Markus Saur

Markus Saur (* 1974 in Eschwege ) is a Protestant university professor at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1993 and studying Protestant theology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (1993–1996), at the Faculté de Théologie Protestante de Montpellier (1996–1997) and Protestant theology, philosophy and ancient history at the University of Kiel (1997 –1999) he obtained the first theological examination of the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck and the diploma of theology ( University of Marburg ) in 1999 . From 1993 to 1999 he was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . From 2000 to 2002 he was a scholarship holder of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft within the framework of the Graduate School 'Religion and Normativity' at the University of Heidelberg . From 2002 to 2007 he was assistant for Old Testament at the theological faculty of the University of Basel . After receiving his doctorate in 2003 as Dr. theol. in Erlangen - Nuremberg (doctoral supervisor : Hans-Christoph Schmitt ) and his habilitation in 2007 for the subject Old Testament in Basel (supervisor: Hans-Peter Mathys ), he was academic advisor for ancient Hebrew at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg from 2007 to 2009 . From 2009 to 2017 he was professor for the history of theology and literature of the Old Testament and biblical-oriental languages ​​at the theological faculty of the University of Kiel. Since 2017 he has been Professor of Exegesis and Theology of the Old Testament at the Evangelical Theological Faculty in Bonn . In 2018 he did research as a Senior Fellow at the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald .

His work focuses on Old Testament wisdom literature, Psalms and Psalter research, Old Testament prophecy, especially the Book of Ezekiel and cultural contacts between Israel and Phenicia in the 1st millennium BC. Chr.

Web links

• University of Bonn