Stephanie Schabow passed her First Theological Exam in 2008, and since then has been writing her dissertation on “Territories and concepts of government in the Book of Revelations” in the New Testament research area. Her work is integrated into the sub-project “Imagined Space in Early Christianity and Judaism” of research group B-III-2, “The Organization of Diversity in the Ecclesiastical Space in Antiquity”.

For Topoi, she coordinates work in research group area B “Mechanisms of Control and Social Spaces” at the HU.

Deborah Jacobs has studies Theology and Jewish Studies in Berlin before completing a Master’s degree in Jewish Studies at the University of Oxford in 2008. She has been working on her doctoral thesis titled “Images of Space in the Third Sibylline Oracle”, a Jewish pseudepigraph from approximately the first century BCE, since. The thesis focuses on how space and dominion of space are structured within the text and how this may shed light on the socio-historical environment of the author.