Silke Petersen

Silke Petersen (* 1965 in Hamburg ) is a German Protestant theologian . She has been an adjunct professor for the New Testament at the University of Hamburg since March 2011 .

Life

From 1994 to 1997 she was a research assistant at the Institute for New Testament at the University of Hamburg, where she received her doctorate in 1998 . With a postdoctoral scholarship, she carried out research at the University of Würzburg in 1998/1999 in the graduate school on the perception of gender differences in religious symbol systems . Assistant professor she was from 1999 to 2003 at the Institute of New Testament at the University of Hamburg, where she specialized in 2005 New Testament habilitated . She had lectureships at the universities of Gießen, Heidelberg, Hamburg and Duisburg-Essen. In the summer semester of 2009 she partially represented the professorship for Biblical Exegesis and Early Jewish Religious History at the University of Hamburg. Subsequently, in the 2009/2010 winter semester, she represented the professorship for the New Testament at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel .

Her main research interests are the Gospel of John , apocryphal gospels, the Jesus tradition, Mary Magdalene , feminist exegesis and hermeneutics and gender issues.

Publications (selection)

• “Destroy the works of femininity!” Maria Magdalena, Salome and other disciples of Jesus in Christian Gnostic writings (= Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies , Volume 48). Brill, Leiden et al. 1999, ISBN 90-04-11449-1 (also dissertation, Hamburg 1998).
• Bread light and vine. Intertextual analyzes of Johannine I-am-words (= Novum Testamentum Supplements , Volume 127). de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2005, ISBN 3-11-018478-8 (also habilitation thesis, Hamburg 2005).
• as editor with Benita Joswig and Christine Gerber : God is not only called father. On the speech about God in the translations of the “Bible in Just Language” (= Biblical-Theological Focus , Volume 32). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 3-525-61609-0 .
• as editor with Judith Hartenstein and Angela Standhartinger : An ordinary and harmless dish? From the developments of early Christian sacrament traditions . Gütersloher Verl.-Haus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 3-579-08027-X .
• as editor with Christine Gerber and Wolfram Weiße : Indescribably feminine. New questions on the gender difference in religions (= Theological Research on Women in Europe , Volume 26). Lit-Verl., Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-643-11069-5 .
• Mary from Magdala. The disciple who loved Jesus (= Biblical Figures , Volume 23). Evang. Verl.-Anst., Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-374-02840-5 .
  • Mary from Magdala. The disciple who loved Jesus (= Biblical Figures , Volume 23). 2nd corrected edition, Evang. Verl.-Anst., Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-374-02840-5 .
• as editor with a preface by Ulrich Luz : Eckhard Rau , Perspektiven des Lebens Jesu. Plea for the connection to a difficult research tradition (= contributions to the science of the Old and New Testament , Volume 203). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 3-17-022954-0 .
• as editor with Andrea Bieler , Christine Gerber and Angela Standhartinger: Less is more. Asceticism and Religion from Antiquity to the Present . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-374-04169-5 .

Web links

• University of Hamburg