Dieter T. Roth

Dieter Thomas Roth (* 1975 in Charlotte , North Carolina , USA ) is a German-American theologian and university professor. His theological area of ​​expertise is the New Testament .

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In 1997, Roth completed his Bachelor of Arts (Highest Distinction) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill supported by a grant from the Morehead-Cain Scholars Program. This was followed in 2004 with a Master of Divinity at the Reformed Theological Seminary-Charlotte. From 2004 to 2006 he received his Doctor of Philosophy Coursework in Hermeneutics and Biblical Interpretation (NT) at Westminster Theological Seminary -Philadelphia. Subsequent doctoral studies took him to Europe, he studied at the University of Edinburgh as a scholarship holder of the College of Humanities and Social Science Studentship and Overseas Research Students Award from 2006 to 2009. He completed his habilitation in 2016 at the Johannes Gutenberg- Create University of Mainz . From 2010 to 2017, Roth was a research assistant at the Evangelical Theological Faculty.

Roth a. a. through his reconstruction of the ' Marcion Gospel'. Roth tried to create a text that was as likely as possible to reproduce exactly what could be reconstructed from the sources. For this purpose he examined primarily three main sources: the Adversus Marcionem of Tertullian , the Panarion (or Adversus haereses ) of Epiphanius of Salamis and the Adamantius dialog ( Περὶ τῆς εἰς θεὸν ὀρθῆς πίστεως Peri Tēs ice theon ORTHES pisteos ) to passages to match each other, that can reproduce the Marcionite Gospel. These three sources contain quotations from the Marcionite Gospel.

His central methodology was the analysis of the citation habits of the respective church fathers , with the help of which Roth also explained contradicting testimonies of the heresiologists . Speculations and considerations relating to the history of tradition should expressly no longer have any meaning in his methodological approach. This concerned the theology of Marcion on the one hand, but on the other hand he did not want to determine the direction in which the texts of Luke and Marcion were worked out. Roth also resorted to the manuscript tradition of the Gospel according to Luke in order to resolve contradictions between the heresiological reports.

Works (selection)

• The Text of Marcion's Gospel. New Testament Tools, Studies and Documents 49, Brill, Leiden 2015, ISBN 978-90-04-24520-4
• P45 as Early Christian Artifact: Considering the Staurogram and Punctuation in the Manuscript. In Chris Keith, Dieter T. Roth (Eds.): Mark, Manuscripts and Monotheism: Essays in Honor of Larry Hurtado Library of New Testament Studies 528, T&T Clark, London 2014, pp. 118–129.
• Master as Character in the Q Parables. In Dieter T. Roth, Ruben Zimmermann , Michael Labahn (eds.): Metaphor, Narrative, and Parable in Q. Scientific research on the New Testament 315, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2014, pp. 371–96.
• Missionary Ethics in Q 10: 2-12. In Kobus Kok et al .: Sensitivity to Outsiders: Exploring the Dynamic Relationship between Mission and Ethics in the New Testament and Early Christianity. Scientific studies on the New Testament 2,364, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2014, pp. 81–100.
• The Words of Jesus and the Torah: A Consideration of the Role of Q. 6,47-49. In Markus Tiwald (ed.): No iota will pass away: The understanding of the law of the Logia source on the background of early Jewish theology. Contributions to the science of the Old and New Testament 200, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2013, pp. 89–110.
• The Text of the Lord's Prayer in Marcion's Gospel. New Testament Science and Education Journal 103 (2012): 47–63.
• Marcion and the Early Text of the New Testament. In Charles E. Hill, Michael J. Kruger (Eds.): The Early Text of the New Testament. Oxford University Press, Oxford (UK) 2012, pp. 302-12.
• The Friends of Jesus: Mary Magdalene, the Family at Bethany, and the Beloved Disciple. In Chris Keith, Larry Hurtado, Grand Rapids (Eds.): Jesus Among Friends and Enemies: A Historical and Literary Introduction to Jesus in the Gospels. Baker Academic, Ada, MI 2012.
• Did Tertullian Possess a Greek Copy or Latin Translation of Marcion's Gospel? Vigiliae Christianae 63 (2009): 429-67.
• Marcion's Gospel and Luke: The History of Research in Current Debate. Journal of Biblical Literature 127 (2008): 513-27.
• Matthean Readings and Tertullian's Accusations in Adversus Marcionem. Journal of Theological Studies 59 (2008): 580-97.

Web links

• Daniel Dalke: Comparison of the reconstructions of the Mcn by Roth and Klinghardt - results published June 11, 2018, Eastern Non-Interpolations. Digital Humanities and New Testament in Saxony [2]
• Portrait photography by Dieter T. Roth [3]

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biographical information from the University of Mainz, online [1]