Katharina Pyschny |  BIBLE

Katharina Pyschny is a professor for Old Testament Studies (since 2022) and dean of the Faculty for Catholic Theology (since 2024) at the University of Graz in Austria. She obtained her doctorate in Old Testament Studies at the Ruhr University Bochum in Germany (2015) and was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Lausanne (2016–2019) before being appointed as Junior Professor for Biblical Theology at the Humboldt University of Berlin (2020–2022). Prof. Pyschny specializes in the fields of historical-critical exegesis, biblical anthropology, leadership in the Old Testament, archaeology and iconography of the Southern Levant, historical gender studies and interreligious approaches. As Executive Officer of the European Association of Biblical Studies (EABS), she coordinates around 60 research units within Biblical Studies and related areas and organizes large-scale annual conferences. Additionally, she is a member of the editorial board of the journal “Berliner Theologische Zeitschrift”.