This year’s Dr. The Leopold Lucas Prize of the Protestant Theological Faculty is awarded to the Judaist Peter Ochs. The faculty of the University of Tübingen is thus honoring his services in the dialogue between Judaism, Christianity and Islam: He played a key role in developing and spreading the method of ” scriptural reasoning “.
The method pursues the goal of mediating reconciliation between members of Christianity, Judaism and Islam through joint reading and discussion of the respective holy scriptures and motivating them to act together. The dialogic interpretation of the holy scriptures promotes understanding and acceptance of the respective religious traditions. For Ochs, this mutual understanding represents the basis of interreligious reconciliation.
The award ceremony will take place on
Tuesday, May 9, 2023 5:15 p.m. in the ballroom
of the University of Tübingen
(Neue Aula, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz, 72074 Tübingen).
Media representatives and the interested public are cordially invited.
Peter Ochs (born 1950) was Edgar M. Bronfman Professor of Modern Judaic Studies at the University of Virginia from 1997-2021 and has been Professor Emeritus since 2022. He is a co-founder of the Society for Scriptural Reasoning and the Children of Abraham Institute , which are committed to dialogue between members of the Abrahamic religions. He has emerged through numerous influential publications in the fields of Jewish Studies, Jewish philosophy and theology, (post-)modern philosophy, and interreligious dialogue and peacebuilding.
In addition to his broad and interdisciplinary academic work, Ochs was also active in policy consulting for the US Department of State on the topics of religion and foreign policy as well as religion and violence. In his work, Ochs not only provides a theoretical framework for interreligious understanding, but also works actively on the practical implementation of this goal.
The Judaist thus fulfills the goals of Dr. Leopold Lucas Prize, said the jury. The prize is awarded to people whose scientific work promotes relationships between people and peoples and has made a contribution to spreading the idea of tolerance. the dr Leopold Lucas Prize was donated in 1972 by Consul General Franz D. Lucas, Honorary Senator of the University of Tübingen – on the occasion of the 100th birthday of his father, the Jewish scholar Dr. Leopold Lucas.
He worked as a rabbi in Glogau and finally at the Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums in Berlin and died in 1943 in the Theresienstadt concentration camp. The prize, donated in his memory, is awarded annually by the Protestant Theological Faculty on behalf of the University of Tübingen. It is endowed with 50,000 euros.
Leopold Lucas Prize for young scientists
the dr This year’s Leopold Lucas Prize for young scientists goes to Dr. Johanna Jebe for her dissertation in history “Rules, Script Correctio – Carolingian drafts of monasticism in the mirror of script production from St. Gallen and Fulda”. In her work she evaluates the medieval manuscripts through an innovative combination of aspects of the history of knowledge, the history of material text cultures and sociological practice theories and draws a new, fascinatingly multifaceted picture of monasticism and the Carolingian renewal movement in the 8th and 9th centuries. This prize is endowed with 20,000 euros. Photo: private
