Univ.-Prof. Dr. Annette Schellenberg

Academic position:

Deputy Head - Department of Old Testament Studies and Biblical Archaeology

Career:

2002 Dr. theol., Theological Faculty of the University of Zurich

2003–2005 Visiting Scholar at the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures of the University of California, Los Angeles; fellow of Swiss National Foundation

2005–2007 Fellow of „Nachwuchsförderungskredit“, University of Zurich

2007–2010 Assistant Professor of Old Testament at San Francisco Theological Seminary and the Graduate Theological Union, San Anselmo/Berkeley, California

2011 Habilitation, Theological Faculty of the University of Zurich

2010–2014 Associate Professor of Old Testament at San Francisco Theological Seminary and the Graduate Theological Union, San Anselmo/Berkeley, California (with tenure)

since 2015 Professor of Old Testament at the Faculty of Protestant Theology (Institute of Old Testament Studies and Biblical Archaeology) of the University of Vienna

since fall 2016: Vice-Dean and Director of Studies

Selective bibliography:

Kohelet (ZBK), Zürich: TVZ 2013

Der Mensch, das Bild Gottes? Zum Gedanken einer Sonderstellung des Menschen im Alten Testament und in weiteren altorientalischen Quellen (AThANT 101), Zürich: TVZ 2011 (Habilitation)

Erkenntnis als Problem. Qohelet und die alttestamentliche Diskussion um das menschliche Erkennen (OBO 188), Freiburg/Göttingen: Universitätsverlag/Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2002 (Dissertation)

List of all publications

Main research areas:

Primeval History (Gen 1–11)

Priestly literature

Wisdom literature

Song of Songs – current major project: Commentary on the Song of Songs for the Illumination Series (Eerdmans)

Anthropology of the Hebrew Bible (reflections on humans and humanity)

Controversies on theological questions in ancient Israel and other ancient Near Eastern cultures

Interrelations between the world of the Hebrew Bible and its ancient Near Eastern environment

Reception history of Old Testament texts

Other activities:

Since 2020: Editor-in-chief of Vetus Testamentum.