Contact Information
Theologisches Seminargebäude
Kochstraße 6
91054 Erlangen
jonathan.boehm@fau.de
Phone: +49 9131 85-26506
Room: 0.006
Personal Profile
Education
| 01/2022–02/2026 | PhD student at Humboldt University of Berlin, Faculty of Theology (supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dr. Bernd U. Schipper) |
| 2024 – 2025 | Certificate in academic teaching (Berlin Center for Higher Education), training in biblical archaeology (“Lehrkurs” of the German Protestant Institute of Archaeology) |
| 08–12/2022 | Visiting fellow at Harvard University, Department for Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations |
| 10/2015 – 10/2021 | Studies in Protestant Theology (Mag. theol.) and Ancient Cultures (B.A.) at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Abbey of the Dormition in Jerusalem, and Georg August University of Göttingen |
| 09/2014 – 08/2015 | Volunteer at the Church of the Redeemer, Jerusalem |
| 03/2014 | Abitur at the Theresianum Gymnasium, Mainz |
Professional Experience
| since 10/2025 | Research associate and docent at the chair of Old Testament II (Theology) (Prof. Dr. Reettakaisa Sofia Salo), Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen–Nuremberg |
| 09/2023 – 09/2025 | Research associate and docent at the chair of Israelite History in its Ancient Near Eastern Context (Prof. Dr. Dr. Bernd U. Schipper), Humboldt University of Berlin; Congress Secretary of the 25th Congress of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament (IOSOT Berlin 2025) |
| 2022–2023 | Participation in the archeological excavations at Tell Keisan (Israel) |
| 10/2019 – 03/2021 | Student assistant at the chair of Old Testament (Prof. Dr. Reinhard Müller), Georg August University of Göttingen |
| 07/2016 – 03/2019 | Student assistant at the chair of Israelite History in its Ancient Near Eastern Context (Prof. Dr. Dr. Bernd U. Schipper), Humboldt University of Berlin |
- Egypt and the Southern Levant in the Persian Period, in: B.U. Schipper / R. Kade / J. Cross, Routledge Handbook of Egypt and the Hebrew Bible, im Druck.
- Egypt and the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, in: B.U. Schipper / R. Kade / J. Cross, Routledge Handbook of Egypt and the Hebrew Bible, im Druck.
- Das Ideale Heiligtum. Das ägyptische Buch vom Tempel und die biblischen Heiligtumstexte (Ex 25–31.35–40) im religionsgeschichtlichen Vergleich, in: A. Verbovsek / E. Hemauer / A. Herzberg-Beiersdorf (Hg.), Diskurs: Akteur – Gegenstand – Beziehungen. Beiträge des elften Berliner Arbeitskreises Junge Aegyptologie, Wiesbaden 2023, 75–88.
- Der Pentateuch als Kompromissprodukt zwischen Garizim und Jerusalem. Aktuelle Bestandsaufnahme einer Forschungsthese, in: S. Alkier (Hg.), Konstellationen antiker Tempelwirtschaft. Neue Perspektiven auf den Tempel am Garizim, den Jerusalemer-Tempel und das Artemision in Ephesos (Beyond Historicism 2), Paderborn 2022, 58–84.
- Art. Garizim, Heiligtum, in: Das wissenschaftliche Bibellexikon im Internet (www.wibilex.de), 2019.
- „Tief ist der Brunnen der Vergangenheit“. Jesu Dialog mit einer Samaritanerin am Jakobsbrunnen in Joh 4,4–26 vor dem Hintergrund der Geschichte zweier nachexilischer palästinensischer JHWHismen, Salzburger Theologische Zeitschrift 23/2 (2019), 248–277.
- History of ancient Israel
- Cultural contacts of the Southern Levant
- Biblical Archaeology
- Textual criticism
| 11/2025 | Conference travel grant of the German Academic Exchange Service |
| 01/2022 – 08/2023 | Doctoral scholarship of the Einstein Center Chronoi |
| 10/2021 | Awarded with the Armin Schmitt Award for Biblical Text Studies |
| 08/2018 – 04/2019 | Study abroad scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service |
| 02/2016 – 09/2021 | Study scholarship of the Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst |
Research
This dissertation investigates Egypto-Levantine relations during the 6th–4th century BCE, applying the conceptual framework of “contact spaces” (modified after C. Ulf). It builds on previous research on the Aramaic documents from Egypt and, for the first time, also evaluates the material sources for contacts with Egypt from the Southern Levant. Particular attention is paid to the different modes of reception of the objects and ideas of transfer and their entanglement with elements from diverse cultural contexts.
The analysis of these sources yields a geographically and chronologically differentiated result: Geographically, spaces of intense contacts were constituted by the semi-autonomous actors of long-distance trade, particularly along the coast of the Southern Levant and along the caravan routes in the south. The provinces in the central hill country, by contrast, participated—to varying degrees—only indirectly in these spaces of contact. Chronologically, these relations reached a peak in the 4th century, when a countrywide temple-building program in Egypt, as well as the foreign policy of late dynastic pharaohs, stimulated Egypt’s cultural production and contacts.
Overall, this work contributes equally to the archaeology of the Southern Levant and its cultural contacts as well as to the history of religion of the Hebrew Bible and its reception in Egypt.