Jonathan Jakob Böhm

Contact Information

Theologisches Seminargebäude

Kochstraße 6 

91054 Erlangen 

jonathan.boehm@fau.de 

Phone: +49 9131 85-26506 

Room: 0.006


Personal Profile

Education
since 01/2022PhD student at Humboldt University of Berlin, Faculty of Theology (supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dr. Bernd U. Schipper)
2024 – 2025Certificate in academic teaching (Berlin Center for Higher Education), training in biblical archaeology (“Lehrkurs” of the German Protestant Institute of Archaeology)
 08–12/2022Visiting fellow at Harvard University, Department for Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
 10/2015 – 10/2021Studies 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 – 08/2015Volunteer at the Church of the Redeemer, Jerusalem
03/2014Abitur at the Theresianum Gymnasium, Mainz 
Professional Experience
seit 10/2025Research associate and docent at the chair of Old Testament II (Theology) (Prof. Dr. Reettakaisa Sofia Salo), Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen–Nuremberg
 09/2023 – 09/2025Research 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)
 2022–2023Participation in the archeological excavations at Tell Keisan (Israel)
 10/2019 – 03/2021Student assistant at the chair of Old Testament (Prof. Dr. Reinhard Müller), Georg August University of Göttingen
 07/2016 – 03/2019Student 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 Kingdoms of Isarel 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

11/2025Conference travel grant of the German Academic Exchange Service
01/2022 – 08/2023Doctoral scholarship of the Einstein Center Chronoi
10/2021Awarded with the Armin Schmitt Award for Biblical Text Studies
08/2018 – 04/2019Study abroad scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service
02/2016 – 09/2021Study scholarship of the Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst