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Sara Kipfer

Professorship:

Protestant Theology with emphasis on Old Testament, since 1 February 2023

About the professorship

Department:

Department of Human Sciences and Theology

Studies and doctorate: ​​​​​​​

  • 2021: Habilitation at Heidelberg University
  • 2013: Doctorate at the University of Bern
  • 2007: Licentiate at the University of Bern
Portrait of a woman outside © Hesham Elsherif​/​TU Dortmund

Stages:

  • 2019: visiting scholar at Tel Aviv University, Israel
  • 2017-2022: academic assistant at Heidelberg University (Margarete von Wrangell Habilitation Program)
  • 2016-2017: Visiting Scholar at Heidelberg University (Swiss National Science Foundation and Humboldt Research Fellowship)
  • 2015-2016: External Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Chicago (Swiss National Science Foundation)
  • 2013-2015: Research Associate in the project “Emotions in the Old Testament” at the University of Bern (Swiss National Science Foundation)
  • 2011: Research Fellow at the Centre for Reception History of the Bible, University of Oxford, and The Warburg Institute, University of London (Swiss National Science Foundation)

Areas of focus:

  • Extreme climate events in the 1st millennium BC in the southern Levant and social transformation processes (environmental humanities).
  • Political power relations of the early monarchic period of Israel and Judah 10th-9th century B.C. and research on the books of Samuel
  • Body and emotion concepts in the Hebrew Bible and ancient Near Eastern iconography