Silvia Schroer

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Silvia Schroer (born December 29, 1958 in Münster / Westf.) Is a Catholic theologian and professor of the Old Testament and the Biblical Environment at the Theological Faculty of the University of Bern . She has written numerous specialist publications on topics relating to the history of religion and iconography of Palestine / Israel and its neighboring cultures, as well as feminist exegesis and hermeneutics . Schroer is also the founder and editor of the internet journal for feminist exegesis in Europe “lectio difficilior”.

Life

Silvia Schroer studied Catholic theology and classical philology in Münster , Munich and Freiburg / CH . After completing her licentiate in theology, she did her doctorate in 1986 with Othmar Keel in Freiburg / CH on Old Testament references to pictorial representations in ancient Israel (title: In Israel there were pictures ; see list of publications). In 1989, the Old Testament scholar was the first woman to complete her habilitation at the Catholic Theological Faculty in Freiburg / CH. From 1987 to 1992 Silvia Schroer was managing director of the Swiss Catholic Biblical Works. From 1994 to 2004 she was President of the Circle of Catholic Exegetes in Switzerland. After further research and teaching assignments at various faculties in German-speaking countries, Silvia Schroer received the chair for "Old Testament and Biblical Environment" at the Protestant Theological (today: Theological) Faculty of the University of Bern in 1997. From 2010 to 2012 she was dean of the faculty. Silvia Schroer has been Vice Rector of the University of Bern in the Vice Rectorate for Quality since 2017.

Focus of work

Silvia Schroer's main areas of work are:

  • Old Testament and Biblical Environment
  • Ancient oriental symbolism
  • Religious history and iconography of Palestine / Israel
  • Focus on everyday life, women's life, women's history in Israel / Palestine and its environment
  • Wisdom theology
  • Biblical anthropology
  • Feminist exegesis

Projects

  • lectio difficilior : Silvia Schroer is the founder and editor of “lectio difficilior”, the first internet journal for feminist exegesis, hermeneutics and related research areas (classical philology, archeology, Egyptology, Near Eastern sciences, ancient history, art history, social sciences, psychology, etc.) in Europe . The journal publishes specialist articles in three languages ​​(German, English or French), is non-denominational and offers primarily, but not exclusively, European scientists the opportunity to publish their work.
  • IPIAO (Iconography of Palestine / Israel and the Ancient Orient ): Silvia Schroer is the author of this compendium on the religious history of Palestine / Israel based on iconographic finds. The compendium is laid out in four volumes and covers the period from the 12th millennium BC. Until the Persian period. It consistently combines images from Palestine / Israel, which are often fragmentary and of poor quality, with more complete images of the large neighboring cultures (Syria, Anatolia, Mesopotamia and Egypt) and used them to reconstruct the underlying religious symbol system.
  • BIPOW (The Imagery of Palestine / Israel between East and West) is an SNSF research project (2015–2018) which, as a continuation of IPIAO, extends research into the history of religion and iconography into the Persian and Hellenistic times.
  • Gender and death: Silvia Schroer is co-initiator of the project supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation, which explores the interlinking of the topics "death" and "gender" from four different theological perspectives.

Publications (selection)

  • together with Stefan Münger: Khirbet Qeiyafa in the Shephelah. Papers Presented at a Colloquium of the Swiss Society of Ancient Near Eastern Studies held at the University of Bern, September 6, 2014 (OBO 282), Freiburg CH / Göttingen 2017.
  • together with Othmar Keel : Creation. Biblical Theologies in the Context of the Ancient Near East. (translated by Peter T. Daniels) Winona Lake 2015.
  • together with Thomas Staubli : Images of man in the Bible. Ostfildern 2014.
  • Animals in the Bible: A Cultural and Historical Journey . Freiburg i. Br., Herder, 2013.
  • together with Susanne Bickel, René Schurte, Christoph Uehlinger: Bilder als Quellen / Images as Sources. Studies on ancient Near Eastern artefacts and the Bible inspired by the work of Othmar Keel (OBO Sonderband), Freiburg CH / Göttingen 2007
  • Images and Gender. Contributions to the Hermeneutics of Reading Ancient Art . Freiburg (CH) / Göttingen 2006, OBO 220 (published).
  • together with Othmar Keel: EVA - mother of all living things. Idols of women and goddesses from the ancient Orient . 2nd edition Friborg 2006. 3rd edition 2010.
  • together with Othmar Keel: The Iconography of Palestine / Israel and the Ancient Orient (IPIAO). A history of religion in pictures . Volume 1: From the late Mesolithic to the Early Bronze Age , Freiburg (CH) 2004; Volume 2: Die Mittelbronzezeit , Academic Press, Freiburg (CH) 2008, ISBN 978-3-7278-1604-8 ; detailed review by Winfried Thiel in: Orientalistischer Literaturanzeiger Volume 105, 2010, pp. 55–60. Volume 3: The Late Bronze Age, Freiburg CH 2011.
  • Feminist Interpretation of the Bible and the Hermeneutics of Liberation . (JSOT.SS 374). Sheffield Academic Press, London 2003 (with Sophia Bietenhard)
  • together with Othmar Keel: Creation. Biblical theologies in the context of ancient oriental religions . 2nd Edition. Freiburg CH / Göttingen 2008
  • together with Christl Maier: Job. Inquiries to the Book of the Righteous Suffering . In: Schottroff, Wacker: Compendium feminist biblical interpretation , Gütersloh 1998.
  • together with Thomas Staubli: The body symbolism of the Bible . 2. revised Darmstadt 2005 edition.
  • Wisdom built her house. Studies on the figure of Sophia in the biblical writings , Mainz 1996.
  • together with Luise Schottroff , Marie-Theres Wacker : Feministische Exegese. Research outputs on the Bible from the perspective of women . Darmstadt 1995.
  • The Book of Sophia . In: Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza (ed.), Searching the Scriptures . Vol. II A Feminist Commentary, New York 1994, pp. 17-35.
  • together with Thomas Staubli: On the trail of the past. A century of archeology in the land of the Bible . Zurich 1993.
  • The goddess on the stamp seals from Palestine / Israel . In: O. Keel, H. Keel-Leu, S. Schroer: Studies on the stamp seals from Palestine Vol. II (OBO 88), Freiburg (CH) / Göttingen 1989, pp. 89–207 (habilitation thesis).
  • There were pictures in Israel. News from the performing arts in the Old Testament (OBO 74), Freiburg (CH) / Göttingen 1987 (doctoral thesis).
  • The spirit, the wisdom and the dove. Feminist-critical exegesis of a New Testament symbol on the background of its ancient oriental and Hellenistic-early Jewish tradition . FZPhTh 33, 1986, pp. 197-225.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Dr. Silvia Schroer, Vice Rector Quality. In: Homepage University of Bern. March 10, 2017, accessed January 30, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Schroer, Silvia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic theologian and university professor for the Old Testament and the Biblical Environment
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster