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Research Groups


Here is a list of the research programmes currently being undertaken within the EABS.

The EABS invites any interested scholar(s) to form new research groups. If you would like to start up a group, please contact the Executive Officer, Ronit Nikolsky (r.nikolsky@rug.nl).

All chairs of research programmes should make sure they are aware of their responsibilities, set out in the Guidelines.


Ancient World

“Literary Features” – Fact or Fiction
Epigraphy and Palaeography of the Biblical World
Israel in the Ancient Near East
Magic and Divination in the Biblical World
The Archaeology of the Levant
The Philistines

Early Christianity

‘Others’ and the Construction of Early Christian Identities
Early Christianity between Judaism and Hellenism

Early Judaism

Early Judaism and Rabbinics
Hellenistic Judaism
Second Temple Sapiential and Apocalyptic Writings

General

Anthropology and the Bible
Canonical Approaches to the Bible
Cultural Memory in Biblical Exegesis
Digital Humanities in Biblical Studies, Early Jewish and Christian Studies
Gender Criticism and the Bible
Iconography and Biblical Studies
Paragraphing in Modern Bible Translations and Ancient Manuscripts
Social History of Modern Biblical Scholarship
Sociology and the Bible
The Bible and Sacred Space
The Bible and the Visual Arts
The Bible in the Iberian World: Fundaments of a Religious Melting Pot
The Bible in the Twenty-First Century: Politization of Bibles and Biblization of Politics
The Biblical World and its Reception
Vision and Dream Accounts in the HB, NT, Early Judaism and Late Antiquity

Hebrew Bible/Old Testament

Biblical Hebrew and Linguistics
European Seminar in Historical Methodology
Exile and Identity in the Hebrew Bible and Near Oriental Literature and Policy
Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
Israel and the Production and Reception of Authoritative Books in the Persian and Hellenistic Period
Metaphor in the Hebrew Bible
Prophets and Prophecy
Samaritan Studies

New Testament

Graeco-Roman Society and the New Testament
New Testament Studies
Pauline Literature
The Study of the Historical Jesus