Annette M. Böckler

Who is Annette M. Böckler?

Annette Mirjam Böckler is lecturer for Jewish liturgy and bible and librarian at Leo Baeck College in London, and a writer and translator in the Jewish subject area. She is the translator of Seder haTefillot, the first liberal Jewish prayerbook after the Shoah in Germany, and the translator and editor of the German edition of the W. Gunther Plaut's Torah commentary.

She studied Protestant Theology, Bible, and Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Tübingen, Bern, Bonn and Cologne and concluded her studies in 1993 with the first ecclesiastical exam, after which she was admitted as vicar in training on the churches' preparatory employment scheme. In March 1995 she passed the second ecclesiastical exam of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland. In 1996 she was admitted to the church's auxiliary service as pastor. On 2 February 1997 she was ordained as a priest of the Evangelical Church of the Rhineland in the community of Unterbarmen-Mitte. Until September 1998 she worked primarily at the Kirchliche Hochschule Wuppertal. On 1 October 1998 she was discharged from ecclesiastical service. In February 2000 she did a doctorate in the field of Old Testament on "God as father".