Professor Dr. Lutz Doering

Professor Dr. Lutz Doering

Wilmergasse 1-4
48143 Münster

T: + 49 251 83-22562
F: +49 251 83-22565

Academic ProfileExternal Profile
Research Foci
  • The Dead Sea Scrolls and the so-called OT Pseudepigrapha (especially 1 Enoch, Jubilees, 4 Ezra, 2 Baruch)
  • Jewish religion in the Hellenistic-Roman period
  • Tannaitic Literature
  • Torah, halakhah and festivals in ancient Judaism and their reception in early Christianity
  • Epistolography and communication in ancient Judaism and early Christianity
  • The First Letter of Peter
  • The 
Synoptic Gospels
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Academic Education

Habilitation for New Testament and Ancient Judaism at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Doctoral studies in the Theological Faculty of Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (summa cum laude)
Studies of Theology and Jewish Studies at Erlangen, Jerusalem and Heidelberg

Positions

Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Studies "Beyond Canon_" (FOR 2770), University of Regensburg
Speaker of the Centre for Eastern Mediterranean History and Culture (GKM)
Dean / Head of Department, FB01
Dean of Finances / Deputy Head of Department, FB01
Fellow at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem
Professor of New Testament and Ancient Judaism in the Protestant Theological Faculty of WWU Münster and Academic Head of the Institutum Judaicum
Reader in New Testament and Ancient Judaism at Durham University
Lecturer in New Testament Studies at King’s College London
Teaching and Research Fellow (“Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter”, later “Assistent”) at the chair of New Testament of Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Curate in Soest
Teaching Fellow for New Testament in the Theological Faculty of Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Inspector of Studies, German Year Abroad Programme, Dormition Abbey, Jerusalem

External Functions

Editorial Board, Zeitschrift für die Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft (ZNW)
Scholarly Board, Scripta Qumranica Electronica (DIP project, PIs: R. G. Kratz, J. Ben-Dov, N. Dershowitz)
Advisory Board, Doctoral Programme in Biblical Studies, Stockholm School of Theology
Editorial Board, New Testament Studies
Verband der Judaisten in Deutschland e.V.
University commission for Internationalisation – deputy member
Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas (SNTS)
Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Theologie
Editorial Board, Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity (Leiden: Brill)
Program Co-Chair, Hellenistic Judaism Section, SBL Annual Meeting
Advisory Board, Contributions to Biblical Exegesis and Theology (Leuven: Peeters)
Editorial Board, Journal for the Study of the New Testament
Enoch Seminar (since 2012 member of the Advisory Board)
British Association for Jewish Studies (BAJS) (2012–2014 member of the Committee)
Society of Biblical Literature
Teaching
Current Project
Publications

  • . . “Torah and Halakah in the Hellenistic Period.” in Torah: Functions, Meanings, and Diverse Manifestations in Early Judaism and Christianity, SBL Early Judaism and Its Literature, edited by William M. Schniedewind, Jason M. Zurawski and Gabriele Boccaccini. Atlanta, GA: SBL Press.
  • , and . . “Nachruf auf Hans Bernhard Kaufmann (1926-2022).Theologische Literaturzeitung 147 (5): 511513.
  • . . “Creation, Sabbath, and Calendar in the Book of Jubilees.” in Kritische Schriftgelehrsamkeit in priesterlichen und prophetischen Diskursen: Festschrift für R. Achenbach zum 65. Geburtstag, Vol.27 of BZAR, edited by Lars Maskow and Jonathan Robker. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
  • . . “Religious Context.” in The Jesus Handbook, edited by Jens Schröter, Christine Jacobi and Robert L. trans. Brawley. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.
  • . . “Jesus in the Judaism of His Time (Jewish Influence on Jesus).” in The Jesus Handbook, edited by Jens Schröter, Christine Jacobi and Robert L. trans. Brawley. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.

  • . . “Bar Kokhba Letters.” in The T&T Clark Companion to the Dead Sea Scrolls, edited by George Brooke and Charlotte Hempel. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.
  • . . “Ransom, Re-begetting, and Rescue: The Soteriological Web of 1 Peter.” in Sōtēria: Salvation in Early Christianity and Antiquity. Festschrift in Honour of Cilliers Breytenbach on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday, Vol.175 of Novum Testamentum Supplements, edited by Toit David S. du, Christine Gerber and Christiane Zimmermann. Leiden: Brill.
  • . . “Rabbinische Belege und Neues Testament.” in Update-Exegese 2.2: Ergebnisse gegenwärtiger Bibelwissenschaft. Mit einem Geleitwort von H. Bedford-Strohm, edited by Wolfgang Kraus and Martin Rösel. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt.
  • . . “Law and Lawlessness in Texts from Qumran.” in Law and Lawlessness in Early Judaism and Early Christianity, Vol.420 of Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 1. Reihe, edited by David Lincicum, Ruth Sheridan and Charles M. Stang. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck Verlag.
  • . . “Textual History of 4 Baruch.” in Textual History of the Bible, Vol. 2B: Deuterocanonical Scriptures, Part 2, edited by Matthias Henze, Frank Feder and Armin Lange. Leiden: Brill. doi: 10.1163/2452-4107_thb_COM_0202030100.
  • . . “Textual History of 2 Baruch.” in Textual History of the Bible, Vol. 2B: Deuterocanonical Scriptures, Part 2, edited by Matthias Henze, Frank Feder and Armin Lange. Leiden: Brill. doi: 10.1163/2452-4107_thb_COM_0202020100.
  • . . “Textual History of the Letter of Jeremiah.” in Textual History of the Bible, Vol. 2B: Deuterocanonical Scriptures, Part 2, edited by Matthias Henze, Frank Feder and Armin Lange. Leiden: Brill. doi: 10.1163/2452-4107_thb_COM_0202040100.
  • . . “Textual History of 1 Baruch.” in Textual History of the Bible, Vol. 2B: Deuterocanonical Scriptures, Part 2, edited by Matthias Henze, Frank Feder and Armin Lange. Leiden: Brill. doi: 10.1163/2452-4107_thb_COM_0202010100.
  • . . “Textual History of Jubilees.” in Textual History of the Bible, Vol. 2C: Deuterocanonical Scriptures, Part 3, edited by Matthias Henze, Frank Feder and Armin Lange. Leiden: Brill. doi: 10.1163/2452-4107_thb_COM_0208010000.
  • . . Rabbinische Texte, Erste Reihe: Die Tosefta, Vol.II,1, Seder II: Moëd, 1: Schabbat: übersetzt und erklärt Stuttgart: Kohlhammer Verlag.

  • . . “Urzeit-Endzeit Correlation in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Pseudepigrapha.” in Eschatologie – Eschatology: The Sixth Durham-Tübingen Research Symposium. Eschatology in Old Testament, Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity (Tübingen, September, 2009), Vol.272 of Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 1. Reihe, edited by Christof Landmesser, Hans-Joachim Eckstein and Hermann Lichtenberger. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck Verlag.

  • . . “Sabbath Laws in the New Testament Gospels.” in The New Testament and Rabbinic Literature, Vol.136 of Journal for the Study of Judaism Supplements, edited by R. Bieringer, Martínez F. García, D. Pollefeyt and P.J. Tomson. Leiden: Brill. doi: 10.1163/ej.9789004175884.i-544.48.
  • . . “Sabbath and Festivals.” in The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Daily Life in Roman Palestine, edited by Catherine Hezser. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

  • . . “Much Ado about Nothing? Jesus’ Sabbath Healings and their Halakhic Implications Revisited.” in Judaistik und Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft: Standorte – Grenzen – Beziehungen, Vol.246 of Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments, edited by Lutz Doering, Hans-Günther Waubke and Florian Wilk. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
  • Doering, Lutz, Waubke, Hans-Günther, and Wilk, Florian, eds. . Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments, Vol.226, Judaistik und neutestamentliche Wissenschaft: Standorte – Grenzen – Beziehungen Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.

  • Niebuhr, Karl-Wilhelm, Kraus, Wolfgang, and Doering, Lutz, eds. . Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 1. Reihe, Vol.162, Frühjudentum und Neues Testament im Horizont Biblischer Theologie. Mit einem Anhang zum Corpus Judaeo-Hellenisticum Novi Testamenti Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck Verlag.
  • . . “Jeremia in Babylonien und Ägypten: Mündliche und schriftliche Toraparänese für Exil und Diaspora nach 4QApocryphon of Jeremiah C.” in Frühjudentum und Neues Testament im Horizont Biblischer Theologie. Mit einem Anhang zum Corpus Judaeo-Hellenisticum Novi Testamenti, Vol.162 of Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 1. Reihe, edited by Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr, Wolfgang Kraus and Lutz Doering. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck Verlag.
  • . . “Laurentius Klein zum Gedenken.Begegnungen – Zeitschrift für Kirche und Judentum 2003 (2): 2425.
  • . . “Überlegungen zum Ansatz der Halacha in den Qumrantexten.” in Qumran kontrovers: Beiträge zu den Textfunden vom Toten Meer, edited by Jörg Frey and Hartmut Stegmann. Paderborn: Bonifatius.

  • . . Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism, Vol.78, Schabbat: Sabbathalacha und -praxis im antiken Judentum und Urchristentum Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck Verlag. doi: 10.1628/978-3-16-158760-3.

  • . . “New Aspects of Qumran Sabbath Law from Cave 4 Fragments.” in Legal Texts and Legal Issues: Proceedings of the Second Meeting of the IOQS, Cambridge 1995. Published in Honour of J.M. Baumgarten, Vol.23 of Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, edited by M Bernstein, Martínez F García and J Kampen. Leiden: Brill.
  • . . “The Concept of the Sabbath in the Book of Jubilees.” in Studies in the Book of Jubilees, Vol.65 of Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism, edited by Matthias Albani, Jörg Frey and Armin Lange. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck Verlag.

Supervised Doctoral Studies