Brigitte Kahl

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Brigitte Kahl (* 1950 ) is a German Protestant theologian and university professor for the New Testament .

Live and act

Kahl grew up in the GDR and in 1968 acquired her higher education entrance qualification at an extended secondary school in Karl-Marx-Stadt (today Chemnitz ) . She then studied Protestant theology at the University of Leipzig and from 1970 at the Humboldt University in Berlin . There she earned the degree of Doctor of Theology in 1983 with a dissertation on the Gospel of Luke and in 1986 with another thesis the title of Doctor of Science . From 1982 she worked at the Humboldt University as a lecturer in ecumenical theology and the New Testament . From 1990 she was vicar and after her ordination in 1992 she was pastor of the Berlin-Brandenburg Church . In 1997, Kahl was offered a professorship for biblical studies at the University of Paderborn . In the following year, she moved to a chair in New Testament at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York . In 2004 she also became an Associate Professor in the Religion Department at Columbia University in New York City .

In 1989, Kahl was involved in founding the Center for Interdisciplinary Women’s Research in Berlin, took up approaches from so-called feminist theology , especially by Luise Schottroff , and did research, among other things, on the question of gender roles in early Christian writings. For the Bible in Righteous Language , which was published in 2006, she translated the letter to the Galatians , to which she also dedicated a monograph that reveals the thinking of the Apostle Paul from the perspective of liberation theology . Most recently, the iconography of the Roman Empire formed a special focus .

Kahl was a member of the Christian Peace Conference and belonged to its GDR regional committee. She has been a member of the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin since 2014 .

Fonts

  • Breach of tradition and church fellowship with Paul. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1976 (licensed edition by Calwer Verlag, Stuttgart 1977).
  • Got up against death. An ecumenical Easter anthology. Union-Verlag, Berlin 1984 (licensed edition Burckhardthaus-Laetare-Verlag, Offenbach / M. 1987).
  • Biblical Interpretation in the Context of Liberation. “Theology and Practice” as a systematic-theological, political-ethical and exegetical-methodological problem area using the example of the “lecture matérialiste” Fernando Belos. Dissertation B, Humboldt University 1986 (not published).
  • Gospel of the poor and the gospel of the Gentiles. "Sola scriptura" and the problem of ecumenical tradition in the light of the father's conflict and father's consensus in Luke. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1987 (also dissertation 1983).
  • (as edited by Jan Rehmann) Does a Christian have to be a socialist? Thinking about Helmut Gollwitzer . Argument-Verlag, Hamburg 1995.
  • Not male anymore? Gal 3:28 and the controversial field of masculinity. In: Claudia Janssen , Luise Schottroff, Beate Wehn ​​(Hrsg.): Paulus: Controversial Traditions, Living Theology. A feminist read. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2001, ISBN 9783579053189 ( ISBN 3579053183 ), pp. 129-145.
  • Cross, biblical. In: Elisabeth Gössmann et al. (Ed.): Dictionary of Feminist Theology. 2nd completely revised edition, Gütersloh 2002, pp. 350–353.
  • Galatian reading at the Great Altar of Pergamon. In: Texts and Contexts, Issue 4/2006, pp. 3–23.
  • Galatians Re-Imagined: Reading with the Eyes of the Vanquished. Fortress Press, Minneapolis 2010.
  • Paul and the Law in Galatians: Roman Nomos or Jewish Torah? In: Ulrich Duchrow , Carsten Jochum-Bortfeld (Hrsg.): Liberation for justice (= Radicalizing Reformation / Die Reformation radicalize, Vol. 1). LIT Verlag, Berlin 2015, pp. 78-109.
  • "Jews, Muslims and Palestinians". In: Ulrich Duchrow, Hans G. Ulrich (Hrsg.): Religions for Justice in Palestine-Israel. Beyond Luther's images of the enemy (= Radicalizing Reformation / The Reformation radicalize, Vol. 7). LIT Verlag, Berlin 2017, pp. 26–64.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gabriele Jähnert: News from the ZtG. In: Center for transdisciplinary gender studies - Bulletin-Info No. 49, 2014 , p. 1.

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personal data
SURNAME Kahl, Brigitte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1950