Christfried Böttrich

Christfried Böttrich (2014)

Christfried Böttrich (born December 4, 1959 in Marienberg ) is a German Lutheran theologian ( New Testament scholar ).

Life

Christfried Böttrich attended schools in Olbernhau and Blankenburg and began an apprenticeship as a goldsmith in Magdeburg in 1976 . From 1980 he studied Protestant theology at the University of Leipzig . After completing his studies in 1986, he was appointed vicar . In 1990 he was at the University of Doctor of theology doctorate . His dissertation is titled World Wisdom - Human Ethics - Urkult. Studies on the Slavic Book of Enoch . In the same year he became an assistant at the Church University in Leipzig and the next year he was ordained in Stendal .

In 1992 Böttrich received a grant from the German Research Foundation . In 1994 he became an assistant at the theological faculty in Leipzig. In the following year he received his habilitation there with his work The Slavic Book of Enoch . In 1996/1997 he was a professor at the University of Frankfurt am Main and was promoted to senior assistant in Leipzig in 1998.

In 2001 Böttrich received the extraordinary professorship in Leipzig, which he held until the following year. In 2002 he held a chair at the University of Marburg and in 2002/03 at the University of Jena . Since October 2003 he has been teaching at the University of Greifswald as a full professor for the New Testament . From 2006 to 2008 and from 2009 to 2010 he was Dean of the Faculty .

Böttrich is a member of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas and the Scientific Society for Theology . He also acts as the Ephorus of the Greifswald Theological Study House . He is a member of the study group in Israel . Böttrich has been married since 1985 and has five children.

Act

In the context of his subject, Böttrich dealt particularly with the Lukan double works, that is, with the exegesis of the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles of Luke . In doing so, he put the evangelist in relation to the theology of Hellenistic Judaism . In addition, he researched early Jewish writings related to the New Testament and, like most Protestant New Testament scholars, dealt more intensively with the apostle Paul . He became known to a wider audience through his books on biblical personalities, which were written for interested laypeople, including the series written together with Beate Ego and Friedmann Eißler , in which the views of Judaism , Christianity and Islam on central biblical figures are to be presented. Böttrich takes on the representation of the Christian perspective in these books.

Publications (selection)

• World wisdom - human ethics - original cult. Studies on the Slavic Book of Enoch. Tübingen 1992 (dissertation, Leipzig 1990).
• Adam as a microcosm. An investigation into the Slavic Book of Enoch. Frankfurt 1995.
• The Slavic Book of Enoch. Introduction - translation - commentary. Leipzig 1995 (habilitation thesis 1994).
• "The birds of the sky buried him." Lore about Abel's burial and the etiology of the grave. Goettingen 1995.
• Bibliography Konstantin von Tischendorf (1815–1874). Leipzig 1999.
• Tischendorf reading book. Biblical Research in Travel Adventures. Leipzig 1999.
• Peter. Fischer rock and functionary. Leipzig 2001.
• New Testament subjects in elementary school. A workbook for religion teachers. Stuttgart 2001.
• From Adam to the Apocalypse. Biblical surprises. Leipzig 2003.
• (with Beate Ego and Friedmann Eißler :) Abraham in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Göttingen 2009.
• (with Beate Ego and Friedmann Eißler :) Jesus and Maria in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Göttingen 2009.
• (with Beate Ego and Friedmann Eißler :) Moses in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Göttingen 2010.
• The find of the century. Discovery and history of the Codex Sinaiticus. Leipzig 2011. ISBN 978-3-374-02586-2 .
• (with Beate Ego and Friedmann Eißler :) Elijah and other prophets in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Göttingen 2013. ISBN 978-3-525-63396-0 .
• (Editor :) Ernst Lohmeyer. Contributions to life and work. ( Greifswald Theological Research ; 28). Leipzig 2018. ISBN 978-3-374-05687-3 .

Web links

• Christfried Böttrich in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
• Homepage at the University of Greifswald