Prof. Dr. Jan Dietrich

2016
Habilitation, Old Testament Studies, Dr. theol. habil., University of Leipzig, Germany

2009
Doctorate, Old Testament Studies, Dr. theol. (s.c.l.), University of Leipzig, Germany

2003–2004
State examination in Protestant Theology, History, and Pedagogy, University of Tübingen, Germany

1996–2003
Undergraduate and graduate studies in Protestant Theology, History, Philosophy, Pedagogy and Ancient Languages in Tübingen, Germany, and Cambridge, UK

since 2020
Professor of Literary and Religious History of the Old Testament, University of Bonn, Germany

2020–2022
Professor of Old Testament (Individual Employment), Aarhus University, Denmark

2018–2020
Professor of Old Testament, Aarhus University, Denmark

2016–2020    
Director of the Research Program at the Department of Theology, Aarhus University, Denmark

2014–2015
Director of Ph.D.-Studies for Theology, Philosophy and History of Ideas, Aarhus University, Denmark

2012–2018
Associate Professor of Old Testament, Aarhus University, Denmark

2009–2011 
Research Fellow, Institute of Old Testament Studies, Faculty of Theology, University of Leipzig, Germany

2004–2009 
Research Assistant, Institute of Old Testament Studies, Faculty of Theology, University of Leipzig, Germany

since 2019
Ancient Epistemologies

since 2019
Measuring Value and Accommodating the Gods: Abstracting from the Material in Ancient Cultures

since 2021 
Opferlogiken

2018 
Measuring Value and Accommodating the Gods: Abstracting from the Material in Ancient Cultures; Independent Research Fund Denmark

2016
The Origins of Second Order Thinking, Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation Fund

2011
Travel grant for lecture tours, John Templeton Foundation

2011
John Templeton Award for Theological Promise, Research Center for In­ter­na­tio­nal and Inter­dis­ciplinary Theology at Heidelberg University, Germany, and the John Templeton Foundation, USA

2011
Preis für Antike Rechtsgeschichte, Faculty of Law and Faculty of Philosophy and History at Innsbruck University, Austria

Monographs

• 2017. Der Tod von eigener Hand. Studien zum Suizid im Alten Testament, Alten Ägypten und Alten Orient (Oriental Religions in Antiquity 19). Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.
• 2010. Kollektive Schuld und Haftung. Religions- und rechtsgeschichtliche Studien zum Sündenkuhritus des Deuteronomiums und zu verwandten Texten (Oriental Religions in Antiquity 4). Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.

Articles and Book Chapters

• 2019. “Sollte der Richter der ganzen Erde nicht Recht üben?“ (Gen 18,25). Über moralischen Realismus im Alten Testament, Zeitschrift für Theologie und Kirche 116, 251–270.
• 2019. Liberty, Freedom, and Autonomy in the Ancient World: a general introduction and comparison. In Research on Israel and Aram. Autonomy, Independence and Related Issues. Proceedings of the First Annual RIAB Center Conference, Leipzig, June 2016 (Research on Israel and Aram in Biblical Times 1 / Oriental Religions in Antiquity 34), edited by A. Berlejung / A. Maeir, 3–22. Tübingen 
• 2018. Wisdom in the Cultures of the ancient World: a general introduction and comparison In Teaching Morality in Antiquity: Wisdom Texts, Oral Traditions, and Images (Oriental Religions in Antiquity), edited by T. Oshima, 3–18. Tübingen. 
• 2018. Responsive Anthropologie. Zum Bild des Menschen im Alten Testament am Beispiel der Tugend-Epistemologie. In Relationale Erkenntnishorizonte in Exegese und systematischer Theologie (Marburger Theologische Studien 129), edited by W. Bührer / R.J. Meyer zu Hörste-Bührer, 145–159. Leipzig.
• 2018. Zur Individualität und Sozialität der Scham im Alten Testament. In Die verborgene Macht der Scham. Ehre, Scham und Schuld im alten Israel, in seinem Umfeld und in gegenwärtigen Lebenswelten (Biblisch-Theologische Studien), edited by A. Grund, 58–83. Göttingen.
• 2017. Hebräisches Denken und die Frage nach den Ursprüngen des Denkens zweiter Ordnung im Alten Testament, Alten Ägypten und Alten Orient. In Individualität und Selbstreflexion in den Literaturen des Alten Testaments (VWGTh 48), edited by A. Wagner / J. van Oorschot, 45–65, Leipzig.
• 2017. Human Relationality and Sociality in Ancient Israel: Mapping the Social Anthropology of the Old Testament. In “What is Human?” Theological Encounters with Anthropology, edited by E.-M. Becker / J. Dietrich / B. Holm Göttingen, 23–44. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
• 2015. Coping with Disasters in Antiquity and the Bible: Practical and Mental Strategies. In Past Vulnerability: volcanic eruptions and human vulnerability in traditional societies past and present, edited by F. Riede, 153–169. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press.
• 2014. Cultural Traumata in the Ancient Near East. In Trauma and Traumatization in Individual and Collective Dimensions: Insights from Biblical Studies and Beyond (Studia Aarhusiana Neotestamentica 2), edited by E.-M. Becker / J. Dochhorn / E. Holt, 145–161. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
• 2012. Individualität im Alten Testament, Alten Ägypten und Alten Orient. In Menschenbilder und Körperkonzepte im Alten Israel, in Ägypten und im Alten Orient (Oriental Religions in Antiquity 9), edited by A. Berlejung / J. Diet¬rich / J.F. Quack, 77–96. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.