Armin Daniel Baum

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Armin Daniel Baum (born June 22, 1965 ) is an evangelical theologian and professor of the New Testament at the Free Theological University of Giessen (FTH) .

Life

After completing his Abitur in Hanover , Baum studied Protestant theology from 1984 to 1989 at the Free Theological Academy (FTA) in Giessen . This was followed by doctoral studies from 1989 to 1990 at the Theological Universiteit van de Gereformeerde Kerken Kampen in the Netherlands . From 1990 to 1992 he worked as a research assistant and from 2006 as a visiting professor in the New Testament department at this university. In 1993 he received his doctorate in theology here . Since 1993 he has been a lecturer and department head in the New Testament department at the FTA in Gießen , which was accredited as a university in 2008 and renamed the Free Theological University of Gießen. There he was appointed professor for the New Testament department on April 1, 2010. At the same time he has also been a professor at the Protestant Theological Faculteit Leuven in the New Testament department since 2006 .

Since 1999 Baum has been the coordinator for the "New Testament Working Group" (FAGNT) within the working group for evangelical theology , to which he has been a member since 1993.

Researches

Tree research focuses on introductory questions to the New Testament, most notably the question of acceptance pseudepigraphic fonts in the biblical canon and the canon question altogether, studies on the Synoptic question and Luke -Research.

In his study of the oral factor and its significance for the synoptic question (2008), Baum advocates a traditional hypothesis: According to this, the synoptics are “the result of an oral tradition carried by human memory”. The Christians at that time memorized the order of the Mk - pericopes - which formed the basic structure of all three synoptics - and learned the approximate wording by heart. Baum relates the differences between the Synoptics with proven peculiarities of oral tradition.

Baum has been Vice Rector for Research at FTH Gießen since 2016.

Memberships

Awards

Baum received the Johann Tobias Beck Prize in 1994 for his work on Luke as the historian of the last Jesus journey , where he investigates the question of the understanding of truth by ancient authors.

Publications

  • Luke as the historian of the last journey of Jesus . R. Brockhaus, Wuppertal 1993, ISBN 3-417-29379-0 .
  • Pseudepigraphy and literary forgery in early Christianity. With selected source texts including German translation (= WUNT ; 2/138). Mohr, Tübingen 2001, ISBN 3-16-147591-7 .
  • Five contributions to the anthology Heinz-Werner Neudorfer / Eckhard J. Schnabel (ed.): The study of the New Testament . TVG, Wuppertal / Gießen 2006, ISBN 978-3-7655-9430-4 .
  • The Oral Factor and its Relevance to the Synoptic Question. Analogies from ancient literature, experimental psychology, oral poetry research and the rabbinical tradition (= texts and works on the New Testament age; 49). Francke, Tübingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-7720-8266-5 .
  • The Jewish Messiah Jesus and his Jewish Apostle Paul , Scientific Investigations on the New Testament 2nd row 425, with Detlef Häußer and Emmanuel L. Rehfeld (eds.). Mohr, Tübingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-16-153872-8 .
  • Introduction to the New Testament. Gospels and Acts of the Apostles , Brunnen-Verlag, Giessen 2018, ISBN 978-3-7655-9569-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The university town of Giessen has another university , the Giessener Zeitung from October 14, 2008.
  2. ^ First professorship at the Free Theological University , Gießener Zeitung from April 15, 2010.
  3. ↑ Baum's research focus on fthgiessen.de ( memento of March 30, 2018 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 30, 2018.
  4. ↑ Summary of contents according to the review by Franz Graf-Stuhlhofer in: European Journal of Theology 19 (2010), pp. 97–99.
  5. ^ Winner of the Johann Tobias Beck Prize ( Memento from July 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), afet.de, accessed on June 5, 2014.
  6. ↑ Baum: Lukas as an ancient historian (PDF; 74 kB), armin-baum.de
personal data
SURNAME Baum, Armin Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1965