Prof. Dr. Ulrich Berges

Principal Investigator

Old Testament Studies' Department
Faculty of Catholic Theology
Regina-Pacis-Weg 1a
D-53113 Bonn
Phone: +49 228 73 7842
uberges@uni-bonn.de

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Academic Profile

Ulrich Berges focuses on the biblical and especially Old Testament roots of dependency and the movements against oppression. What biblical texts were used for the legitimization and for the delegitimazation of dependency? What happens when these texts were used in the same context by oppressors and oppressed? It is highly probably that the different images of God strongly intervene in these antithetical strategies.

6 books, 2 edited volumes, approximately 100 articles and reviews. 40 national and international lectures, 20 supervised Master and Ph.D. theses

1998
Habilitation in Old Testament Studies, Catholic Theological Faculty, University of Muenster, Germany

1994–1998
Postdoctoral Studies (Habilitation), Catholic Theological Faculty, University of Muenster, Germany

1986–1988
Ph.D. at the École Biblique in Jerusalem, Israel

1977–1986
Catholic Theology and Bible Studies, University of Eichstätt, Salzburg, Germany, Pontifical Gregorian University and Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome, Italy

since 2009
Professor for Old Testament Studies, University of Bonn, Germany

2005–2009
Professor for Old Testament Studies, University of Muenster, Germany

1998–2005
Professor for Old Testament Studies, University of Nijmegen, Netherlands

1994–1997
Director of "Arbeitskreis zur Erforschung der Kultur und Religion des Östlichen Mittelmeeres" (AZERKAVO) [Working Group on the Study of the Culture and Religion of the Eastern Mediterranean]

1989–1994
Profesor asociado: Facultad de Teología Pontificia y Civil de Lima, Perú

since 2013
Extraordinary Professor at the University of Pretoria, South Africa

since 2012
Full member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts

since 2012

Member of the Catholic Biblical Association of America (CBA)

since 2011
Member of the advisory board "Estudios Biblicos," Madrid, Spain

2011–2021
Member of the Commission for Doctrine and Faith of the German Bishops' Conference

2007–2010
Spokesperson for the working group of Catholic German-speaking Old Testament researchers

2007–2009
Member of the executive board of the cluster of excellence "Religion und Politik in der Moderne und Vormoderne" [Religion and Politics in Modernity and Premodernity], Muenster, Germany

  

Project leader "Göttliche Gewalt in der Hebräischen Bibel" [Divine Violence in the Hebrew Bible]

Guest professorships at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome and at the Facultad de Teologia in Lima, Perú

  • Co-editor of the "Bonner Biblische Beiträge" (BBB)
  • Co-editor of "Herders Biblischer Kommentar zum Alten Testament" (HThKAT)
  • Co-editor of "Altes Testament und Moderne" (ATM)
  • Project leader "Divine Violence in the Hebrew Bible" in the cluster of excellence "Religion and Politics in the Modern as well as the Premodern Times," University of Muenster (about € 350,000 for that part of the project)
  • 2023. Die Sklavengesetze im Pentateuch. Befreiung oder gesetztes Unrecht? In Vor allen Dingen: Das Alte Testament. Festschrift für Christoph Dohmen (HBS 100), edited by B. Schmitz, 120–130. Freiburg i. Br.
  • 2022. Jesaja 55–66, Herders Theologischer Kommentar zum Alten Testament. Freiburg i. Br.
  • 2016. "'Der Richter der ganzen Welt, sollte der nicht Recht üben?' (Gen 18,25) Zur Einhegung der göttlichen Gewalt durch Gerechtigkeit und Recht." In Informationes Theologiae Europae, edited by Ulrich Nembach, 13–28. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
  • 2016. With Willem A. M. Beuken. Das Buch Jesaja. Eine Einführung. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
  • 2015. "Die dunklen Texte der Prophetie als Herausforderung für eine alttestamentliche Ethik." In Mehr als Zehn Worte? Zur Bedeutung des Alten Testaments in ethischen Fragen, edited by Christian Frevel, 345–373. Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder.
  • 2015. Jesaja 49–54. Herders Theologischer Kommentar zum Alten Testament. Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder.
  • 2013. Die dunklen Seiten des guten Gottes. Zu Ambiguitäten im Gottesbild JHWHs aus religions- und theologiegeschichtlicher Perspektive. Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste – Vorträge: Geisteswissenschaften 443. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh.
  • 2010. Jesaja. Der Prophet und das Buch. Biblische Gestalten 22. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt. [Engl. translation: Isaiah. The Prophet and his Book. Sheffield: Phoenix Press, 2012].
  • 2009. With Rudolf Hoppe. Arm und Reich. Die Neue Echter Bibel. Themen 10. Würzburg: Echter.  [Ital. translation:Il Povero e il Ricco nella Bibbia. I Temi della Bibbia 10. Bologna: EDB, 2011].
  • 2002. Klagelieder. Herders theologischer Kommentar zum Alten Testament. Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder.
  • 1998. Das Buch Jesaja. Komposition und Endgestalt. Herders biblische Studien 16. Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder. [Engl. translation: The Book of Isaiah. Its Composition and Final Form. Hebrew Bible Monographs 46. Sheffield: Phoenix Press, 2012].
  • 1989. Die Verwerfung Sauls. Eine thematische Untersuchung. Forschung zur Bibel 61. Würzburg: Echter.
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