Yale Divinity School-Faculty

Christl M. Maier

Associate Professor of Old Testament

C. Maier

M.Div., Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen
Ph.D., Habilitation, and venia legendi for Old Testament Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany

Professor Maier’s research includes the OT Wisdom tradition with special interest in its sociological setting, issues of the redaction and composition in the Book of Jeremiah, and feminist biblical hermeneutics. The recipient of a Henry Luce III Fellowship in Theology in 2005–2006, she is currently finishing a monograph on concepts of space and gender in the biblical portrait of Jerusalem. She has lectured on this topic at SBL Annual Meetings and other international conferences in recent years. Professor Maier has written two books, Die “fremde Frau” in Proverbien 1–9 (1995) and Jeremia als Lehrer der Tora (2002). She has contributed several journal articles and book essays on various topics and numerous reviews. She has also co-edited four books. Her English articles include feminist interpretations of the “strange woman” in Proverbs 1–9 and of the Book of Job in Wisdom and Psalms, A Feminist Companion to the Bible, 2nd series (1998). Prior to joining the YDS faculty, she taught at Humboldt-University Berlin and at the University of Augsburg, and was visiting lecturer at the universities of Göttingen, Leipzig, Kassel, and Hamburg as well as Pietermaritzburg (South Africa).

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)