Das Bild zeigt einen Relief, auf dem ein Metzger bei der Arbeit abgebildet ist © Jan Heilmann Das Bild zeigt einen Ausschnitt von unterschiedlichen Darstellungen des Kodex Boernerianus © Jan Heilmann

Forschen am Puls der Zeit

We research the New Testament texts in the context of Greco-Roman culture. The research spectrum ranges from the cultural techniques of reading and writing as well as eating and drinking to the history of the New Testament text and canon and the integration of computational methods into the exegetical canon of methods.

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Einblick in unsere Forschungsgebiete

scene of a meal © Jan Heilmann
Unsere Forschungs­felder

New Testament and Greco-Roman culture with a special focus on: Reading and writing, milling culture, material culture, economic history and metaphors; textual criticism and New Philology; history and theology of the New Testament canon; digital humanities and large language models.
a woman who is reading © Jan Heilmann
Aktuelle Projekte

The ancient communal meal and the theology, history and New Testament foundations of the Lord's Supper; Reading and writing in antiquity and early Christianity; The Codex Boernerianus; The text of the first edition of the New Testament; DFG network ‘Meal and Text’.
Das Foto zeigt einen Laptop-Monitor, auf welchem die Webseite des Forschungsinformationssystems zu sehen ist. © placeit.net
Publika­tionen und Veröffent­lichungen

Recent publications of the Chair.
Codex Alexandrinus © Jan Heilmann

Biblical theology

Biblical theology has the task of perceiving the biblical tradition in its specific character and making it heard in the discussion between the theological disciplines. Biblical theology makes the Old and New Testaments transparent as the basis and starting point of all further theological theorizing and introduces the respective profile of the biblical texts as a critical authority into the theological discussion.