Ernst Jenni

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Ernst Jenni (born February 17, 1927 in Basel ) is a Swiss Protestant Reformed theologian . He was pastor and full professor for Old Testament and Semitic linguistics at the University of Basel . His research into the ancient Hebrew language has been published in several writings that have received international attention.

Live and act

Jenni is a son of the master baker Alfred Jenni and his wife Emilie nee Baumann. He studied Protestant theology and Semitic languages ​​in Basel and Paris . From 1949 to 1955 he worked in various pastors in the Basel area. In 1951 he received his doctorate in theology, in 1954 he became a private lecturer at the University of Basel, and a year later in Heidelberg . In 1958 he succeeded Walter Baumgartner as full professor for the Old Testament and Semitic languages ​​in Basel. In 1997 he retired.

His focus was on researching ancient Hebrew grammar , syntax and semantics , using modern linguistic methods. He paid special attention to the functions of the Hebrew verbal system and prepositions. In 1971 his theological dictionary of the Old Testament (THAT) was published, which received greater attention and distribution, was translated into several languages ​​and is still in use beyond his teaching activities. Jenni made a significant contribution to the fact that the Department of Old Testament and Semitic Languages ​​in Basel achieved a high level over the decades and thus a great reputation in German-speaking universities. He saw his linguistic work as an important tool for exegetical work in theology.

In 1988 he was co-founder of the magazine for ancient Hebrews . He chaired the 2001 IOSOT Congress in Basel as its President.

Private

Jenni is married to Irma born men.

Fonts

  • The word 'ōlām in the Old Testament , 1953
  • The Temple of Jerusalem , Golgotha and the Holy Sepulcher , 1956, Ed. André Parrot
  • The theological justification of the Sabbath commandment in the Old Testament , 1955 and 1956
  • The Political Predictions of the Prophets , 1956
  • Old Testament prophecy , 1962
  • The Hebrew Pi'el: Syntactic-semasiological investigation of a verbal form in the Old Testament , 1968
  • Word, command, faith. Contributions to the theology of the Old Testament. Walther Eichrodt on his 80th birthday , Johann Jakob Stamm (ed.), 1970
  • Concise theological dictionary of the Old Testament (THAT) , 1971 and 1978
  • Textbook of the Hebrew Language of the Old Testament: Revised Hebrew Textbook by Hollenberg-Budde , 1978, 1981 and 2004
  • Contributions to Hebrew and ancient oriental names , 1980
  • The Hebrew Preparations. The preposition beth , Kohlhammer 1992; The preposition kaph , 1994; The preposition lamed , 2000
  • Studies on the linguistic world of the Old Testament , 1997
  • Theological lexicon of the Old Testament , 2000 (translated into several languages)
  • The Lord God speaks, who does not prophesy? 2000, Korean: Ju Yŏhowa kkesŏ malssŭm hasin jŭk nuga yeŏn haji ani hagetnŭnya? Joong-Eun Kim, Dong Hyun Park (Ed.)

literature

  • Klaus Seybold (Ed.): Veritas hebraica. Old Testament Studies. Dedicated to Ernst Jenni on his 70th birthday , Theologische Zeitschrift 53, 1997, 1–176 (= Issue 1–2).
  • Jürg Luchsinger, Hans-Peter Mathys, Markus Saur (eds.): "... who enjoys the word of the Lord!". Festschrift for Ernst Jenni on his 80th birthday (= Old Orient and Old Testament 3369). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster 2007.
  • Sebastian Grätz, Bernd U. Schipper (Ed.): Old Testament Science in Self-Representations (= UTB 2920). Göttingen 2007, pp. 61–73: Ernst Jenni .
  • Michael Steven Cheney: The exegetical relavance of Ernst Jenni's theory of the Hebrew piel: an examination from the point of view of linguistic and literary science

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Krüger: On the scientific work of Ernst Jenni (2017, on the 90th birthday of Ernst Jenni)
  2. ↑ Edgar Kellenberger: Jenni, Ernst. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
personal data
SURNAME Jenni, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Protestant Reformed theologian
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel