Past EABS Research Units and Workshops

Past Research Units

• Agrarian Economies in Depopulated Areas in Persian Antiquity

• Anthropology, Archaeology and History in Biblical Studies

• The Archaeology of the Levant

• The Bible and the Visual Arts

• The Bible in Arabic in Judaism, Christianity, Islam

• The Bible in the Iberian World: Fundamentals of a Religious Melting Pot

• The Biblical World and Cultural Evolution

• Biblical Hebrew and Linguistics

• Biblical Philology in Byzantine Manuscripts

• Biblical Scholarship in the Early Modern Era

• Bodies of Communication

• Bodies of Communication: Physical Practices and Religious Texts

• The Book of Proverbs

• Chronicles and Utopia

• Colour in the Bible

• Comparative Methodology

• Concepts of Leadership in the Hebrew Bible

• The Core of Deuteronomy and its World

• Cultural Memory in Biblical Exegesis

• Deconstructive Poetics 

• Developing Exegetical Methods

• Digital Humanities in Biblical Studies, Early Jewish and Christian Studies

• Early Judaism and Rabbinics

• Epigraphy and Palaeography of the Biblical World

• European Seminar in Historical Methodology

• Fan Fiction and Ancient Scribal Cultures

•  Food-Symbolism in Biblical and Extra-Biblical Perspectives

• Gender Criticism and the Bible

• The Greek of Jews and Christians Through the Pax Romana

• Hellenistic Judaism

• Israel and the Production and Reception of Authoritative Books in the Persian and Hellenistic Period

• Judaeans in the Persian Empire

• Law and Narrative

• Metaphor in the Bible

• New Testament Studies

• Orality and Literacy in Early Christianity

• ‘Others’ and the Construction of Early Christian Identities

• "Outside" Evidence - Evidence for Religion and Culture in the Persian, Hellenistic, Rome, Byzantine Periods from Sources "Outside" the Biblical Canons

• Parables in Rabbinic Judaism and Early Christianity: Towards a New Comparative Approach

• Pauline Literature

• Paragraphing in Modern Bible Translations and Ancient Manuscripts

• The Pentateuch: New Insights into Its Formation and Elevation to Torah

• The Philistines

• Prophecy and Foreign Nations

• Reading Biblical Texts - Understanding Contemporary Contexts

• Re(de)fining Historical Criticism of the Hebrew Bible in Light of Textual History

• The Relation Between Luke’s and John’s Gospel

• Samaritan Studies

• Science Fiction and the Bible

• Second Temple Sapiential and Apocalyptic Writings

• Septuagint of Historical Books

• Social History of Modern Biblical Scholarship

• Sociological and Anthropological Approaches to the Study of the Evidence of the Mishnah

• Sociology and the Bible

• The Study of the Greek New Testament

• The Study of the Historical Jesus

• Virtue in Biblical and Cognate Literature

• Vision and Dream Accounts in the HB, NT, Early Judaism and Late Antiquity

• Wisdom in Israel and in ANE Wisdom Literature

• Yahwistic Diversity and the Hebrew Bible: Tracing Perspectives of Group Identity from Judah, Samaria, and Diaspora in Biblical Traditions

Past Workshops

• A Critical History of Exegesis Since Around 1900

• Ancient Jewish and Christian Apocalypses: Inquiry into Their Prophetic Roots

• Antisemitism and Biblical Scholarship

• The Bible in Ukraine: History, Language and Topicality

• Imperial Language Politics in the Ancient Near East

• Living in the Last Days: New Testament Eschatology and its Contexts

• Material culture of the Southern Levant

• Minority and Postcolonial Criticism: Exegetical Explorations & Decolonial Approaches to Biblical Interpretation

• The Use of Jewish Scriptures in the New Testament: Different Modalities of Intertextuality

• Crises and Ancient Jewish and Christian Apocalypses: What is at Stake?

• Edom East and West of the Arabah Valley and in the Negev

• [HadadDigital]: The Biography of a Statue

• Sexual Behavior In The Bible and Its Context(s)

• The Special Profile of the Prophet Jeremiah and of His Book

• Biblical Theological Investigations into the Attributes of God

• Comparing Ancient Historiographies: The Yehudite Book of Chronicles, Herodotus and Babylonian Chronicles

• Deuteronomy and the Books of Kings – a Complex Relationship?

• Experience the Body, Experience the Text: Experience in and from the Song of Songs

• Miracles and Paradoxography in Biblical Reception from Late Antiquity

• Personal Christology: Hermeneutical Perspectives of the New Testament

• Re/conceiving Empire in Ancient Texts: Questioning Subaltern Perspectives

Local Sessions 2021 Wuppteral (Online)

• John the Baptist in Apocrypha and Early Christian Poetry: Narrative Exegesis and Fortleben

• Prologomena to the project of an Editio Critica Maior of Hebrews

• Visionary Spaces: Narrating Spaces in Vision Report

Workshops 2019 Warsaw 

• Animal Names in the Hebrew Bible: Lexicographical and Linguistic Perspectives

• Animals and the Bible

• Bible Translation

• Deborah, Jael and Delilah: Biblical Heroines and their Reception in Literature, Arts, Music and Film from the 19th to the 21st Century

• Food-Symbolism in Biblical and Extra-Biblical Perspective

• Gods in Translations: The Many Names of Ancient Semitic Gods

• Wisdom and Torah as Dynamic Modes of Scribal Discourse in Israel and Early Judaism: Beyond Biblical Genres and Traditions

Workshops 2018 Helsinki 

• Bible Translation Workshop

• The Biblical World and Cultural Evolution

• Centralization and Cult in Persian Period Israel: Biblical, Historical and Comparative Perspectives

• Comparative Methodology

• Enoch within and outside the Books of Enoch: Parabiblical Writings, Iconography and Oral Tradition

• Relationship Between the "Major Prophets" and the "Scroll of the Minor Prophets": Text, Methodology, Hermeneutics and Wirkungsgeschichte

• Septuagint of Historical Books

• Ugarit and the Bible: Life and Death

• Virtue in Biblical Literature

• Vision and Envisionment in the Bible and its World

• Archaeological Fieldwork in the Bronze and Iron Age Levant

• Archaeological Fieldwork in the Hellenistic-Roman Mediterranean

• Biblical Reception History and Authority in the Middle Ages and Beyond

• Citizens and Aliens in Greco-Roman Antiquity

• Construction of Identity in the Ancient World: Intersections and Reflections

• Dispelling Demons: Interpretations of Evil and Exorcism in Ancient Near Eastern, Jewish, and Biblical Contexts

• Nationalism, Religion, and Archaeology

• Pleasure in Early Christian and Jewish Literature

• What a God is Not – The Early History of Negative Theology

Workshops 2017 Berlin

• Analyzing the Metatextuality of the Biblical Tradition Literature

• Doing Biblical Masculinity Studies as Feminist Biblical Studies? Critical Interrogations

• Metacriticism: On Methodological Problems of Biblical Exegesis

• The Core of the Book of Deuteronomy and its World

Workshops 2016 Leuven

• Ancient Cosmology and New Testament Interpretation

• Concepts of Nudity in the Hebrew Bible

• Ecological Hermeneutics

• Feminist Approaches to the Bible

• Jephthah’s Daughter and Human Sacrifice

• Qumran, Its Hellenistic Context, and the Jewish Greek Literature of Its Time

Workshop 2015 Cordoba

• Europe Contested: Contemporary Bible Readings Performed by ‘Ordinary’ Readers in a European Context

• Fan Fiction and the Study of Biblical Commentary and Scribal Culture

• Female Prophets in Ancient Jewish and Christian Texts

• Images of Creation in Reception History

• Masorah and the Interpretation of the Biblical Text

• Walking Through Intolerance and Tolerance

Workshops 2014 Vienna 

• Johannine Literature and Docetism

• Male Circumcision: Between Controversy and Tradition

• Psycholinguistics and the Bible

• Reception of the Bible in Latin American Narratives and Images

• Revisiting Kuntillet Ajrud

Workshops 2013 Leipzig

In Honour of A. Alt's 130th Birthday: Albrecht Alt's Implications on Actual Research on the History Ancient Israel

 Methods in Dialogue