Beat Weber

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Beat Weber (born March 8, 1955 in Uster ) is a Swiss Protestant Reformed theologian , Old Testament scholar , pastor , emergency chaplain and theological non-fiction author with a focus on the Psalms .

Life

Born in his hometown (Uster ZH), he grew up in Uster, Wattwil , Mönchaltorf and again in Uster. From there he attended high school in Wetzikon , which he graduated with a type B Matura in 1974 . He studied theology from 1976 in Riehen at the free Protestant theological academy FETA (today: State- independent Theological University STH ) and graduated in 1981 with a master's degree in theology. From 1981 to 1987 he was a student assistant with the United Bible Study Groups . 1985–1999 he was a research assistant at the Bienenberg Theological Seminar (TSB) in Liestal , at the Aarau Theological-Diaconal Seminar (TDS) in Aarau and at the Institute for Community Building and World Mission (IGW) in Bern . 1990–1991 he took the state and ecclesiastical exams at the University of Basel , was vicar and was ordained in the Evangelical Reformed Church in Basel-Stadt . 1991–1994 he was research assistant to Klaus Seybold for the psalm project of the Swiss National Science Foundation. In 1994 he attended the Graduate Seminar in Biblical Archeology in Jordan and Israel and was a participant in the archaeological excavations of Volkmar Fritz and Susanne Kerner in Kinneret , Tell el-Oreme , Israel. In 1995 he received his doctorate with a study on psalm poetry with the Old Testament students Klaus Seybold, Ernst Jenni and Rudolf Brändle in Basel.

Act

From 1994 to 2016 Weber was a Protestant-Reformed pastor in the Bernese rural community Linden BE , and from 1999 to 2016 emergency pastor in the care team of the canton of Bern, for which he was also certified as a specialist for psychological emergency aid in 2007. In addition, from 2003 to 2016 Weber was a lecturer for the Old Testament in the master’s program at the Bienenberg theological seminar (TSB) and at the Aarau theological-diaconal seminar (TDS).

From 2000 to 2007 he was President of the Swiss Working Group for Biblically Renewed Theology AfbeT and co-editor of the Yearbook for Evangelical Theology .

In 2005 he was again a participant in an archaeological excavation by Amihai Mazar in Tel Rehov , Israel. In the same year he worked as a researcher in the Department of Ancient Languages ​​at the University of Pretoria in South Africa . Since then he has been a Research Associate in the Department of Ancient and Modern Languages ​​and Cultures at the same university. Since 2006 he has also been Associate Lecturer at the University of Wales at Lampeter .

Since 2017 he has been working freelance and part-time with his wife in the Evangelical City Mission Basel for the field of pastoral care and preaching and managing director of the Swiss Emergency Pastoral Care Working Group (AG NFS CH), in which he was previously involved.

Honors

2011: Johann Tobias Beck Prize for workbook Psalms III. Theology and Spirituality of the Psalter and its Psalms

Private

Weber is married and has three grown children. He lived in Linden in Bern for many years and has been back in Basel since 2017.

Fonts

Weber's publications focus primarily on biblical studies , while his research focuses on the psalms:

  • Bibliography of Psalms and the Psalter since 1990 (BiblioPss1990 +)
  • Psalm 77 and its environment. A poetological study (BBB 103), Weinheim (Beltz Athenaeum) 1995 (dissertation theology Basel)
  • "Gschrift is Herz ychenäh". Linden sermons based on the works of Jeremias Gotthelf . Langnau im Emmental - Linden 1999 (Herrmann / self-published)
  • with Beat Huwyler and Hans-Peter Mathys: Prophetie und Psalmen. Festschrift for Klaus Seybold on his 65th birthday. AOAT 280, Ugarit, Basel / Münster 2001. ISBN 978-3-934628-01-4 (only co-author)
  • Workbook Psalms I. Psalms 1 to 72 . Kohlhammer , Stuttgart, 2001 ISBN 978-3-17-016312-6 (unchanged new edition: 2008, as Book on Demand)
  • Wisdom from the Bible for a successful life . Quell-Verlag , Gütersloh 2002.
  • To the environment of the Old Testament. SCM Hänssler , Holzgerlingen 2002 ISBN 978-3-7751-3382-1 (only co-author)
  • Workbook Psalms II. Psalms 73 to 150 . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2003. ISBN 978-3-17-016313-3 .
  • Live spiritually. Spirituality in the community and everyday life. Bundes-Verlag , Witten 2007. ISBN 978-3-933660-69-5 (only co-author)
  • Workbook Psalms III. Theology and Spirituality of the Psalter and its Psalms . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart, 2010. ISBN 978-3-17-018676-7 .
  • Jonah . The stubborn prophet and the gracious God (BG 27), Evangelische Verlagsanstalt , Leipzig 2012. ISBN 978-3-374030-50-7 .
  • "Like a tree planted on a water channel ..." (Psalm 1: 3). Contributions to the poetry and theology of psalms and psalter for science and the church (ABG 41, editor: Torsten Uhlig ) Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2014. ISBN 978-3-374-03228-0 .
  • Aspects of a Theology of the Book of Psalms (the Psalter) , SBL, Boston 2017.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fritz Imhof: Spirituality remains an important resource , ideaSpektrum November 29, 2017, pp. 7–9
  2. ↑ Johann Tobias Beck Prize 2011 at AFET Germany
  3. ↑ Johann Tobias Beck Prize 2011 at AFBET Switzerland ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.afbet.ch
  4. ↑ Weber's CV at Ancient Hebrew Poetry
  5. ↑ Workbook Psalms at Kohlhammer
  6. ^ Workbook Psalms at the Schweizerpfarrverein , pfarrverein.ch, accessed on April 1, 2018.
  7. ↑ https://www.academia.edu/5918166/List_of_Publications_by_Beat_Weber
personal data
SURNAME Weber, Beat
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Evangelical Reformed theologian, Old Testament scholar, pastor, emergency chaplain and author with a focus on the Psalms
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Uster , Zurich, Switzerland