Reinhard Kratz's research interests focus on the origin of the Hebrew Bible with special emphasis on Pentateuch, historical books, prophets and psalms, the Dead Sea Scrolls (Qumran) and the history of ancient Judaism in Persian and Hellenistic-Roman times
The social & intellectual history of late antiquity, & early Christian (patristic) studies, in the Mediterranean world of the third to the seventh century
Islam and Muslim communities in Britain; religious leadership, chaplaincy in public institutions, ethnographic research methodology.
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