The University of Vienna and the publisher Mohr Siebeck have concluded a forward-looking agreement for the years 2026 to 2028. Members of the University of Vienna can publish Open Access in the publisher’s journals as well as release Open Access monographs and edited volumes without additional costs.

At the Dies academicus 2026, the University of Zurich (UZH) conferred its annual awards for outstanding academic achievements. Among the recipients is Dr. theol. Lida Leonie Panov from the Faculty of Theology and the Study of Religion.

A new podcast interview on The Formation of Psalms 1–3 and the Arrangement of the Hebrew Psalter has been published on the New Books Network. In the episode, Eric McDonnell speaks with Michael Morales about key arguments of the book, focusing on the formation, composition, and placement of Psalms 1–3 within the Hebrew Psalter.

Our author Jan N. Bremmer recently appeared as a guest on the Ryley Heppner Podcast. In this in-depth conversation, he discusses his book Jews, Pagans, and Christians in the Roman Empire and key aspects of his long-standing research on ancient religion.

Under the headline Inequality and Taxation, FinanzArchiv/European Journal of Public Finance and the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance invite submissions for a conference to be held on 27–28 October 2026 in Berlin, Harnack-Haus. 

SysLex, the first free online encyclopedia for systematic theology, will be launched on May 1. The innovative service is aimed at anyone interested in theological issues - from students to teachers and colleagues, pastors to volunteers and church councils.
With a constantly growing number of articles, SysLex provides short, up-to-date and problem-oriented introductions to central concepts and topics of systematic theology.

We are pleased to announce that John van Maaren, author of The Gospel of Mark's Judaism and the Death of Christ as Ransom for Many, was recently interviewed on the New Books Network podcast.

All 109 of Mohr Siebeck's active book series have been accepted into the international citation database Scopus. As a rule, the indexing promptly covers the past five years (from 2020 onwards), with earlier volumes included in some cases.