Academic Seminar – 16th October // Dr. Magnus Rabel – “Suddenly, a Light: Saul’s Vision and the Platonist Flash of Insight (Acts 9)”
Seminars run from 2-3pm, On most Fridays during the weeks of the University of Oxford’s full term
You are warmly invited to join us beforehand for community worship at 12.30pm and lunch in the Manor house (1-2pm).
Abstract:
About the speaker:
Magnus Rabel studied Protestant theology in Tübingen, Basel, Marburg, Giessen and Aberdeen (UK) from 2015 to 2021, where he completed his Master of Theology in Biblical Studies with the distinction “First Class Honours With Distinction”. From 2022 to 2025, he worked on his dissertation with the working title “The remembered Joseph – a dazzling figure and its reception in ancient Judaism and early Christianity” under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Jörg Frey, which was accepted summa cum laude in the summer of 2025. Since then, he has been preparing his habilitation project on the narrative theology of Luke in the portrayal of the apostle Saul/Paul. From January to July 2026, he will be a Visiting Scholar at the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge (Host: Simon Gathercole) with a postdoctoral fellowship funded by the German Academic Exchange Service. This will be followed by a 24-month research stay as a Research Associate at Keble College, Oxford, which is funded by a Feodor Lynen Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
Magnus Rabel is married and the father of a daughter.
(Bio translated from the University of Zurich website)
Registration is not required to attend the seminar, but is needed if you want to book in for the free lunch.
