Notes on Contributors
A. K. M. Adam
Born in 1957, he now works as Tutor of New Testament at St. Stephen’s House, Oxford and as Non-Stipendiary Lecturer in New Testament at Oriel College. He also taught in Glasgow and at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois. He is especially interested in postmodern philosophy and hermeneutics. Among his most noteworthy publications are What Is Postmodern Biblical Criticism? (Fortress Press, 1995) and the Handbook of Postmodern Biblical Interpretation (Chalice Press, 2000).
Clarissa Breu
Born in 1986, she is prae-doc-assistant at Vienna University’s Department for New Testament studies in Protestant Theology. She studied Protestant Theology and Comparative Literature in Vienna, Heidelberg and Paris. Her main research interest is therefore the connection between literary theory and New Testament studies. Currently she is working on her dissertation on postmodern theories of authorship and New Testament authors, with Revelation as a test case.
Peter Clar
Born in 1980 in Villach, Austria, he now works as a writer and literary scholar. He studied Comparative Literature, Spanish and German Philology at the Universities of Vienna and Autónoma de Madrid. From 2004 to 2012 he was Research Associate at the Elfriede-Jelinek-Forschungszentrum, University of Vienna, and since 2015 Assistant Professor at the University of Gdansk. He is co-founder and co-director of AKA, the Association for Cultural Analysis in Vienna. Among his literary and scientific publications are the novels Nehmen Sie mich beim Wort (Sonderzahl, 2009) and Alles was der Fall ist (Sonderzahl, 2011). Recently, he published a monograph dealing with the concept of the author in the work of Austrian Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek: “Ich bleibe, aber weg”: Dekonstruktion der AutorInnenfigur(en) bei Elfriede Jelinek (Aisthesis, 2017).
Michal Beth Dinkler
Michal Beth Dinkler earned her doctorate in New Testament and Early Christianity from Harvard Divinity School and is currently Assistant Professor of New Testament at Yale Divinity School. Her BA and MA in English Literature are from Stanford University, and her M.Div. is from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. She is the author of Silent Statements: Narrative Representations of Speech and Silence in the Gospel of Luke (de Gruyter, 2013), and of multiple contributions to edited volumes and articles in journals such as Journal of Biblical Literature, New Testament Studies and Journal for the Study of the New Testament. Dinkler serves on the editorial board of Catholic Biblical Quarterly and on the advisory committees for the SBL’s Book of Acts and Gospel of Luke sections; she also co-chairs SBL’s Speech and Talk: Discourses and Social Practices in the Ancient Mediterranean World section. Her current book project, Literary Theory and the New Testament, will be published by Yale University Press.
Jochen Flebbe
Dr. Jochen Flebbe is Supply Professor for New Testament at Hamburg University and private lecturer at Bonn University. Born in 1968 in Göttingen, he studied Protestant Theology and German Language and Literature in Bochum, Göttingen and Bonn. He is author, editor or co-editor of several volumes and articles, including Solus Deus: Untersuchungen zur Rede von Gott im Brief des Paulus an die Römer (de Gruyter, 2008), Holy Places in Biblical and Extrabiblical Traditions (Vandenhoeck&Ruprecht, 2016) and Gesetz und Christologie im Johannesevangelium vor dem Hintergrund antik-jüdischer Torametaphorik (Vandenhoeck&Ruprecht, forthcoming).
Gregory Peter Fewster
Gregory Peter Fewster is a PhD Candidate at the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto and its Collaborative Program in Book History & Print Culture. With an interest in early Christian book culture, Fewster’s current research traces the collection, alteration and transmission of letters attributed to Paul alongside practices of their authentication. He is the co-editor of Paul and Pseudepigraphy (Brill, 2013) and has published articles concerning Paul, pseudepigraphy and ancient Mediterranean book culture in The Bulletin for the Study of Religion, Archivaria: The Journal of the Association of Canadian Archivists, Early Christianity and Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum.
Sandra Heinen
Sandra Heinen is Professor of English Literature and Media studies at the University of Wuppertal. She is the author of Literarische Inszenierung von Autorschaft: Geschlechtsspezifische Autorschaftsmodelle in der englischen Romantik (Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2006) and co-editor of a volume on Narratology in the Age of Cross-Disciplinary Narrative Research. She is also one of the editors of the open-access e-journal DIEGESIS (www.diegesis.uni-wuppertal.de), which is dedicated to interdisciplinary narrative research.
Henning Hupe
Henning Hupe teaches French and Religious studies at the Hebel-Gymnasium in Schwetzingen, Germany. He is also a research assistant in New Testament studies, working with Peter Lampe and Helmut Schwier at the University of Heidelberg, where he completed his doctoral thesis on the Acts of the Apostles (Lukas’ Schweigen: Dekonstruktive Relektüren der “Wir-Stücke” in Acta [Passagen, 2008]). His research focuses on Derrida, cultural studies and their innovative potential for interpreting biblical texts.
Stephen D. Moore
Stephen D. Moore is Edmund S. Janes Professor of New Testament studies at the Theological School, Drew University, in Madison, New Jersey. He is author or co-author and editor or co-editor of around two dozen volumes, including most recently Untold Tales from the Book of Revelation: Sex and Gender, Empire and Ecology (SBL, 2014), Affect Theory and the Bible (with Jennifer L. Koosed; thematic issue of Biblical Interpretation, 2014), Divinanimality: Animal Theory, Creaturely Theology (Fordham University Press, 2014), Gospel Jesuses and Other Nonhumans: Biblical Criticism Post-Poststructuralism (SBL, forthcoming) and Sexual Disorientations: Queer Temporalities, Affects, Theologies (with Kent L. Brintnall and Joseph A. Marchal; Fordham University Press, forthcoming).
Hannah M. Strømmen
Born in 1986, Hannah M. Strømmen is a Senior Lecturer in Biblical studies at the University of Chichester. Her primary interests are in critical theory and biblical reception history. She has published on the Bible in the arts, literature and politics, and her book on Jacques Derrida and the question of the animal in relation to the Bible is forthcoming.
Oda Wischmeyer
Prof. em. Dr. Dr.h.c. Oda Wischmeyer was Professor for New Testament studies at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg from 1993 to 2009. Particular fields of research include Early Jewish literature (esp. Ben Sira), Paul’s letters and theology, the Gospel of Mark, the Letter of James, biblical hermeneutics and theory of interpretation. She is the editor of Lexikon der Bibelhermeneutik: Begriffe, Methoden, Theorien, Konzepte (de Gruyter, 2009), author of Hermeneutik des Neuen Testaments: Ein Lehrbuch (Francke, 2004), Die Bibel als Text: Beiträge zu einer textbezogenen Bibelhermeneutik (Francke, 2008) and numerous other books and articles.