Dr. Serhii Smahlo

Monographien

• Jesus’s Meals with Sinners. Enactment of Reversal on the Background of Early Jewish Eschatological Expectations. WUNT II 653. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2026.

Aufsätze

•  “Jesu Tischgemeinschaften mit Sündern: Die angebrochene Gottesherrschaft als Grund und Ziel diakonischen Handelns.” In Diakonie biblisch II: Frühjüdische, neutestamentliche und frühchristliche Perspektiven, edited by Klaus Scholtissek and Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr, Biblisch-Theologische Studien 199. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, forthcoming 2026.
• “Taking the Kingdom by Force: An Example of the Language of Violence in the Jesus Tradition.” In The Reception of Violent Biblical Texts Within and Beyond the Canon: Conference Proceedings, Cluj-Napoca, June 26–28, 2024, WUNT I. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, forthcoming 2026.

• since 2024: Research assistant at Corpus Judaeo-Hellenisticum Novi Testamenti digital (CJHNTdigital), Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig
• 2023–2024: Visiting Fellow, Fakulty of Theology, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
• since 2022 – Founder and Coordinator of a Network of Ukrainian Biblical Scholars (with the aim of establishing the Ukrainian Association of Biblical Studies)

• 2018–2023: PhD (Dr. theol.) in New Testament studies, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
  Dissertation: Jesus’s Table Fellowship with Tax Collectors and Sinners on the Background of Early Jewish Eschatological Expectations (Advisor: Prof. Dr. Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr)
• 2012–2015: Degree in Biblical Studies, Moscow Theological Academy and Seminary
• 2007–2012: Studies in Theology, Moscow Theological Academy and Seminary
• 2003–2007: Diploma in Choral Conducting, Vinnytsia College of Culture and Arts M.D. Leontovych (Ukraine)

• 2022–present: Special Course "Exegesis of the New Testament in the Context of Early Jewish Literature", Kyiv Theological Academy (annual, online)

• Ukrainian — native
• Russian — fluent
• German — fluent
• English — highly proficient
• Ancient Greek — highly proficient
• Biblical Hebrew — highly proficient
• Aramaic — proficient

“Mark 14:3–9 in Context: Between Meal Ritual, Funeral Rite, and Anointing of a King?” Paper presented at the EELC Pre-conference of SNTS General Meeting in Regensburg, 4 August, 2025.

“Chosen to Save the Unchosen? The Role of the Group of the Elect in Mk 13.” Paper presented at the SBL International Meeting and EABS Annual Meeting in Uppsala, 24 Juni, 2025.

“Taking the Kingdom by Force. An Example of the Language of Violence in the Jesus Tradition.” Paper presented at the conference “The Reception of Violent Biblical Texts Within and Beyond the Canon,” Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania, 26 June, 2024.

“Jesus’s Table Fellowships with Sinners as an Enactment of Eschatological Reversal.” Paper presented at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in San Antonio, TX, in November 18, 2023.

“As It Was ‘From the Beginning of Creation.’ Urzeit and Endzeit Pattern as a Framework of God’s Mission in the Jesus Tradition.” Paper presented at the Biblical Studies Group of the IOTA conference, Volos, Greece, 14 January 2023.

“Jesus’s Meals with Sinners in the Context of Early Jewish Apocalyptical Expectations.” The presentation of the PhD project at the EELC conference, Varna, Bulgaria, 10 July 2022.

“Притча о званых на пир в контексте трапез Иисуса Христа.” (“The Parable of the Great Banquet in the Context of Jesus' Meals”). In Proceedings of the IX International Student Theological Conference. St.-Petersburg, 10–11 May 2017, 412–426.

“Духовное питие Израиля по плоти и чаша Господня общины Коринфа (1 Кор 10-11).” (“‘Spiritual drink’ of Israel ‘according to the Flesh’ and the Lord's Cup of the Corinthian Community”). Paper presented at the 25^th Annual Theological Conference of the St. Tikhon’s Orthodox University. Moscow, 14 November 2014. 33–38.

• Society of Biblical Literature (SBL)
• European Association of Biblical Studies (EABS)
• International Orthodox Theological Association (IOTA)