Barbara Aland

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Barbara Aland (1998)

Barbara Aland (born Ehlers ; born April 12, 1937 in Hamburg ) is a German Protestant theologian and until 2002 was Professor of Church History and New Testament Text Research at the University of Münster .

biography

Barbara and Kurt Aland (1988)

After studying Protestant theology and classical philology in Frankfurt , Marburg and Kiel , she received her doctorate in 1964 in Frankfurt with a dissertation on the Socratic Aeschines . In 1969 she obtained a licentiate in the Oriental Faculty of the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome . 1972 habilitation they are in Göttingen on the Syrian Gnostics Bardesanes of Edessa . In 1972 she married Kurt Aland . Since 1972 she has worked as a private lecturer, since 1980 as a professor with the license to teach "Church history and New Testament text research with special consideration of the Christian Orient" at the Evangelical Theological Faculty in Münster. In 1983 she became director of the Institute for New Testament Text Research founded by Kurt Aland in 1959 and of the Bible Museum attached to it . With the publication of the Novum Testamentum Graece, known as Nestle-Aland , the institute gained worldwide importance. Until her retirement, she was the managing director of the Hermann Art Foundation for the Promotion of New Testament Text Research , of which she is the head of the Scientific Advisory Board. Even in her retirement, Barbara Aland continues to work scientifically.

Act

Barbara and Kurt Aland with Pope John Paul II (1984)

Barbara Aland became internationally known primarily through her work with her husband Kurt Aland, who died in 1994, on the Greek original text of the New Testament. Together, in an international and interdenominational committee of editors, they have made a significant contribution to the continuous improvement and updating of the manual editions of the Greek New Testament , the so-called Nestle-Aland and the Greek New Testament . The editions responsibly published in Münster are based on teaching and research worldwide.

In addition, the first deliveries of the so-called Great Edition of the Greek New Testament, the “ Editio Critica Maior ”, have appeared under Aland's management since 1997 . For the first time, this edition is based on the entire tradition in Greek manuscripts, patristic quotations and ancient translations.

In 1999 she was a founding member of the Academia Platonica Septima Monasteriensis , which is not primarily concerned with the writings of Plato, but with those of his interpreters, the Platonists, from antiquity to the Renaissance. The aim of the academy is to promote the study of the texts of the Platonists.

In addition, it has emerged in recent years through monographs on Gnosis .

Barbara Aland is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Gertrud and Alexander Böhlig Foundation in the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft , which awards the Alexander Böhlig Prize for excellent doctorates and post- doctoral qualifications in the field of the Christian Orient and ancient Christian history in the eastern half of the empire.

Honors

Barbara Aland receives the Federal Cross of Merit, July 11, 2011

Barbara Aland received the following honorary doctorates:

She received the following awards:

Selected publications (in chronological order)

Monographs

  • as Barbara Ehlers: A Pre-Platonic Interpretation of Socratic Eros. The dialogue Aspasia of the Socratics Aeschines . Diss. Frankfurt am Main 1964, published 1966 ( Zetemata , issue 41).
  • with Kurt Aland: The Text of the New Testament. Introduction to the scientific editions as well as to the theory and practice of modern text criticism , Stuttgart 1982. 2nd edition 1989, ISBN 3-438-06011-6 .
    • English translation: The text of the New Testament. An introduction to the critical editions and to the theory and practice of modern textual criticism . 1987.
    • Italian translation: Il testo del Nuovo Testamento . Traduzione di Sebastiano Timpanaro . Marietti, Genova, 1987, ISBN 88-211-6772-0 .
  • Education through Church History? A plea for more church history in religious education . Ed .: Idea eV, 1984.
  • Early face-to-face confrontation between Christians, pagans and heretics . 2005. ( review) .
  • What is gnosis Studies on early Christianity, Marcion and imperial philosophy . 2009.
  • The Gnosis. Reclam, Stuttgart 2014.

New Testament edition (including resources)

  • A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament. A Companion Volume to the United Bible Societies Greek New Testament (third edition) by BM Metzger on behalf of and in cooperation with the Editorial Committee of the United Bible Societies Greek New Testament K. Aland, M. Black, CM Martini, BM Metzger and A. Wikgren, 1971.
  • Novum Testamentum Graece post Eberhard Nestle et Erwin Nestle communiter ed. K. Aland, M. Black, CM Martini, BM Metzger, A. Wikgren, apparatum criticum recens. et editionem novis curis elaborav. K. Aland et B. Aland una cum Instituto studiorum textus Novi Testamenti Monasteriensi (Westphalia), 26th edition, 1979.
  • Novum Testamentum Latine. Novam Vulgatam Bibliorum Sacrorum Editionem secuti apparatibus titulisque additis ediderunt Kurt Aland and Barbara Aland una cum Instituto studiorum textus Novi Testamenti Monasteriensi, 1984.
  • Greek-German dictionary on the writings of the New Testament and early Christian literature by Walter Bauer . 6th, completely revised edition in the Institute for New Testament Text Research / Münster with the special participation of Viktor Reichmann ed. by Kurt Aland and Barbara Aland, 1988.

Editorships

  • Gnosis. Festschrift for Hans Jonas . In connection with Ugo Bianchi, ed. by Barbara Aland, 1978.
  • Günther Zuntz : Lukian of Antioch and the text of the Gospels . Edited by Barbara Aland and Klaus Wachtel. With an obituary for the author by Martin Hengel, 1995.
  • The worldliness of faith in the ancient church. Festschrift for Ulrich Wickert on his seventieth birthday . In connection with Barbara Aland and Christoph Schäublin , ed. by Dietmar Wyrwa, 1997.
  • Literary constitution of figures of identification in antiquity , ed. by Barbara Aland, 2003.

Web links

Commons : Barbara Aland  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Videos

Individual evidence

  1. Brigitte Nussbaum: On the 70th birthday of Barbara Aland. Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe . April 13, 2007, accessed October 17, 2016.
  2. ^ Founded the Platonic Academy. Norbert Frie Press and Information Office. Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. Press release from the Information Service Science (IDW). October 15, 1999, accessed October 17, 2016.
  3. ^ The Gertrud and Alexander Böhlig Foundation in the Donors' Association for German Science. Alexander Böhlig Prize 2013 (PDF). Unione Accademica Nazionale . Retrieved October 17, 2016.
  4. Barbara Aland: What is Gnosis? Studies on early Christianity, Marcion and imperial philosophy. Mohr Siebeck Verlag , 2009, ISBN 978-3-16149-967-8 , footnote p. 25.
  5. ^ Paulus plaque for Prof. Aland ( Memento from June 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive ).
  6. ^ Barbara Aland in Mohr Siebeck Verlag ( Memento from March 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ).
  7. Government President honors deserving citizens. Press release from the Arnsberg district government . July 11, 2011, accessed October 17, 2016.
  8. ^ Burkitt Medal for Biblical Studies. British Academy . Retrieved October 17, 2016.