Faculty of Theology

Talks


    Current Talks
  • “Das Urdeuteronomium und sein historischer Ort” (14 August 2025, 25th Congress of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament, Berlin).
  • “Der bundestheologische Zusammenhang des deuteronomischen Familienrechts” (7 July 2025, Wuppertaler alttestamentliche Sozietät).
  • “Der Leviathan in Altsyrien und im Alten Testament“ (7 February 2025, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony).
  • “Die Psalmen in ihrer Urgestalt,” with Christoph Levin (5 December 2024, Evangelische Stadtakademie Munich).
  • “The Word That Is Near: The Theological Significance of Deuteronomy 30:11–14” (14 November 2024, Biblical Studies Research Seminar, St Andrews [online]).
  • “Israel and Jacob, Rachel and Ephraim in ‘the Book of Consolation’ (Jer 30:1–31:26): God’s People or the Northern Kingdom?” (20 September 2024, International Conference “Israel in the Latter Prophets”, University of Tübingen).
  • “High and Low, Proud and Humble in Ancient Hebrew Poetry: Symbols of Power and Faithfulness” (14 September 2024, Melammu Workshop 2024, University of Tartu).
  • “Krieg und Frieden im Alten Testament” (VELKD Workshop “Neue Verantwortung für lutherische Friedensethik,” University of Göttingen).
  • “Repetition and Parallelism in Psalms from the Monarchic Age” (29 February 2024, Workshop “Textual Repetition and Creativity in Ancient Mesopotamia, Israel, Egypt and China,” University of Vienna).



Podcast:

Interview on the Storm-God Yahweh in the Old Testament: BAYERN 2 „Theo.Logik – Religion inside“ – „Religion und Wetter“. Broadcast by Friederike Weede, 2023 (Interview starting in min. 34:00).



YouTube:

“The Origins of YHWH in Light of the Earliest Psalms“. Interview on the YouTube channel of Zach Miller „What Your Pastor didn’t Tell you“ (18 July 2025).

„Alttestamentliche Schriftgelehrsamkeit und ihre altorientalischen Wurzeln“. Ringvorlesung „Verstehst du auch, was du liest?“ Debatten über Heilige Texte in Orient und Okzident (Göttingen, 13 November 2018)

University Service:
18 May 2025, on the motto “Fürchte dich nicht!“ with sermon on Isaiah 43:1-7.