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Clarissa Breu is Assistant Professor of New Testament. She holds a MA in Protestant Theology, a MA in Comparative Literature, and a PhD in New Testament from the University of Vienna. She studied in Vienna, Heidelberg, and Paris and was a postdoctoral researcher at the Universities of Vienna and Göttingen. Her research explores the intersection of cultural analysis and New Testament studies, currently with a particular focus on gestures and corporeality in the Gospel of John. Her doctoral dissertation, published as Autorschaft in der Johannesoffenbarung (2020), examines questions of authorship in the Book of Revelation. She is currently working on a second book project on mockery in the Passion Narratives and their ancient contexts. Breu serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Biblical Literature.
The Gospel of John. The Book of Revelation. Gender, Authorship Theory, Corporeality and the New Testament. Reception of the New Testament.
Attention to the Body. Embodiment and Corporeality Through the Lens of Gesture, Religions 17.4 (2026), 464.
Gender in the Apocalypse. A Story of Containers, JSNT 48/2 (2025): 405-421.
Reading Gesture in John 20.16–17 and Its Afterlives, NTS 71/2 (2025): 171-185.
Touching the Divine. Intra-action in the Gospel of Luke, Genealogy + Critique 11/1 (2025): 1–17.
Time-Travelling Gestures. A Response to the Nightmare of Anachronism, Bible & Critical Theory 20/1 (2024), 4.
The Mother as Receptacle. Paul’s Maternal Metaphors and Platonic Concepts of Motherhood, EC 15/2 (2024): 186–206, doi: 10.1628/ec-2024-0013.
Double Turning and Other Duplicities. A Performative Reading of John 20:11–18, JRAT 10 (2024): 522– 541, doi: doi.org/10.30965/23642807-bja10097.
The Exposure of Violence. A Performative Reading of Sacrifice in Genesis 22 with Judith Butler and Giorgio Agamben, JRAT 8/2 (2022): 275–289; doi: https://doi.org/10.30965/23642807-bja10045.
Female Seed as a Metaphor. Queer Kinship in Revelation 12, Ancient Medical and Literary Texts and the Septuagint, JSNT 45/1 (2022): 81–108; doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/0142064X221110685 journals.sagepub.com/home/jnt.
Autor_ität. Der Autor der Johannesoffenbarung als Zeuge, in: Uta Heil/Antje Klein/Annette Schellenberg (eds.), Autor und Autorität. Historische, systematische und praktische Perspektiven, Wiener Jahrbuch für Theologie 12, Wien 2019, 37–55.
Zugehörigkeit als Fremdheit. Perspektiven zu einer neutestamentlichen Theologie der Migration, in: Protokolle zur Bibel 28/1 (2019): 41–63; https://www.protokollezurbibel.at/index.php/pzb/article/view/2756
„Geht hinaus aus ihr!“ (Offb 18,4) Vier Frauenfiguren und ihre Bedeutung für die Organisation des Raumes in der Johannesoffenbarung, Protokolle zur Bibel 27/1 (2018): 24–41; https://www.protokollezurbibel.at/index.php/pzb/article/view/2714/2328
Gesture in the New Testament, BI (with Kasper Bro Larsen; forthcoming 2026).
New Testament Studies – Current Trends and Criticisms, Religions 2026 (with Susanne Luther and Birke Siggelkow-Berner).
The Future of New Testament Studies. Historical Contexts and Contemporary Relevance, LNTS, Bloomsbury: London 2025.
Autorschaft in der Johannesoffenbarung. Eine postmoderne Lektüre, WUNT 2/541, Mohr Siebeck: Tübingen 2020.
Biblical Exegesis without Authorial Intention? Interdisciplinary Approaches to Authorship and Meaning, BINS 172, Brill: Leiden/Boston 2019.
Queere Bibellektüren, in: Marianne Heimbach-Steins/Judith Könemann (eds.), Handbuch Theologische Genderforschung, forthcoming.
Zukunft in der Johannesoffenbarung. Geöffnete Gegenwart im Horizont des kommenden Gottes, in: Jan C. Gertz/Konrad Schmid (eds.), Theologie der Zukunft. XVIII. Europäischer Kongress für Theologie, Veröffentlichungen der Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft für Theologie 81, EVA: Leipzig, forthcoming 2026.
Symbolic Interpretation, in: Laurentiu Moţ (ed.), The Enchantment of 666 and the Restless Pursuit for Its Meaning, BINS, forthcoming 2026.
How to Deal with Mockery. Impulses from Ancient Texts and Speech Act Theory, in: Susanne Luther/ Clarissa Breu (eds.), The Ethics of Speech in Ancient and Modern Discourses, WUNT I, Mohr Siebeck: Tübingen, forthcoming 2026.
Universality in a Particular Place. Dialogue as the Active Formation of a Neighbourhood, in: Douglas Pratt (ed.), IKZ, forthcoming 2026.
Dissemination against the Grain: New Testament Studies as a Cultivated Wild Garden, in: Clarissa Breu (ed.), The Future of New Testament Studies. Historical Context and Contemporary Relevance, LNTS, Bloomsbury: London, 2025.
Apocalypse Now? Zeit und Ethik in der Johannesoffenbarung, in: Alexander Košenina/Raphaela J. Meyer zu Hörste-Bührer/Johannes Müller-Salo/Nils Neumann (eds.), Apocalypse Now (Again)! Spielarten der Apokalypse in ethischen Kontexten, Werhahn: Hannover 2023, 57–72. 7
Prosopopöie im Jakobusbrief aus dekonstruktiver Perspektive, in: Eve-Marie Becker/Sigurvin Lárus Jónsson/Susanne Luther (eds.), Who was ‘James’? Essays on the Letter’s Authorship and Provenance, WUNT 1/485, Mohr Siebeck: Tübingen 2022, 99–120.
Dämonen – Allein – Wahrheit. Die Sprache der Liebe als dämonische Textur, in: Peter Clar/Julia Prager (eds.), Was bleibt von Fragmenten einer Sprache der Liebe? Turia + Kant: Wien 2021, 163–178.
Frederike van Oorschot/Friedrich-Emmanuel Focken (eds.) unter Mitarbeit von Clarissa Breu, Walter Bührer, Elisabeth Maikranz, Raphaela J. Meyer zu Hörste-Bührer, Torben Stamer, Kinga Zeller und Carolin Ziethe, Schriftbindung evangelischer Theologie. Theorieelemente aus interdisziplinären Gesprächen, ThLZ.F, EVA: Leipzig 2020.
#John. Author-Names in Revelation and Other New Testament Texts, in: Clarissa Breu (ed.), Biblical Exegesis without Authorial Intention? Interdisciplinary Approaches to Textual Meaning, BINS 172, Brill: Leiden/Boston 2019, 126–148.
