• A Critical History of Exegesis Since Around 1900

• Ancient Jewish and Christian Religions in their Broader Religious Landscapes

• Ancient Apocalypses and Their Contexts

• Animals and the Bible

• Anthropology and the Bible

• The Bible, Ecology and Sustainability 

• The Bible in Arabic amongst Jews, Christians and Muslims (Biblia Arabica) – A Continued Exploration

• Biblical Theological Investigations into the Attributes of God 

• The Biblical World and its Reception

• Bodies of Communication

• The Book of Jeremiah

• The Book of Numbers in the Context of Second Temple Literature

• Canonical Approaches to the Bible

• Central Theologumena in the Narrative Texts of the Pentateuch

• Citations and Allusions in the Hebrew Bible

• Cognitive and Cultural Evolutionary Perspectives on the Biblical World

•  Comparing Ancient Chronographic Historiographies from Mesopotamia, Egypt, Judah and Greece in the Persian and Hellenistic Period

•  Concepts of Biblical Israel

•  Cultural Hegemony and the Power of Sacred Texts

•  The Dead Sea Scrolls

•  Diachronic Poetology of the Hebrew Bible and Related Ancient Near Eastern and Ancient Jewish Literature

•  Early Christianity

•  Early Judaism and Rabbinics

•  Emotions and the Biblical World

•  Enoch Within and Outside the Books of Enoch: Parabiblical Writings, Iconography and Oral Tradition

•  Evil, Exorcism, and Magic

•  Exegesis and Higher Education Didactics ‘Verstehen von Anfang an’

•  Graeco-Roman Society and the New Testament

•  The Greek Bible Between Judaism and Christianity

•  Historical Approaches to the Bible and the Biblical World

•  Iconography and Biblical Studies

•  Impact of Hellenistic Empires

•  Intersections: A Forum for Research on Ancient Israel, Hebrew Bible, and Cognate Topics

•  Israel in the Ancient Near East

• Jews, Christians, and the Materiality of Mortuary Rituals in Late Antiquity

•  Johannine Literature

•  The Language of Colour in the Bible: From Word to Image

•  “Literary Features” – Fact or Fiction

•  Lived Scriptures in Late Antiquity

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

•  Medicine, Sciences and Knowledge in Biblical and Talmudic Traditions

•  Memory, Method, and Text

•  Methods of New Testament Exegesis – Current Trends and Future Prospects

•  Miracles and Paradoxography in Biblical Reception from Late Antiquity

•  New Testament Writings within Judaism

•  Northwest Semitic Epigraphy Related to the Biblical World

•  Open Forum for New Testament and Early Christian Studies

• Parabiblical Texts: Literature Inhabiting the Narrative World of Scriptural Texts

•  Perceptions and Receptions of Persia (PERSIAS)

•  Politization of Bibles and Biblization of Politics in the Twenty-First Century

•  Prophets and Prophecy

•  Reading, Theory and Poetics

•  The “Remembered Paul” and the “Historical Paul”

•  Representations of Cultural Trauma in the Hebrew Bible

•  Scribes and Scribal Groups in the Early Second Temple Period

•  The Septuagint and the Cultural World of the Translators

•  Slavonic Apocrypha

•  Slavonic Parabiblical Traditions

•  Textual Criticism of the New Testament, the Old Testament and the Qur’an

•  Vision and Envisionment in the Bible and its World

•  Wisdom in Intertextual Perspective

Workshops 2024

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