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Prof. Dr. Johannes Schnocks

Current affiliations

  • Professorship of History of time and religion of the Old Testament (Prof. Schnocks)
  • Centre for Eastern Mediterranean History and Culture (GKM)
  • Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics"

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

  • Studies on the Book of Psalms
  • Studies on the Books of Maccabees
  • Divine and human violence in the Old Testament
  • Concepts of resurrection in the Old Testament
  • Studies on Job
  • History of religion of ancient Israel

Academic Education

2008Habilitation, University of Bonn
2002Doctorate (Advisors: H.-J. Fabry and F.-L. Hossfeld)
1995 - 2001Doctoral program in Bonn
1990 - 1998Scholarship from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation
1989 - 1995Catholic Theology (diplom), University of Bonn and Dormition Abbey, Jerusalem

Work Experience

since 03/2012Professor for History and Religion of the Old Testament
since 2007Lecturer at the theological program at the Dormition Abbey, Jerusalem
2008 - 2011Researcher at the Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics" in project D1 "Divine Violence: Religious-Historical and Reception-Hermeneutical Analyses of the Images of God in the Hebrew Bible"
1999 - 2008Research assistent at the Institute for Old Testament, University of Bonn
2003Scholarship from the "Evangelical Church in Germany" and participation in the course of the German Protestant Institute of Archaeology in Jerusalem and Amman
1997 - 1999Lecturer for Biblical Hebrew at the University of Bonn

Functions and Memberships

since 2014Vertrauensdozent der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
since 2013Executive board of the catholic-theological faculties association
since 2011Editorial board of the "Wissenschaftliche Monographien zum Alten und Neuen Testament"
since 2008Society of Biblical Literature
since 2005Netzwerk "Theologie und Hochschuldidaktik"
since 1999German Association of Old Testament scholars

Publications

Israelerinnerung. Anmerkungen zu einer Hermeneutik des Alten Testaments im Gespräch mit dem Judentum
Schnocks, Johannes (2023)
In: Schmitz, Barbara; Hieke, Thomas; Ederer, Matthias (eds.), Vor allen Dingen: Das Alte Testament. Festschrift für Christoph Dohmen. Freiburg im Breisgau : Herder Verlag.
Type of Publication: Research article (book contribution)
"Wir bekennen uns dankbar zu den 'Schriften', unserem Alten Testament". Überlegungen eines katholischen Exegeten zu einer verantworteten Hermeneutik der Hebräischen Bibel
Schnocks, Johannes (2023)
In: Hüllstrung, Wolfgang; Löhr, Hermut (eds.), Nicht du trägst die Wurzel, sondern die Wurzel trägt dich: Gegenwärtige Perspektiven zum Rheinischen Synodalbeschluss "Zur Erneuerung des Verhältnisses von Christen und Juden" von…. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt.
Type of Publication: Research article (book contribution)
„Nähe Gottes ist für mich gut“ (Ps 73,28) Überlegungen zur Nähe Gottes in alttestamentlichen Texten
Schnocks, Johannes (2023)
In: Zeitschrift für Pastoraltheologie, 43(1)
Type of Publication: Research article (journal)
Wie aus ,Unglück' (MT) eine ,Fackel' (Tg) ,zur festgesetzten Zeit' (LXX) wird: Digitale Edition antiker Textzeugen des Ijobbuches mit Darstellung der Übersetzungsweise
Schnocks, Johannes; Hiepel, Ludger (2022)
In: Unboxing DH – wie generieren wir Wissen mit digitalen Methoden und Tools? - DH-Tag der WWU Münster 2022, Münster, Germany. zenodo
Type of Publication: Poster
Der Priester August Rohling und seine Hetzschrift "Der Talmudjude" von 1871
Serup-Bilfeldt, Kerstin (2022)
Type of Publication: Audio contribution
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Projects

Cluster of Excellence 2060 - Religion and Politics: Dynamics of Tradition and Innovation
Duration: 01/01/2019 - 31/12/2025 | 1st Funding period
Funded by: DFG - Cluster of Excellence
Type of project: Main DFG-project hosted at University of Münster
EXC 2060 C3-18 - Concepts of overcoming violence in the Hebrew Bible and its reception
Duration: 01/01/2019 - 31/12/2025 | 1st Funding period
Funded by: DFG - Cluster of Excellence
Type of project: Subproject in DFG-joint project hosted at University of Münster
EXC 212 D2-10 - THE EXPERIENCE OF VIOLENCE AND THE WRATH OF GOD: RELIGIOUS-HISTORICAL AND RECEPTION-HERMENEUTIC ANALYSES OF OLD TESTAMENT LAMENTS
Duration: 01/11/2012 - 31/12/2018 | 1st Funding period
Funded by: DFG - Cluster of Excellence
Type of project: Subproject in DFG-joint project hosted at University of Münster
Commentary on 2 Maccabees (IECOT)
Duration: since 02/09/2011
Type of project: Own resources project
Commentary on the Book of Job (Biblischer Kommentar)
Duration: since 30/05/2011
Type of project: Own resources project
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Doctorates

Construction and deconstruction of the enemies as a strategy of overcoming violence in Ps 35-41
Candidate: Katharina Fockenbrock, Mag. Theol. | Supervisors: Schnocks, Johannes; Dyma, Oliver | Reviewers: Schnocks, Johannes; Dyma, Oliver
Period of time: 01/01/2019 - 30/09/2023
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster