• Ancient Jewish and Christian religions in their broader religious landscapes

• Animals and the Bible

• Anthropology and the Bible

• The Bible and Ecology

• The Biblical World and Cultural Evolution

• The Biblical World and its Reception

• Canonical Approaches to the Bible

• Central Theologumena in the Narrative Texts of the Pentateuch

• Citations and Allusions in the Hebrew Bible

• Comparative Methodology

• Cultural Hegemony and the Power of Sacred Texts

• The Dead Sea Scrolls

• Developing Exegetical Methods

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

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

• Early Christianity

• 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’

• Food-Symbolism in Biblical and Extra-Biblical Perspectives

• Graeco-Roman Society and the New Testament

• 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

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

• “Literary Features” – Fact or Fiction

• Lived Scriptures in Late Antiquity

• Medicine in Bible and Talmud

• Memory, Method, and Text

• 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

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

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

• Representations of Cultural Trauma in the Hebrew Bible

• The Septuagint and the Cultural World of the Translators

• Septuagint of Historical Books

• 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 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

Workshops 2022

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