For my PhD thesis I investigated the evidence for my reading of the biblical Jonah story. I argue, from a mostly linguistic but highly interdisciplinary point of view, that the prophet Jonah is not described as being swallowed by one big fish, but that he was engulfed by a huge amount of fish — a metaphor for drowing, befitting the contents of the psalmic prayer in Jonah 2. Aside from the linguistic word-study, the thesis also discusses the metaphorical layers of the Jonah story, and its possible connections to ancient literature which favor my theory.

For my Master's thesis (written in German) I investigated the arguments in favor of the Pericope Adulteræ (John 7:53–8:11, the woman taken in adultery) being an authentic biblical text, and not just a late addition (as some scholars have claimed). As I evaluated the already well established evidence and also brought in my own ideas, I concluded that the passage is, in fact, authentic. When I say I "investigated" the issue, I really mean it, because one of the professors who tested me on my thesis called it "a true detective job".

This was just a small paper that I wrote for a presentation in an Onomastics class — still, I have a certain fondness for it and I think it might be valuable. I already knew a little bit about the history behind the name "Jehovah", namely that a monk came up with that form in th 1200's, and that it is not a particularly ancient interpretation of the Tetragrammaton. I wanted to know more and started investigating the matter. So I got into contact with professor Ryan Szpiech, who was so friendly as to provide me with scans of various manuscripts of the medieval text in which the name "Jehovah" was first found. Thanks to his scans I could trace back how the name changed over time.

This was my first Bachelor's thesis, for which I decided to take a linguistic look at the syntax of a handful of controversial Bible verses. I investigated the syntax of John 1:1c (And the Word was God); Matthew 21:9,15 (Hosanna to the Son of David); Hebrews 1:8 (Your throne, oh God); Revelation 5:10 (They will reign on the earth); Matthew 16:19, 18:18 (What you will bind on earth); Matthew 1:25 (Until she gave birth to her son). For one of the chapters (on Mat 16:19, 18:18) I contacted the famous Fr. Mitch Pacwa (SJ) to ask for his input on the Church's teaching, and he was kind enough to respond and let me quote his response in my paper.

For my second Bachelor's thesis (I have no idea why we had to make two) I presented a by no means exhaustive list of constructed languages in the videogames Unreal, Gears of War, Jak & Daxter, Prey 2006, Quake 4, Commander Keen, Final Fantasy X, Legend of Zelda, Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, Skyrim, Outcast, Grey Goo, Ultima, and Myst.
For this paper I contacted the inventor of Myst's D'ni language, Richard A. Watson, who told me about the development history of the D'ni numerals and allowed me to quote him (but not to show the old sketches he was kind enough to send me).
I also quoted information from a brief e-mail correspondence I had with Tom Hall about his conscript for Commander Keen.
The paper contains my own small Python script for a simple Random Word Generator for procedural conlang generation.