Annette Schellenberg

San Francisco Theological Seminary
Associate Professor of Old Testament
Core Doctoral Faculty Member

At GTU since 2007

Ph.D., university of Zuerich, 2002

Phone: 415/451-2896
E-mail: aschellenberg@sfts.edu

Current Research and Teaching Interests

• Old Testament anthropology (reflections on man and humanity)
• Wisdom literature
• Priestly liturature
• Interrelations between the Old Testament world and the cultures and religions of its broader Ancient Near Eastern and Egyptian context
• Reception History of Old Testament texts (especially in music, for example Schütz, Händel) 
• Old Testament theology and theologies

Selected Publications

• Hilfe für Witwen und Waisen: Ein gemein-altorientalisches Motiv in wechselnden alttestamentlichen Diskussionszusammenhängen, ZAW 124, 2012.
• Der Mensch, das Bild Gottes? Zum Gedanken einer Sonderstellung des Menschen im Alten Testament und in weiteren altorientalischen Quellen (AThANT 101), Zürich: TVZ 2011.
• "From Wise King to Royal Wise: The „Royalization“ of the Sage in Old Testament Wisdom Literature", South African Baptist Journal of Theology 20, 2011.
• A “lying pen of the scribes” (Jer 8:8)? Orality and Writing in the Formation of Prophetic books, in The Interface of Orality and Writing: Speaking, Seeing, Writing in the Shaping of New Genres, Mohr Siebeck 2010.
• Humankind as the „Image of God: On the Priestly predication (Gen 1:26–27; 5:1; 9:6) and its relationship to the ancient Near Eastern understanding of images, ThZ 65, 2009.
• Erkenntnis als Problem. Qohelet und die alttestamentliche Diskussion um das menschliche Erkennen (OBO 188), Freiburg/Göttingen: Universitätsverlag/Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2002 (dissertation)