Jürgen Ebach

Jürgen Ebach (born February 28, 1945 in Kirchen an der Sieg ) is a German Old Testament scholar and until February 2010 held the Chair for Exegesis and Theology of the Old Testament and Biblical Hermeneutics at the Evangelical Theological Faculty of the Ruhr University in Bochum . He became known through numerous publications on exegetical and hermeneutic questions.

Life

Jürgen Ebach was born a few weeks before the end of the war on February 28, 1945 in Kirchen (an der Sieg) and grew up in Bonn , Cologne and Hamburg . Supported by a scholarship and later a doctoral scholarship from the Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst , he studied Protestant theology and cuneiform studies in Hamburg. In 1967 he worked on the excavation at Tell Kāmid el-Lōz (Lebanon). His doctorate in Hamburg in 1972 was followed by his habilitation in Bochum in 1975. After visiting professorships in Hamburg, Wuppertal and Kiel , Jürgen Ebach held the professorship for Biblical Exegesis and Theology at the University of Paderborn from 1983 to 1996 . In 1988 he received the Sexau Community Prize for Theology , which has been awarded since 1981 to academically teaching theologians who are distinguished by their particular community proximity (other award winners were, for example, Claus Westermann in 1983 , Ernst Käsemann in 1985 and Luise Schottroff in 1990 ). From 1996 to 2010 Jürgen Ebach was Professor of Exegesis and Theology of the Old Testament and Biblical Hermeneutics at the Evangelical Theological Faculty of the Ruhr University Bochum.

Jürgen Ebach was a long-time member of the editorial board of the journal Biblical Interpretation (Sheffield), as well as consultor of the Freiburger Rundbrief (journal for Christian-Jewish encounter) and is co-editor of the book series Jabboq . For many years he has been a member of the working group Jews and Christians at the German Evangelical Church Congress, as well as the exegetical working group and the presidium of the German Evangelical Church Congress , as well as the study group in Israel. He belongs to the group of editors of the Bible in Righteous Language , in which he also worked as a translator ( Book of Job and Chapters 37-50 of the Book of Genesis ).

In his academic study of the Bible, Jürgen Ebach attaches great importance to the fact that the biblical text in all its nuances and contradictions has its say. For him this includes the perception of the Jewish history of interpretation as well as hermeneutical reflections. He combines exegetical observations with literary works, political events and interpretations, ethical and especially socio-ethical considerations, as well as experiences from the Christian-Jewish dialogue. He understands the entire Bible as a canonical text that needs to be interpreted so that its diversity can come to light without being arbitrary or binding.

Publications (selection)

• Criticism and Utopia. Studies on the relationship between people and rulers in Ezekiel's draft constitution (chap. 40-48) , Hamburg 1972.
• Creation of the world and cultural development with Philo von Byblos . A contribution to the transmission of the biblical prehistory within the framework of the ancient oriental and ancient belief in creation , contributions to the science of the Old and New Testament 108, Stuttgart, Berlin, Cologne, Mainz 1979. ISBN 978-3-17-005196-6
• The legacy of violence. A biblical reality and its impact history , Gütersloh 1980 (Italian translation Turin 1986, Korean translation Seoul 1988). ISBN 978-3-579-00378-8
• Leviathan and Behemoth : A biblical memory against the colonization of the lifeworld through the principle of functional rationality , Philosophical Positions 2, Paderborn 1984. ISBN 978-3-506-76531-4
• Origin and destination. Remembered future and hoped for past. Biblical exegesis - reflections - stories , Neukirchen-Vluyn 1986. ISBN 978-3-7887-1209-9
• Kassandra and Jonah . Against the power of fate. Frankfurt am Main 1987. ISBN 978-3-610-09105-7
• Theological speeches with which one cannot make a state , Bochum 1989. ISBN 978-3-925895-18-0
• Biblical memories. Theological speeches at the time , Bochum 1993. ISBN 978-3-925895-41-8
• Job's post. Collected essays on the Book of Job , on topics of biblical theology and on the methodology of exegesis, Neukirchen-Vluyn 1995. ISBN 978-3-7887-1486-4
• "... and go cautiously with your God". Theologische Reden 3 , Bochum 1995. ISBN 978-3-925895-53-1
• Jürgen Ebach, Richard Faber: Bibel und Literatur , Munich 1995, 2nd edition 1998. ISBN 978-3-7705-2974-2
• Arguing with God / Job I Job 1 - 20 , Neukirchen 1995, 2nd edition 2004, 3rd edition 2007. ISBN 978-3-7887-1485-7
• Arguing with God / Job II Job 21 - 42 , Neukirchen-Vluyn 1996, 2nd edition 2005. ISBN 978-3-7887-1495-6
• God in the word. Three studies on biblical exegesis and hermeneutics , Neukirchen-Vluyn 1997, translation into Korean by Ha, Kyung-Taek, Seoul, Korea 2002, as paperback Neukirchen-Vluyn 2002. ISBN 978-3-7887-1660-8
• Because what is is not everything. Theologische Reden 4 , Frankfurt am Main 1998. ISBN 978-3-932194-15-3
• Noah . The story of a survivor , (Biblische Gestalten 3), Leipzig 2001, Italian translation Turin 2002. ISBN 978-3-374-01912-0
• Jürgen Ebach, Hans-Martin Gutmann , Magdalene L. Frettlöh , Michael Weinrich (eds.): Put grace in giving. On the relationship between economy and theology (Jabboq 1), Gütersloh 2001. ISBN 978-3-579-05330-1
• Diversity without arbitrariness, Theologische Reden 5 , Bochum 2002. ISBN 978-3-925895-76-0
• Jürgen Ebach, Hans-Martin Gutmann, Magdalene L. Frettlöh, Michael Weinrich (eds.): Crucial question 1. Talking about God - but how? , (Jabboq 2), Gütersloh 2002. ISBN 978-3-579-05188-8
• Jürgen Ebach, Hans-Martin Gutmann, Magdalene L. Frettlöh, Michael Weinrich (eds.): Crucial question 2. Talking about God - but how? , (Jabboq 3), Gütersloh 2002. ISBN 978-3-579-05331-8
• Jürgen Ebach, Hans-Martin Gutmann, Magdalene L. Frettlöh, Michael Weinrich (eds.): Just an office and no opinion? - Church , (Jabboq 4). Gütersloh 2003. ISBN 978-3-579-05333-2
• Jürgen Ebach, Magdalene L. Frettlöh, Hans-Martin Gutmann, Michael Weinrich (eds.): How? Do we also forgive our debtors? Living with debt , (Jabboq 5), Gütersloh 2004. ISBN 978-3-579-05334-9
• A wide field - too wide a field? Theologische Reden 6 , Bochum 2004. ISBN 978-3-925895-88-3
• In the words and between the lines. A new series of theological speeches , Biblical Explorations 6, Wittingen 2005. ISBN 3-932810-31-7
• Ulrike Bail, Frank Crüsemann , Marlene Crüsemann , Erhard Domay , Jürgen Ebach, Claudia Janssen , Hanne Köhler , Helga Kuhlmann , Martin Leutzsch , Luise Schottroff (ed.): Bible in just language , Gütersloh 2006. 3rd edition 2007. 4th, Revised edition 2011. ISBN 978-3-579-05500-8
• Jürgen Ebach, Hans-Martin Gutmann, Magdalene L. Frettlöh, Michael Weinrich (eds.): "This is my body" bodily, serf and bodily with God and man , (Jabboq 6), Gütersloh 2006. ISBN 978-3- 579-05335-6
• Jürgen Ebach, Hans-Martin Gutmann, Magdalene L. Frettlöh, Michael Weinrich (eds.): Look at the beautiful gardens Zier ... "About earthly and heavenly paradises. About the cult and cultural history of the garden , (Jabboq 7), Gütersloh 2007 . ISBN 978-3-579-05336-3
• Genesis 37–50 , Herder's Theological Commentary on the Old Testament , Freiburg i. Br. 2007. ISBN 978-3-451-26803-8
• Scripture pieces . Biblical miniatures , Gütersloh 2011. ISBN 978-3-579-07025-4
• Ambiguity. Theologische Reden 9 , Uelzen 2011. ISBN 978-3-932810-49-7
• New writing pieces. Biblical Passages , Gütersloh 2012. ISBN 978-3-579-08144-1
• Held in breath. Theologische Reden 10 , Uelzen 2012. ISBN 978-3-932810-52-7

literature

• Kerstin Schiffner u. a. (Ed.): Questions against the answers. Festschrift Jürgen Ebach, Gütersloh 2010. ISBN 978-3-579-08116-8
• Katharina von Bremen a. a. (Ed.): From generation to generation. Farewell words by and for Jürgen Ebach, conference minutes, Villigst-Schwerte 2010. ISBN 978-3-939115-21-2

Web links

• Literature by and about Jürgen Ebach in the catalog of the German National Library
• Remembrance against the exploitation of history Lecture as part of the lecture series of the University of Paderborn "Disposal of the past?" About the current handling of German history on April 29, 1987.
• The utopia has a place ( RTF ; 309 kB) Bible study on Isaiah 65, 17-25 during the German Evangelical Church Congress 1999 in Stuttgart. (no longer online)
• Why the Church has to speak of Israel when it speaks of itself Presentation on the Synod of Christians and Jews of the North Elbe Evangelical Lutheran Church September 2001.
• Diversity Without Arbitrariness - Jewish Interpretation of the Bible and Postmodern Truth Question; There is always more than one sense - and that's a good thing ( Memento from May 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
• You have determined a limit that they should not exceed the (Psalm 104,9) Bible study for the EKD Synod on November 5, 2001.
• Translating the name of God is impossible, so let's do it. Lecture at the Bible Center of the German Evangelical Church Congress 2005 in Hanover. (PDF file; 93 kB) (no longer online)
• Listen to what is said to Israel - listen to what is said in Israel. Bible study on Deuteronomy 6 during the German Evangelical Church Congress 2005 in Hanover. (PDF file; 123 kB) (no longer online)
• On the marketplace offering Bible study on Acts 17: 16-34 during the German Evangelical Church Congress 2007 in Cologne. (PDF file; 113 kB) (no longer online)

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1. ↑ Sexau Congregation Prize for Theology List of the available lectures by the honored. Retrieved April 1, 2014 . 
2. ↑ Jürgen Ebach: Jewish biblical interpretation and postmodern truth question. Loccum 2013