Dr. Daniel Vorpahl
Campus Am Neuen Palais / building: 2 room: 2.02
Tel.: 0331/977-4360
E-mail: vorpahluuni-potsdampde
Please refrain from using the title "Herr" in e-mails (e.g. Dear Dr. Vorpahl or Daniel Vorpahl).
Office hours during SoSe 2023:
Monday 12-2pm by appointment and Thursday by appointment
Research profile:
- Literary construction of sex/gender roles and identities
- religious topics and motifs in child- and youth-literature
- methods of discourse analytical reception research
- reception of biblical themes and motifs
- Jewish Bible exegesis
- siblings and familial social structures in Jewish antiquity
Curriculum Vitae:
since 2020 Research assistant at the chair of Hebrew Bible and Its Exegesis of the School of Jewish Theology, University of Potsdam
2019 Ph.D. in Jewish studies at the Otto-Friedrich University Bamberg
Title of dissertation: „Aus dem Leben des Buches Jona. Eine diskursanalytische Untersuchung der frühjüdischen und rabbinischen Rezeptionen“
2013-2020 Research assistant for Hebrew Bible and exegesis of the Selma Stern Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg at the Abraham Geiger College
2011-2013 doctoral scholarship of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom
2009-2012 Lecturer at the Institute of Religious Studies, University of Potsdam
2008-2011 Lecturer at the Department of Catholic Theology, Freie Universität Berlin
2003-2008 studied Jewish Studies, General and Comparative Literature and Religious Studies at the University of Potsdam
1998-2001 studied English and American studies at the University of Potsdam