Sara Kipfer
Professorship:
Protestant Theology with emphasis on Old Testament, since 1 February 2023
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

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


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