Ph.D. Candidate in Religious Studies
(Hebrew Bible & Ancient Near East)
Graduate Department of Religion
The Program in Theology & Practice
Carpenter’s Queer Faith, Policy & Liberation Cohort
Wendland-Cook Program in Religion & Justice
Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide
Ludwig is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Hebrew Bible & Ancient Israel, double-minoring in the New Testament & Early Christian Studies and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, and also has a graduate certificate in Jewish Studies. Ludwig holds master’s degrees in Biblical Studies from Vanderbilt University (M.A.), Boston University (M.T.S.), and Ecumenical Theological Seminary (M.Th.), as well as a bachelor’s degree in Applied Theology from the Adventist University of Indonesia. His additional studies include the Hittite linguistic course at Leiden University, Classical Hebrew and Biblical Studies courses at Harvard University and Boston College, as well as Archaeology courses at Tel Aviv University funded by the Biblical Archaeology Society. Ludwig is currently also a Research Associate at Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide.
Ludwig is interested in interrogating texts with specific attention to their social, economic, and political contexts. His dissertation project entitled “Rest as a Site of Struggle: Reconsidering Sabbath Transgressions in the Hebrew Bible Narratives” explores Sabbath narratives through postcolonial, gender, and class analysis along with the modern imperialist utilization of the Sabbath motif.
Before coming to the United States, Ludwig served as a faculty in the Ecumenical Theological Seminary as well as a chaplain and cultural studies instructor in an elementary and junior high school.