Ursula Ulrike Kaiser

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Ursula Ulrike Kaiser (* 1971 in Dresden ) is a German Protestant theologian .

Kaiser studied modern German literature and Protestant theology in Berlin and Bern . In 1999 she obtained her master's degree (Modern German Literature and Protestant Theology) in Berlin. In 2000 she passed her first theological exam in Leipzig . From 1999 to 2005 she was a research assistant in the New Testament department of the Theological Faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin with Hans-Gebhard Bethge . After her doctorate in 2005, the vicariate (2005–2007) in the EKBO , the second theological exam in 2007 and ordination in 2008, she was a pastor in the parish of the Evangelical Johannesstift Berlin and as a lecturer (New Testament and dogmatics) in deacon training until 2009 at the Wichernkolleg there. From 2009 to 2014 she was a research assistant at the Institute for New Testament at the University of Hamburg with Christine Gerber . From 2014 to 2016 she was a research assistant at the Institute for New Testament at the University of Hamburg on her own position (third-party funding: DFG ). After completing her habilitation in 2016 in Hamburg (January 2017), she was appointed private lecturer and was authorized to teach the New Testament. Then from 2016 to 2018 she worked as an academic adviser at the Institute for Protestant Theology at the University of Duisburg-Essen . Since 2019 she has been teaching as a professor for biblical theology and its didactics at the TU Braunschweig .

Her main research interests are hermeneutics and questions of method, the interpretation of metaphors in theology, metaphors of birth and procreation in the NT, the Gospel of John, Nag Hammadi and Gnosis research and New Testament apocrypha .

Kaiser is married and has two children.

Publications (selection)

  • The hypostasis of the archons. (Nag Hammadi Codex II, 4) (= texts and studies on the history of early Christian literature. Archive for the edition of the Greek Christian writers of the first centuries , volume 156). De Gruyter, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-11-019071-0 (also dissertation, HU Berlin 2005).
  • The talk of "being born again" in the New Testament. A new approach based on metaphor theory after 100 years of research history (= Scientific Investigations on the New Testament , Volume 413). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2018, ISBN 3-16-155340-3 (also habilitation thesis, Hamburg 2016/2017).
  • with Ulrike Lenz, Evamaria Simon and Martin Steinhäuser: Handbook for practice . (= Gott im Spiel. Godly Play further developed , Volume 1) Calwer Verlag, Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 3-7668-4458-X .

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SURNAME Kaiser, Ursula Ulrike
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden