Christoph Levin

Christoph Levin (born July 8, 1950 in Duisburg ) is a German Protestant theologian and professor of Old Testament theology .

Live and act

Levin studied Protestant theology in Tübingen , St Andrews , Marburg and Göttingen from 1969 to 1975 . After a vicariate in the Moravian Brethren , he was a research assistant in Göttingen with Rudolf Smend (junior) from 1977 to 1991 . He received his doctorate for a thesis on federal theology. His habilitation thesis was on the Yahwist . From 1993 Levin took a substitute chair in Marburg, from 1995 to 1998 he was professor of biblical studies in Giessen as a representative for Volkmar Fritz, who was on leave . From 1998 until his retirement in 2016 he was a professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . From 2005 to 2019 he was an evangelical university preacher, and from 2009 to 2015 he was Dean of the Evangelical Theological Faculty.

From 2008 to 2011 Levin headed the Old Testament section of the Scientific Society for Theology. From 2008 to 2017 he was a member of the selection committee for the award of the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship - International Prize for Research in Germany. From 2010 to 2016 he was on the steering committee "Review of the Luther Bible" at the Evangelical Church in Germany as coordinator for the Old Testament. He is a member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen and of the Finnish Academy of Sciences since 2014 . From 2010 to 2013 he was President of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament (IOSOT) .

Teaching

With his theses on the Yahwist , Levin is one of the most vehement defenders of this model in the German-speaking world. He considers the Yahwist to be a late, anti-uteronomic editorial layer who collected several narrative wreaths, combined them and created a narrative thread from Genesis 1 to Numbers 24. Further research focuses are the literary history of the Old Testament and the pre-exilic history of Israel and Jude.

Honors

In 2017 the University of Helsinki awarded him an honorary doctorate in theology.

Private

Levin is married to the doctor Claudia Levin and they have four children.

Publications (in selection)

• The Fall of Queen Ataliah: A Chapter on the History of Judah in the 9th Century BC Chr. (SBS 105). Stuttgart: Katholisches Bibelwerk 1982. ISBN 3-460-04051-3
• The promise of the new covenant is interpreted in its theological-historical context (FRLANT 137). Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1985. ISBN 3-525-53811-1
• The Yahwist (FRLANT 157). Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1993. ISBN 3-525-53839-1 , 3-525-53838-3
• The Old Testament ( CH Beck Wissen 2160). Munich: Beck 3rd edition 2006. ISBN 3-406-44760-0
• Updates. Collected studies on the Old Testament (supplements to the journal for Old Testament science 316) Berlin: de Gruyter 2003. ISBN 3-11-017160-0

Web links

• Homepage of Christoph Levin at the LMU Munich
• Publications by Christoph Levin
• Christoph Levin and his writings on the theologische-buchhandlung.de website
• Prof. Dr. Christoph Levin on the Luther Bible 2017 on youtube, October 19, 2016
• Literature by and about Christoph Levin in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cf. Levin: Das Alte Testament , pp. 48–54.
2. ^ Vita Christoph Levin, website at1.evtheol.uni-muenchen.de