Christoph Berner

Christoph Berner (* 1976 in Göttingen ) is a German Protestant theologian .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1995 at the Ernestinum Celle , he did community service (1995–1996) in the nursing home of the old people's home in Alt-Garge, which is part of the Albert Schweitzer family business . From 1996 to 2002 he studied Protestant theology, Jewish and ancient oriental studies in Göttingen . From 1999 to 2002 he worked on the DFG project on the Geniza fragments of the treatise Avot de-Rabbi Natan ( Hans-Jürgen Becker ). In 2002 he passed his first theological exam and began his dissertation under the working title “Between Historiography and Theology. Heptadic Historical Periodizations in Ancient Judaism ”. From 2002 to 2005 he was a research assistant in the DFG project on the manuscripts of the treatise Avot de-Rabbi Natan (Hans-Jürgen Becker). From 2004 to 2006 he was a doctoral scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . In February 2006 he passed the Rigorosum. From April 2006 to March 2011 he was a research assistant at Hermann Spieckermann's chair in the Old Testament . After completing his habilitation in June 2010 and obtaining the venia legendi for the Old Testament. From October 2010 to July 2012 he held a chair (Old Testament and Ancient Judaism) at the University of Osnabrück . In June 2012 he was nominated for the Hans Mühlenhoff Prize for good teaching. Since August 2012 he has been a Heisenberg fellow of the DFG at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. In the summer semester 2013 he taught at the HU Berlin . In the summer semester of 2014, he represented the chair (Old Testament) at the HU Berlin ( Bernd Schipper ). In the 2014/2015 winter semester, he represented the chair (Old Testament) at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg ( Jürgen van Oorschot ). From October 2016 to July 2017 he represented the chair (Biblical Theology) at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen ( Karin Schöpflin ). In the 2017/2018 winter semester, he represented the chair at the University of Jewish Studies in Heidelberg ( Hanna Liss ). In the summer semester of 2018, he took up the chair (Old Testament) at the University of Hamburg ( Corinna Körting ). Since 2019 he has been teaching as professor for the history of theology and literature of the Old Testament and biblical-oriental languages ​​at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel .

His main research interests are the origins and development of the Exodus tradition, the editorial history of the narrative books of the Old Testament, interrelationships between legal and narrative tradition, history and literature of Judaism in the Hellenistic-Roman period (apocrypha and pseudepigraphs of the Old Testament / Qumran), forms and methods of scriptural interpretation (internal and extra-biblical), conceptions of history in the Old Testament and in ancient Judaism and Hebrew palaeography and codicology.

Publications (selection)

• Years, weeks of the year and anniversaries. Heptadic conceptions of history in ancient Judaism . Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-11-019054-0 .
• The Exodus Tale. The literary becoming of an original legend of Israel . Tübingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-16-150542-3 .

Web links

• Christian Albrechts University in Kiel
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