B. 1971; MA 1997, Institute of History, University of Warsaw; PhD 2002, post-doctoral degree (habilitacja) 2013 (also UW).
FUNCTIONS:
Member of the editorial boards of Palamedes. A Journal of Ancient History and Scripta Biblica et Orientalia.
Member of the Council of the Faculty of History, Unviersity of Warsaw, 2008-2012.
Member of the IH UW Advisory Board, 2008-2012, 2012-2016.
SCHOLARSHIPS and INTERNSHIPS abroad:
–Monthly visits at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) - (1999, 2001, 2002, 2004);
–Four-month stay in Rome (Universita' degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza” and Pontificio Istituto Biblico) - Italian government scholarship (2001);
–Lanckoroński Foundation scholarship, Rome (2001; 2009);
–Scholarship at the University of Tuebingen (November 2004);
– Mellon Foundation Fellowship (Istituto de philology - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas) (2005);
– Garstka Fellowship, Post-Doc Visiting Scholar – University of Notre Dame (2005-2006);
– Visiting Professor at the Nanovic Institute, University of Notre Dame (USA) – (2009).
Member of the European Association of Biblical Studies, the Catholic Biblical Association of America, Associazione Orientalisti, Society of Biblical Literature.
- Change, Continuity, and Connectivity. North-Eastern Mediterranean at the turn of the Bronze Age and in the early Iron Age. eds. Ł. Niesiołowski-Spanò, M. Węcowski; (Philippika - Altertumskundliche Abhandlungen 118); 468 pages; Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag 2018.
- Finding Myth and History in the Bible. Scholarship, Scholars and Errors. Essays in honor of Giovanni Garbini, (eds) Ł. Niesiołowski-Spano, C. Peri, J. West, Sheffield - Oakville: Equinox Publishing; 2016;
- Goliath’s Legacy. Philistines and Hebrews in Biblical Times (Philippika - Altertumswissenschaftliche Abhandlungen / Contributions to the Study of Ancient World Cultures, 83), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2016, (pp. XIII, 321);
- Dziedzictwo Goliata. Filistyni i Hebrajczycy w czasach biblijnych (Monografie Fundacji na rzecz Nauki Polskiej), Wydawnictwo Naukowe UMK, Toruń 2012 (598 pp.);
- Origin Myths and Holy Places in the Old Testament. A Study of Aetiological Narratives (Copenhagen International Seminar) ed. Equinox Publishing Ltd. London - Oakville 2011 (314 pp.);
- (Pseudo-)Eupolemus and Shechem: Methodology Enabling the Use of Hellenistic Jewish Historians' Work in Biblical Studies , [in:] L.L. Grabbe (ed.), Enquire of the Former Age: Ancient Historiography and Writing the History of Israel, (LHB/OTS 554), T & T Clark International - Continuum, New York - London 2011, pp. 77-96;
- The Broken Structure of the Moses Story: Or, Moses and the Jerusalem Temple , Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament 23 (2009), 23-37;
- Ślady kultu chtoicznego w Biblii - hebrajski czasownik 'arap , [in:] TIMAI. Studia poświęcone profesorowi Włodzimierzowi Lengauerowi przez uczniów i młodszych kolegów z okazji Jego 60. urodzin, ed. A. Wolicki, Warszawa 2009, pp. 88-101;
- Passover, the Jewish Cultic Calendar and Torah, Palamedes. A Journal of Ancient History, 2 (2007), pp. 35-54;
- 'Early Alphabetic Scripts and the Origin of Greek letters’ , [in:] Haec mihi in animis vestris templa. Studia Classica in Memory of Professor Lesław Morawiecki, edited by Piotr Berdowski and Beata Blahaczek, Rzeszów 2007 [print 2008], 47-63;
- Primeval History in the Persian Period?, Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament 21 (2007), pp. 106-126;
- Two Aetiological Narratives in Genesis and Their Dates , Studia Judaica 9, no. 2 (2006), pp. 367-381;
- Where to look for Gideon’s Ophra?, Biblica 86, 4 (2005), pp. 478-493;
- Mityczne początki miejsc świętych w Starym Testamencie (Wydawnictwo Akademickie 'Dialog'), Warszawa 2003;
- Biblical Prophet Amos: A Simple, Poor Shepherd From Judah? [in:] Euergesias charin. Studies presented to Benedetto Bravo and Ewa Wipszycka by Their Disciples, Warszawa 2002, pp. 211-217.