Maria Häusl

Maria Häusl (* 1964 ) is a German Roman Catholic theologian and university professor .

Life

After studying Catholic theology (1983–1989) at the University of Munich , she worked from May 1992 to April 2002 as a research assistant at the Chair of the Old Testament at the University of Würzburg . She did her doctorate in June 1993 at the Catholic Theological Faculty in Munich with the dissertation Abischag and Batscheba. Women at the royal court and the succession to the throne of David in the testimony of the texts 1 Kings 1 and 2 . After completing his habilitation in February 2002 at the Catholic Theological Faculty in Würzburg with the habilitation thesis Bilder der Not. Femininity and gender metaphor in the book Jeremiah ( Venia legendi for the subject of the Old Testament and biblical-oriental languages ) she was senior research assistant from May 2002 to September 2004 at the chair of the Old Testament in Würzburg and taught from October 2004 to January 2005 as Aigner-Rollett visiting professor at the Institute for atl. Biblical Studies at the University of Graz and professor for interdisciplinary women's and gender studies in Graz . From April 2005 to July 2006 she was professor for Biblical Theology at the Institute for Catholic Theology at TU Dresden , where she has been Professor for Biblical Theology - Catholic since August 1, 2006. She has been a Research Associate at the University of Pretoria since January 2017 .

Her research areas are Old Testament exegesis (commentary on the book Ezra / Nehemia, prophecy - the book of Jeremiah and newer literary methods for the interpretation of biblical texts), Old Testament theology (constitution of post-exilic Israel with a view to the foundational resources of transcendence and common sense, constructions of foreignness and identity in prophetic texts, ideas of God - God as father and mother in the Old Testament, Old Testament anthropology - physicality of man, theology of the city: Jerusalem as place, space and shape and gender in exegesis), EABS research group Israel and the Production and Reception of Authoritative Books in the Persian and Hellenistic Period (together with Susanne Gillmayr-Bucher ), Exegesis and Biblical Pastoral (didactics and methods of Bible study in various pastoral locations and online Bible commentary (OBK): teaching research project for teacher training students and teachers together with Ils e Müllner , Paul-Gerhard Klumbies and the German Bible Society ) and Hebrew linguistics (Hebrew sentence syntax, valence of old Hebrew verbs, Hebrew epigraphy and onomastics and knowledge of Aramaic, Ugaritic, basic knowledge of Akkadian).

Fonts (selection)

• Abishag and Batscheba. Women at the royal court and the succession to the throne of David in the testimony of the texts 1 Kings 1 and 2 (= work on text and language in the Old Testament. Volume 41). EOS-Verlag, St. Ottilien 1993, ISBN 978-3-88096-541-6 (also dissertation, Munich 1993).
• Cover, cover, hide. Study on the valence of old Hebrew verbs (= work on text and language in the Old Testament. Volume 59). EOS-Verlag, St. Ottilien 1997, ISBN 3-88096-559-5 .
• Pictures of distress. Femininity and gender metaphors in the book of Jeremiah (= Herder's biblical studies. Volume 37). Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau / Basel / Vienna / Barcelona / Rome / New York 2003, ISBN 3-451-28086-8 (also habilitation thesis, Würzburg 2001).
• as editor with David Volgger : From expression to content, from content to expression. Contributions to the exegesis and history of the impact of Old Testament texts; Festschrift by the students for Theodor Seidl on his 60th birthday (= work on text and language in the Old Testament. Volume 75). EOS-Verlag, St. Ottilien 2005, ISBN 3-8306-7221-7 .
• as editor with Stephanie Ernst : Cults, priests, rituals. Contributions to cult and cult criticism in the Old Testament and the Old Orient. Festschrift for Theodor Seidl on his 65th birthday (= work on text and language in the Old Testament. Volume 89). EOS-Verlag, St. Ottilien 2010, ISBN 978-3-8306-7431-3 .
• as editor: Daughter of Zion on the way to the heavenly Jerusalem. Lines of reception of the “City Woman Jerusalem” from the late Old Testament texts to the works of the church fathers (= Dresden contributions to gender research in history, culture and literature. Volume 2). Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-86583-526-0 .
• as editor with Gerlinde Baumann , Susanne Gillmayr-Bucher and Dirk Human : Approaches to the Stranger. Methodical-hermeneutic perspectives on a biblical topic (= Linzer philosophical-theological contributions. Volume 25). Peter Lang International Publishers of Science, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Bern / Brussels / New York / Oxford / Vienna 2012, ISBN 3-631-63092-1 .
• as editor with Stefan Horlacher , Sonja Koch , Gudrun Loster-Schneider and Susanne Schötz : Poverty - gender perspectives on coping with them in the past and present (= Dresden contributions to gender research in history, culture and literature. Volume 10). Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2016, ISBN 3-96023-040-0 .
• as editor with Susanne Gillmayr-Bucher: Ṣedaqa and Torah in postexilic discourse (= Library of Hebrew bible / Old Testament studies. Volume 640). Bloomsbury T&T Clark, London 2017, ISBN 978-0-567-67355-8 .
• as editor: Don't think about what happened before! Justification resources in Ezra / Nehemia and Isa 40–66 in comparison (= Bonn biblical contributions. Volume 184). V&R unipress, Göttingen 2018, ISBN 3-8471-0763-1 .
• as editor: From the Garden of Eden to Solomon's Vineyard. Plants of the Bible . kbw bibelwerk, Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 3-460-30207-0 .

Web links

• Technical University Dresden