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Dr. phil. Kerstin Maiwald

Program Director B.A. Theology
Head of Complaints Commission FAU

Dr. phil. Kerstin Maiwald

Program Director B.A. Theology
Head of Complaints Commission FAU

An der Ihle 5 A
D-39291 Möckern-Friedensau

Raum: LÜP 306 a
Telefon: +49 (0) 3921 916-244
Fax: +49 (0) 3921 916-244
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Vita

Kerstin Maiwald, born 1980, married, is a Research Associate at the Theology department since 2017 and Program Director B.A. Theology since 2023. After her M.A. of Ancient Near Eastern Studies (“Altorientalistik”) and History at the Freie Universität Berlin, she completed her doctoral studies in Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. In her doctoral thesis, she developed a method based on diverse observations to localize Mesopotamian creation texts situationally and thus reconstruct their “Sitz im Leben.” Since 2002, she has also been a trained publisher of newspapers and magazines and has worked, among her academic stations in Berlin and Göttingen, at Berliner Verlag, Penguin Random House and as a freelancer for academic editing.

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Monograph / Edited Book

  • Pöhler, Rolf and Maiwald, Kerstin (eds.): The Kingdom of God is at Hand: Adventist Interpretations of Biblical Apocalyptic. Adventistica – Studies in Adventist History and Theology – New Series 4. Friedensau: Friedensau Adventist University, planned for early 2023. [in preparation]
  • Maiwald, Kerstin: Mesopotamische Schöpfungstexte in Ritualen: Methodik und Fallbeispiele zur situativen Verortung. Mythological Studies 3. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021.

Contributions to Journals and Compilations etc.

  • Maiwald, Kerstin: “Implications of Mesopotamian ‘Apocalypticism’ for an Adventist Reading of Old Testament Apocalyptic Literature.” Rolf J. Pöhler u. Kerstin Maiwald (eds.): The Kingdom of God is at Hand: Adventist Interpretations of Biblical Apocalyptic. Adventistica – Studies in Adventist History and Theology – New Series 4. Friedensau: Friedensau Adventist University, planned for 2023. [angenommen]
  • Maiwald, Kerstin and Höschele, Stefan: “Seventh-day Adventists and World War I: An Annotated Bibliography.” Rolf J. Pöhler (ed.): Impact of World War I on Seventh-day Adventism: Prophetic Disconfirmation and Conscientious Cooperation. Adventistica – Studies in Adventist History and Theology – New Series 5. Friedensau: Friedensau Adventist University, planned for 2023. [accepted]
  • Höschele, Stefan and Maiwald, Kerstin: “Pacifism.” SDA Biblical Theological Dictionary, planned for 2023 [submitted]
  • Höschele, Stefan and Maiwald, Kerstin: “Military Service.” SDA Biblical Theological Dictionary, planned for 2023 [submitted]
  • Maiwald, Kerstin: “Sonnengott und Schöpfung in Mesopotamien." Petra Vomberg: Echnatons großer Sonnengesang: Eine Analyse mit Nachdichtung. Mit ergänzenden Beiträgen von Kerstin Maiwald und Florian Lippke sowie mit zahlreichen Aufnahmen der Verfasserin aus dem heutigen Ägypten. Architektur, Inschriften und Denkmäler Altägyptens selecta 1. Rahden/Westf.: Marie Leidorf, 2022, 71‒74.
  • Maiwald, Kerstin: Book Review of Earthly Shadows, Heavenly Realities: Temple/Sanctuary Cosmology in Ancient Near Eastern, Biblical, and Early Jewish Literature, ed. by Kim Papaioannou and Ioannis Giantzaklidis. Berrien Springs: Andrews University Press, 2016, 367 pp. Spes Christiana 31.1, 2020, 172‒177.
  • Maiwald, Kerstin: Book Review of Perceptions of the Protestant Reformation in Seventh-day Adventism. Adventistica: Studies in Adventist History and Theology – New Series 1, ed. by Rolf J. Pöhler. Möckern-Friedensau: Institute of Adventist Studies, Friedensau Adventist University, 2018. 320 pp. Freikirchenforschung 28, 2019, 223-226.
  • Höschele, Stefan and Maiwald, Kerstin: “Appendix I: Official Seventh-day Adventist Statements on Noncombatancy, War, and Peace." Frank M. Hasel, Barna Magyarosi and Stefan Höschele (eds.): Adventists and Military Service: Biblical, Historical, and Ethical Perspectives. Madrid: Safeliz, 2019, 201–204.
  • Höschele, Stefan and Maiwald, Kerstin: “Appendix II: Bibliography of Seventh-day Adventist Literature on Peace, War, and Military Service." Frank M. Hasel, Barna Magyarosi and Stefan Höschele (eds.): Adventists and Military Service: Biblical, Historical, and Ethical Perspectives. Madrid: Safeliz, 2019, 205–217.

Others

  • Managing Editor of the following issues of the journal Spes Christiana: 31.1 (2020), 31.2 (2020), 32.1 (2021), 32.2 (2021), 33.1 (2022).
  • Collaboration on the Sumerian Glossary of the universities of Leipzig/München/Göttingen, unpubl. manuscript. [between 2012‒2014]
  • Zgoll, Annette and Kratz, Reinhard G. (eds.): Arbeit am Mythos. Leistung und Grenze des Mythos in Antike und Gegenwart. Unter Mitarbeit von Kerstin Maiwald. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2013.

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  • situational location of ancient mythical texts
  • myth and ritual
  • ANE and Bible: cultural background of biblical texts
  • creation views in the ANE and in Israel
  • cultural developments within Seventh-day Adventism in the 20th and 21st century