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Professional Employment and Activities
| 2024 | Heinz Heinen Fellow at the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (January-February) |
| 2023 | Ethel M. Wood Lecture (King’s College London) Link zum Video |
| 2022 | Lady Davis Visiting Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| 2022 | Speaker’s Lectures (Oxford) |
| 2020/2021 | Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute of Advanced Study) at Berlin |
| 2019–2022 |
President of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament (IOSOT) |
| 2019 | ERC Advanced Grant "How God Became a Lawgiver: The Place of the Torah in Ancient Near Eastern Legal History" |
| 2018 | |
| 2017– | Member of the Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation |
| 2017–2024 | President of the Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft fuer Theologie |
| 2017 | Member of the Institute of Advanced Study (Princeton) and Visiting Scholar at Princeton Theological Seminary |
| 2016–2018 | Co-Direktor of the Sinergia-Project (SNF) "The History of the Pentateuch: Combining Literary and Archaeological Approaches" |
| 2016– | Head of the Theological Seminary |
| 2016 | Tyrwhitt Lecture (Cambridge) |
| 2014 | Frederick Neumann Memorial Lecture (Princeton) |
| 2012 | McGee Lecture (Baylor) |
| 2012–2020 | President of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Protestant Faculty of Theology of the University of Vienna |
| 2012/2013 | Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and convener of the research group "Convergence and Divergence in Pentateuchal Studies: Bridging the Academic Cultures of Israel, North America, and Europe" |
| 2008–2010 | Dean of the Faculty of Theology, University of Zurich |
| 2006/2007 | Member in Residence, Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton (NJ) |
| 2002– | Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Judaism at the University of Zurich |
| 1999–2002 | Professor (Associate) of Old Testament at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg |
| 1997–1999 | Assistant Professor at the University of Zurich |
| 1991–1997 | Assistant, University of Zurich |
Education
| 1998 | Habilitation, University of Zurich |
| 1995 | Dr. theol, University of Zurich |
| 1985–1990 | Studies in Theology in Zurich, Greifswald and Munich |
Learned Societies
- Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Orientalische Altertumswissenschaft (SGOA)
- Deutscher Palästina-Verein (DPV)
- Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Theologie (WGTh)
- Society of Biblical Literature (SBL)
- Schweizerische Theologische Gesellschaft (SThG)
- Rudolf-Bultmann-Gesellschaft für Hermeneutische Theologie
- Gelehrte Gesellschaft in Zürich
Editorial Boards
- Abhandlungen zur Theologie des Alten und Neuen Testaments (AThANT, TVZ, ZürichAThANT)
- Archaeology and Bible (ArchBib, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen)
- Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception (EBR, de Gruyter, Berlin / New York de Gruyter)
- Evangelische Theologie (EvTh, Gütersloher Verlagshaus, GüterslohEvTh)
- Forschungen zum Alten Testament (FAT I/II, Mohr Siebeck, TübingenFAT)
- Glauben und Lernen (GlLern, Edition Ruprecht, GöttingenGlLern) (2010–2016)
- Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel (HeBAI, Mohr Siebeck, TübingenHeBAI)
Tables of Contents: Volume 1 (2012)–4 (2015) (PDF, 1 MB) - Jahrbuch für Biblische Theologie (JBTh, Neukirchener, Neukirchen-VluynJBTh)
- Journal of Ancient Judaism: Supplement Series (JAJ.S, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, GöttingenJAJ.S)
- Journal of Biblical Literature (JBL, SBL, AtlantaJBL)
- Journal of Hebrew Scriptures (JHSJHS)
- Neue Theologische Grundrisse (NThG, Mohr Siebeck, TübingenNThG)
- Oxford Bible Commentary (Hebrew Bible) (OHB, Oxford University Press, Oxford)
- Religion und Politik (Nomos, Baden-Baden und Pano, ZürichReligion und Politik)
- Society of Biblical Literature: Ancient Israel and Its Literature (SBL.AIL, Society of Biblical Literature, Atlanta)
- Themen der Theologie (TdT, Mohr Siebeck, TübingenTdT)
- Theologische Rundschau (ThR, Mohr Siebeck, TübingenThR)
- Zürcher Bibelkommentare (ZBK, TVZ, ZürichZBK)
Publications
A list of the publications can be found under the following link: Publikationen
