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.

Mohr Siebeck is a partner of the 2026 Arnold Goldberg Dissertation Prize, which the Professional Association of Jewish Studies, Jewish Studies, and Jewish Theology in Germany e. V. is awarding for the first time this year.

Joanna G. Kline discusses her book "Narrative Analogy in the David Story. Parallels between Genesis 25–50 and 1 Samuel 16–1 Kings 2" on the New Books Network podcast.

The Erwin Stein Prize 2026 has been awarded to the Protestant theologian Prof. emeritus Dr. theol. Eilert Herms (University of Tübingen). The prize honours his scholarly life’s work, with particular emphasis on his contributions to systematic theology and social ethics.

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.