August Strobel

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August Strobel (born March 4, 1930 in Schwarzenbach an der Saale ; † September 9, 2006 in Hof ) was a Protestant theologian and from 1965 to 1983 held the chair for New Testament at the Augustana University in Neuendettelsau . From 1983 to 1992 he was the director of the German Evangelical Institute for Classical Studies in Jerusalem and Amman .

His academic career began at the theological faculty of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen , from which he received his doctorate in 1956. theol. and where he completed his habilitation in the New Testament in 1960. His theological teachers included Werner Elert and Hermann Strathmann . Strobel has made a name for himself above all in Judeo-Christian antiquity.

Publications (selection)

  • To the location of Kallirhoe . In: Journal of the German Palestine Association 82 (1966), pp. 149–162
  • The letter to the Hebrews, NTD 9/2 , Göttingen 1975, 13 1991, ISBN 3-525-51374-7 .
  • The Late Bronze Age Sea Peoples Storm: Research overview with conclusions on bibl. Exodusthematik , Berlin and New York 1976, ISBN 3-11-006761-7 .
  • Origin and history of the early Christian Easter calendar , Berlin 1977.
  • The holy land of the Montanists , Berlin-New York 1980, ISBN 3-11-008369-8 .
  • Texts on the history of the early Christian Easter calendar , Münster 1984.
  • The star of Bethlehem. A light in our time? Flacius-Verlag, Fürth i. B. 1985
  • (in cooperation with Christa Clamer) Excavations at ez-Zara . In: Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 30 (1986), pp. 381-384
  • World year, major conjunction and Messianic star. A historical overview of the topic. In: Wolfgang Haase , Hildegard Temporini (ed.): Rise and decline of the Roman world . History and culture of Rome as reflected in recent research , Part II (“Principat”), Volume 20/2, de Gruyter, Berlin and New York 1987, pp. 988–1187.
  • Your walls always stand before me: Buildings and monuments of the German settlement and research history in the Holy Land , Brunnen, Gießen 1998 ( Biblical Archeology and Contemporary History , Volume 7), ISBN 3-7655-9807-0 .
  • (together with Stefan Wimmer ) Kallirrhoë (ˤĒn ez-Zāra). Third excavation campaign of the German Evangelical Institute for Classical Studies of the Holy Land and excursions in South Peräa , Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3-447-04735-6 .

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SURNAME Strobel, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwarzenbach on the Saale
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 2006
Place of death court