Bernd Kollmann (theologian)

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Bernd Kollmann (born April 16, 1959 in Bebra ) is a German theologian and has been a professor of exegesis and theology of the New Testament in Protestant theology at the University of Siegen since 2000 .

Life

Kollmann grew up in Braunhausen, a district of Bebra. After graduating from the Jakob-Grimm-Schule Rotenburg an der Fulda , he studied Protestant theology from 1978 to 1984 at the Philipps University in Marburg and at the Georg August University in Göttingen . From 1986 to 1990 he was a research assistant to Hartmut Stegemann at the Göttingen Theological Faculty, New Testament and Ancient Judaism. In 1990 he received his doctorate with a thesis on "The origin and design of the early Christian meal". He then received a grant from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and worked as a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago from 1992 to 1993 . From 1994 to 1996 he was vicar of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover in the Paulus Congregation, Wolfsburg, and in the Hildesheim seminary . After his habilitation in 1995 and the second ecclesiastical examination, he held deputy professorships in Aachen and Siegen and was appointed professor for exegesis and theology of the New Testament at the University of Siegen in 2000. Bernd Kollmann is married to Christine Wyatt and has three children.

Research and Teaching

Bernd Kollmann deals with, among other things, Jesus myths, the Sermon on the Mount , contemporary New Testament history and miracles in antiquity and Christianity. Another research focus is on Alexander Monachus . In addition to a large number of articles in specialist journals and lexicon articles (including for dtv and Reclam), he has more than ten monographs or anthologies, several of which are also in foreign-language editions. His best-known works are the book New Testament Miracle Stories, now in its third edition and also translated into Italian, and the book Die Jesusmythen, also available in Dutch and Spanish . Sensations and legends .

His views on the Gospel of Jude are largely part of the modern professional world. This is what Kollmann u. a. the Tübingen Germanist Walter Jens , who in his book Der Fall Judas even calls for Judas to be beatified. He also reproduces that parts of the professional world believe that without Judas, Jesus 'plan of salvation would not have been possible and thus Jesus' plan would not have worked out. The position of Jesus is one of the myths mentioned in his book . There seemed to be a parallel to Mark's Gospel and the apocryphal applicable Gospel of Judas .

He discusses whether the Mosaic Law is fully applicable. The canonical Gospels ( Mk 12,30f  EU ) also express the fact that Jesus subordinates the old laws to the new revelations insofar as the double commandment to love God and neighbor must be fulfilled.

Memberships

Kollmann is a member of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas (SNTS).

Works

  • Jerusalem. History of the Holy City in the Age of Jesus, Darmstadt: Primus-Verlag 2013, ISBN 978-3-86312-059-7 .
  • New Testament miracle stories. Biblical-theological approaches and impulses for practice , Urban TB 477, Stuttgart: Kohlhammer Verlag 3rd edition 2011 (= Storie di miracoli nel Nuovo Testamento, Brescia: Editrice Quereniana 2005).
  • Introduction to contemporary New Testament history . Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 3rd edition. 2014. ISBN 978-3-534-26319-6 .
  • The Book of the Bible (together with Detlef Dieckmann), Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus 2010, ISBN 9-783579080475.
  • The Shroud of Turin - a Portrait of Jesus? Myths and facts , Freiburg i. Br .: Herder Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-451-06216-2 .
  • The Jesus myths. Sensations and legends , Freiburg i. Br .: Herder Verlag, 2nd edition 2009 ISBN 978-3-451-32198-6 (= Het Jezus Mysterie. Op Zoek naar de Waarheid , Kampen: Kok 2010; Los mitos de Jesús. Sensacionalismo y leyenda , Bogota: Sociedad San Pablo 2011).
  • Joseph Barnabas. Life and impact history , Stuttgarter Bibelstudien 175, Stuttgart: Katholisches Bibelwerk 1998 (= Joseph Barnabas - His Life and Legacy , Collegeville / Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 2004).

Together with Michael Bachmann he published an anthology on the letter to the Galatians .

literature

  • Marius Reiser : The uncomfortable Jesus. Neukirchen-Vluyn 2011. (contains an examination of Kollmann's book New Testament Miracle Stories )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ University of Siegen: Brief biography of Kollmann
  2. ↑ Bernd Kollmann: The Jesus Myths . 2nd Edition. Herder Verlag, Freiburg i. Br. 2009. ISBN 978-3-451-32198-6 . P. 112
  3. ↑ Michael Bachmann (ed.), Bernd Kollmann (ed.): Controversial Galatian letter . Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlagsgesellschaft 2010. ISBN 978-3-7887-2383-5 ( PDF file . Accessed September 5, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Kollmann, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and professor at the University of Siegen
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Bebra