadership and rule in the Old Testament
  • Biblical anthropology, especially Old Testament concepts, representations, and practices of the body from a comparative perspective of religious and cultural history



  • Member of the Executive Committee of the “Deutscher Verein zur Erforschung Palästinas” (DPV) (The German Society for the Exploration of Palestine)
  • Co-Chair of the Joshua-Judges Section of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL)
  • Member of the Steering Committee of the Book of the Twelve Section of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL)



  • Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Theologie (WGTh)
  • Society of Biblical Literature (SBL)
  • European Association of Biblical Studies (EABS)
  • Deutscher Verein zur Erforschung Palästinas (DPV)
    (The German Society for the Exploration of Palestine)
  • Forum Theologisches Studienjahr Jerusalem
  • BCJ.Bayern (Begegnung von Christen und Juden in Bayern)
    (Encounter between Christians and Jews in Bavaria)
  • Gesellschaft für christlich-jüdische Zusammenarbeit Göttingen e.V.
    (Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation Göttingen)
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Monographs:

  • Joschua und Melchisedek. Studien zur Entwicklung des Jerusalemer Hohepriesteramtes vom 6. bis zum 2. Jahrhundert v. Chr, BZAW 546, Berlin u.a.: DeGruyter 2023.
  • Die Anhänge zum Richterbuch. Eine kompositionsgeschichtliche Untersuchung von Ri 17–21, BZAW 477, Berlin/Boston: DeGruyter 2016.


      • (Co-)Editorships:

      • Transforming Authority. Concepts of Leadership in Prophetic and Chronistic Literature, BZAW 518, Berlin u.a.: DeGruyter, 2021/Paperback 2023 (mit K. Pyschny).
      • Clothing and Nudity in the Hebrew Bible, London: T&T Clark, 2019 (zusammen mit C. Berner, M. Schäfer, M. Schott und M. Weingärtner).
      • Debating Authority. Concepts of Leadership in the Pentateuch and the Former Prophets, BZAW 507, Berlin/Boston: DeGruyter, 2018 (zusammen mit K. Pyschny).


      Articles:

      • Blessed By Allusion. Intertextuality as a Key to Understanding Moses’ Blessing of the Tribes in Deut 33, BN.NF 205 (2025), 129–142.
      • Text- und literargeschichtliche Überlegungen zum Levispruch im Mosesegen (Dtn 33,8–11), Biblica 105 (2024), 1–22.
      • Das Amt des Jerusalemer Hohepriesters im Licht biblischer und außerbiblischer Quellen der hellenistischen Zeit, VT 74 (2024), 669–690. (online)
      • Discovering Eschatological Leadership in the Book of Isaiah. The Motif of Animal Peace between Messianic Hope and New Creation, ZAW 135 (2023), 547-561 (Open Access) (online)
      • Between History and Theology – Zerubbabel and Nehemiah as Governors of Judah from the Perspective of Literary Criticism. Religions, 2023 (online).
      • Priestly Underpants, 2022 (Priestly Underpants – TheTorah.com); Hebräische Übersetzung, 2024 (online).
      • Zerubbabel, Joshua and the Restoration of the Temple – A Comparative Approach to the Concepts of Leadership in Haggai/Zechariah 1–8 and Ezra 1–6,
        in: Katharina Pyschny/Sarah Schulz (Hg.), Transforming Authority. Concepts of Leadership in Prophetic and Chronistic Literature, BZAW 518, Berlin u.a.: DeGruyter, 2021, 263–291.
      • Transforming Authority. Concepts of Leadership in Prophetic and Chronistic Literature: An Introduction,
        in: Katharina Pyschny/Sarah Schulz (Hg.), Transforming Authority. Concepts of Leadership in Prophetic and Chronistic Literature, BZAW 518, Berlin u.a.: DeGruyter, 2021, 3–16.
      • Nacktheit im Kult – ein später Diskurs zum priesterlichen Dresscode?,
        in: Lars Allolio-Näcke/Jürgen van Oorschot/Ute Verstegen (Hg.), Nacktheit – Transdisziplinäre anthropologische Perspektiven. Erträge der 7. Tagung des Zentralinstituts „Anthropologie der Religion(en)“, Erlangen 11. – 13. Oktober 2017, Berlin u.a.: LIT Verlag, 2019, 41–58.
      • The Dancing David. Nudity and Cult in 2. Sam 6,
        in: Christoph Berner et al. (Hg.), Clothing and Nudity in the Hebrew Bible, London: T&T Clark, 2019, 461–475.
      • Der Kern der Rettererzählungen. Entstehung und Intention des Gideonzyklus Ri 6–8(.9), BN 180 (2019), 3–14 (zusammen mit M. Schäfer).
      • Gideons Sieg über Midian. Zur Komposition von Ri 7, BN 178 (2018), 3–20 (zusammen mit M. Schäfer).
      • The Literary Transition between the Books of Joshua and Judges,
        in: Christoph Berner/Harald Samuel (Hg.), Book-Seams in the Hexateuch I. The Literary Transitions between the Books of Genesis/Exodus and Joshua/Judges, FAT 120, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2018, 257–280.
      • Debating Authority. Concepts of Leadership in the Pentateuch and the Former Prophets: An Introduction,
        in: Katharina Pyschny / Sarah Schulz (Hgg.), Debating Authority. Concepts of Leadership in the Pentateuch and the Former Prophets, BZAW 507, Berlin/Boston: DeGruyter, 2018, 1-16 (zusammen mit K. Pyschny).
      • Gideon, a Liminal Leader. Transformations of Leadership Concepts in Judg 6–8,
        in: Katharina Pyschny/Sarah Schulz (Hg.), Debating Authority. Concepts of Leadership in the Pentateuch and the Former Prophets, BZAW 507, Berlin/Boston: DeGruyter 2018, 209–221 (zusammen mit M. Schäfer).
      • Art. Michajehu, in: M. Bauks/ K. Koenen (Hg.), Das wissenschaftliche Bibellexikon im Internet, 2017, http//www.wibilex.de.
      • Die Kelter als Dreschort in Jdc 6,11, ZAW 129 (2017), 427-430 (zusammen mit M. Schäfer).