Dieter singer

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Dieter Sänger (born January 5, 1949 in Niederschelden ) is a German Protestant theologian and professor of theology and literary history of the New Testament at the theological faculty of the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . Until 2015 he was director of the Institute for New Testament Studies and Jewish Studies .

Life

Singer studied Protestant theology in Wuppertal , Göttingen and Heidelberg . Then he was at the Heidelberg Faculty of Theology assistant to Christoph Burchard and was 1979 with a religious-historical study of the Hellenistic-Roman Jewish Joseph and Aseneth Dr. theol. PhD. After six years as a parish priest in the Evangelical Church of Baden, he took over a lectureship in Biblical theology with a focus on the New Testament at the University of Flensburg . From 1992 to 1993 he was an academic advisor at the Department of Protestant Theology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz . He completed his habilitation in 1993 at the Theological Faculty in Kiel with an exegetical study on the relationship between Church and Israel in Paul and in early Christianity. In 1994, Singer accepted a professorship for the New Testament at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen . In 1999 he moved to the Protestant Theology department at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . From April 1, 2000 to September 30, 2015, he held the chair for the history of theology and literature of the New Testament at the Theological Faculty in Kiel. In the winter semester 2003/04 he was visiting professor at the Pontifical University of San Anselmo / Dormitian Church in Jerusalem . From 1996 to 1997 he was dean of the Protestant and Catholic theology department at the University of Gießen, and from 2008 to 2010 dean of the theological faculty in Kiel.

Singer is a member of various scientific organizations and deputy chairman of the Societas Theologicum Ordinem Adiuvantium (STOA). From 1996 to 2000 he was chairman of the SNTS seminar group “Paul among Diaspora Jews”, from 2001 to 2006 head of the project group “Biblical Intertextuality” of the Scientific Society for Theology and from 2004 to 2006 a member of the editorial board of New Testament Studies. Since 2011 he has been co-chairman and co-coordinator of the interdisciplinary joint project “The Eucharist - its Origin and Contexts”.

Act

Sanger's research focuses on Hellenistic Judaism , Pauline theology and the history of early Christianity in the context of Greco-Roman antiquity . He is also particularly interested in the Septuagint and its reception in the Corpus Neotestamenticum.

Publications (selection)

  • Ancient Judaism and the Mysteries. Studies on the history of religion on Joseph and Aseneth (WUNT II / 5), Tübingen 1980.
  • Between self-actualization and submission. On the role of women in Greco-Roman antiquity (AFFF 6), Flensburg 1992.
  • The Annunciation of the Crucified and Israel. Studies on the relationship between Church and Israel in Paul and in early Christianity (WUNT 75), Tübingen 1994.
  • (Ed.) Holiness and Reign. Intertextual studies on concepts of holiness and on Psalm 110 (BThSt 55), Neukirchen-Vluyn 2003.
  • (Ed.), Son of God and Son of Man. Exegetical studies on two paradigms of biblical intertextuality (BThSt 67), Neukirchen-Vluyn 2004.
  • (with U. Mell ed.), Paulus and Johannes. Exegetical studies on Pauline and Johannine theology and literature (WUNT 198), Tübingen 2006.
  • (with M. Konradt ed.), The law in early Judaism and in the New Testament. FS for Christoph Burchard 75th building . (NTOA / StUNT 57), Göttingen 2006.
  • From the certainty of the beginning. Studies on Jesus, Paul and the early Christian understanding of Scripture , Neukirchen-Vluyn 2007.
  • Paraleipomenon II. The second book of the chronicle, in: Septuaginta German. The Greek Old Testament in German translation , Stuttgart 2009 (= 22010), 518-550.
  • Paraleipomenon II. The second book of the chronicle: Explanations, in: Septuaginta German. Explanations and commentaries on the Greek Old Testament, vol. 1: Genesis bis Maccabees, Stuttgart 2011, 1105–1164.
  • (Ed.), The second letter to the Corinthians. Literary figure - historical situation - theological argument. FS for Dietrich-Alex Koch 's 70th building . (FRLANT 250), Göttingen 2012.
  • Scripture - Tradition - Gospel. Studies on early Judaism and Pauline theology , Neukirchen-Vluyn 2016.
  • (with D. Hellholm ed.), The Eucharist - Its Origins and Contexts. Sacred Meal, Communal Meal, Table Fellowship in Late Antiquity, Early Judaism, and Early Christianity . Vol. I - III (WUNT 376), Tübingen 2017.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New Testament Studies at Cambridge University Press
  2. ↑ Information on the joint project
personal data
SURNAME Singer, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Niederelden