Doctoral Projects
The department currently has the following dissertation projects running:
- Exegesis of legal texts of the Hebrew Bible. A comparison of Jewish and Christian perspectives (Anna Tunger)
- Disabilities and the Purpose Assigned to the Divinity: A Comparative Analysis of the “Theologies of Disability” in the Hebrew Bible and in Ancient Near East Religions. (Angelo Comino)
- Pursuing the Wind: the Meaning of Rûaḥ in Biblical Wisdom Literature. (Tyler Duckworth)
- Religion und Politik in Esra-Nehemia. (Barbara Groß)
- Die Gier - das "böse" Begehren? (Rebekka Rüger)
- "Let That Day Be Darkness": An Analysis of Intertextuality between the Book of Job and the Priestly Tradition in the Pentateuch. (Yasir Saleem)
- Tora zu Reinheit und Unreinheit. Ein Vergleich von Lev 10−16 mit griechischen Inschriften. (Janina Skora)
Completed dissertation projects
- Arnim Janssen: Die kulturelle Erinnerung der Emotionen am Beispiel von Klagelieder 1, Vienna 2024
- Martin Schulzer: An Ecological Reading of Ps 8 and 104
- Attila Marossy: The Anatomy of Separation. Priestly Dichotomies and their Development in the Hebrew Bible, Vienna 2017
- Dolores Kamrada: Heroines, Heroes and Deity. Three Narratives of the Biblical Heroic Tradition (Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies 621), London et al. 2016