Christoph Burchard

Johann Christoph Burchard (born May 19, 1931 in Göttingen ) is a German Protestant theologian . He is a specialist in the New Testament and ancient Judaism .

After studying at the Georg-August University Göttingen , he was there in 1963 with a thesis on the novel Joseph and Aseneth doctorate . He then worked there as an assistant and completed his habilitation in 1969. In 1971 he accepted a call from the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg to the chair of New Testament and Judaism. He has been retired since 1997 .

In addition to the novel Joseph and Aseneth , Burchard dealt with numerous other topics of ancient Christianity and Judaism. He wrote a two-volume catalog on the Dead Sea manuscripts, published on the language and environment of the New Testament, and wrote a commentary on the Epistle of James .

Fonts (selection)

• Bibliography of the Dead Sea Manuscripts. Two volumes, Berlin 1957–1965.
• Investigations on "Joseph and Aseneth". Text history, salary and dating. Cape. 13-15. Göttingen 1963 (dissertation).
  • Revised version: Investigations on Joseph and Aseneth. Tradition, location determination. Heidelberg 1965 ( Scientific studies on the New Testament. 8.)
• The thirteenth witness. Studies on the history of tradition and composition on Luke's account of Paul's early days. Göttingen 1970. ( Research on the religion and literature of the Old and New Testaments. 103, habilitation thesis.)
• Joseph and Aseneth Serbian Church Slavonic. Text and variants. Dielheim 1980.
• Collected Studies on Joseph and Aseneth. Suffering u. a. 1996 ( Studia in Veteris Testamenti pseudepigrapha. 13).
• Studies in theology, language and environment of the New Testament. Tübingen 1998 ( Scientific investigations on the New Testament. 107).
• The epistle of James. Tübingen 2000 ( New Testament Handbook. 15.1).

literature

• Dieter Singer , Matthias Konradt (ed.): The law in early Judaism and in the New Testament. Festschrift for Christoph Burchard on his 75th birthday. Göttingen / Friborg 2006.
• Christoph Burchard . In: Werner Schuder (Ed.): Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar . Founded by Joseph Kürschner . 21st edition. KG Saur Verlag, Munich [ua] 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-23616-7 , p. 475 ( degruyter.com - constantly updated, restricted-access online edition).

Web links

• Literature by and about Christoph Burchard in the catalog of the German National Library