News from Tübingen

News from Tübingen

The English-German Colloquium in NT has an interim new leader from the Protestant Faculty of the University. Dr.  Daniel Schumann, assistant to Prof. Tilly, will take over Prof. Tilly's duties in the coming winter semester due to his research semester. Daniel is no stranger to the Colloquium nor to our Institute. He has presented multiple times in the Colloquium and he has helped to organize our recent international Symposiums, along with providing editorial support for the publications of the Symposium proceedings.

Here is Daniel’s brief self-introduction:

“I studied Protestant Theology (Dipl.) and Jewish Studies at the Universities of Jena and Leipzig (2002–2006; 2007-2011) and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2006-2007). In 2018, I completed my PhD in Theology (New Testament and Ancient Judaism) at the University of Münster under the supervision of Prof. Lutz Doering, with a dissertation on Vows in Ancient Judaism and Earliest Christianity (AJEC 111, Leiden: Brill, 2021). From 2018 to 2020, I held a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship at the University of Oxford, where I was also affiliated as a Visiting Scholar at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and as a Research Associate of Keble College. I am currently a non-tenured lecturer for New Testament and Ancient Judaism at the Faculty of Protestant Theology, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, where I work at the chair of Prof. Michael Tilly and am preparing my Habilitation thesis Romans 7 in Context.

My teaching covers introductory courses in New Testament exegesis as well as occasional classes in Geʽez, Syriac, and Old Church Slavonic. Beyond Pauline studies, my research interests include rabbinic literature, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the writings of Josephus. Together with Dr. Dennis Lindsay, Prof. Michael Tilly, Prof. Loren Stuckenbruck, and Dr. Tanja Forderer, I co-organized the 2024 symposium The “Great Commandment” in Early Christianity and its Jewish and Greco-Roman Environment; the proceedings are currently being prepared for publication in the WUNT I series with Mohr Siebeck.”