Mgr. Michaela Prihracki, PhD.

VUPCH

Consultations by email appointment.

– Synoptic Gospels, especially the Gospel according to Matthew

– Ethics of Jesus

– Status and Role of Women in the Gospel Tradition

2025–present    Head of Department, Department of New Testament, Evangelical Lutheran Theological Faculty, Comenius University in Bratislava

2023–present    Assistant Professor, Department of New Testament, Evangelical Lutheran Theological Faculty, Comenius University in Bratislava

2017–2022    PhD. – Doctoral Studies, "God's Grace and God's Righteousness in the Ethics of the Gospel according to Matthew", Department of New Testament, Evangelical Lutheran Theological Faculty, Comenius University in Bratislava

2012–2017    Mgr. – Master's Studies, Evangelical Lutheran Theological Faculty, Comenius University in Bratislava

List of publications

2018    UK/157/2018 "God’s Righteousness as a Motive for Righteous Human Action in the Gospel according to Matthew" (Principal Investigator)

2025    GUKPOST/12/2025 "Gender Marginalization in Second Temple Judaism and Jesus’ Attitude toward Women: Exegetical and Ethical Themes in the Gospel according to Matthew" (Principal Investigator, Postdoctoral Project)

07–08/2026    Sommersprachkurs Deutsch des Martin-Luther-Bundes, Lutherstadt Wittenberg (Germany) – Study Stay

04/2026    The University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom) – Research Stay

02/2026    The University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom) – Research Stay

10/2025    Ecclesiastical Academy of Athens (Greece) – Erasmus+ Internship

05/2025    Katholische Theologie, Universität Passau (Germany) – Erasmus+ Internship

11/2019    International Theological Seminar, Wittenberg (Germany), The Lutheran World Federation

09/2019 – 12/2019    Faculty of Theology, Georg-August-University Göttingen (Germany) – Erasmus+ Internship

02/2019 – 05/2019    Faculty of Protestant Theology, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen (Germany) – Erasmus+ Internship

06/2018 – 09/2018    Student Immersion Program, Slovak Zion Synod, ELCA (Schulenburg, Texas, USA)

06/2014 – 09/2014    Student Immersion Program, Slovak Zion Synod, ELCA (Monroe, Wisconsin, USA)

09–10/10/2025    Beyond Communities? On the Contested Role of Communities in the Production of the Gospel Literature (Prague, Czech Republic)

23–27/06/2025    2025 International Meeting in Uppsala (Uppsala, Sweden)

19–23/05/2025    Netzwerktagung Religiöse Erinnerungskulturen in (Mittel- und Ost-)Europa (Passau, Germany)

15–18/05/2025    Regensburg – Prague (Post-)Doctoral Seminar in Early Christianity (Český Krumlov, Czech Republic)

03–07/07/2024    Loss and Gain in (Cultural) Translation? Receptions of Paul the Apostle in the First Four Centuries (Bratislava, SK, ELTF CU)

22/09/2023    Death in Transit: 4th Academic Conference (Bratislava, SK, ELTF CU)

20/06/2019    Luther: Yesterday – Today (Bratislava, SK, ELTF CU)

23/04/2019    English-German Colloquium in New Testament (Evangelisch-Theologische Fakultät - Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany)

01/06/2018    3rd International Students and PhD Students Academic Conference of Theologians (Warsaw, Poland)

07–09/09/2017    In Pluribus Unitas: Conference for PhD Students and Young Researchers in Theology (Bratislava, SK, ELTF CU)

- Greek I, II

- Greek Exercises I, II

- Cursory Reading of the Greek New Testament Text I, II

- New Testament Exegesis I, II

- New Testament Introduction / Survey (including distance learning)

- Introduction to the New Testament

- New Testament Seminar

- Master's Thesis Seminar

– ACB (P1): Michaela Prihracki, Kázeň na hore: Exegéza k Evanjeliu podľa Matúša 5 – 7 [Sermon on the Mount: Exegesis of the Gospel according to Matthew 5–7]. Bratislava: Comenius University in Bratislava, 2024. 310 p. ISBN 978-80-223-5816-3. (Reviewers: doc. Jiří Mrázek, Th.D.; prof. ThDr. Pavol Farkaš, PhD.) 

– AFD (V2): Michaela Prihracki, Remembering the Antioch Incident: Pauline Reception in Matthew in an Antiochene Context. In: Ábel, František [Ed.], Cultural Translation and Receptions of Paul in the First Four Centuries. New York, London, Dublin: Bloomsbury Academic / Fortress Academic, 2025. pp. 235 – 254. ISBN HB: 978-1-9787-1761-9, ePDF: 978-1-9787-4938-2, eBook: 978-1-9787-1762-6. 

– ADF (V3): Michaela Prihracki, Ius talionis v judaizme obdobia druhého chrámu [Ius talionis in Second Temple Judaism]. In: Historia et Theoria Iuris (Vol. 10, No. 1 (2018), pp. 25 – 31, ISSN (online) 1338-0753). 

– ADF (V3): Michaela Prihracki, Matúš 25, 31 – 46 ako protiargument k ospravedlneniu iba z milosti? [Matthew 25:31–46 as a counterargument to justification by grace alone?]. In: Testimonia Theologica (Vol. 12, No. 2 (2018), pp. 1 – 20, ISSN 1337-6411). 

– ADF (V3): Michaela Prihracki, Chápanie spravodlivosti v judaizme obdobia druhého chrámu [Understanding of Righteousness in Second Temple Judaism]. In: Historia et Theoria Iuris (Vol. 16, No. 1 (2024), pp. 44 – 54, ISSN (online) 1338-0753). 

– ADF: Michaela Prihracki, „Ani ja ťa neodsudzujem.“: Ukameňovanie ženy cudzoložnice (J 7, 53 – 8, 11) a problematika trestu smrti ["Neither do I condemn you": The stoning of the adulterous woman and the issue of capital punishment]. In Testimonia Theologica (Vol. XVI, No. 1 (2022), pp. 1 – 18, ISSN 1337-6411). 

– AFD (V2): Michaela Prihracki, Teologický význam postáv v naratíve Ježišovho narodenia [Theological significance of characters in the narrative of Jesus' birth]. In Benka, Dávid – Prihracki, Pavel-Andrei. Teológia v súvislostiach. Bratislava: Evangelical Lutheran Theological Faculty, 2024, pp. 7 – 22. ISBN 978-80-88827-61-0 (pdf); 978-80-88827-62-7 (epub). 

– AFD (V2): Michaela Prihracki, Motív smrti v príbehu Jairovej dcéry a chorej ženy (Mt 9, 18 – 26) [The motif of death in the story of Jairus' daughter and the sick woman (Mt 9:18–26)]. In: Peres, Imrich – Procházka, Pavel. Smrť v tranzite (IV.): Biblické, historické, etické a praktické pozadie smrti. Prague: ECM Education Institute, 2023, pp. 215 – 229. ISBN 978-80-7356-054-6. 

– AFD (V2): Michaela Prihracki, Kto slúži Bohu a kto mamone? Porovnanie Lutherovej exegézy Mt 6, 24 s výsledkami súčasného bádania [Who serves God and who Mammon? Comparison of Luther's exegesis of Mt 6:24 with contemporary research]. In: Batka, Ľubomír. Prihracki, Pavel-Andrei. Luther: včera – dnes (ISBN 978-80-223-4831-7, Bratislava: Comenius University in Bratislava, 2020. pp. 150-168).