Benedikt Hensel

Benedikt Hensel is Full-Professor of Hebrew Bible and Biblical Archaeology  at the Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg (Germany) and in 2019–2021 held positions as Interim Professor of Hebrew Bible and Biblical Archaeology at the universities of Mainz (Germany) and Zurich (Switzerland). He holds a PhD (2011) and Habilitation (2016) in Hebrew Bible Studies and Archaeology from the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz. He is specialized in the religious history, archaeology, and literary history of Israel, Judah, and Transjordan. His main fields of work are related to the Persian and early Hellenistic periods as well as to the Neo-Assyrian period. He conducted research on Emerging Judaism pf the Persian and Hellenistic periods (as Principal Investigator 2013–2016; Mainz), on Biblical Archaeology and on the Pentateuchal traditions and their historical backgrounds (2017–2020, Zurich). Visiting scholar at the Universities of Haifa (2015), Tel Aviv (2018) and Montpelier (2018). Since 2023 he is Co-Director of the Hazor Excavations Project (with Igor Kreimerman, HUJI), and since 2026 he is director of DAO | Digital Ancient Studies Oldenburg (https://uol.de/dao).
Address: Prof. Dr. Benedikt Hensel
Lehrstuhl für Altes Testament und Biblische Archäologie
Institut für Ev. Theologie und Religionspädagogik
Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
Ammerländer Heerstr. 114-118
D-26129 Oldenburg
eMail: [email protected]