Hermann Spieckermann

Hermann Spieckermann (born October 28, 1950, in Dortmund) is a German biblical scholar, historian of ancient Near Eastern religion, and Protestant theologian.

He served as Privatdozent for two years in Göttingen before receiving a call to the University of Zürich as associate professor of Old Testament and the history of Near Eastern religion, in 1989.

[1] With his first monograph, Juda unter Assur in der Sargonidenzeit, Spieckermann demonstrated a mastery of biblical criticism, assyriology, and ancient Near Eastern history.

[2][3] Among other honors and awards, Spieckermann was guest professor at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome, in 1999, and received an honorary doctorate in theology from Sweden's University of Lund the next year, in 2000.

[9] Furthermore, Spieckermann hosted Nathan MacDonald's major research project "Early Jewish Monotheisms," which was funded through the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation's Sofia Kovalevskaya Award.