Carsten Peter Thiede

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Carsten Peter Thiede

Carsten Peter Thiede KStJ (born August 8, 1952 in Berlin ; † December 14, 2004 in Paderborn ) was a German literary scholar , historian , papyrologist and theologian .

Life

Carsten Peter Thiede grew up in West Berlin as the son of a civil servant and at times played volleyball in the German Bundesliga, the Swiss National League and the British League National A (for the University of Oxford). He studied comparative literature and history in Berlin and went to Oxford in 1976 for postgraduate studies, where he began to be interested in New Testament papyri. There he joined the Anglican Church .

Since 1978 he taught literature in Geneva and at that time also organized the first Stendhal Congress, but maintained close ties to England, where he married in 1982. After that he lived in London, where he published several books. He was licensed as a Lecturer in the Church of England at St Margaret's Congregation in Roehampton in 1984 . Until the early 1990s, Thiede worked for several media companies, including the BBC and ERF and as an editor at R. Brockhaus Verlag . He later moved to Paderborn , where he did research and served as lay chaplain to the British troops and, after his ordination in 2000, served as the first German military chaplain (OCF) in the British army.

On Christmas 1994, Thiede became known to a broader public when the Times published on the front page the result of an article he had previously published in the Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik . Thiede had dated papyrus fragments of the Gospel of Matthew , which were discovered in Upper Egypt in 1901 and are kept in Magdalen College in Oxford, to the 60s AD for paleographical reasons. This re-dating of the so-called Papyrus 64 , the time of which research has put it around 200 AD, has been criticized by paleographers and papyrologists. The same applies to an earlier publication by Thiede on the text finds from Qumran , in which, taking up a thesis by the Spaniard José O'Callaghan Martínez , he argued that one of the small papyrus fragments from Cave 7 of Qumran contained text passages from the Gospel of Mark .

On behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority and in cooperation with the State Independent Theological College (STH) in Basel , Thiede was a co-director of excavations west of Jerusalem from 2001-2004 , which confirmed the location of the village of Emmaus, mentioned in the New Testament , near today's Moza. He taught as a visiting professor for environmental and contemporary history of the New Testament at the STH and had a teaching position at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Be'er Scheva / Israel .

Thiede was most recently a legal knight of the Order of St. John , President of the Reinhold Schneider Society and a member of the PEN .

Thiede died at the age of 52 after a heart attack. He left three children.

Fonts (selection)

  • The oldest Gospel manuscript? The Mark fragment from Qumran and the beginnings of the written tradition of the New Testament . R. Brockhaus , Wuppertal 1986, 4th edition 1994, ISBN 3-417-20502-6 .
  • (Ed. :) The image of Peter in recent research . R. Brockhaus, Wuppertal 1987, ISBN 3-417-29316-2 .
  • (Ed. :) Reinhold Schneider . R. Brockhaus, Wuppertal 1988, ISBN 3-417-24101-4 .
  • (Ed. :) Science and literature . R. Brockhaus, Wuppertal 1990, ISBN 3-417-24103-0 .
  • (Ed. :) Interpretations of Jesus in modern literature . R. Brockhaus, Wuppertal 1991, ISBN 3-417-24104-9 .
  • (with Ken Curtis :) Church in its infancy. The beginnings of Christianity in pictures and texts . R. Brockhaus, Wuppertal / Zurich 1991, ISBN 3-417-24627-X .
  • Finds, facts, tracking. Traces of early Christianity in Europe . R. Brockhaus, Wuppertal / Zurich 1992, ISBN 3-417-24635-0 .
  • Religion in england. Presentation and data on the past and present . Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 1994, ISBN 3-579-00635-5 .
  • We in Europe. Roots, paths, perspectives . Edited by Press and Information Office of the Federal Government (= advice and information), Bonn 1995, ISSN 0177-3291.
  • (Ed. :) To hope against hope. End times expectations and human suffering in recent literature . Bonifatius, Paderborn 1996, ISBN 3-87088-753-2 .
  • (with Matthew D'Ancona :) The Jesus papyrus. The discovery of a Gospel manuscript from the time of the eyewitnesses . Luchterhand , Munich 1996, ISBN 3-630-87983-7 .
  • A fish for the Roman emperor. Jews, Greeks, Romans: The world of Jesus Christ . Luchterhand, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-630-87994-2 .
  • Bible code and Bible word. The search for encrypted messages in the Holy Scriptures . Brunnen , Basel / Gießen 1998, ISBN 3-7655-3689-X .
  • Who are you jesus Spotlights on the man who doesn't fit into any scheme . Brunnen, Basel / Gießen 2000, ISBN 3-7655-1216-8
  • Secret file of Peter. In the footsteps of the apostle . Kreuz, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-7831-1857-3 .
  • (with Matthew D'Ancona :) The Jesus fragment. Empress Helena and the search for the cross . Ullstein , Munich 2000, ISBN 3-550-07146-9 .
  • (with Gerd Lüdemann :) The Resurrection of Jesus - Fiction or Reality? A dispute . Brunnen, Basel / Gießen 2001, ISBN 3-7655-1241-9 .
  • (with Urs Stingelin :) The roots of anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism in antiquity, in early Christianity and in the Koran . Brunnen, Basel / Gießen 2002, ISBN 3-7655-1264-8 .
  • The Petrus Report. The rock of the church in a new light . Sankt-Ulrich-Verlag, Augsburg 2002, ISBN 3-929246-85-6 .
  • Jesus. The belief. The facts . Sankt-Ulrich-Verlag, Augsburg 2003, ISBN 3-929246-95-3 .
  • (with Ulrich Victor :) Ancient culture and the New Testament. The most important backgrounds and resources for understanding the New Testament scriptures . Brunnen, Basel 2003, ISBN 3-7655-1324-5 .
  • Paul. Sword of faith, martyr of Christ . Sankt-Ulrich-Verlag, Augsburg 2004, ISBN 3-936484-39-2 .
  • Jesus and Tiberius. Two sons of God . Luchterhand, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-630-88009-6 .
  • The Emmaus Mystery. Discovering Evidence of the Risen Christ. Continuum, 2005 (Paperback 2006).
  • The uncomfortable messiah. Who Jesus really was . Brunnen, Basel / Gießen 2006, ISBN 3-7655-3876-0 .

literature

  • Andrea Jördens : Carsten Peter Thiede (1952-2004) . In: Mario Capasso (Ed.): Hermae. Scholars and Scholarship in Papyrology II . Pisa / Rome 2010, p. 101 (with picture)

Web links

Commons : Carsten Peter Thiede  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Royal Army Chaplains' Department in the English language Wikipedia
  2. ↑ excavation reports in the Journal of antique Christianity 8, 2005, pp 593-599 (PDF) and in the Bulletin of the Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society , 23, 2005 (PDF).
  3. ↑ Died: Carsten Peter Thiede. In: Der Spiegel . December 20, 2004, accessed February 29, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Thiede, Carsten Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and papyrologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 2004
Place of death Paderborn