Agnethe Siquans

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Agnethe Siquans (* 1971 in Vienna ) is an Austrian theologian and university professor.

Life

Since 1989 she has been studying independent religious education and specialist theology at the University of Vienna . She wrote her thesis on the Esterbuch (1995). She completed a teaching internship in the AHS area in 1999/2000. After her dissertation "Der Deuteronomiumkommentar des Theodoret von Cyrus" (doctorate in the summer semester 2001), she was contract assistant at the Institute for Old Testament Biblical Studies at the University of Vienna from June 2001. Since her habilitation "The Old Testament Prophets in the Patristic Reception: Texts - Contexts - Hermeneutics" (2010) she has been an associate professor at the Institute for Old Testament Biblical Studies at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Vienna.

Her main research interests are gender-conscious exegesis, internal-biblical exegesis, reception of the Old Testament in the biblical interpretation of the church fathers as well as patristic biblical interpretation and midrash.

Siquans is also Vice-President of the European Society of Women in Theological Research, Chairwoman of the Working Group of Assistants at Biblical Institutes in Austria (ArgeAss) and co-editor of the "Protocols to the Bible".

She is married, has three children and lives in Wolkersdorf in the Weinviertel .

Fonts (selection)

  • The commentary on Deuteronomy by the Theodoret of Cyrus (= Austrian biblical studies . Volume 19). Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-631-38868-3 (also dissertation, Vienna 2001).
  • The Old Testament prophets in the patristic reception. Texts - Contexts - Hermeneutics (= Herder's Biblical Studies . Volume 65). Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2011, ISBN 3-451-33187-X (also habilitation thesis, Vienna 2010).
  • as editor: Biblical women in patristic reception (= Reading scripture in Judaism and Christianity . Volume 5). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen / Bristol 2017, ISBN 3-525-55270-X .

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personal data
SURNAME Siquans, Agnethe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian theologian
DATE OF BIRTH 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna