Eve-Marie Becker

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Eve-Marie Becker (born August 9, 1972 in Diez ) is a German Protestant theologian. Since 2018 she has been Professor of the New Testament at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster .

Life

Eve-Marie Becker studied Protestant theology in Marburg and Erlangen from 1991 to 1997 , where she received her doctorate in 2001 with a thesis on the 2nd Corinthians . 2004 habilitation they are in Erlangen on the Gospel of Mark . From 2006 to 2018 she was Professor of New Testament Exegesis at the University of Aarhus / Denmark.

In 2014 she was Research Fellow at the Max Weber College in Erfurt, 2016 to 2017 Distinguished Visiting Professor of the New Testament at the Candler School of Theology, Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia / USA and 2017-2018 Fellow at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem / Israel.

From 2013 to 2015 she was President of the Learned Society ( Det Lærde Selskab ) at Aarhus University.

Work and research

Eve-Marie Becker's main research interests are early Christian historiography (especially Mark's Gospel) and epistolography (especially Philippians ) in the context of Greco-Roman literary history. Further research areas are biography and autobiography as well as New Testament hermeneutics.

Fonts (selection)

  • Writing and understanding. Pauline hermeneutics of letters in the Second Corinthians (= New Testament drafts for theology 4). Francke Verlag, Tübingen / Basel 2002.
  • Letter Hermeneutics in Second Corinthians: Studies in Literarkritik and Communication Theory (= JSNT.S 279). T & T Clark, London / New York 2004.
  • The Gospel of Mark in the context of ancient historiography (= scientific research on the New Testament 194). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2006.
  • Paul's concept of humility . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-16-154171-1 .
  • The Birth of Christian History: Memory and Time from Mark to Luke-Acts (= AncB Reference Library Series). Yale University Press, New Haven 2017.
  • The earliest evangelist. Studies on the Gospel of Mark (= Scientific Studies on the New Testament 380). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2017.
  • Paul's letter to the Philippians. Preparatory work for a commentary (= New Testament drafts for theology 29). Fool Francke Attempto, Tübingen 2020.                        

As editor (selection)

  • together with J. Rüpke: Authors in religious literary texts of the late Hellenistic and early imperial world. Twelve case studies, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2018 (CRPG 3). - open access: https://viewer.content-select.com/pdf/viewer?ip=87.155.6.13&id_type=isbn&identifiers=9783161561382&signature=a850b17b1e740b803f92f739faae5861438004de&frontend=1&language=deu
  • together with J. Mortensen: Paul as Homo Novus: Authorial Strategies of Self-Fashioning in Light of a Ciceronian Term , Göttingen / Bristol: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2018 (SANt 6).
  • together with A. Runesson : Mark and Matthew II: Comparative Readings: Reception History, Cultural Hermeneutics, and Theology , Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2013 (WUNT 304).
  • together with T. Engberg-Pedersen / M. Müller: Mark and Paul: Comparative Essays Part II. For and Against Pauline Influence on Mark , Berlin / Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2014 (BZNW 199) (paperback 2017).
  • together with S. Scholz: Canon in Construction and Deconstruction. Processes of canonicalization of religious texts from antiquity to the present. A manual , Berlin / Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2012.
  • together with A. Runesson: Mark and Matthew I: Comparative Readings: Understanding the Earliest Gospels in their First-Century Setting , Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2011 (WUNT 271).
  • Ancient Historiography and the Beginnings of Christian Historiography , Berlin / New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2005 (BZNW 129).

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personal data
SURNAME Becker, Eve-Marie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Diez