Dr. Leopold Lucas Prize 2022

by Birgit Hallmann

Dr. Leopold Lucas Prize 2022 awarded to the Judaist Maren Niehoff on May 10.

This year's Dr. Leopold Lucas Prize of the Faculty of Protestant Theology was awarded to historian, Judaist, scholar of religion and literature Maren R. Niehoff. She is Max Cooper Professor of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She was honored for her interdisciplinary approach to questions of the relationship between Judaism, Christianity and Greco-Roman culture. The Dr. Leopold Lucas Prize is endowed with 50,000 euros.

Maren Niehoff has presented extensive research on Philon of Alexandria and Jewish biblical interpretation. She has shown how cultural transfer processes take place and what effects they can have, said the committee awarding the prize.

Institute

The English German Colloquium for NT is enjoying very brisk demand this semester. For the first time in a few years, we have to put off speakers until the winter semester, although the group is meeting weekly again.

Topics in May:

Romans 7 in Context (D.Schumann, Tübingen); Exodus Motifs in the NT Writings (Prof. Kowalski Dortmund); Desacralizing „Acts“. Early Christian Apocrypha „Ascents of James“ (Rec.1.27(33)-71) ( Aleksei Volchkov).

We are also preparing for the visit of the new Institute Director, Dr. Dennis Lindsay, and his wife in July. This will e.g. include preparations for the Lindsay family's move to Tübingen and planning for the resumption of the Theological German and Theological English classes in the Wintersemester.