Christopher Ocker

Christopher Ocker is an American Medievalist and historian and currently professor of history at San Francisco Theological Seminary, core doctoral faculty at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, an affiliate professor of history and a core professor in the doctoral program of Jewish Studies at the University of California Berkeley. Ocker is known for his works in the history of religion in Europe, Medieval and early modern intellectual and cultural history, and the social and political history of late medieval and early modern Central Europe.

Selected Publications

Church-Robbers and Reformers in Germany, 1525–1547, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2006.

Biblical Poetics before Humanism and Reformation, Cambridge University Press, 2002.

"German Theologians and the Jews in the Fifteenth Century,” in Jews, Judaism and the Reformation in Sixteenth-Century Germany, eds. Dean Phillip Bell and Stephen G. Burnett, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2006.

"Armut und die menschliche Natur," Die neue Frömmigkeit: eine europäische Kultur am Ende des Mittelalters. Edited by Martial Staub and Marek Derwich, for the series Veröffentlichungen des Max-Planck-Instituts für Geschichte. Göttingen: Vandenoeck und Ruprecht, 2004.

"Contempt for Jews and Contempt for Friars in Late Medieval Germany," Friars and Jews in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, eds. Steven McMichael and Susan E. Myers, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2004. "Religious Reform and Social Cohesion," The Work of Heiko A. Oberman, eds. Thomas A. Brady and James Tracy, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2002.