Christof Hardmeier

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Christof Hardmeier (born November 2, 1942 in Zurich ; † May 8, 2020 in Berlin ) was a German Protestant Old Testament scholar .

Life

He studied Protestant theology , philosophy and literature in Zurich, Tübingen and Mainz . In 1968 he passed the theoretical-theological exam in Zurich. From 1968 to 1978 he completed a second degree in linguistics and was a research assistant in Heidelberg . In 1975 he did his doctorate there on the critique of the history of form on the basis of text theory using the example of prophetic woe words. In 1976 he passed the practical theological exam in Zurich and was ordained there.

1977–1993 he followed the call as a lecturer for Hebrew with teaching tasks in the subject AT at the church university Bethel and from 1983 to 1985 was a DFG scholarship holder. In 1988 he completed his habilitation in the subject of the Old Testament at Bielefeld University with a thesis on the polemics against Ezekiel and Jeremiah in the Hezekiah-Isaiah stories . From 1993 to 2008 he was Professor of the Old Testament at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald.

Christof Hardmeier is considered a pioneer of biblical literary studies and text-pragmatic exegesis.

Honors, memberships and visiting professorships

  • 2002 visiting professor at the University of Stellenbosch (South Africa)
  • 2003 Honorary membership in the Old Testament Society of South Africa (OTSSA / OTWSA)
  • Member of the Scientific Society for Theology
  • Member of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) and the European Seminar on Historical Methodology (ESHM)

Publications

  • Text theory and biblical exegesis. On the rhetorical function of the mourning metaphor in prophecy. Munich: Kaiser, 1978, ISBN 3-459-01113-0 (dissertation).
  • Prophecy in the struggle before the fall of Judah. Narrative and communicative studies on the genesis of the Isaiah and Jeremiah stories in II Reg 18-20 and Jer 37-40. Berlin / New York: De Gruyter 1990, ISBN 3-11-011735-5 (habilitation thesis).
  • King Joschija in the climax of the DtrG (2Reg 22f.) And the prior document of a cult reform at the place of residence (23.4-15 *). In: Rüdiger Lux (ed.): Narrated story. Contributions to the narrative culture in ancient Israel (= biblical-theological studies. Vol. 40). Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener, 2000, pp. 81-145.
  • Discover the textual worlds of the Bible. Basics and methods of text-pragmatic literary studies. 2 volumes. Gütersloh: Gütersloher, 2003/2004, ISBN 3-579-05449-X , ISBN 3-579-05447-3 .
  • Narrative discourse and speech pragmatics in the Old Testament: on the way to a performative theology of the Bible. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2005, ISBN 3-16-148772-9 .
  • Sense of reality and reference to God: Historical theological and epistemological studies on Genesis 22 and Jeremiah 2-6. Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener, 2006, ISBN 3-7887-2182-0 .
  • Natural ethics and the biblical story of creation. A discourse-theoretical and narrative-hermeneutic bridge. Together with Konrad Ott . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-17-028352-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary on the website of the University of Greifswald , accessed on May 24, 2020