Assistant Professor in the Department of New Testament

EDUCATION

GRANTS

SELECTED CONFERENCE PAPERS AND LECTURES

• 15. – 18. July 2024: Sofia (Bulgaria), The Annual Conference of the European Association of Biblical Studies, Research Unit: Ancient Apocalypses and Their Context, paper: Time, Narrative, and Unity in the Parables of Enoch: A Special Case of Chapters 70–71

• 11. – 12. April 2024: Komarno (Slovakia), Josephus and the Maccabees, conference at the Reformed Theological Faculty of the J. Selye University, paper The ‘Heroic’ Death of the Eleazar Avaran in 1 Maccabees and Josephus’ War

• 10. – 13. 7. 2023: Syracuse (Italy), The Annual Conference of the European Association of Biblical Studies, paper: The Murderous Herod in the Matthean Infancy Narrative

• 21. – 22. 6. 2023: Prague (Czech Republic), Conference: The Infancy Gospel of Thomas: Its Contents, Contexts, and Receptions, paper: Κολακεία in Jesus’ Education

• 4. 7. – 7. 7. 2022: Toulouse (France), The Annual Conference of the European Association of Biblical Studies, paper: Constructing Credible Response to Crisis: On the Function of the Parables of Enoch

• 8. 6. 2022: Newmaninstitutet (Uppsala, Sweden; Online via Zoom) the Newman Seminar in Late Ancient and Byzantine Cultures: Depictions of the Prophet Elijah in Jewish and Christian Contexts: Literary and Visual Sources, paper: Elijah in the Lives of the Prophets

• 11. – 12. 5. 2022: Centre for Classical Studies CAS (Prague, CR) Symposium: Traditions, Transmissions, and Texts in Early Judaism and Christianity: Perspectives from Social Memory Theory, paper: Reputational Construct of Jesus in Celsus’ Alethés Logos

• 10. 11. 2021: Universität Regensburg (Germany), Centre for Advanced Studies – Beyond Canon, lecture: The Second Vision of Enoch the Prophet: On the Parables of Enoch.

• 5. 8. 2021: Wuppertal (Germany), The Annual Conference of the European Association of Biblical Studies (2. 8. – 5. 8.2021), paper title: The Origin of the Lake of Fire in Rev 19–21.

• 12. – 13. 9. 2019: Prague (Czech Republic), Conference: Hellenism Early Judaism and Early Christianity. Transmission and Transformations of Ideas, paper title: These are the Secrets of that Oath: The Cosmology of the Parables of Enoch.

• 16. – 17. 5. 2019: Prague (Czech Republic), Conference: Social Memory Theory and Conceptions of Afterlife in Early Judaism and Christianity, paper title: Eleazar Remembered: The Death and Afterlife of the Maccabean Martyr.

• 24. – 27. 4. 2019: Prague, PTF CU; XXVII. Colloquium Biblicum; Thema: Apokalyptik, paper title: Insights from the Parables of Enoch.

• 19. – 22. 4. 2017: Prague, PTF CU; XXV. Colloquium Biblicum; Thema: Biblische Frauengestalten. Paper title: The Story of the Daugthers of Men in the Book of Watchers and its Reception.

• 17. 5. 2016: Tel Aviv, Israel; The Annual Colloquium of Tel Aviv University and Charles University Judah in the 7th Century BCE and the Assyrian Empire, paper: Two Faces of Manasseh: Double Reception of Manasseh in the Literature of Early Judaism.

MEMBERSHIPS IN ACADEMIC ASSOCIATIONS

• Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas (since 2024)

• Society of Biblical Literature (since 2016)

• European Association of Biblical Studies (since 2017) - elected member of the Committee (2021–2024)

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Full Bibliography (The Centre for Classical Studies at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences) here.

• The Second Teacher's Story in the Infancy Gospel of Thomas: A Contribution to the Recent Discussion on the Developmental Interpretation, New Testament Studies 69/3 (2023), 345–354.

• Resurrection in Early Judaism within the Context of Existing Beliefs about the Afterlife, in: Pavol Bargár (ed.), Bible, Christianity, and Culture. Essays in Honor of Professor Petr Pokorný, Prague: Karolinum, 2023, 31–64.

• with Filip Čapek (eds.), Kolektivní paměť v bibli a křesťanství. Od teoretických otázek k praktickým aplikacími [Collective Memory in the Bible and Christianity. From Theoretical Issues to Practical Applications], Prague: Karolinum, 2023, 340pp.

• Reputational Construct of Jesus in Celsus’ Aléthés Logos, Eirene. Studia Graeca et Latina 58 (2022), 421–453.

• Remembering martyrs in 2 and 4 Maccabees, in: Thomas R. Hatina – Jiří Lukeš (eds.), Social Memory Theory and Conceptions of Afterlife in Jewish and Christian Antiquity (Studies in Cultural Contexts of the Bible 8) Paderborn: Brill Schöningh, 2023, 98–119.

• The Elephant Mosaic Panel in the Huqoq Synagogue: A Reappraisal of the Maccabean Interpretation, in: Radka Fialová – Jiří Hoblík – Petr Kitzler (eds.), Hellenism, Early Judaism, and Early Christianity. Transmission and Transformation of Ideas (Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte 155) Berlin – Boston: De Gruyter, 2023, 179–204.

• Vidění proroka Henocha. O funkci Podobenstvích Henochových [The Vision of the Prophet Enoch. On the Function of the Parables of Enoch], Praha: Karolinum, 2022, 234pp.

• On the Origin of the Archdemon Beelzebul/Beelzebub, Biblica 102/1 (2021), s. 68–77.

• Two Faces of Manasseh: The Reception of Manasseh in Early Jewish Literature, in Filip Čapek – Oded Lipschits (eds.), The Last Century in the History of Judah: The Seventh Century BCE in Archaeological, Historical, and Biblical Perspectives, Atlanta: SBL Press, 2019, s. 239–260.

• The Daughters of men in the Book of Watchers, Communio Viatorum 60/3 (2018), s. 252–275.