Franzmann completed her PhD at the University of Queensland in 1990 in the School of History,Philosophy,Religion and Classics. The title of her thesis was "An analysis of the poetical structure and form of the Odes of Solomon".[2] While Franzmann was working on her doctorate,she also spent time at the University of Tübingen on a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) scholarship. After completion her doctorate,she was the recipient of a Humboldt Fellowship from 1992 to 1993.[3] She renewed her Fellowship in 1995 and 2007.[4]
Career
Franzmann was Associate Dean (Research) and Chair of the Academic Board at the University of New England from 2004 to 2006. From 2008 to early 2010,she served as Pro Vice-Chancellor Humanities and Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Otago in New Zealand. She then returned to Australia to take up the position of Pro-Vice Chancellor Humanities at Curtin University from 2010 to 2015. Franzmann is now an Honorary Professor in the Department of Studies in Religion at the University of Sydney.[4][5]
Franzmann was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2001 in the Classical Studies/Religion Section.[6]
In 2001,Franzmann was awarded the Australian Centenary Medal for services to Australian society and the humanities in philosophy and religion.[7]
In 2013,Franzmann was elected as a member of the Australian Council of Learned Academies for a three-year term.[4]
Franzmann serves on the editorial board of the international journal published by Brill,Gnosis:Journal of Gnostic Studies.[8]
Honours
In 2006,the Australian Association for the Study of Religion (AASR) Women's Caucus invited Franzmann to give the annual Penny Magee Memorial Lecture. The title of her talk was,"Tehat the Weaver:Women's Experience in Manichaeism in Fourth-century Roman Kellis".[9]
Publications
Books
Franzmann,Majella. (2003) Jesus in the Manichaean Writings,New York:T. &T. Clark. ISBN9780567504142
Franzmann, Majella. (2000) Women and religion, Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN9780195107739
Edited books
Gardner, I., Lieu, S., Eccles, L., Franzmann, M., Parry, K. (2012). Medieval Christian and Manichaean Remains from Quanzhou (Zayton). Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers. ISBN978-2-503-52197-8
Franzmann, M., Gardner, I., Parry, K. (2012). The Indian Background: Connections and Comparisons. In S. N.C. Lieu, L. Eccles, M. Franzmann, I. Gardner, K. Parry (Eds.), Medieval Christian and Manichaean Remains from Quanzhou (Zayton), (pp.215–242). Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers. ISBN978-2-503-52197-8
Franzmann, M. (2010). Gnostic Portraits of Jesus. In Delbert Burkett (Eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Jesus, (pp.160–175). Chicester, United Kingdom: Louisiana State University Press. doi:10.1002/9781444327946.ch11
Journals
Franzmann, M. (2015). The epitaph of Mar Solomon, bishop of south China, administrator of Manicheans and Nestorians. Open Theology, 1(1), 293–300. doi:10.1515/opth-2015-0014
Bennett, D., Franzmann, M. (2013). Aristotle and the ERA: Measuring the immeasurable. Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 12(4), 367–381. doi:10.1177/1474022213492441
Franzmann, M. (2013). Augustine's view of Manichaean almsgiving and almsgiving by the Manichaean community at Kellis. Hervormde Teologiese Studies, 69(1). doi:10.4102/hts.v69i1.1356
Franzmann, M. (2011). The treasure of the Manichaean spiritual life. Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies, 74, 235–243. doi:10.1163/ej.9789004189973.i-730.67
Franzmann, M. (2010). 'God desires ease for you, and desires not hardship for you': A comparison of qur'anic and Judaeo-Christian law. Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, 21(1), 1–9. doi:10.1080/09596410903481812
Franzmann, M. (2009). Imitatio Christi: Copying the death of the founder and gaining paradise. Journal for the Study of Judaism. Supplement, 132, 367–383. doi:10.1163/ej.9789004173552.i-622.105
Franzmann, M. (2022). Papers from the International Symposium on Women in Manichaeism, Sorbonne 2014. Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies. ISBN9004472215
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