Prof. Claudia D. Bergmann

Paderborn University

Prof. Claudia D. Bergmann is a professor for Biblical Theology and Exegesis at Paderborn University (Germany). She holds a Ph.D. in Hebrew Bible from the University of Chicago and is the author of Childbirth as a Metaphor for Crisis: Evidence from the Ancient Near East, the Hebrew Bible, and 1QH XI:1–18 (Walter de Gruyter, 2008) and Festmahl ohne Ende: Apokalyptische Vorstellungen vom Speisen in der Kommenden Welt im antiken Judentum und ihre biblischen Wurzeln (Kohlhammer, 2019). She currently works on the Hagar narrative in the Hebrew Bible and its reception history.

Books by the Author

Childbirth as a Metaphor for Crisis: Evidence from the Ancient Near East, the Hebrew Bible, and 1QH XI, 1-18

Imitating Abraham: Ritual and Exemplarity in Jewish and Christian Contexts

Endzeit Als Mahlzeit: Das Imaginierte Rituelle Mahl in Der Kommenden Welt in Fruhjudischen Apokalyptischen Texten

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Hagar, the Mirror of Israel

Reflecting those who stand before her, Sarah, Abraham, Moses, and Israel itself, Hagar becomes a mirror through which the biblical narrative retells Israel’s story. Her experiences of enslavement, flight, divine encounter, and survival in the wilderness echo the nation’s own. Hagar’s story also becomes a mirror for later readers, reflecting their own experiences of oppression, loss, and liberation.

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