HUMBOLDT ACTIVITIES /
Hosting AvH Scholars at the Chair for New Testament Studies (University of Bamberg)

• 2011 October - 2013 September: Dr. Masiiwa R. Gunda in Bamberg

After working for one year at his home university in Harare, Dr Gunda will come back to Bamberg for a Post-doc project funded by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

• 2011 January-July: Prof. Dr. Musa DUBE in Bamberg
  

Highranking Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award 2010 for Professor Musa Wenkosi Dube, a leading international scholar in Biblical studies.

Prof. Dube has made groundbreaking contributions in feminist-postcolonial Biblical studies and reading the Bible in the context of HIV/AIDS. In her multiperspective approach she has developed new ways to gain a humanistic and liberative potential of Biblical interpretation beyond "africanism". Professor Dr. Dube was granted a Bessel Research Award by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. This award implies a longer research work in Germany. In Germany, Professor Dube - generally recognised for her unexplored and sometimes surprising paths towards reading the Bible - focuses on a scientific critique of "superstitious reading" which plays an important socio-political role in african societies of today. She does her research in close cooperation with the international team of Bible in Africa Studies (BiAS) located in Bamberg, Gaborone and Harare. During her staying in Germany Prof. Dr. Dube is hosted by Prof. Dr. Joachim Kügler at the University of Bamberg.