Rate My Professor Frederik Poulsen

Poulsen serves as Principal Investigator of the project Divergent Views of Diaspora in Ancient Judaism (2022–2026), funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark's Sapere Aude programme, analyzing textual depictions of early Jewish diaspora (597–331 BCE) in the Hebrew Bible, Elephantine Papyri, and Al-Yahudu documents. He previously led Stories in a Strange Land: Biblical Narratives about Assimilation and Religious Identity (2018–2021), supported by the Carlsberg Foundation, and Images of Exile (2015–2017), funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark's Sapere Aude programme, resulting in monographs and edited volumes. His accolades include the Nils Klim Prize (2020), Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters' Silver Medal (2020), and Sapere Aude: DFF-Research Leader (2021). Key publications feature Representing Zion: Judgement and Salvation in the Old Testament (Routledge, 2015), The Black Hole in Isaiah (Mohr Siebeck, 2019), Images of Exile in the Prophetic Literature (co-editor, Mohr Siebeck, 2019), Judeans in the Land of the Nile: Papers on Achaemenid Egypt, Elephantine, and the Hebrew Bible (co-editor, 2026), and popular works such as Ezras Bog, Nehemias Bog (2023) and Usædvanlige bibelhistorier for unge og gamle (co-author, 2026). He has co-edited volumes on biblical liturgy and the Bible and Qur'an.