# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-schafer
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:42:51.778Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-schafer"
name: "Peter Schäfer"
slug: "peter-schafer"
description: "Peter Schäfer is a prolific German scholar of ancient religious studies, who has made contributions to the field of ancient Judaism and early Christianity through monographs, co-edited volumes, numerous articles, and his trademark synoptic editions. He was a Professor of Religion and the Ronald O. Perelman Professor of Judaic Studies at Princeton University from 1998 to 2013."
tagline: "German judaic scholar"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Peter_Sch%C3%A4fer_(2022).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1943-06-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.369441333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Шефер, Петер"
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    title: "بيتر شيفر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Sch%C3%A4fer"
    title: "Peter Schäfer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Sch%C3%A4fer_(Judaist)"
    title: "Peter Schäfer (Judaist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Sch%C3%A4fer"
    title: "Peter Schäfer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A4%D7%98%D7%A8_%D7%A9%D7%A4%D7%A8"
    title: "פטר שפר"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump