People specializing in this area
Academic staff
- Second Temple Judaism
- Apocrypha
- The Septuagint
- Book of Judges
- Hebrew language and Lexicography
- Greek language and Lexicography
- Proverbs
- Job Ecclesiastes
- wisdom literature
- creation
- ecological readings of texts
- musical interpretation of biblical texts
- Theology of the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament
- Ancient Hebrew Semantics
- Reception History of the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament
- Book of Psalms
- Metaphor in Bible translation and interpretation
- Cognitive Linguistics and Hebrew Semantics
- Biblical interpretation
- Death and the afterlife
- Pentateuch; Former Prophets; Isaiah; Ezekiel
- Intersection of inner-biblical interpretation, redaction criticism and the canonical approach
- Intersection of history of Israelite religion and Old Testament theology
- Priesthood and ritual
- The natural world in the Old Testament.
- Ecological hermeneutics and environmental ethics
- Old Testament prophetic texts
- Creation texts and their interpretation in later Jewish and Christian writings
Directors of Studies
- Proverbs
- Job Ecclesiastes
- wisdom literature
- creation
- ecological readings of texts
- musical interpretation of biblical texts
- Theology of the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament
- Ancient Hebrew Semantics
- Reception History of the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament
- Book of Psalms
- Metaphor in Bible translation and interpretation
- Cognitive Linguistics and Hebrew Semantics
- Biblical interpretation
- Death and the afterlife
- The natural world in the Old Testament.
- Ecological hermeneutics and environmental ethics
- Old Testament prophetic texts
- Creation texts and their interpretation in later Jewish and Christian writings
Retired Faculty
Emeritus Professor of Old Testament Studies
Graduate students
Wise and Foolish Love in the Song of Songs
The Obligations of Gift-exchange in Ancient Societies as Context for Selected Narratives in the Book of Judges
False Prophecy as a Scribal Construct in the Book of Jeremiah
The Didactic Function of Proverbs 1–9 for the Interpretation of Proverbs 10-31
The Septuagint and Peshitta: Religious Interaction through texts
The research project is focused on the Septuagint (Greek) and Peshitta (Syriac) texts of the book of Genesis and will examine their linguistic and conceptual interrelationship. The purpose of the project is to investigate how the translators were concerned with the translation and transformation of biblical episodes and single biblical words with special reference to the cross-cultural and religious contexts of a particular text, period and religious group.
Frustration and Fulfillment: Genesis 2-3, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs in Dialogue
The argument in heaven: Unmerited and excessive suffering in the book of Job
Wisdom Literature and the Book of Proverbs
Putting Tamar in her Place
Luther's exegetical work in the Hebrew Bible.
The Septuagint and Koine Lexical Semantics: Language and Style in the Textual Evidence of the Greek Version of Judges
The Hasmonean State 104 - 76 BCE: Political Economy and Coinage under Alexander Jannaeus
My doctoral research concerns how biblical texts (Hebrew Bible) get interpreted through ritual performance, taking Isa. 6:3 in Jewish and Western Christian liturgy as its case text.
M.Phil. student in Old Testament
A Portrait of Solomon: The Relationship between 1 Kings 1-11, Proverbs, Songs, and Ecclesiastes