Ernst Axel Knauf

Ernst Axel Knauf (* 1953 in Düsseldorf ) is a German Protestant Old Testament scholar .

Life

According to Ernst Axel Knauf, he first came into contact with the Bible while studying theology: “As a theology student, I bought my first Bible, the Hebrew one. That's how I learned the language. On my parents' bookshelf there were Shakespeare and Goethe, but no Bible. ”He studied theology in Wuppertal and Tübingen . From 1977 to 1982 he was Herbert Donner's assistant , first in Tübingen, then in Kiel . There he received his doctorate in 1982.

Then Knauf worked until 1985 as a research assistant at the German Evangelical Institute for Classical Studies of the Holy Land in Amman . His first teaching position was 1985–1987 as Assistant Professor for Semitic Epigraphy and Head of Department at the Institute for Archeology and Anthropology at Yarmouk University in Irbid (Jordan).

In 1987 he received his habilitation in Heidelberg . In the following years he was a private lecturer for the Old Testament and Biblical Regional and Classical Studies at the University of Heidelberg. From 1993 to 1996 he taught Semitic philology and biblical exegesis at the University of Geneva . From 1999 to 2000 he was visiting professor for Near Eastern Archeology in Jena . From 2002 to 2003 he participated in the Jerusalem Research Group Greeks, Romans, Jews and Others in the Near East from Alexander to Muhammad: A Civilization of Epigraphy at the Hebrew University .

Since 1997 he has been Professor of the Old Testament and Biblical Environment at the University of Bern .

Teaching

Ernst Axel Knauf examines the conception, production and reception of religious literature in Israel during the Persian period.

He explores the geographic area of ​​Israel / Palestine in pre-Islamic times in terms of political history, linguistic, economic, social, cultural and religious history. One focus is the relationship between the region and (northern) Arabia.

Works (in selection)

• Ishmael. Studies on the history of Palestine and Northern Arabia in the l. Millennium BC Chr. (= Treatises of the German Palestine Association). Wiesbaden 1985 (2nd, extended edition 1989).
• Midian. Studies on the history of Palestine and Northern Arabia at the end of the 2nd millennium BC Chr. (= Treatises of the German Palestine Association). Wiesbaden 1988.
• The environment of the Old Testament (= New Stuttgart Commentary AT, Vol. 29). Stuttgart 1994 (2nd edition 1998; 3rd edition 2003), ISBN 978-3-460-07291-6 .
• Joshua (= Zurich Bible Commentary). Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-290-17456-9 .
• Joshua and Judges. In: Matthias Krieg, Konrad Schmid (Ed.): Explained - the commentary on the Zurich Bible. Vol. 1, Zurich 2010.
• 1. Kings 1–14 (= Herder's Theological Commentary on the Old Testament). Freiburg im Breisgau 2016, ISBN 978-3-451-26814-4 (introduction online ; PDF; 2.2 MB).
• Richter (= Zurich Bible Commentary). Zurich 2016, ISBN 978-3-290-14756-3 .
• Auditur et altera pars. On the logic of the Pentateuch editorial team. In: Bible and Church. 3/1998, pp. 118-126.

Web links

• University of Bern: Prof. Dr. Ernst Axel Knauf

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Annette Großbongardt, Johannes Saltzwedel: The book of books "To the historical core was simply added". In: Spiegel Online . November 25, 2014, accessed February 6, 2018 .