Dr. Daniel Vorpahl

Campus Am Neuen Palais / building: 15 room: 2.06

Tel.: 0331/977-4360

Please use a gender-neutral form of address, for example "Good day Daniel Vorpahl" or "Hello Dr. Vorpahl" instead of "Mr.".

Office hours
Mon. 12:00 - 13:00 p.m.
Tu. 02:30-03:30 p.m. (pleasemake an appointment in advance).
Individual office hours b.a.

Responsibilities
Deputy Executive Director* | Study Commission (deputy chair) | Module Officer (BA) | Senate Commission for Equal Opportunities (deputy MG)

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:

2025 representing the chair of Hebrew Bible and Its Exegesis of the School of Jewish Theology, University of Potsdam

2020-2026 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