Academic degrees earned
Master’s, Union Theological Seminary
PhD, Universität Zürich
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Brief biography
Phillip Michael Lasater has taught Hebrew Bible/Old Testament at the University of Oxford and the Universität Zürich. His first book was on conceptions of fear and fear of God in the Hebrew Bible and its ancient socio-political contexts (Mohr Siebeck, 2019) and he is writing a second book (Habilitationsschrift) which addresses legal thinking and its relationship to notions of selfhood within the Pentateuch and Hebrew Bible and more broadly in ancient Jewish literature, attending also to dimensions of the intellectual history of scholarship in this area. He has worked on the editorial boards of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel (Mohr Siebeck, 2011–2021) and the Journal of Biblical Literature (2022–present).
Areas of Academic Specialization/Interest
philology; law; selfhood; anthropology; authority and textual authority; reading practices; intellectual history
Associations and Memberships
Society of Biblical Literature; Catholic Biblical Association; Society for Old Testament Study
Editorial board experience: Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel (2011–2021); Journal of Biblical Literature (2022–present)
Current research/writing projects
Anthropologies of Law in Ancient Jewish Scriptures: Fragments of the Self’s Forensic Journey (monograph)
Fear, Fear of God, God-fearers: Philological and Historical Perspectives on the World of Ancient Judaism and Christianity (edited volume, co-editor with Prof. Dr. Benedikt Hensel)