Thank you for stopping by! This is the new project blog of the DEMBIB project, funded by the European Research Council and housed at the Theologische Fakultät of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. We are an international team of Egyptologists and biblical scholars researching the literature of Ancient Egypt and of the Hebrew Bible in the Persian and Hellenistic periods, and our goal is to offer a new paradigm for understanding the transformation of textual traditions into complex forms of literature in both of these cultures. You can read all about it on our project website.

In the coming weeks, we’ll be introducing our researchers and our PI, Prof. Bernd U. Schipper, and will be sharing insights into our ongoing research and the texts we are studying, interviews with visiting scholars, and more. In the meantime, make sure to follow us on Instagram and Twitter.