Gitte Buch-Hansen

1. EXAMS, DEGREES AND AWARDS

1.1  Academic degrees and rewards

2010       Certificate in academic teaching. Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Oslo.

2007       PhD in New Testament Studies. The Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen. Project: It Is the Spirit That Makes Alive. A Stoic Understanding of Pneuma in John’s Gospel.

2003       Cand. theol. The Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen.

2000       Master thesis (Prize essay): En kritisk stillingtagen til forskningen i Romerbrevets kap. 9-11 siden Kümmels Forschungsbericht fra 1977 (A Critical Analysis of Scholarship in Romans 9-11 after Kümmels Forschungsbericht 1977). Awarded with the University of Copenhagen’s Gold Medal.

Other exams

2007       Pastoral training (Copenhagen, 2007).             

1984       Certificate of completed apprenticeship, toolmaker and black smith (National Railways, Central Workshop, Aarhus).

2. EMPLOYMENT

2.1  Academic employment 2003-22

01.01.2017-                         Associate Professor in New Testament Studies, Section of Biblical Studies, Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen.

01.01.2012-31.13.2016        Professor with special responsibilities, Section of Biblical Studies, Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen.

01.01.2013-31.12.2019        Chair. Centre for the Study of the Reception of the Bible in Art and Culture, Section of Biblical Studies, Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen.

01.11.2008-31.12.2011        Post.doc. Centre for the Study of Naturalism and Christian Semantics (Centre of Excellence), Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen. (Leave: 01.08.2009-30.06.2010).

01.08.2009-30.06.2011        Associate Professor in New Testament Exegesis, Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo, Norway.

2008 Spring                         Lecturer, Section of Biblical Studies, Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen.

01.08.2003-31.12.2006        PhD Student at the research project Philosophy at the Roots of Christianity, Section of Biblical Studies, Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen.

2.2  Employment outside Academia 1990-2022

2021-               Voluntary pastor, Kastelskirken, Copenhagen.

2007-08            Pastor Helsingør Diocese: Messiaskirken, Charlottenlund, Søborgmagle Kirke, Søborg.

1998                Danish School of Design.

1991-95            Marine engineer, Maersk-Line.

3. RESEARCH PROJECTS & INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

3.1  Externally Financed Research

2013-2017        Reclaiming Democracy: Ritual as Cultural Resource (based at the Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo. Financed by the Norwegian Research Council). Personal project: ‘Consumed identities. The Eucharist and the Negotiation of National Identity in the Danish Majority Church’.

2008-2011        Centre for the Study of Naturalism and Christian Semantics (Centre of Excellence based at the Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen, financed by the University of Copenhagen). Personal project: ‘Negotiating the Divine/Human borderline. The Early Reception of the Fourth Gospel’.

2003-2007        Philosophy at the Roots of Christianity (based at the Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen, financed by the Danish Research Council). Personal project: ‘A Stoic Understanding of Pneuma in John’s Gospel’.

• New Testament texts in their ancient philosophical context (Hellenistic physics and ethics)
• New Testament texts in their social historical context (e.g. Slave studies, disability studies) 
• Gender Studies: Conceptions of the body in antiquity and modernity. 
• Historical and contemporary reception of the Bible in art and culture 
• Ethnographical exegesis: Contemporary Bible Readings performed by 'ordinary readers'

As Biblical scholar, my research areas are, listed in order of priority, the study of Pauline and Johannine texts in their ancient philosophical context; of New Testament texts in light of ancient and modern understanding of the body (gender, race, dis/ability); of the historical and contemporary reception and function of biblical traditions in society and culture – and of the translation of the Bible in light of contemporary translation studies.