Vice-Dean for Postgraduate Studies and Life-Long Learning

Assistant Professor in the Department of Biblical Studies

EDUCATION

GRANTS

MEMBERSHIPS IN ACADEMIC ASSOCIATIONS

• Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas (since 2024)

• The Eastern European Liaison Committee of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas (elected as member of the committee, 2025–2030)

• Society of Biblical Literature (since 2016)

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

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Publishing and other professional activities registered in database OBD

• The Visions of Enoch the Prophet: On the Function of the Book of Parables, Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies 62 (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2026)

• with T. Nicklas, L. Vuong, P. Dragutinovic (eds.), The World of the New Testament: Encountering Texts in Context (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2026).

• "The Death of Eleazar Avaran in 1 Maccabees and Josephus’ Jewish War," in Josephus and the Maccabees, eds. Viktor Kókai-Nagy and Ádám Vér (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2026), 165-186.

• "Elijah in the Lives of the Prophets," in From Prophet to Miracle-Working Saint: Dynamic Approaches to Elijah in Ancient and Medieval Cultures, eds. Vlad Bedros, Barbara Crostini, Andrei Dumitrescu, and Chana Shacham-Rosby (Paderborn: Brill-Schöningh, 2026), 51–69.

• with Tobias Nicklas and Jan Bremmer (eds.), The Infancy Gospel of Thomas, Studies on Early Christian Apocrypha 23 (Leuven: Peeters, 2025).

• 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.