Publications

Monographs

1. co-authored with Hans-Ulrich Weidemann, Biblical Masculinity Studies and Biblical Theology (in the series ‘Topoi of Biblical Theology’, published by Mohr Siebeck). [in preparation]
2. The Solomonic Elements of the Book of Proverbs. Intertextual Connections between 1 Kings 1–11 and the Book of Proverbs (Herders Biblische Studien 87), Freiburg im Breisgau 2017.
3. Seeing God. The Revelations of the Patriarchal Narratives, Gen 12–36 (Herders Biblische Studien 103), Freiburg im Breisgau 2024.

Edited Volumes

1. Winkler, Mathias/Lersch, Markus/Weidemann, Hans-Ulrich (eds.), True God and True Man? The Gender of Jesus in the History of Theology, Freiburg im Breisgau 2023.
2. Pichler, Josef/Winkler, Mathias (eds.), The Bible and its Male Figures. Masculinities Rediscovered, Stuttgart 2025.

Scholarly articles

1. Androcentrism and Equality in Old Testament Anthropologies, or: It Is Complex, in: J. Bremer / K. Pyschny / K. Schäfers (eds.) [submitted]
2. More than Power, Violence and Dominance? Biblical Masculinity Studies and Caring Masculinities, in: J. Pichler (ed.), Caring Masculinities (forthcoming from transcript Verlag) [submitted]
3. Gentlemen Prefer Heroines. Judith in a Masculine Matrix, in: K. Hogan/P. Pouchelle/B. Schmitz/F. Ueberschaer (eds.), Marginalised Voices (Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Series), Berlin et al. [submitted]
4. How a People Narrates Its Gender. Old Testament Collective Figures and Their Gender as Reflectors of Identity, in: Gies, Kathrin/Schmidt, Uta (eds.), Narrated Gender / Narrating Gender (Suttgarter Biblische Studien), Stuttgart [submitted]
5. Biblical Research on Masculinity, in: Heimbach-Steins, Marianne/Könemann, Judith (eds.), Handbook of Theological Gender Studies [submitted]
6. Wars Are a Man’s Trade. Masculinities and War in the Old Testament and its Context [submitted to the Yearbook for Biblical Theology]
7. Blind Spots and Friendly Fire. A Critical Look at Exegetical Gender Studies, in: Grünstäudl, Wolfgang/König, Judith (eds.), Toxic Biblical Hermeneutics [submitted]
8. A Woman to Men’s Taste?, in: Bible and Church 80 (2025), 152–159.
9. There’s something to see here! The Theology of Revelation in the Story of the Patriarchs, in: World and Environment of the Bible 30 (Issue 117) (2025), 26–31.
10. (with Josef Pichler) What you should read before you read... Introduction, in: Pichler, Josef/Winkler, Mathias (eds.), The Bible and its Male Figures. Masculinities Rediscovered, Stuttgart 2025, 11–18.
11. David and Jonathan – more than just friends? Histories about ‘Gay Men in the Bible’ expose our prejudices, in: Pichler, Josef/Winkler, Mathias (eds.), The Bible and its Male Figures. Masculinities Rediscovered, Stuttgart 2025, 97–103.
12. Closer Than They Appear. The Intertextual Cohesion Between Proverbs 1–9 and the Song of Songs, in: Biblische Notizen 202 (2024), 85–98. [peer-reviewed]
13. Sexual Violence against Men in the Old Testament. Lot and his Daughters (Gen 19:30–38), in: Heek, Andreas/Jax, Aurica/Müllner, Ilse/Reese-Schnitker, Annegret (eds.), Putting It into Words. Biblical Texts and Sexualised Violence, Ostfildern 2024, 39–46.
14. Water is for washing. Water and ritual purity in the Torah texts, in: Welt und Umwelt der Bibel 28 (Issue 110) (2023), 16–23.
15. ‘Lord, teach us to curse’, in: Katechetische Blätter 148,3 (2023) 170–174.
16. ‘True God and True Man?’ The Relevance of the Question Concerning the Significance of Christ’s Male Gender, in: Winkler, Mathias/Lersch, Markus/Weidemann, Hans-Ulrich (eds.), True God and True Man? The Gender of Jesus in the History of Theology, Freiburg i.Br. 2023, 9–27.
17. The Book of Proverbs. Sources Become Invisible, in: Mecchiarello, Chiara/Singletary, Jennifer (eds.), Uses and Misuses of Ancient Mediterranean Sources: Erudition, Authority, Manipulation (Studies in Education and Religion in Ancient and Pre-Modern History in the Mediterranean and Its Environs), Tübingen 2022, 245–264. [peer review]
18. Masculine Tactics of Concealment. Sexual Violence against Men in the Old Testament, in: Biblische Zeitschrift 66,2 (2022) 184–202. [peer-reviewed]
19. Lot’s Struggle for ‘Masculinity’: Use, Function, and Ideology of Masculinity in the Lot Stories, in: Vetus Testamentum 72 (2022) 495–512. [peer review]
20. The Ancestors’ Masculinities in Genesis, in: Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 46,2 (2021) 269–288. [Open Access; peer review]
21. The Head and Hair of the Nazirite in Numbers 6, in: Biblische Notizen 190 (2021) 33–58. [peer-reviewed]
22. Dalí Reads Freud. Dalí’s ten-part cycle ‘Moise et Monotheisme’, in: Diocesan Museum Rottenburg (ed.), Biblia Sacra. The Unknown Dalí. Artist – Work – Reception (Participare 8), Ostfildern 2020, 82–107.
23. With Joshua against his own contemporaries. Rabbi Raphael Breuer’s commentary on Joshua, in: Ballhorn, Egbert (ed.), Transitions. The Book of Joshua in its Contexts (Stuttgarter Biblische Studien 76), Stuttgart 2020, 415–433.
24. An epiphany ‘between the lines’ in Ex 17:6?, in: Biblica 100 (2019) 161–172. [peer review]
25. A Delicate Presence in the Lord’s Supper. The Testing of Christ and God in 1 Cor 10 and Ex 17, in: Kopp, Stefan/Werz, Joachim (eds.), Constructed Ecumenism. Message and Mission for the 21st Century? (Theology in Dialogue 24), Freiburg im Breisgau 2018, 411–427.
26. The Three Proverbs on the ‘Wise Son’. On the Discussion Concerning Composition and Redaction in Proverbs 10–15, in: Biblische Zeitschrift 62 (2018) 81–99.
27. Six and a half pillars of wisdom. Prov 22:17–21 and the structural system of the Book of Proverbs, in *Biblische Notizen* 174 (2017) 21–40. [peer review]
28. The Special Status of the Levites in Numbers 1–2, in: Protokolle zur Bibel 26 (2017) 1–21. [peer review]
29. Developing and Assessing Exegetical Skills. A Three-Stage Model for the Introductory Seminar on the Bible, in: Giercke-Ungermann, Annett/Hübenthal, Sandra (eds.), Orcs in the Scholars’ Workshop? Rethinking Biblical Exegetics Teaching Formats and Learning Environments (Theology and Higher Education Didactics 7), Münster 2016, 55–67.
30. The Levite as a Total Representative. Theological Concepts of the Levitical Order Based on Numbers 3–4, in: Biblische Notizen 162 (2014) 2–22. [peer review]

Encyclopaedia entries

1. Entry: Measures/Weights (OT), in: wibilex.de https://www.biblical-exegetics.de/stichwort/25587/
2. Entry: Bet-Zur, in: wibilex.de http://www.biblical-exegetics.de/stichwort/15200/
3. Entry: Shunem, in: wibilex.de http://www.biblical-exegetics.de/stichwort/27377/
4. Entry: Hair/Hairstyles (AT), in: wibilex.de https://www.biblical-exegetics.de/stichwort/20185/
5. Entry: Hair/Hairstyles (OT), in: wibilex.de https://biblical-exegetics.de/stichwort/201127/

Reviews

1. Creangă, Ovidiu (ed.), Hebrew Masculinities Anew (HBM 79), Sheffield 2019, in: Theologische Revue 116,7 (2020) 267–269.
2. van Oorschot, Jürgen; Wagner, Andreas (eds.), God and Man in the Old Testament. On the Relationship between the Image of God and the Image of Humanity (VWGTh 52), Leipzig 2018, in: Old Testament Abstracts 44,2 (2021) 546–662.
3. Cramer, Malte; Wick, Peter (eds.), Age and Ageing in the Bible. Exegetical Perspectives on Discourses on Age in the Old and New Testaments, in: Biblische Bücherschau 2/2022.
4. Fischer, Sarah, Creating Space for Love: Spatial-anthropological Studies on the Song of Songs from a Canonical-Intertextual Perspective in Relation to Proverbs 7 (Erfurter Theologische Studien 122), Würzburg 2022.
5. Beiroth, Ulrike, Facets of Justice. The Lexeme צדק in Prov 10:1–22:16; 25–29 (WMANT 170), Göttingen 2022, in: Theologische Revue 119 (2023).
6. Henderson-Merrygold, Jo, Introducing a Hermeneutics of Cispicion. Reading Sarah and Esau’s Gender (Failure) Beyond Cisnormativity (LHB/OTS 739), London et al. 2024, in: Theologische Revue 121 (2025).

Further articles

1. In the Beginning Was Structure, in: Christ in der Gegenwart 40/2025, 7.
2. Genealogies of Genesis, in: *Christ in der Gegenwart* 41/2025, 15.
3. Spoiler alert!, in *Christ in der Gegenwart* 42/2025, 7.
4. Purity – Impurity, in: *Christ in der Gegenwart* 43/2025, 7.
5. Research overview, in: *Christ in der Gegenwart* 44/2025, 7.
6. Pen Pals, in: Christ in der Gegenwart 45/2025, 7.
7. All’s well that ends well..., in: *Christ in der Gegenwart* 46/2025, 7.
8. Not another family tree!, in: Christ in der Gegenwart 47/2025, 7.
9. Our View of the World, in: Christ in der Gegenwart 48/2025, 7.

• Deut 18:15: An underrated intertext in the Gospel of Matthew?, in: Tofana, Stelian, Walking with Christ: Exegetical Contributions in Dialogue with Hans Klein (Sacra Scripta XXIII/1-2), Cluj-Napoca 2025, 135–151.
• (with Christoph Dohmen) The Torah Must Be Learned: From Law to Ethos in the Book of the Covenant, in: Hieke, Thomas/Huber, Konrad, Living Consciously According to the Bible, Stuttgart 2026, 70–76. (not yet published)