Prof. Dr. Ulrich Berges

Ulrich Berges focuses on the biblical and especially Old Testament roots of dependency and the movements against oppression. What biblical texts were used for the legitimization and for the delegitimazation of dependency? What happens when these texts were used in the same context by oppressors and oppressed? It is highly probably that the different images of God strongly intervene in these antithetical strategies.

6 books, 2 edited volumes, approximately 100 articles and reviews. 40 national and international lectures, 20 supervised Master and Ph.D. theses

1998
Habilitation in Old Testament Studies, Catholic Theological Faculty, University of Muenster, Germany

1994–1998
Postdoctoral Studies (Habilitation), Catholic Theological Faculty, University of Muenster, Germany

1986–1988
Ph.D. at the École Biblique in Jerusalem, Israel

1977–1986
Catholic Theology and Bible Studies, University of Eichstätt, Salzburg, Germany, Pontifical Gregorian University and Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome, Italy

since 2009
Professor for Old Testament Studies, University of Bonn, Germany

2005–2009
Professor for Old Testament Studies, University of Muenster, Germany

1998–2005
Professor for Old Testament Studies, University of Nijmegen, Netherlands

1994–1997
Director of "Arbeitskreis zur Erforschung der Kultur und Religion des Östlichen Mittelmeeres" (AZERKAVO) [Working Group on the Study of the Culture and Religion of the Eastern Mediterranean]

1989–1994
Profesor asociado: Facultad de Teología Pontificia y Civil de Lima, Perú

since 2013
Extraordinary Professor at the University of Pretoria, South Africa

since 2012
Full member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts

since 2012

Member of the Catholic Biblical Association of America (CBA)

since 2011
Member of the advisory board "Estudios Biblicos," Madrid, Spain

2011–2021
Member of the Commission for Doctrine and Faith of the German Bishops' Conference

2007–2010
Spokesperson for the working group of Catholic German-speaking Old Testament researchers

2007–2009
Member of the executive board of the cluster of excellence "Religion und Politik in der Moderne und Vormoderne" [Religion and Politics in Modernity and Premodernity], Muenster, Germany

Project leader "Göttliche Gewalt in der Hebräischen Bibel" [Divine Violence in the Hebrew Bible]

Guest professorships at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome and at the Facultad de Teologia in Lima, Perú