Thomas Podella

Thomas Podella (born October 2, 1955 in Wanne-Eickel ) is a German theologian and ancient orientalist who worked as a private lecturer at the University of Münster .

Podella studied Protestant Theology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the Church University of Wuppertal and the Eberhard-Karls-University of Tübingen .

In 1987 he received his doctorate at the Church University of Berlin under Peter Welten with a thesis on "Fasting: Collective Mourning for the Hidden God". From 1982 to 1991 he was a research assistant at the Biblical-Archaeological Institute of the University of Tübingen and worked for Walter Groß on the research project on ancient Hebrew syntax.

From 1991 to 1995 he was a university assistant with Bernd Janowski at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität zu Heidelberg . There he completed his habilitation in 1994 with a thesis on " YHWH's Light Dress : Investigations into the Shape of God in the Old Testament and his ancient oriental environment". From 1995 to 2000 Podella represented Old Testament professorships at the Universities of Siegen, Munich and Münster. From 1998 to 2002 he was head of a research project “Transformations of Cultic Representations in Ancient Israeli Temple Rituals” as part of the DFG project “Theatricality” (coordinator Erika Fischer-Lichte )

Fonts

• The light dress JHWHS: Investigations into the shape of God in the Old Testament and his ancient oriental environment , Tübingen: Mohr, 1996 (= research on the Old Testament, 15) ( Habilschrift )
• Ṣôm fasting: collective mourning for the hidden God in the Old Testament , Butzon & Bercker, Kevelaer, 1989 (= Old Orient and Old Testament, 224) (diss.)
• (Ed. With Peter Riede) Traces of a Path: Gift of friend for Bernd Janowski on his fiftieth birthday on April 30, 1993 , Heidelberg, 1993
• (Editing with Siegfried Mittmann and others) The Royal Route: 9000 Years of Art and Culture in Jordan and Palestine , catalog for the exhibition in the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Cologne, from October 3, 1987 - March 27, 1988, from Zabern, Mainz 1987
• Articles and reviews in specialist journals and edited volumes; Article in Der Neue Pauly , Evangelisches Kirchenlexikon , Handbuch Religionswissenschaftlicher Grundbegriffe (Hrsg. H. Cancik), Harenbergs Lexikon der Weltliteratur , New Bible-Lexikon (Ed. M. Görg et al.), Religion in the past and present , Theological real encyclopedia

Web links

• Short biography and list of publications