Dr. Dr. Doru Constantin Doroftei

Biography

Doru Constantin Dorofteistudied theology and Jewish studies in Sibiu/Hermannstadt (Romania), Graz (Austria), Wuppertal, and Tübingen. In 2013, he completed his doctorate in theology (Dr. Theol.) with a thesis on the biblical book of Joshua and, in 2019 in Jewish studies (Dr. Phil.) with a thesis on the form and genesis of the first bread ritual in rabbinic Judaism and its links to the Christian Eucharist. Between 2015 and 2020, he worked as a Judaist on the ERC project COBHUNI (Contemporary Bioethics and the History of the Unborn in Islam) at the University of Hamburg. In the summer semester of 2019, he held the professorship for Religious Studies and Jewish Studies at the Faculty of Protestant Theology at the University of Tübingen, and from 2020 to 2022, he conducted research on the topic of “Mysticism and Enlightenment” as part of a post-doctoral program at the Hamburg Research Academy. At BaFID, Doru Constantin Doroftei took a cultural and religious studies approach to Judaism in its relationship to Christianity and Islam.