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Ebach Ruth is a prominent scholar in Old Testament Studies and Ancient Near Eastern Religions. She holds a position as Research Fellow at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen's Department of Old Testament Studies. Her research focuses on identity construction in the Deuteronomistic History, intertextuality between prophetic texts, and comparative ancient Near Eastern religious practices. She completed her habilitation in 2021 with a study on false prophecy in the Old Testament. Key affiliations include the European Association of Biblical Studies (EABS), Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), and the German Association for Palestinian Studies (ZDPV).
- Education: PhD summa cum laude (2014) from WWU Münster; Habilitation (2021) in Old Testament Studies
- Research Areas: Deuteronomy's foreign policy discourse, prophetic traditions, ancient Near Eastern divination practices, and biblical ethics
Her work bridges biblical exegesis with cultural anthropology, examining how identity was constructed through textual traditions. Recent studies analyze Joel's literary reception in the Twelve Prophets corpus and the dynamics of legitimate vs. false prophecy in Jeremiah.
Awards include WWU's annual best doctoral thesis award (2014) and prestigious fellowships like the Käte-Hamburger-Kolleg Research Fellowship (2019-2020). She co-edited major volumes on biblical tradition and exodus theology, and her monograph Das Fremde und das Eigene (2014) remains a key text on Deuteronomistic foreign identity construction.
