List of Contributors
Christian Danz
Christian Danz studied Protestant Theology at the University of Jena (1985–1990); 2000–2002 professor for systematic theology in Essen, since 2002 professor for systematic theology at the University of Vienna, president of the German Paul-Tillich-Society since 2006. Since 2009 member of the commission to the edition of the works of Schelling of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and since 2015 of the project “Schelling – Archive and Edition” of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.
Selected books: Die Deutung der Religion in der Kultur. Aufgaben und Probleme der Theologie im Zeitalter des religiösen Pluralismus, Neukirchen- Vluyn 2008; Einführung in die evangelische Dogmatik, Darmstadt 2010; Grundprobleme der Christologie, Tübingen 2013. Einführung in die Theologie Martin Luthers, Darmstadt 2013; Systematische Theologie, Tübingen 2016; Gottes Geist. Eine Pneumatologie, Tübingen 2019; Jesus von Nazareth zwischen Judentum und Christentum. Eine christologische und religionstheologische Skizze, Tübingen 2020.
Research fields: dogmatics, philosophy of religion, theology of religions, history of Protestant theology in the 19th and 20th century, German idealism (Schelling).
Position of the author: Professor für Systematische Theologie A.B.
ORCID: 0000-0003-4096-603X
Email: christian.danz@univie.ac.at
Address (Faculty):
Institut für Systematische Theologie und Religionswissenschaft
Evangelisch-Theologische Fakultät der Universität Wien
Schenkenstraße 8–10
1010 Wien
Austria
Lutz Doering
Lutz Doering has been Professor of New Testament and Ancient Judaism at the University of Münster since 2014, where he also heads the Institutum Judaicum Delitzschianum. Before coming to Münster, he taught at King’s College London and Durham University. His research focuses on the Dead Sea Scrolls and related texts, Jewish Apocalypticism, Hellenistic and Rabbinic Judaism, halakhah and festivals in ancient Judaism and their early Christian reception as well as letter writing and communication in ancient Judaism and Christianity. He is the author of Schabbat. Sabbathalacha und -praxis im antiken Judentum und Urchristentum, Tübingen 1999, Ancient Jewish Letters and the Beginnings of Christian Epistolography, Tübingen 2012, and a German translation of, and commentary on, Tosefta Schabbat, Stuttgart 2019. He currently serves as the speaker of the Münster Centre for Eastern Mediterranean History and Culture (GKM).
Position of the author: Professor New Testament and Ancient Judaism, Director of the Institutum Judaicum Delitzschianum, University of Münster
ORCID: 0000-0001-5053-1211
Email: lutz.doering@uni-muenster.de
Address (Faculty):
Insitutum Judaicum Delitzschianum
Wilmergasse 1
48143 Münster
Germany
Kathy Ehrensperger
Kathy Ehrensperger held positions as Research Professor of New Testament in Jewish Perspective (until 2022), at the Abraham Geiger Kolleg, University of Potsdam, and as Reader in New Testament Studies, at the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David (until 2017). She is the author of Searching Paul. Conversations with the Jewish Apostle to the Nations, Paul at the Crossroads of Cultures, Paul and Power. Communication and Interaction in the Early Christ Movement and numerous articles. She is the Executive Director of the Encyclopedia of Jewish-Christian Relations.
Position of the author: Research Fellow, University of Basel, Faculty of Theology Perspective, Abraham Geiger Kolleg, University of Potsdam (retired)
ORCID: 0000-0001-5958-0116
Email: kathy.ehrensperger@unibas.ch
Address (Private):
Im Drissel 23
4104 Oberwil
Switzerland
Christina Eschner
Christina Eschner, Dr. theol. habil., has been Professor of New Testament Studies at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg since 2022. She studied Theology and Classics at Humboldt University in Berlin. Her dissertation focused on Paul’s interpretation of Jesus’ death (2007). She was ordained in 2010, and in 2017 she finished her Habilitation thesis, addressing disputes on the Jewish Law in early Christianity against the background of similar Jewish discourses, mainly focusing on food prohibitions, table fellowship, and purity matters.
Position of the author: Professor of New Testament Studies at Friedrich- Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany)
ORCID: 0000-0001-5493-9871
Email: christina.eschner@fau.de
Address (Faculty):
Lehrstuhl für Neues Testament I
Fachbereich Theologie
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Kochstr. 6
91054 Erlangen
Germany
Hans Förster
After his doctorate at the Protestant Faculty of the University of Vienna, Hans Förster has pursued research at the Papyrus Collection of the Austrian National Library in Vienna (1998–2009), publishing inter alia a dictionary of Greek words in Coptic documentary texts. In 2010 he moved to the University of Vienna where he has contributed to the critical apparatus of the Gospel of John in the 28th edition of Novum Testamentum Graece. So far, he has been PI of six FWF research grants. He has been involved in research work on the Editio Critica Maior of the Gospel of John, being responsible for the evaluation of the Coptic tradition of this Gospel. This research has made him aware of translational choices in the New Testament and the impact such choices may have on the understanding of the New Testament.
Position of the author: Privatdozent (University of Vienna)
ORCID: 0000-0001-7457-1533
Email: hans.foerster@univie.ac.at
Address (Faculty):
Institut für Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft
Evangelisch-Theologische Fakultät der Universität Wien
Schenkenstraße 8–10/5. OG/Zimmer 05
1010 Wien
Austria
Paul Foster
Paul Foster, D.Phil. 2003 from the University of Oxford is currently Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of Edinburgh. His publications include Colossians – Black’s New Testament Commentaries (Bloomsbury, 2016) and The Gospel of Peter: Introduction, Critical Edition and Commentary (Brill, 2010).
Position of the author: Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of Edinburgh
Email: paul.foster@ed.ac.uk
Address (Faculty):
School of Divinity
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh EH1 2LX
Scotland
Marianne Grohmann
1987–1995 Studies in Protestant theology, German literature, and Jewish studies in Vienna, Berlin and Jerusalem. 1999 Doctor of Theology (“Aneignung der Schrift. Wege einer christlichen Rezeption jüdischer Hermeneutik“, Neukirchen-Vluyn 2000), 2006 Habilitation in Old Testament (“Fruchtbarkeit und Geburt in den Psalmen” [FAT 53], Tübingen 2007). 2007 Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of Berkeley, California (USA). 2008 Call to the University of Hamburg (W3-Professur “Biblische Exegese und Frühjüdische Religionsgeschichte”). 2007–2019 Associate Professor, since 2019 full Professor of Old Testament at the University of Vienna, Faculty of Protestant Theology.
Position of the author: Professor of Old Testament Research
ORCID: 0000-0002-0896-7094
Email: marianne.grohmann@univie.ac.at
Address (Faculty):
Evangelisch-Theologische Fakultät der Universität Wien
Schenkenstr. 8–10
1010 Wien
Austria
Christoph Heil
Born in Fulda 1965; studies in Fulda, Munich, Washington, D.C. and Bonn; doctoral dissertation in Bonn (Helmut Merklein) on the dietary laws in Paul (1994, published in the same year); since 1995 member of the editorial board of the Documenta Q series; Habilitationsschrift in Bamberg (Paul Hoffmann) on the Lukan redaction of Q (2000, published 2003); chair of the SBL Q Section 2001/03; acting professorships in Munich and Frankfurt 2002/04; Professor of New Testament in Graz since 2004; co-chair of the SBL Q Section 2010/13; dean of the theological faculty in Graz 2017/21. Publications on the historical Jesus, Q, the Synoptic Gospels and Paul.
Position of the author: Professor of New Testament Studies
ORCID: 0000-0002-3434-0674
Email: christoph.heil@uni-graz.at
Address (Faculty):
Catholic Theological Faculty
University of Graz
Heinrichstraße 78B
8010 Graz
Austria
Matthias Konradt
1996 Dr. theol. Theological Faculty, Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg, dissertation: Christliche Existenz nach dem Jakobusbrief (published with V&R 1998). 2002 Habilitation in New Testament, at the Protestant Theological Faculty, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn: Gericht und Gemeinde. Eine Studie zur Bedeutung und Funktion von Gerichtsaussagen im Rahmen der paulinischen Ekklesiologie und Ethik im 1 Thess und 1 Kor (published with de Gruyter 2003). 2003–2009 Full Professor of New Testament, University of Berne. Since 2009 Full Professor of New Testament, University of Heidelberg. Main research areas and major publications: Gospel of Matthew (Israel, Kirche und die Völker im Matthäusevangelium, WUNT 215, 2007, english 2014; Das Evangelium nach Matthäus, NTD 1, 2015, english 2020; Studien zum Matthäusevangelium, WUNT 358, 2016; Christology, Torah, and Ethics, 2020), New Testament Ethics (Ethik im Neuen Testament, 2022), Paul.
Position of the author: Full Professor of New Testament, University of Heidelberg
ORCID: 0000-0002-0011-5911
Email: matthias.konradt@ts.uni-heidelberg.de
Address (Faculty):
Theologisches Seminar der Universität Heidelberg
Kisselgasse 1
69117 Heidelberg
Germany
Jodi Magness
Jodi Magness (www.JodiMagness.org) is the Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She received her B.A. in Archaeology and History from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and her Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology from the University of Pennsylvania. Magness is the author of numerous books and articles, including The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls (Eerdmans; revised edition 2021) and Masada: From Jewish Revolt to Modern Myth (Princeton University, 2019). She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was President of the Archaeological Institute of America from 2017–2020. Since 2011 Magness has directed excavations at Huqoq in Israel’s Galilee.
Position of the author: Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism
Email: magness@email.unc.edu
Address (Faculty):
Department of Religious Studies, CB #3225
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3225
USA
Markus Öhler
Markus Öhler is Professor of New Testament Studies at the Faculty of Protestant Theology of the University of Vienna. He wrote his dissertation on the reception of Elijah traditions and the expectation of Elijah’s return in the New Testament (1997) before turning to the field of the history of early Christianity. His habilitation thesis was devoted to the figure of Barnabas, combining historical reconstruction and literary reception (2003). He continued his historical work with a textbook on the history of early Christianity (2018). A particular focus is on social history, especially on Greco-Roman associations. For several years he has been running the project of the Epigraphical Commentary on the New Testament. Another project is the preparation of a commentary on the Epistle to the Romans, which will focus on aspects of social and religious history.
Position of the author: Professor of New Testament Studies
ORCID: 0000-0003-4294-9778
Email: markus.oehler@univie.ac.at
Address (Faculty):
Faculty of Protestant Theology
Schenkenstr. 8–10/6th floor
1010 Vienna
Austria
Hildegard Scherer
Hildegard Scherer, Prof. Dr., born 1975, ThD at University of Münster in 2010 with a thesis on Paul’s understanding of pneuma, Habilitation at University of Bonn in 2015 with a thesis on social concepts in the double tradition. 2015–2022 interim professor/professor for New Testament at Theologische Hochschule Chur, Switzerland. Since 2022 professor for biblical theology and didactics at University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.
Position of the author: Professorin für Biblische Theologie und ihre Didaktik, Schwerpunkt Neues Testament
ORCID: 0000-0002-9985-9629
Email: hildegard.scherer@uni-due.de
Address (Faculty):
Institut für katholische Theologie
Universität Duisburg-Essen
Universitätsstr. 12
45141 Essen
Germany
Stefan Schreiber
Born 1967; studied Catholic Theology at the Universities of Augsburg and Vallendar (Germany) 1988–1993; 1995 Dr. theol. at the University of Augsburg; 1999 Dr. theol. habil., ibid.; 1995–2000 Research Assistant at the Universities of Linz (Austria) and Augsburg (Germany); 2000–2001 Deputy Professor of New Testament, University of Bonn; 2001–2003 Senior Assistant, University of Augsburg; 2003–2010 Professor of New Testament at the University of Münster; since 2010 Professor of New Testament at the University of Augsburg. – Research interests: Paul and Early Judaism; New Testament writings in their political world; history of Early Christianity; Epistles of John; New Testament hermeneutics and methodology.
Position of the author: Full Professor of New Testament at the University of Augsburg
ORCID: 0000-0003-4005-9704
Email: stefan.schreiber@uni-a.de
Address (Faculty):
Lehrstuhl für Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft
Katholisch-Theologische Fakultät
Universität Augsburg
Universitätsstraße 10
86159 Augsburg
Germany
Agnethe Siquans
Agnethe Siquans is Professor for Old Testament Studies at the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the University of Vienna. She studied catholic theology, religious education and Jewish studies. Her doctoral thesis was an analysis of the Quaestiones in Deuteronomium by Theodoret of Cyrus. Her habilitation thesis dealt with “Biblical female prophets in patristic reception”.
Her main research fields are intertextual exegesis of the Old Testament, feminist and gender studies of the Bible and early Christian texts, the reception of the Bible in patristic writings, church fathers and rabbinic midrash and Jewish-Christians relations in Antiquity. 2016‒2019 she led a project on “Exodus 1‒2 in patristic and rabbinic interpretation”, funded by the Austrian Science Fund. She works on commentaries on Psalms 101‒119 and on the Book of Daniel and is co-editor of the series “Ancient Scriptural Interpretation” and “Vetus Testamentum Patristicum”.
Position of the author: Professor for Old Testament Studies
ORCID: 0000-0003-1105-7152
Email: agnethe.siquans@univie.ac.at
Address (Faculty):
Institut für Bibelwissenschaft
Katholisch-Theologische Fakultät
Universität Wien
Schenkenstraße 8–10
1010 Wien
Austria
Günter Stemberger
After studies of Catholic Theology and Judaism in Austria, England, France and Italy, since 1972 at the Institute of Jewish Studies of the University of Vienna, professor of Ancient Judaism since 1977, specializing in rabbinic literature, history of the Jews in Late Antiquity, and the history of early Jewish-Christian relations. Numerous publications. Emeritus since 2009.
Position of the author: Professor Emeritus of Jewish Studies
Email: guenter.stemberger@univie.ac.at
Address (Faculty):
Institut für Judaistik der Universität Wien
Spitalgasse 2 Hof 7 (Campus AAKH)
1090 Wien
Austria
Markus Tiwald
Born 1966 in Guessing (Austria), study of catholic theology in Vienna (Austria), Lyon (France) and Jerusalem (Israel). PhD 2001, Habilitation 2007. From 2009–2019 Professor of New Testament, Institute of Catholic Theology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Since 2019 Professor of New Testament, Faculty of Catholic Theology, University of Vienna, Austria. Main fields of research: Early Judaism, historical Jesus, Paul, Sayings Source, Parting of the Ways between Jews and Christians. Tiwald published the following monographs: Frühjudentum und beginnendes Christentum: Gemeinsame Wurzeln und das Parting of the Ways (Kohlhammer Studienbücher Theologie 5), Stuttgart 2022; Kommentar zur Logienquelle, Stuttgart 2019 (english translation: The Sayings Source: A Commentary on Q, Stuttgart 2020); Die Logienquelle: Text, Kontext, Theologie. Stuttgart 2016; Hebräer von Hebräern: Paulus auf dem Hintergrund frühjüdischer Argumentation und biblischer Interpretation (HBS 52), Freiburg i. Br. 2008; Wanderradikalismus: Jesu erste Jünger – ein Anfang und was davon bleibt (ÖBS 20), Frankfurt am Main 2002.
Position of the author: Professor of New Testament at the University of Vienna
ORCID: 0000-0001-7555-9093
Email: markus.tiwald@univie.ac.at
Address (Faculty):
Institut für Bibelwissenschaft
Katholisch-Theologische Fakultät
Universität Wien
Schenkenstraße 8–10
1010 Wien
Austria
Jan-Heiner Tück
Jan-Heiner Tück, born 1967, studied Catholic theology and German literature at the universities of Tübingen and Munich, doctorate in 1998; habilitation in 2006; professor of dogmatics at the University of Vienna since 2010. Publications: Christologie und Theodizee bei Johann Baptist Metz, Paderborn 2nd ed. 2001; Erinnerung an die Zukunft. Das Zweite Vatikanische Konzil, Freiburg i. Br. 2nd ed. 2013; Gottes Augapfel. Fragments of a Theology after Auschwitz, Freiburg 2nd ed. 2016; A Gift of Presence. Theology and Poetics of the Eucharist in Thomas Aquinas. Forword by Bruce D. Marshall, Washington 2018; “Praised be you, no one”. Paul Celan’s Poetry – a Theological Provocation (Poetikdozentur Literatur und Religion, vol. 5), Freiburg i. Br. 3rd ed. 2023; Crux. Über die Anstößigkeit des Kreuzes, Freiburg i. Br. 2023. Initiator of the Vienna Poetikdozentur Literatur und Religion; Editor of the International Catholic Review Communio (German edition).
Position of the author: Professor of Dogmatics at the Institute for Systematic Theology and Ethics at the University of Vienna
ORCID: 0000-0002-8420-4822
Email: jan-heiner.tueck@univie.ac.at
Address (Faculty):
Dogmatik und Dogmengeschichte
Institut für Systematische Theologie und Ethik
Katholisch-Theologische Fakultät
Universität Wien
Schenkenstraße 8–10
1010 Wien
Austria
Karin Hedner Zetterholm
Karin Hedner Zetterholm holds a PhD from Lund University and pursued undergraduate and graduate studies at Lund University and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research interests include rabbinic Judaism and literature, Jewish-Christian interaction in antiquity, as well as texts from the early centuries CE, which combine adherence to Jesus with a Jewish identity.
Position of the author: Associate Professor Jewish Studies
Email: Karin.Zetterholm@ctr.lu.se
Address (Faculty):
Centre for Theology and religious Studies
LUX, Helgonavägen 3
223 62 Lund
Sweden