Egbert Ballhorn

Egbert ball Horn (* 1967 ) is a German Roman Catholic he theologian .

Studies and academic career

Ballhorn studied Catholic theology (and chemistry) in Bonn, Vienna and Jerusalem from 1988–1994. He completed his studies in 1994 with a diploma (Catholic theology) and in 1995 with the state examination (chemistry / Catholic religion). In 2001 he was at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Bonn to Dr. theol. PhD. In 2009 he completed his habilitation there in the subject of the Old Testament. From 2002–2012 he was a lecturer in Biblical Theology at the Episcopal Seminary in Hildesheim and head of the Hildesheim Bible School. Since 2012 he has been Professor of Exegesis and Theology of the Old Testament at the Institute for Catholic Theology at the Technical University of Dortmund.

Ballhorn was one of the revisors of the 2016 standard translation (Book of Psalms) and has been chairman of the “Katholisches Bibelwerk eV” association since 2019, and in 2017 he was a fellow at the Theological Research College of the University of Erfurt.

research

Egbert Ballhorn's research focuses on the biblical books Psalms, Josua and Baruch. In addition, his fields of research are methodology of exegesis, Bible didactics and pastoral care, the Bible and liturgy.

Publications (selection)

Israel on the Jordan. Narrative topography in the Book of Joshua . Bonn Biblical Contributions 162, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2011.
To the Telos of the Psalter. The context of the text of the fourth and fifth books of Psalms (Ps 90-150) . Bonn Biblical Contributions 138, Philo Verlag, Berlin / Vienna 2004.
G. Steins / E. Ballhorn (Hsgr.): Water - Light - Life. The Biblical Readings on Easter Vigil . Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2010.
E. Ballhorn / G. Steins (Hsgr.): The Bible canon in the interpretation of the Bible. Method reflections and sample exeses . Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart 2007.
E. Ballhorn / TO Brok / K. Hellwig / D. Stoltmann (Hsgr.): Jerusalem as a place of learning. Cultural and theological paradigms of a meeting of religions . Jerusalem Theological Forum 9, Aschendorff Verlag, Münster 2006.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Prof. Dr. Egbert Ballhorn elected as the new CEO , accessed on October 8, 2019.
^ Technical University of Dortmund. Last accessed May 4, 2018.

personal data
SURNAME	Ballhorn, Egbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Roman Catholic theologian
DATE OF BIRTH	1967

[1] Prof. Dr. Egbert Ballhorn elected as the new CEO , accessed on October 8, 2019.

[2] Technical University of Dortmund. Last accessed May 4, 2018.