Heidrun E. Mader

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Heidrun E. Mader (September 19, 1977[1]) is a German Protestant theologian and historian of early Christianity and its literature, and a professor at the University of Cologne, Germany, holding a chair of Biblical Literature and its Reception History.

Life

Mader grew up in Durban, South Africa (also place of birth), Istanbul, Turkey, Den Haag, the Netherlands, and Oldenburg, Germany.[2] She studied in Oberursel/Germany, Cambridge/UK and Heidelberg/Germany[3] with scholarships of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung).[4] From Cambridge University she graduated as M. Phil., being awarded the Scholefield Prize.[5]

As "Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin" (junior faculty) she taught and did research at the Lutheran Seminary Oberursel (2005) and at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, at the chair of Professor Peter Lampe (2006-2019). From Heidelberg University she also received her PhD and her Dr. habil.[6] Since 2020, she has been a Research Fellow of Stellenbosch University in Südafrika.[7] As board member and "Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin" (junior faculty) she worked for the Hessian LOEWE project of excellency "Religious Positioning: Modalities and Constellations in Jewish, Christian and Islamic Contexts" (2020),[8] until she took over an interim professorship at the University of Hamburg (2020/21-2022).[9] Since 2022, she has been a University Professor at the University of Cologne, holding a chair of Biblical Literature and its Reception History.[10] She is married and has one child.[11]

Heidrun Mader is co-editor of the international scholarly book series NTOA (Novum Testamentum et Orbis Antiquus), published by Brill/Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, and the scholarly journal Zeitschrift für Neues Testament (ZNT).[12] She is a member of the international Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas (SNTS), the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), the European Society of Women in Theological Research (ESWTR), serving on its German advisory board,[13] and the Collegium Oecumenicum in Heidelberg (longtime chair).[14]

Work

Her work[15] focusses on (1) the oldest Christian literary documents - the letters of Paul of Tarsus and the Gospel of Mark - as well as their relationship: Mader's analysis claims that Mark's Gospel takes up central ideas of Paul's letters and develops them narratively. The result is a narrative elaboration of a coherent set of Pauline topics that Paul had treated in argumentative discourses. Special features that only Mark and Paul have in common come to light.[16] (2) Mader reanalyzes the historical situation of Paul's letter to the Galatians and its addressees, including the concept of "works of the law", which in the Christian tradition often has been charged with anti-Jewish connotations (“righteousness through works" as mistakenly Jewish concept). (3) Visions, prophecies, and oracles in early Christianity. Mader's analysis of the Montanist oracles claims, among other results, that to a large extent these were formulated in the course of the reception of biblical texts.[17] (4) Women theologians and office holders in early Christianity. (5) Circumcision of women in antiquity and its echo in early Christian and early Jewish texts. (6) Dualism and diversity in the Gospel of John. (7) Emotion studies: affects and emotions in (and evoked by) biblical narratives.

Selected publications

Awards

References

  1. ^ Date of birth: PDF on the official website of the University of Giessen, Germany.
  2. ^ Official website of the University of Cologne, Germany, and PDF, page 1+2, on the official website of the University of Giessen, Germany (in German). Unimagazin 31 (March 2023), p.50. Retrieved April 4, 2023.
  3. ^ Official website of the University of Cologne, Germany, and PDF, page 2, on the official website of the University of Giessen, Germany (in German). Retrieved December 1, 2022.
  4. ^ Official websites of the University of Cologne, Germany, plus PDF, page 3, on the official website of the University of Giessen, Germany (in German). Unimagazin 31 (March 2023), p.50. Retrieved April 4, 2023.
  5. ^ Official websites of the University of Cologne, Germany, plus PDF, page 2+3, on the official website of the University of Giessen, Germany (in German). Unimagazin 31 (March 2023), p.50. Retrieved April 4, 2023.
  6. ^ Official website of the University of Cologne, Germany, plus PDF, page 1+2, on the official website of the University of Giessen, Germany (in German). Unimagazin 31 (March 2023), p.50. Retrieved April 4, 2023.
  7. ^ Official website of the University of Cologne, Germany, (in German). Unimagazin 31 (March 2023), p.50. Retrieved April 4, 2023.
  8. ^ Official website of the University of Cologne, Germany, plus PDF, page 2, on the official website of the University of Giessen, Germany (in German). Unimagazin 31 (March 2023), p.50. Retrieved April 4, 2023.
  9. ^ Official website of the University of Cologne, Germany, (in German). Unimagazin 31 (March 2023), p.50. Retrieved April 4, 2023.
  10. ^ Official website of the University of Cologne, Germany, (in German). Unimagazin 31 (March 2023), p.50. Retrieved April 4, 2023.
  11. ^ PDF, page 1, on the official website of the University of Giessen, Germany (in German). Retrieved December 1, 2022.
  12. ^ Official website of the University of Cologne, Germany, (in German). NTOA. Retrieved April 4, 2023.
  13. ^ ESWTR German advisory board.
  14. ^ Official websites of the University of Cologne, Germany (in German). Retrieved December 1, 2022.
  15. ^ For the following focuses of Mader's research, see the official website of the University of Cologne, Germany. Unimagazin 31 (March 2023), p.50.
  16. ^ Review by Udo Schnelle in Theologische Literaturzeitung 2021, 8824–8826; Review by Boris Repschinski in BBS 2021; Review by Volker Stolle in Lutherische Theologie und Kirche 2021, 218-219; Unimagazin 30 (Dec. 2022), p.59.
  17. ^ Review by William Tabbernee in Journal of Early Christian Studies 2018.
  18. ^ "Hermann-Sasse-Preis 2023 geht an Heidrun Mader - 15.11.2022" (in German). Retrieved December 1, 2022.; Unimagazin 30 (Dec. 2022), p.59.
  19. ^ Official websites of the University of Cologne, Germany, plus PDF, page 3, on the official website of the University of Giessen, Germany (in German). Unimagazin 31 (March 2023), p.50. Retrieved April 4, 2023.
  20. ^ Official websites of the University of Cologne, Germany, plus PDF, page 2+3, on the official website of the University of Giessen, Germany (in German). Unimagazin 31 (March 2023), p.50. Retrieved April 4, 2023.
  21. ^ Official websites of the University of Cologne, Germany, plus PDF, page 3, on the official website of the University of Giessen, Germany (in German). Unimagazin 31 (March 2023), p.50. Retrieved April 4, 2023.

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