Professor Dr. Christl M. Maier
Professor of Old Testament at Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
Professor Maier was Associate Professor at Yale Divinity School (2003–2006) and since 2007 has held a tenured position at Marburg. Since 2018 she has also been Extraordinary Professor in the Discipline Group Old & New Testament at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Her research focuses on prophecy, especially Jeremiah, and wisdom literature of the Hebrew Bible, Jerusalem as sacred space, feminist hermeneutics and trauma studies. In 2010–2022 she served as editor-in-chief of Vetus Testamentum Supplementum. Since 2023 she has been main editor (with David Carr, since 2025 with Mahri Leonard-Fleckman) of the International Exegetical Commentary on the Old Testament (IECOT), published in German and English by Kohlhammer Verlag Stuttgart.
E-Mail: christl.maier@uni-marburg.de
Select Publications
Maier, C. M., Daughter Zion, Mother Zion: Gender, Space, and the Sacred in Ancient Israel (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2008).
Maier, C. M. and N. Calduch-Benages (eds.), The Writings and Later Wisdom Books. The Bible and Women 1.3 (Atlanta: SBL, 2014).
Maier, C. M., Jeremiah 1–25. International Exegetical Commentary on the Old Testament (IECOT) (Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2025) (German version 2022).
Maier, C. M., ‘Traumastudien und alttestamentliche Exegese,‘ Theologische Literaturzeitung 147.9 (2022): 771–784.
Maier, C. M., L. J. Claassens, and R. Graybill (eds.), Narrating Rape: Shifting Perspectives in Biblical Literature and Popular Culture (London: SCM Press, 2024).
Maier, C. M., ‘Jerusalem’s Demise as a Cultural Trauma in the Book of Jeremiah.’ In Readings of Trauma. Hermeneutical Perspectives on Biblical and Modern Trauma Narratives. Edited by A. Grund-Wittenberg and M. Schult (Studies in Cultural Contexts of the Bible 15), Paderborn: Brill/Schöningh 2026: 47–61.