Education

since 11/2021
PhD student at Humboldt University of Berlin, Faculty of Theology (supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dr. Bernd U. Schipper)

since 2022

Participation in the excavation campaigns at Tell Keisan (Israel)

08/2022 – 12/2022
Visiting fellow at Harvard University, Graduate School of Arts and Science

10/2015–10/2021

Studies in Protestant Theology and Ancient Cultures at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Abbey of the Dormition in Jerusalem, and Georg August University of Göttingen; degrees awarded: Theological Examination of the Protestant Church in Hesse and Nassau / Magister Theologiae, Bachelor of Arts in Ancient Cultures

Professional Experience

since 09/2023

Research and teaching assistant at the chair of Israelite History in its Ancient Near Eastern Context (Prof. Dr. Dr. Bernd U. Schipper), Humboldt University of Berlin

10/2019 – 03/2021
Student assistant at the chair of Old Testament (Prof. Dr. Reinhard Müller), Georg August University of Göttingen

07/2016 – 03/2019
Student assistant at the chair of Israelite History in its Ancient Near Eastern Context (Prof. Dr. Dr. Bernd U. Schipper), Humboldt University of Berlin

Scholarships & Awards

01/2022–08/2023
Three-year doctoral scholarship of the Einstein Center Chronoi (resigned due to a change to a research assistant position).

10/2021
Awarded with the Armin Schmitt Award for Biblical Text Studies

08/2018 – 04/2019
Eight-month study scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service

02/2016 – 09/2021
Full study scholarship of the Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst

Israel and Egypt in the Persian Period

Research into the relationship between the Hebrew Bible and Egypt focuses increasingly on the religio-historical context of the 6th-4th centuries BC. However, for this period, the historical and cultural relations of the Yhwh cult centers in the Palestinian hill country with the two lands on the Nile have not been comprehensively explored. So far, research has primarily concentrated on the Aramaic documents from Egypt, which testify to the presence of Yhwh worshippers on the Nile. Sources from Palestine/Israel, in contrast, have hardly been considered to address this question. My dissertation project, therefore, broadly evaluates the sources for relations with Egypt from the material culture of Palestine/Israel as well as from biblical texts. Thereby, it pursues the goal of an overall presentation of the historical and cultural contacts between Israel and Egypt in the Persian period.

This dissertation is funded by a doctoral fellowship from the Einstein Center Chronoi.

2023
Das Ideale Heiligtum. Das ägyptische Buch vom Tempel und die biblischen Heiligtumstexte (Ex 25–31.35–40) im religionsgeschichtlichen Vergleich, in: A. Verbovsek / E. Hemauer / A. Herzberg-Beiersdorf (Hg.), Diskurs: Akteur – Gegenstand – Beziehungen. Beiträge des elften Berliner Arbeitskreises Junge Aegyptologie, Wiesbaden, 75–88.

2022
Der Pentateuch als Kompromissprodukt zwischen Garizim und Jerusalem. Aktuelle Bestandsaufnahme einer Forschungsthese, in: S. Alkier (Hg.), Konstellationen antiker Tempelwirtschaft. Neue Perspektiven auf den Tempel am Garizim, den Jerusalemer-Tempel und das Artemision in Ephesos (Beyond Historicism 2), Paderborn, 58–84.

2019
Art. Garizim, Heiligtum, in: Das wissenschaftliche Bibellexikon im Internet (www.wibilex.de).

"Tief ist der Brunnen der Vergangenheit". Jesu Dialog mit einer Samaritanerin am Jakobsbrunnen in Joh 4,4–26 vor dem Hintergrund der Geschichte zweier nachexilischer palästinensischer JHWHismen, Salzburger Theologische Zeitschrift 23/2, 248–277.