Silas Klein Cardoso

Silas Klein Cardoso is a Professor of Old Testament at the Faculdade Unida de Vitória –ES, Brazil. Trained in communication studies, theology, and religious studies, he approaches multimodally the literary, visual, and religious traditions of the southern Levant in the Late Bronze and Iron Age periods. Given his decolonial option, he employs media archaeology, media philosophy, and sociology of knowledge to investigate modes of knowledge production in his fields. Between 2020–2023, as part of the Stamp Seals from the Southern Levant, he investigated interartistic approaches to the Bible, resulting in the Habilitationsschrift “The Devoured Code: Southern Perspectives on Interartistic Approaches to the Bible.” He is a member of the steering committee of the journal Revista de Interpretação Bíblica Latino Americana (RIBLA) and of the research network Red Latino-Americana de Investigación Behemot, as well as a research associate at the universities of Bern and Zurich.