Matthias Henze (b.1965), scholar

Matthias Henze is a German American scholar, at Rice University (Houston, TX), USA.

Biography

PhD (1997) in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, at Harvard University. Chair in Biblical Studies and Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the Dept. of Religious Studies at Rice University. Member of the Enoch Seminar.

Works on Second Temple Judaism

Books

• The Madness of King Nebuchadnezzar: The Ancient Near Eastern origins and Early History of Interpretation of Daniel 4 (Leiden 1999)
• The Syriac Apocalypse of Daniel (Tübingen 2001)

Edited volumes

• Biblical Interpretation at Qumran (Grand Rapids 2005)