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Prof. Dr. Christl M. Maier

Professor Maier’s research and teaching comprises the interpretation of Old Testament prophecy, especially the Book of Jeremiah, Wisdom literature, and feminist hermeneutics. In her research, she collaborates with colleagues from various countries (especially Italy, South Africa, and the United States) with whom she organizes conferences and sessions at annual meetings of the Society of Biblical Literature, and coedits books on feminist, postcolonial, and trauma studies perspectives of the Hebrew Bible. She is interested in the intersection of ethnicity, class, gender, and religion both in the Biblical texts and their contemporary interpretation leading to a hermeneutics that honours different scholarly contexts and regional audiences.

Her most recent books are Daughter Zion, Mother Zion: Gender, Space, and the Sacred in Ancient Israel (Fortress Press, 2008) and Jeremiah 1–25: International Exegetical Commentary of the Old Testament (Kohlhammer 2022 in German, 2023 in English). She has also contributed to the Oxford Handbook of Prophecy (2016) and the Oxford Handbook of Jeremiah (2021). She coedited The Writings and Later Wisdom Books, volume 1.3 of The Bible and Women Series (with Nuria Calduch-Benages) in four European languages (2013–2014) and contributed to volume 1.2 Prophets (2019–2020).

Her next project is to investigate the Book of Jeremiah as a master narrative of cultural trauma (cf. her latest article in Vetus Testamentum 70, 2020, 67-82). 

Contact information: 

Prof. Dr. Christl M. Maier

+49 6421 28-22454,

Lahntor 3
35032 Marburg
U|01 Alte Universität (Room: 01003a resp. +1003a)