Published On: March 2020-Categories: Lautenschlaeger Award-

2020

Andrew Forsyth (Yale University)

Award-Winning Work: Common Law and Natural Law in America: From the Puritans to the Legal Realists (Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019).

David Henreckson (Princeton University)

Award-Winning Work: The Immortal Commonwealth: Covenant, Community, and Political Resistance in Early Reformed Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019).

Jill Hicks-Keeton (Duke University)

Award-Winning Publication: Arguing with Aseneth: Gentile Access to Israel’s Living God in Jewish Antiquity (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018).

Ying Huang (University of Heidelberg)

Award-Winning Publication: Von der religiösen Gemeinschaft zum Reich Gottes. Das Verständnis von Religion in Bonhoeffers frühen Schriften (1924–1935) (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2019).

Han-luen Kantzer-Komline (University of Notre Dame)

Award-Winning Publication: Augustine on the Will: A Theological Account (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020)

Matthew Larsen (Yale University)

Award-Winning Publication: Gospels before the Book (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018).

David Newheiser (University of Chicago)

Award-Winning Publication: Hope in a Secular Age: Deconstruction, Negative Theology, and the Future of Faith (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019).

Travis Proctor (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

Award-Winning Work: Rulers of the Air: Demonic Bodies and the Making of the Ancient Christian Cosmos

Sarah Stewart-Kroeker (Princeton Theological Seminary)

Award-Winning Publication: Pilgrimage as moral and aesthetic formation in Augustine’s thought (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017).

Christopher M. Wojtulewicz (King’s College London)

Award-Winning Work: Meister Eckart on the Principle: An Analysis of the Principium in his Latin Works (Leuven: Peeters, 2017).

2019

Allen, Garrick V.

Current Position: Associate Professor in New Testament Studies in the School of Theology, Philosophy, and Music at Dublin City University in the Republic of Ireland.

E‑Mail: garrick.allen@dcu.ie

Award-Winning Publication: The Book of Revelation and Early Jewish Textual Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017).

Brodersen, Alma

Current Position: Dr. Alma Brodersen is a Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer in Theology (Old Testament) at the University of Bern (Switzerland).

E‑Mail: Alma.Brodersen@theol.unibe.ch

Award-Winning Publication: The End of the Psalter. Psalms 146–150 in the Masoretic Text, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Septuagint (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017).

Christoffersen, Mikkel Gabriel 

Current Position: Dr. Mikkel Gabriel Christoffersen is employed at the Faculty of Theology in Copenhagen, working on a postdoc project funded by the Carlsberg foundation.

E‑Mail: mch@teol.ku.dk

Award-Winning Publication: Living with Risk and Danger: Studies in Interdisciplinary Systematic Theology (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2019).

Heim, Erin 

Current Position: Dr. Erin Heim is Tutor in Biblical Studies at Wycliffe Hall where she primarily teaches New Testament.

E‑Mail: Erin.heim@wycliffe.ox.ac.uk

Award-Winning Publication: Adoption in Galatians and Romans: Contemporary Metaphor Theories and the Pauline Huiothesia Metaphors (Leiden: Brill, 2017).

Krause, Katharina

Current Position: Senior Lecturer (Wissenschaftliche Assistentin) for Practical Theology at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.

E‑Mail: katharina.krause@uni-tuebingen.de

Award-Winning Publication: Bekehrungsfrömmigkeit. Historische und kultursoziologische Perspektiven auf eine Gestalt gelebter Religion. Praktische Theologie in Geschichte und Gegenwart 23 (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2018).

​McGlothlin, Thomas

Current Position: Teacher at the Christian Academy in Japan

E‑Mail: tmcglothlin@caj.ac.jp

Award-Winning Publication: Resurrection as Salvation: Development and Conflict in Pre-Nicene Paulinism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018).

​Motia, Michael

Current Position: Lecturer in Religion at the University of Massachusetts Boston and Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School.

E‑Mail: michael.motia@umb.edu

Award-Winning Publication: The Mimetic Life: Imitation and Infinity in Gregory of Nyssa (forthcoming).

Rüggemeier, Jan

Current Position: Dr. Rüggemeier is currently Senior Lecturer in New Testament Studies at the University of Bern and at the University of Zurich, Switzerland

E‑Mail: jan.rueggemeier@uzh.ch (Zurich) or jan.rueggemeier@theol.unibe.ch (Bern)

Award-Winning Publication: Poetik der markinischen Christologie. Eine kognitiv-narratologische Exegese (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2017).

Stewart, Anne

Current Position: Vice President for External Relations at Princeton Theological Seminary

E‑Mail: anne.stewart@ptsem.edu

Award-Winning Publication: Poetic Ethics in Proverbs: Wisdom Literature and the Shaping of the Moral Self (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015).

Teubner, Jonathan

Current Position: Dr. Jonathan D. Teubner is Research Fellow at the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry, Australian Catholic University.

E‑Mail:  jdt3f@virginia.edu

Award-Winning Publication: Prayer after Augustine: A Study in the Development of the Latin Tradition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018).

2017

Kattan Gribetz, Sarit 

Current Position: Assistant Professor in the Theology Department at Fordham University.

E‑Mail: skattangribetz@fordham.edu

Award-Winning Publication: Conceptions of Time and Rhythms of Daily Life in Rabbinic Literature, 200–600 C.E. (Ph.D. diss, Princeton University, 2013).

Hankins, Davis

Current Position: Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Department of Philosophy and Religion, Appalachian State University (Boone, NC); and faculty affiliate in the Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies program and in the Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies program.

E‑Mail: davis.hankins@gmail.com

Award-Winning Publication: The Book of Job and the Immanent Genesis of Transcendence (Diaeresis. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 2015).

Hong, Liang

Current Position: Assistant Professor of Systematical Theology at China Graduate School of Theology (Hong Kong); Adjunct Research Fellow at Institut for Religion and Legal Studies (IRLS), China University of Political Science and Law (Beijing).

E‑Mail: liang.hong@cgst.edu

Award-Winning Publication: Leben vor den letzten Dingen. Die Dostojewski-Rezeption im frühen Werk von Karl Barth und Eduard Thurneysen (1915–1923), (Vandenhoek & Ruprecht; Neukirchener, 2016).

König, Katrin

Current Position: Research and Teaching Associate (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) at the Department of Protestant Theology at the University of Tübingen.

E‑Mail: katrin_koenig@protonmail.com

Award-Winning Publication: Begnadete Freiheit. Anselm von Canterburys Freiheitstheorie (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2016).

Lang, T.J.

Current Position: Lecturer in New Testament at the University of St Andrews (St Mary’s College, School of Divinity).

E‑Mail: tjl5@st-andrews.ac.uk

Award-Winning Publication: Mystery and the Making of a Christian Historical Consciousness: From Paul to the Second Century (Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2015).

Newsome Martin, Jennifer 

Current Position: Assistant professor in the Program of Liberal Studies (Great Books) with a concurrent appointment in the Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame.

E‑Mail: Jennifer.N.Martin.225@nd.edu

Award-Winning Publication: Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Critical Appropriation of Russian Religious Thought (University of Notre Dame Press, 2015).

Mroczek, Eva

Current Position: Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California, Davis.

E‑Mail: emroczek@ucdavis.edu

Award-Winning Publication: The Literary Imagination in Jewish Antiquity (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016).

Nagel, Svenja

Current Position: Freelance research associate (Freie Mitarbeiterin) in the Department of Egyptology of Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg, and Associate Member of the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context: The Dynamics of Transculturality” of the University of Heidelberg (project MC 10 “The Magic of Transculturality”).

E‑Mail: nagel@asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de

Award-Winning Publication: Die Ausbreitung des Isiskultes im Römischen Reich: Tradition und Transformation auf dem Weg von Ägypten nach Rom. Eine Untersuchung zur Entwicklung des Isiskultes im griechisch-römischen Ägypten und zu seiner Adaption in Rom und dem westlichen Mittelmeerraum, (Diss. Univ. Heidelberg 2015; Wiesbaden: Philippika, forthcoming).

Qu, Xutong

Current Position: Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at School of Philosophy, Beijing Normal University in Beijing.

E‑Mail: quxutong@bnu.edu.cn

Award-Winning Publication: Barth und Goethe: Die Goethe-Rezeption Karl Barths, 1906 — 1921 (Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verl.-Ges., 2014).

Tappenden, Frederick

Current Position: Faculty Lecturer at McGill University.

E‑Mail: frederick.tappenden@mcgill.ca

Award-Winning Publication: Resurrection in Paul: Cognition, Metaphor, and Transformation (Atlanta: SBL Press, 2016).

2016

Ammann, Sonja

Current Position: Research and Teaching Associate (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) in Hebrew Bible, Humboldt University Berlin

E‑Mail: sonja.ammann@hu-berlin.de

Award-Winning Publication: Götter für die Toren. Die Verbindung von Götterpolemik und Weisheit im Alten Testament (Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2015).

Breed, Brennan

Current Position: Assistant Professor of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, GA, USA.

E‑Mail: breedb@ctsnet.edu

Award-Winning Publication: Nomadic Text: A Theory of Biblical Reception History (Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2014).
Brown, Kenneth

Current Position: Research Associate (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) in the Department of Protestant Theology at Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz.

E‑Mail: kenbrown@uni-mainz.de

Award-Winning Publication: The Vision in Job 4 and Its Role in the Book: Reframing the Development of the Joban Dialogues (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2015).

Coyne, Ryan

Current Position: Assistant Professor of the Philosophy of Religions and Theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School.

E‑Mail: rcoyne@uchicago.edu

Award-Winning Publication: Heidegger’s Confessions: The Remains of Saint Augustine in Being and Time and Beyond (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015).

Decosimo, David

Current Position: Assistant Professor at Boston University in the School of Theology and the Graduate Division of Religious Studies.

E‑Mail: jddecosimo@gmail.com

Award-Winning Publication: Ethics as a Work of Charity: Thomas Aquinas and Pagan Virtue (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014).

Friesen, Courtney

Current Position: Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Arizona (Tucson).

E‑Mail: friesen@email.arizona.edu

Award-Winning Publication: Reading Dionysus: Euripides’ Bacchae and the Cultural Contestations of Greeks, Jews, Romans, and Christians (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2015).

Joseph, Alison

Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor of Ancient Judaism at Towson University, Towson, MD USA.

E‑Mail: alison_joseph@yahoo.com

Award-Winning Publication: Portrait of the Kings: The Davidic Prototype in Deuteronomistic Poetics (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2015).

Perrin, Andrew

Current Position: Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Arizona (Tucson).

E‑Mail: andrew.perrin@twu.ca

Award-Winning Publication: The Dynamics of Dream-Vision Revelation in the Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2015).

Wells, Kyle

Current Position: Senior Minister of Christ Presbyterian Church, Santa Barbara.

E‑Mail: kylebwells@gmail.com

Award-Winning Publication: Grace and Agency in Paul and Second Temple Judaism: Interpreting the Transformation of the Heart (Leiden: Brill, 2015).

Wilson, Brittany

Current Position: Assistant Professor of New Testament at Duke University Divinity School.

E‑Mail: bwilson@div.duke.edu

Award-Winning Publication: Unmanly Men: Refigurations of Masculinity in Luke-Acts (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015).

2015

Chu, Xiaobai

Current Position: Associate Professor at East China Normal University

E‑Mail: chuxiaobai61@gmail.com

Award-Winning Publication: Jesus Through the Centuries in China; the emergence of Christian spirituality in Ming and Qing Dynasty

Croasmun, Matthew

Current Position: Yale University Doctoral Candidate

E‑Mail: Matthew.croasmun@yale.edu

Award-Winning Publication: The Body of Sin, An Emergent Account of Sin as a Cosmic Power in Romans 5–8 (Yale University, Dissertation, 2014)

Eikrem, Asle

Current Position: Associate Professor in Systematic Theology of MF-Norwegian School of Theology

E‑Mail: Asle.eikrem@mv.no

Award-Winning Publication: Being in Religion: A journey in ontology from pragmatics through hermeneutics to metaphysics (Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck, 2013)

Krause, Joachim

Current Position: Research Assistant (Wissenschaftler Assistent) in Hebrew Bible at the University of Tübingen

E‑Mail: Joachim.krause@uni-tuebingen.de

Award-Winning Publication: Exodus and Eisodus. Komposition und Theologie von Josua 1–5 (Leiden/Boston, Brill, 2014)

Kynes, Will

Current Position: Assistant Professor of Theology, Whitworth University

E‑Mail: wkynes@whitworth.edu

Award-Winning Publication: My Psalm has turned into Weeping: Job’s Dialogue with the Psalms (BZAW 437, Berlin: de Gruyter, 2012)

Larson, Atria A.

Current Position: Visiting Scholar Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, St. Louis University

E‑Mail: Atria.larson@gmail.com

Award-Winning Publication: Master of Penance: Gratian and The Development of Penitential Thought and Law in the Twelfth Century (Washington DC: Catholic Univ. of America Press 2014)

McInroy, Mark

Current Position: Assistant Professor of Theology, University of St. Thomas

E‑Mail: Mark.mcinroy@stthomas.edu

Award-Winning Publication: Balthasar on the Spiritual Senses: Perceiving Splendour (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014)

Reichel, Hanna

Current Position: Assistant of Professor of Systematic Theology, Martin-Luther-Universtiy Halle-Wittenberg, beginning habilitation

E‑Mail: Hanna.reichel@theologie.uni-halle.de

Award-Winning Publication: Theologie als Bekenntnis. Karl Barths kontextuelle Lektüre des Heidelberger Katechismus (Heidelberg PhD Diss., unpublished, 2013)

Strine, Casey Alan

Current Position: Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow and Lecturer in Hebrew Bible, University of Sheffield

E‑Mail: c.a.strine@sheffield.ac.uk

Award-Winning Publication: Sworn Enemies: The Divine Oath, the Book of Ezekiel, and the Polemics of Exile (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2013)

Torrance, Alexis

Current Position: Assistant Professor in Byzantine Theology, University of Notre Dame

E‑Mail: Alexis.torrance@gmail.com

Award-Winning Publication: Repentance in Late Antiquity: Eastern Asceticism and the Framing of the Christian Life, ca. 400–650 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013)

2014

Albertson, David

Current Position: Assistant Professor of Religion, University of Southern California

E‑Mail: dalberts@usc.edu

Award-Winning Publication: Mathematical Theologies: Nicholas of Cusa and

the Legagy of Thierry of Chartres (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013)

Bar-Asher Siegal, Michal

Current Position: Rosen Family Chair in Judaic Studies, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

E‑Mail: bsmichal@bgu.ac.il

Award-Winning Publication: Early Christian Monastic Literature and the Babylonian Talmud (Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013)

Becker, Matthias

Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher at the Current Research Centr 923 ‚Threatened Orders‘, University of Tübingen

E‑Mail: matthias.becker@philologie.uni-tuebingen.de

Award-Winning Publication: Eunapios aus Sardes: Biographie über

Philosophen und Sophisten. Einleitung, Übersetzung, Kommentar (Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag, 2013)

Erisman Roskop, Angela

Current Position: Managing Director, Hebrew Union College Publications (Hebrew Union College

E‑Mail: angelaroskop@gmail.com

Award-Winning Publication: The Wilderness Itineraries: Genre, Geography,

and the Growth of Torah (Eisenbrauns, 2011)

Grillo, Jennie

Current Position: Assistant Professor of Old Testament, Duke Divinity School; Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion, Amherst College

E‑Mail: Jennie.grillo@gmail.com

Award-Winning Publication: The Story of Israel in the Book of Qohelet: Ecclesiastes as Cultural Memory (Oxford: Oxfort University Press, 2012)

Grünstäudl, Wolfgang

Current Position: Akademischer Rat, Institut für kath. Theologie, Bergische Universität Wuppertal

E‑Mail: gruenstaeudl@uni-wuppertal.de

Award-Winning Publication: Petrus Alexandrinus: Studien zum historischen

und theologischen Ort des zweiten Petrusbriefes (Universität Regensburg, 2012)

Leech, David

Current Position: Affiliated Lecturer and Research Associate, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, UK

E‑Mail: david.leech@bristol.ac.uk

Award-Winning Publication: The Hammer of the Cartesians: Henry More´s Philosophy of Spirit and the Origins of Modern Atheism (Leuven, Peeters, 2013)

Pajunen, Mika

Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, ‘Biblical Texts older than the Bible’, University of Helsinki and University of Agder

E‑Mail: mika.s.pajunen@helsinki.fi

Award-Winning Publication: The Land to the Elect and Justice for All (Helsinki, 2012, Forthcoming Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2013)

Singh, Devin

Current Position: PhD cand. Department of Religious Studies, Yale University

E‑Mail: devin.singh@yale.edu

Award-Winning Publication: God´s Coin. On Monetary and Divine Economies (Yale University, 2013)

Thiessen, Matthew

Current Position: Assistant Professor of New Testament, Saint Louis University

E‑Mail: mthiess1@slu.edu

Award-Winning Publication: Contesting Conversion: Genealogy, Circumcision and Identity in Ancient Judaism and Christianity.

2013

Avrahami, Yael (Israel/Germany)

Current Position: Chair of Department of Biblical Studies at Oranim Academic College of Education, Israel

E‑Mail: yael_av@oranim.ac.il

Award-Winning Publication: The Sense of Scripture: Sensory Perception in the Hebrew Bible (New York: T&T Clark, 2011).

Hays, Christopher B. (USA)

Current Position: D. Wilson Moore Associate Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, CA, USA

E‑Mail: hays@fuller.edu

Award-Winning Publication: Death in the Iron Age and in First Isaiah (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2011).

Lincicum, David (USA)

Current Position: Associate Professor of Biblical Studies/Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity, University of Notre Dame

E‑Mail: david.lincicum@theology.ox.ac.uk

Award-Winning Publication: Paul and the Early Jewish Encounter with Deuteronomy (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2010).

Losch, Andreas (Germany)

Current Position: Postdoc at the Center for Space and Habitability (CSH) in association with the Theological Faculty of Bern, Switzerland, Managing Editor of www.theologie-naturwissenschaften.de

E‑Mail: andreas.losch@web.de

Award-Winning Publication: Jenseits der Konflikte. Eine konstruktiv-kritische Auseinandersetzung von Theologie und Naturwissenschaft (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2011).

Maßmann, Alexander (Germany)

Current Position: lecturer, academic assistant and postdoctoral researcher at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

E‑Mail: Alexander.Massmann@wts.uni-heidelberg.de

Award-Winning Publication: Bürgerrecht im Himmmel und auf Erden. Karl Barths Ethik (Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2011).

Moffitt, David (USA)

Current Position: Senior Lecturer at the School of Divinity at the University of St Andrew’s

E‑Mail: dm206@st-andrews.ac.uk

Award-Winning Publication: Atonement and the Logic of Resurrection in the Epistle to the Hebrews (Leiden: Brill 2011).

Peppard, Michael (USA)

Current Position: Assistant Professor of
New Testament, Early Christian Studies, Religion and Public Life at Fordham University, NY, USA

E‑Mail: mpeppard@fordham.edu

Award-Winning Publication: The Son of God in the Roman World: Divine Sonship in its Social and Political Context (New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press 2011).

Portier-Young, Anathea (USA)

Current Position: Associate Professor of Old Testament at Duke Divinity School, Durham, NC, USA

E‑Mail: apyoung@div.duke.edu

Award-Winning Publication: Apocalypse against Empire: Theologies of Resistance in Early Judaism (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 2011).

Sheridan, Ruth (Australia)

Current Position: Post-doctoral Research Fellow at United Theological College, a partner in the School of Theology of Charles Sturt University, New South Wales, Australia

E‑Mail: sheridan_ruth@yahoo.com

Award-Winning Publication: Retelling Scripture: ‘The Jews’ and the Scriptural Citations in John 1:19–12:15 (Brill: Leiden, 2012).

Stang, Charles (USA)

Current Position: Associate Professor of Early Christian Thought at Harvard Divinity School, MA, USA

E‑Mail: cstang@hds.harvard.edu

Award-Winning Publication: Apophasis and Pseudonymity in Dionysius the Areopagite: “No Longer I“ (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012).