Education

11/2021 – 07/2026
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 10/2025
Research associate at the chair of Old Testament (Prof. Dr. Reettakaisa Sofia Salo), University of Erlangen-Nürnberg

09/2023 – 09/2025
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: Spaces of Contact in the Post-Exilic Period (6th–4th century BCE

This dissertation investigates Egypto-Levantine relations during the 6th–4th century BCE, applying the conceptual framework of “contact spaces” (modified after C. Ulf). It builds on previous research on the Aramaic documents from Egypt and, for the first time, also evaluates the material sources for contacts with Egypt from the Southern Levant. Particular attention is paid to the different modes of reception of the objects and ideas of transfer and their entanglement with elements from diverse cultural contexts.

The analysis of these sources yields a geographically and chronologically differentiated result: Geographically, spaces of intense contacts were constituted by the semi-autonomous actors of long-distance trade, particularly along the coast of the Southern Levant and along the caravan routes in the south. The provinces in the central hill country, by contrast, participated—to varying degrees—only indirectly in these spaces of contact. Chronologically, these relations reached a peak in the 4th century, when a countrywide temple-building program in Egypt, as well as the foreign policy of late dynastic pharaohs, stimulated Egypt’s cultural production and contacts.

Overall, this work contributes equally to the archaeology of the Southern Levant and its cultural contacts as well as to the history of religion of the Hebrew Bible and its reception in Egypt.

Diese Dissertation wurde gefördert durch ein Promotionsstipendium des 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.