PD Dr. Andreas-Christian Heidel

Privatdozent and Research Associate

Institute for New Testament Studies

E-Mail
andreas.heidel@unibe.ch
Postal Address
Universität Bern
Institut für Neues Testament
Länggassstrasse 51
CH-3012 Bern

Curriculum Vitae

 
10/2026 - 03/2027

HTA Professor of New Testament

covering the Chair of New Testament and Ancient Judaism 

LMU Munich
Since 08/2026

Research Associate 

ChristianStory digitalization project

University of Bern
2025

Habilitation in New Testament Studies (venia docendi)

Faculty of Theology, University of Bern

Habilitation thesis: Religiöse Erfahrung in Korinth — Paulus und die frühchristliche Bewegung im Kontext ihrer griechisch-römischen Erfahrungswelt
08/2025 - 01/2026 Visiting Lecturer in New Testament Studies (50%), covering Professor Benjamin Schliesser’s teaching responsibilities 
University of Bern
02/2025 - 07/2025 Lecturer in New Testament Studies
Faculty of Theology, University of Bern
10/2020 - 08/2023 Acting Professor of New Testament Studies and Greek (50%)
Internationale Hochschule Liebenzell (University of Applied Sciences)
09/2020 - 09/2026 Lecturer in New Testament Studies
Internationale Hochschule Liebenzell (University of Applied Sciences)
2020 - 2025 Post-Doctoral Researcher (Habilitation)
SNSF Projects ECCLESIAE and UR:BAN 
University of Bern
04/2020 - 07/2020

Research Assistant

Chair for New Testament Studies

Prof. Dr. Dr. hc. Jörg Frey

University of Zurich
2020

Ph.D. In Theology (Dr. theol.)

University of Zurich

Dissertation: Das glaubende Gottesvolk: Der Hebräerbrief in israeltheologischer Perspektive

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dr. hc. Jörg Frey
09/2018 - 08/2020 Tutor and Lecturer in New Testament Studies
Albrecht-Bengel-Haus, Tübingen
2018 Ordination to the Ministry
Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Saxony
2017 Second Theological Exam
Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Saxony
09/2015 - 08/2017 Pastoral Training (“Vikariat”) in Dresden
Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Saxony
2015 First Theological Exam / Diploma
University of Leipzig 
2009 - 2015 Studies in Protestant Theology in Leipzig, Tübingen and Sydney (AUS)
1989
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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

  • Religiöse Erfahrung in Korinth. Paulus und die frühchristliche Bewegung im Kontext ihrer griechisch-römischen Erfahrungswelt, WUNT 560, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2026 (Open Access).
  • Das glaubende Gottesvolk. Der Hebräerbrief in israeltheologischer Perspektive, WUNT II/540, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2020.
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Articles

  • Pneumatologie und Offenbarung im Hebräerbrief, in: Geist. Phänomenologie – Religionsgeschichte – Theologie. Ein Kompendium, hg. v. B. Schliesser, R. Feldmeier u. J. Frey, WUNT 542, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2025, 759–779. [Open Access]
  • (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.

Memberships

  • Zurich Center for the Study of the Ancient World (ZAHZ), Elected Associate Member
  • Society for New Testament Studies (SNTS), Elected Associate Member
  • Society of Biblical Literature (SBL)

Scholarships & Awards

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2026 Award for Excellence in Teaching (ALL), University of Bern – conferred twice by the Faculty of Theology in the 2025/26 autumn semester for the seminar “Religious Experience in Early Christianity in the Context of its Greco-Roman World” and for the introductory New Testament course “Introduction to the New Testament 1: Jesus and the Gospels”
2025

Award for Excellence in Teaching (ALL), University of Bern – conferred by the Faculty of Theology for the course “Introduction to the New Testament” (Summer Semester 2025)
2025

Award for Excellence, The Foundation for Pentecostal Scholarship (TFFPS) for the article “Pneumatological Self-Confidence, Scriptural Interpretation, and the Making of Scripture in the Letter to the Hebrews”, Journal of Pentecostal Theology 33.1 (2024): 1–17
since 2020

Short-Term Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies Beyond Canon, University of Regensburg (biannual appointments)
2017 - 2018

Doctoral Scholarship, Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS)
2011 - 2015

Undergraduate Scholarship, Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS)