Old Testament scholarship pursues two goals, which require a broad spectrum of methods. On the one hand, it deals with the origin and interpretation of the writings of the Biblia Hebraica, the Septuagint and the Vulgate, both in their ancient contexts (literary history) and in the wider cultural history (history of reception). She also researches the religious history of the southern Levant (Israel/Palestine/Jordan). In addition to the written testimonies of this region, it also takes into account the results of biblical archaeology and the iconography of the southern Levant and focusses on the reconstruction of religious ideas in the period from the Middle Bronze Age to the destruction of the second Jerusalem Temple in 70 AD.

The degree programme in Protestant Theology offers you the opportunity to explore and test the full range of methods of the subject. In addition to introductions and in-depth studies in sub-areas of Old Testament scholarship, we offer you the opportunity to engage in independent academic practice. Cooperation partners of the discipline are the Biblical-Archaeological Institute Wuppertal and the Archaeological Museum of the University of Münster.