Holger Michael Zellentin

Holger Michael Zellentin (born January 17, 1976) is a German scholar of religious studies. He is professor of religion and Judaic studies at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen.

His research interests include late Ancient Near and Middle Eastern religions, the Qur'an and its milieu, Hellenistic Judaism and anthropology of ancient religion.

Biography

Zellentin received his Diplôme des Études Universitaires Générales from the University of Strasbourg in 1998, a Doctoraal degree (BA cum MA) from the University of Amsterdam in 2001, Master of Arts in religions of late antiquity from the Department of Religion and Department of Classics at Princeton University in 2004 and a Ph.D. from the Department of Religion at Princeton University in 2007.

Zellentin has previously taught at the University of Cambridge, the University of Nottingham, the Graduate Theological Union, the University of California, Berkeley, and Rutgers University.

Since 2019 he has been Professor of Religious Studies with a special focus on Judaic Studies at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen.

Zellentin served as a Board Member of the British Association for Jewish Studies for five years. He is currently the Chairman of the Board of the International Association for Qur'anic Studies.

Works

• Heresy and Self-Definition in Late Antiquity (ed.) with Eduard Iricinschi (2008)
• Rabbinic Parodies of Jewish and Christian Literature (2011)
• The Qur'ān's Legal Culture. The Didascalia Apostolorum as a Point of Departure (2013)
• The Qur'an's Reformation of Judaism and Christianity. Return to the Origins (2019)
• Law Beyond Israel: From the Bible to the Qur'an, (2022)