Prof. Dr. Dominik Markl

Dominik Markl is Professor of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies at Innsbruck University, Austria, since March 2023.

Previously, he has been appointed Jesuit Chair at Georgetown University in Fall 2022, Professor at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome, and taught at Heythrop College (University of London), Hekima College (Catholic University of Eastern Africa) as well as the Jesuit School of Theology (Berkeley, CA).
In 2008-10 he was Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, where he completed his Habilitation thesis Gottes Volk im Deuteronomium ([The People of God in Deuteronomy], Harrassowitz 2012). The volume followed his doctoral dissertation at the University of Innsbruck on Der Dekalog als Verfassung des Gottesvolkes ([The Decalogue as the Constitution of the People of God], Herder 2007).

He is Old Testament editor of the journal Biblica and co-editor of Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für Altorientalische und Biblische Rechtsgeschichte (with Eckart Otto and Guido Pfeifer).
Markl has published widely on constitutional theory in the Pentateuch, the emergence of monotheism, cultural memory, trauma theory, and the Bible’s political reception history. He has contributed to reference works such as the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion, the Cambridge Companion to the Bible and Ethics, the Oxford Handbook of the Historical Books of the Hebrew Bible, and the Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception.

Consortia: Together with Danilo Verde (Leuven), Markl chairs the Research Group Representations of Cultural Trauma in the Hebrew Bible at the European Association of Biblical Studies.
He is a board member of the Cardinal Bea Centre of Judaic Studies at the Gregorian University in Rome.

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