Daniel Christian Maier

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Daniel Maier, born 1991, is Assistant Professor for New Testament at the Faculty of Theology at the University of Copenhagen. Before his appointment in Denmark, he did his Ph.D. in 2020 after research stays in Jerusalem, Addis Ababa, and at Yale University at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich in Germany and subsequently worked for three years as a Postdoc at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. His fields of study are diverse but interconnected, ranging from happiness in Second Temple Judaism and the New Testament over the Ethiopic transmission of ancient texts and their digitalization to the reception of early Christianity and its theology in video games. He has a keen interest in the didactics of New Testament scholarship and was awarded a teaching grant by the Universitäre Lehrförderung of the University of Zurich in 2022.

His key publications are Das Glück im antiken Judentum und im Neuen Testament. Eine Untersuchung zu den Konzepten eines guten Lebens in der Literatur des Zweiten Tempels und deren Einfluss auf die frühchristliche Wahrnehmung des Glücks (2021), which was awarded the “Manfred-Görg Preis” for outstanding research in the history of religions and interreligious dialogue, and Abraham. Facets of a Father Figure (2023 in German; 2024 in English). Furthermore, he is the author of various articles on Second Temple Judaism, emotions and ethics in the New Testament, and apocalyptic thinking in early Christianity. Among his primary objectives as a scholar is to disseminate the findings of biblical studies to a broader public and to share his fascination for the field with his students.