Current research projects

• Jerusalem as a Christian Place of Remembrance. Die Anfänge (book project; under contract for the series Standorte in Antike und Christentum, Hiersemann: Stuttgart)
• Concepts of God in the New Testament in their ancient religious contexts
• Research history of the Acts of the Apostles

Research focus

• Hermeneutics and methodology of New Testament exegesis (especially semantics, narratological analysis, cultural studies approaches)

• Early Christian understanding of God against the background of ancient religion and culture (ancient Judaism and Greco-Roman philosophy)

• Pauline writings, in particular the Epistle to the Romans, Corinthian correspondence and 1 Thessalonians

• History of interpretation and research of 1 Corinthians

• Theology of Paul

• Aspects of the social history of the Pauline communities, in particular gender roles

• Theology of Luke's double work

• Christology of the synoptic gospels, in particular the Gospel of Mark, as well as Luke's double work

• Ancient philosophy, in particular the Socratic tradition, Platonic dialogues, Cynicism

• "Places of remembrance" (lieux de mémoire) in the New Testament

• Collective memory and the Jesus tradition as well as its contribution to the construction of an early Christian identity (cultural memory, "places of memory")

• Jerusalem, its history in Roman times; Jerusalem as a place of remembrance in ancient Judaism, in pagan Greco-Roman antiquity and in early Christianity

• the significance of the Jewish War and the Flavian dynasty for the history of ancient Judaism and emerging Christianity

• Ancient anti-Judaism in the Hellenistic era, in the Roman Republic and in the imperial period up to Hadrian

• Apollonius of Tyana and the New Testament