August Strobel
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 .
Web links
- Literature by and about August Strobel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Obituary for Prof. Strobel (PDF file; 20 kB)
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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 |