Andreas Wagner (theologian, 1963)

Andreas Wagner (born July 1, 1963 in Ludwigshafen ) is a German Protestant theologian and professor of the Old Testament at the University of Bern .

Career

Andreas Wagner grew up in what is now the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region. After graduating from Carl-Bosch-Gymnasium Ludwigshafen / Rh. and community service he studied Protestant theology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg , and in Mainz also German philology, musicology and music; In the last three subjects mentioned, Wagner obtained a Magister Artium degree in Mainz in 1990 . In Mainz he worked as a research assistant at Diethelm Michel, who also supervised Wagner's dissertation on speech acts and speech act analysis in the Old Testament . His doctorate in 1995 was followed by a habilitation on Old Testament prophecy, which was completed in Mainz in 2002.

After two years as a private lecturer in Mainz, Wagner moved to Heidelberg in 2004 with a DFG research grant; In connection with this, he was re- qualified to Heidelberg. After substituting professorships in Basel and Mainz and working at the Institute for Theology and Social Ethics at the TU Darmstadt , Wagner was appointed Professor of the Old Testament in Bern in 2009, in 2017 he was appointed full professor, and since 2019 he has been director of the Institute for the Old Testament.

2013 he was in the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate ordained . From 2013 to 2016 he was President of the Christian-Jewish Working Group (CJA) Bern.

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In his dissertation, he examined the interlacing of the Hebrew language with the action dimension of language. He interprets the speech acts of blessing in the Old Testament in terms of what they do. A multitude of linguistic problems in Hebrew can thus be explained by means of speech act theory ; the coincidence of language and action (formerly “coincidence”) can now be better understood, there are new approaches to interjections . This resulted in suggestions for the new translation of Bible passages.

The main thesis of the habilitation relates to the question of how the speaking of the prophets in the Old Testament is understood as speaking in the name of God. The key formula for this is the legitimation and empowerment formula "Thus speaks the Lord".

In recent years, the focus has been on works on psalms, their linguistic and religious-historical aspects as well as anthropomorphic speaking about God.

Research priorities

• anthropology
• prophecy
• Psalms
• Theology and history of religion
• Hebrew Philology

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• God's Body. The Anthropomorphic God in the Old Testament. (T&T Clark) London [u. a.] 2019. [Translation of God's Body 2010].
• God's body. On the Old Testament conception of God's human form. Gütersloh 2010.
• Understanding of man and God in the Old Testament. (Collected Essays II) Göttingen 2017.
• Prayer and confession. About psalms. Neukirchen-Vluyn 2008.
• Emotions, feelings and language in the Old Testament. Waltrop 2006, 2nd edition 2011 (KUSATU 7).
• Prophecy as theology. The so speaks Yahweh formulas and the basic understanding of Old Testament prophecy. Göttingen 2004 (FRLANT 207).
• Speech acts and speech act analysis in the Old Testament. Investigations at the interface between action level and grammar. Berlin / New York 1997 (BZAW 253).

Published works

• with Jürgen van Oorschot : God and man in the Old Testament - On the relationship between the image of God and the image of man. Edited by Jürgen van Oorschot and Andreas Wagner. (Publications of the Scientific Society for Theology 52) Leipzig 2018.
• with Jürgen van Oorschot : Individuality and self-reflection in the literatures of the Old Testament. Edited by Andreas Wagner and Jürgen van Oorschot.
• with Jürgen van Oorschot : Anthropologie (n) des Alten Testament (= publications of the Scientific Society for Theology 42). Leipzig 2015; 2nd edition 2018.
• with K. Müller: Synthetic body conception in Hebrew and the languages ​​of neighboring cultures (= AOAT 416). Münster 2014.
• Divine bodies - divine feelings. What do anthropomorphic and anthropopathic concepts of gods do in the Old Orient and Old Testament? (= OBO 270). Friborg and Göttingen 2014.
• Albert Schweitzer. Facets of a century figure (= Bern University Writings 59). Bern 2013.
• Glück (= Bern University Writings 56). 2011.
• Anthropological awakenings. Old Testament human concepts and anthropological positions and methods (= FRLANT 232). Göttingen 2009.
• Parallelism membrorum. Friborg / Göttingen 2007 (OBO 224).
• Primary and secondary religion as a category of Old Testament religious history. Berlin / New York 2006 (BZAW 364).
• God in the word - God in the picture. Imagelessness as a condition of monotheism? Neukirchen-Vluyn 2005; 2nd edition 2008.
• with Achim Behrens, Johannes F. Diehl, Anja Diesel, Reinhard G. Lehmann and Achim Müller: Diethelm Michel: Foundation of a Hebrew Syntax. Vol. 2. The nominal rate. Neukirchen-Vluyn 2004.
• Messenger and letter. Frankfurt [u. a.] 2003 (NWS 4).
• with Manfred Kropp : Intersection Ugarit. Frankfurt am Main 1999 (NWS 2).
• Atonement - sacrifice - Lord's Supper. Neukirchen-Vluyn 1999.
• Hebrew grammar studies. Friborg / Göttingen 1997 (OBO 156).
• with Achim Müller, Reinhard G. Lehmann, Anja Diesel, Johannes F. Diehl and Achim Behrens: Diethelm Michel: Studies on the transmission history of Old Testament texts (= ThB 93) Gütersloh 1997.
• with Anja Diesel, Reinhard G. Lehmann, Eckart Otto : "Every thing has its time ..." Studies on Israelite and ancient oriental wisdom. Diethelm Michel on his 65th birthday (= BZAW 241) Berlin / New York 1996.

Web links

• Homepage of A. Wagner at the University of Bern