San Francisco Theological Seminary
Professor of Church History
Core Doctoral Faculty Member

At GTU since 1991

Th.M. and Ph.D., Princeton Theological Seminary
M.Div. Fuller Theological Seminary

Phone: 415/451-2876
E-mail: ocker@sfts.edu

Current Research and Teaching Interests

• Christianity in the Late Middle Ages and Reformation

Selected Publications

• Church-Robbers and Reformers in Germany, 1525-1547. Leiden: E.J. Brill, f2006.
• Biblical Poetics before Humanism and Reformation. Cambridge University Press, 2002.
• "German Theologians and the Jews in the Fifteenth Century,” in Jews, Judaism and the Reformation in Sixteenth-Century Germany, edited by Dean Phillip Bell and Stephen G. Burnett. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2006.
• "Armut und die menschliche Natur." Pages 111-129, Die neue Frömmigkeit: eine europäische Kultur am Ende des Mittelalters. Edited by Martial Staub and Marek Derwich, for the series Veröffentlichungen des Max-Planck-Instituts für Geschichte. Göttingen: Vandenoeck und Ruprecht, 2004.
• "Contempt for Jews and Contempt for Friars in Late Medieval Germany." Pages 119-146 of Friars and Jews in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Edited by Steven McMichael and Susan E. Myers. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2004.
• "Religious Reform and Social Cohesion." Pages 69-94, The Work of Heiko A. Oberman. Edited by Thomas A. Brady and James Tracy. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2002.