Dr. Andreas-Christian Heidel

Posdoctoral Researcher (Habilitation) / Researcher in a Grant-Funded Project

Institute for New Testament Studies

E-Mail
andreas.heidel@unibe.ch
Postal Address
Internationale Hochschule Liebenzell
Heinrich-Coerper-Weg 11
D-75378 Bad Liebenzell

Curriculum Vitae

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Since 2020  Short Time Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies "Beyond Canon" at the University of Regensburg

Since 2020

Lecturer in New Testament Studies at the Internationale Hochschule Liebenzell (University for Applied Sciences)
Since 08/2020
 Postdoctoral Researcher (Habilitation) with Prof. Dr. Benjamin Schliesser, Institute for New Testament Studies, Theological Faculty, University of Bern

2020

Research Assistant to Prof. Dr. Jörg Frey, University of Zürich
2020

Doctoral Degree in Theology (Dr. theol.), University of Zürich (Dissertation: "Das glaubende Gottesvolk: Der Hebräerbrief in israeltheologischer Perspektive", advised by Prof. Dr. Jörg Frey)
2018 - 2020

Assistant and Consultant for New Testament in the Albrecht-Bengel-Haus in Tübingen
 2018

Ordination as Pastor in the Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Württemberg
 2017 - 2018

Graduate Scholarship from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation
 2017

II. Theological Exam with the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Saxony
 2015 - 2017

Pastoral Training ("Vikariat") with the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Saxony in Dresden
 2015

I. Theological Exam at the University of Leipzig
 2011 - 2015

Scholarship from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation
 2009 - 2015

Course of Study in Theology in Leipzig, Tübingen and Sydney (AUS)
 1989  *

Research Interests

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  • New Testament Exegesis: Focus on Hebrews and Corinthians
  • Social History of Early Christianity
  • Greek-Roman History of Religion
  • Intertextuality of the Old and New Testaments
  • The Relationship between Judaism and Christianity and Jewish-Christian Dialogue
  • Hermeneutics of historiography and questions of a canonical approach to the Bible

Publications

Books

  • Das glaubende Gottesvolk. Der Hebräerbrief in israeltheologischer Perspektive, WUNT II/540, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2020.
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Journal articles

  • (zusammen mit F. Gantenbein, H.-M. Hengel, C. Langjahr, L. Mührenberg, J. Rüggemeier, B. Schliesser u. N. Walder) SNSF-Project “ECCLESIAE – Early Christian Centers: Local Expressions, Social Identities, and Actor Engagement” (2021–2025), in: Early Christianity 15 (2024), 127–143.
  • Pneumatological Self-Confidence, Scriptural Interpretation, and the Making of Scripture in the Letter to the Hebrews, in: Journal of Pentecostal Theology 33 (2024), 1–17.
  • The Agonistic Imagery of the New Testament and the Paradox of the Cross, in: Themelios 48.2 (2023), 342–353.
  • Perspectives for Reading the Epistle to the Hebrews as a Constructive Contribution to Jewish-Christian Dialogue, in: Neotestamentica 56.2 (2022), 253–274.
  • Gehen, Sein und Bleiben – Der Missionsauftrag Jesu als dreidimensionale apostolische Existenz der Kirche, in: Deutsches Pfarrerinnen- und Pfarrerblatt 121 (2021), 5–8.
  • Between Times and Spaces. The Understanding of Reality in the Letter to the Hebrews as the Fundamental Framework of Its Interpretation, in: Novum Testamentum 62 (2020), 416–435.

Lexicon articles

  • New Heaven and New Earth I. New Testament, in: Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, Bd. 21, Berlin: de Gruyter, 2023, 260f.
  • New Heaven and New Earth II. Judaism A. Second Temple and Hellenistic Judaism, in: Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, Bd. 21, Berlin: de Gruyter, 2023, 261f.
  • New Jerusalem II. New Testament, in: Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, Bd. 21, Berlin: de Gruyter, 2023, 281.
  • New Jerusalem III. Judaism A. Second Temple and Hellenistic Judaism, in: Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, Bd. 21, Berlin: de Gruyter, 2023, 281f.
  • Nicolaitans, in: Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, Bd. 21, Berlin: de Gruyter, 2023, 425f.
  • Art. Hebräerbrief, in: Das Wissenschaftliche Bibellexikon im Internet (www.wibilex.de), 2020 (https://www.bibelwissenschaft.de/stichwort/46871/).

Reviews

  • Frey, Jörg/Schliesser,Benjamin/Ueberschaer, Nadine (Hrsg.): Glaube. Das Verständnis des Glaubens im frühen Christentum und in seiner jüdischen und hellenistisch-römischen Umwelt, WUNT 373, Tübingen 2017, in: ThBtr 19-5.6 (2019), 484–485.
  • Neugebauer, Fritz: Die Entstehung des Johannesevangeliums, hg. v. Rainer Riesner, Gießen 2015, in: ichthys 32/1 (2016), 89–91.
  • Klenk, D./Werner, R./Wannenwetsch, B.: YOUBE. Evangelischer Jugendkatechismus, Basel 2015, in: ichthys 32/1 (2016), 99–100.