PD Dr. Andreas-Christian Heidel

Privatdozent (habilitated scholar)

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

 
2025

Habilitation at the University of Bern (venia legendi in New Testament Studies)
HS 2025/26 Substitute Professorship for Prof. Dr. Benjamin Schliesser at the Institute of New Testament Studies, Faculty of Theology, University of Bern, as part of a visiting lectureship (50%)
FS 2025 Lecturer at the Institute of New Testament Studies, Faculty of Theology, University of Bern
Since 2020 Lecturer in New Testament Studies at the Internationale Hochschule Liebenzell (University for Applied Sciences)
2020 - 2025 Post-Doctoral Researcher 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 Zurich
2020 Doctoral Degree in Theology (Dr. theol.), University of Zurich (Dissertation: “Das glaubende Gottesvolk: Der Hebräerbrief in israeltheologischer Perspektive”, advised by Prof. Dr. Jörg Frey)
2018 - 2020 Tutor and Consultant for New Testament in the Albrecht-Bengel-Haus in Tübingen
2018 Ordination as Pastor in the Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Württemberg
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
2009 - 2015 Course of Study in 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

  • 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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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)