PD Dr Thomas Wagner
Senior Academic Advisor (Student Counselling)
Telephone:
(0202) 439-5483 (work)
(02131) 1534977 (home)
Work address:
University of Wuppertal
Faculty 1 (Protestant Theology)
Gaußstraße 20, D-42097 Wuppertal
Email:
twagner[at]uni-wuppertal.de
Consultation hours (including academic advising) take place on Tuesdays from 9 am to 10 am in O.10.06 and/or via Zoom.
Please select an appointment in the relevant Moodle course.
Career and publications
- Since 2026, private lecturer at the Faculty of Protestant Theology at the University of Bonn
- Since 2021, Senior Academic Advisor at the university of Wuppertal
- Member of the EABS Committee since 2020, serving as Treasurer since 2021
- 2017 Acting Chair at Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel
- 2016–2024 Vice-Dean for Studies and Teaching at the school of humanities
- 2013–2021 Academic Councillor at the university of Wuppertal
- 2011–2026 Private lecturer at the Kirchliche Hochschule Wuppertal / Bethel
- 2010 Acting Professor of Old Testament at Goethe University Frankfurt
- 2008–2009 Research visit to the Claremont School of Theology / USA
- 2007 Research visit to Lund University / Sweden
- 2006 Awarded a Dr. theol. from the Kirchliche Hochschule Wuppertal on the topic “God’s Reign. An Analysis of the Vision (Isaiah 6:1–9:6)”
- 2005 Research and lecturing visit to the Teologiska Högskolan, Stockholm / Sweden
- 2004–2011 Research assistant at the Chair of New Testament and Early Church
- 2004 Ordained as a pastor in the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland
- 2003 Research visit to the Claremont School of Theology / USA
- 2002 Research visit to Lund University / Sweden
- 2000–2004 Assistant at the Chair of Old Testament and Biblical Archaeology at the Kirchliche Hochschule Wuppertal
- 1993–1999 Studied Protestant Theology in Wuppertal and Bonn
- DFG FOR 5949 Epistemology of the Divine. In Search of the Religious Thought Structures of Ancient Palestine/Israel (under Epistemology of the Old Testament)
- Summer School on Ancient Israelite Iconography (under Iconography of the Old Testament)
- Anthropology of the Old Testament
- Prophecy
Latest publications
Thomas Wagner, The Interpretation of Ramesside Mass Media by the Syro-Palestinian Population. An Attempt at Reconstruction Using the Example of Tell Zakarīye (Azekah), in: Filitz, Judith / Dietrich, Jan (eds.), Cultic Kisses. Fruitful Encounters Between Deities and Humans. Festschrift for Angelika Berlejung on the Occasion of Her65th Birthday (VTOA 3), Göttingen 2026, 127–162.
Thomas Wagner, The Openness of the Canon as a Task and Challenge for Protestant Exegesis, in Carl Stephan Ehrlich / Michaela Geiger (eds.), Canon, Context and Denomination. The Hebrew Bible in Jewish and Christian Interpretation (SBS 252), Stuttgart 2025, 53–68.
Marcel Krusche and Thomas Wagner (eds.), 2025, Wisdom at the Interface between God and Humans. Proceedings of the International Conference on Divine-Humane Dimensions of Wisdom in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient World (SCB 22), Paderborn.
Thomas Wagner, ‘Suffering as the Experience of Remoteness from God’, in: Southwood, Katherine / Verde, Danilo / Weingärtner, Martina, Pain in the Hebrew Bible, BN 206 (2025), 85–102.
Hindy Najman, Arjen Bakker and Thomas Wagner (eds.), 2025, Antisemitism in Biblical Scholarship (HeBAI 15).
Jan Dietrich, Annette Schellenberg and Thomas Wagner (eds.), 2024, Ancient Epistemologies (ORA 58), Tübingen.
Thomas Wagner, 2024, ‘What is Prophecy about in its Ancient Near Eastern Context: Origin, Nature and Rationality’, in: Heiko Schulz (ed.), God’s Own Mouthpieces. Reason and Prophecy in Judaism, Christianity and Islam (RDGG 2), Tübingen, 21–39.
Thomas Wagner, 2023, Epistemology of Suffering in the Book of Job, HeBAI 12, 309–322.
Thomas Wagner, 2023, Interpreting Space. Transformations of the Concept of Space in the Hebrew Scriptures of the Persian Period (MO 4), Göttingen.
