Claudia Janssen

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Claudia Janssen (born July 15, 1966 in Rotenburg (Wümme) ) is a German Protestant theologian. She has been Professor of Feminist Theology / Theological Gender Studies and New Testament at the Church University of Wuppertal / Bethel since October 1, 2016, succeeding Heike Walz . She became known through numerous publications on social history and feminist interpretations of the Bible , as well as anti-Judaism .

biography

After studying Protestant theology in Kiel and Marburg and the first theological exam in Hanover in 1992 , Claudia Janssen received her doctorate in 1996 from the University of Kassel . From 1996 to 1998 she completed the vicariate in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hanover . The dissertation was published in 1998 under the title Elisabet and Hanna - two resistant old women in New Testament times. A socio-historical study published as a book. In the same year Claudia Janssen passed her second theological exam. At that time she was already a research assistant in the field of biblical studies with a focus on the New Testament at the University of Kassel (1997–1999).

After a time as a scholarship holder of the German Research Foundation (DFG) in the graduate college 'Public spheres and gender relations. Dimensions of Experience ', Frankfurt am Main / Kassel (1999–2001), she worked as a research assistant at the Philipps University of Marburg (2001–2003) on the basis of a grant from the Hessian Ministry for Science and Art. There she completed her habilitation in the New Testament subject in 2004. Her habilitation thesis was published in 2005 under the title “Different is the beauty of the body. Paul and the resurrection in 1 Cor 15 ”published. Claudia Janssen has been a private lecturer for the New Testament at the Philipps University of Marburg since 2004. In 2010 she was appointed adjunct professor at the Philipps University of Marburg.

From 2004 to 2006 she worked as theological consultant for Evangelical Women’s Work in Germany (EFD) in Frankfurt am Main, from 2007 to 2012 as head of studies at the Women's Study and Education Center in the EKD (FSBZ) in Hofgeismar and since 2013 head of studies at the study center for Gender issues in church and theology of the EKD in Hanover. From 2010 to 2016 Janssen was an adjunct professor for the New Testament at the Philipps University of Marburg .

Focus of work

Claudia Janssen's main area of ​​work is the social history of the New Testament and the theology of Paul . Her main concern is to understand the New Testament scriptures in their concrete meaning and not in a purely spiritualizing way. Your publications have contributed to a more intensive study of feminist theology with Paul. In doing so, she resists the temptation to profile Christianity by devaluing Judaism and in her publications contradicts anti-Judaistic tendencies in Christian theology. She is active in the European Society of Women in Theological Research (ESWTR) and works in the group of exegetes of the German Evangelical Church Congress . She became known to a wider audience through her Kirchentag biblical work together with Luise Schottroff and as a member of the editorial team of the Bible in Just Language .

Awards

For her habilitation thesis she was awarded the Marga Bührig Prize (Basel) in 2006 and the Leonore Siegele Wenschkewitz Prize in 2007 .

Works (selection)

  • Claudia Janssen, Dagmar Henze, Stefanie Müller and Beate Wehn ​​(eds.): Anti-Judaism in the New Testament? Basics for working with biblical texts, Gütersloh 1997 ( ISBN 3-579-05149-0 ).
  • Claudia Janssen: Elisabet and Hanna - two resistant old women in New Testament times. A socio-historical study, Mainz 1998 ( ISBN 978-3786720713 ).
  • Claudia Janssen, and Beate Wehn ​​(eds.): How freedom is created Social-historical biblical interpretations, Gütersloh 1999 ( ISBN 978-3579030999 ).
  • Claudia Janssen, Ute Ochtendung and Beate Wehn ​​(eds.): Border Crossers: On the Way to Another Biblical Theology , Gütersloh 1999 ( ISBN 978-3786722038 ); the book is also available in English translation: Transgressors. Toward a Feminist Biblical Theology , Liturgical Press, Collegeville USA 2001 ( ISBN 978-0814650943 ).
  • Claudia Janssen and Benita Joswig (eds.): Remembering and getting up - answering the theologies of the cross , Mainz 2000 ( ISBN 978-3786722724 ).
  • Claudia Janssen, Luise Schottroff and Beate Wehn ​​(eds.): Paulus Controversial Traditions - Living Theology, Gütersloh 2001 ( ISBN 978-3579053189 ).
  • Claudia Janssen, Frank Crüsemann , Marlene Crüsemann, Rainer Kessler and Beate Wehn ​​(eds.): Not Believing Death, Social History of the Bible, Festschrift for Luise Schottroff on her 70th birthday, Gütersloh 2004 ( ISBN 978-3579054148 ).
  • Claudia Janssen: The beauty of the body is different . Paul and the resurrection in 1 Cor 15, Gütersloh 2005 ( ISBN 978-3579052106 ).
  • Ulrike Bail, Frank Crüsemann, Marlene Crüsemann, Erhard Domay, Jürgen Ebach , Claudia Janssen, Hanne Köhler, Helga Kuhlmann, Martin Leutzsch and Luise Schottroff (eds.): Bible in just language , Gütersloh 2006, 3rd edition 2007 ( ISBN 978- 3579055008 ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Kürschner's German Scholar Calendar Online . Retrieved April 19, 2016.