In may 2014 she was invited as directeur d'études invitée at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris. During winter 2018/19, winter 2009/10, spring 2004 and autumn 2001 she was visiting professor at the theological programme of the Dormition Abbey, Jerusalem.
Since 1998 she was professor for Old Testament and Women's Research in Theology at Münster University
1996 - 1998 she was professor of biblical theology at the University of Cologne
1995-1996 she held the chair of Feminist Theology at Münster University
Dec. 1994 she submitted her Habilitationsschrift, a feminist reading of the book of Hosea, to the catholic faculty of Münster University, and was appointed Privatdozentin for Old Testament and Women's Research in Theology.
1991-1992 she replaced Bernhard Lang as Professor of Biblical Theology at Paderborn University.
1989-1991: scholarship by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft to advance her Habilitationsschrift.
1981-1989 she taught biblical hermeneutics at the University of Paderborn (first as research assistant, then as Hochschulassistentin) and became known by her books and articles on Feminist Theology. 1981/82: Her doctoral thesis submitted to the catholic faculty at Tübingen was on the Ethiopic Book of Enoch.
1977-1978: With a scholarship granted by DAAD she spend one academic year at the Ecole Biblique/Jerusalem and got the degree of an élève titulaire with a monography on the eschatology of the Ethiopic Book of Enoch. 1977: after studying catholic theology in Bonn and Tübingen (1971-1977) she got her diploma in theology from the University of Tübingen.
Born 1952, married since 1978, two adult daughters and three grandchildren.
Emphases in the area of the bible are on biblical prophecy (female prophet figures in literature, female voices in the books of prophets, interconnections in the history of religions), the current debate on monotheism (god and goddess, origin and consequences of biblical monotheism) and Gender concepts in early Judaism / early Jewish literature. In the area of feminist theory-building, the accent is placed on issues of differences and differentiation within the category of gender and on networking this category with other categories of analysis (racism, discrimination due to religion, but also interreligious dialogue with Judaism and Islam). Jewish regional history, esp. Münster, in the 19th and 20th century, including gender aspects.
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religion, church, biblical prophecy, debate on biblical monotheism, early Judaism, interreligious dialogue
Prof. (i. R.) Dr. Marie Theres Wacker
University of Münster
Faculty of Catholic Theology
Johannisstr. 8-10
48143 Münster
