Friedhelm Hartenstein

Friedhelm Hartenstein (born October 31, 1960 in Stuttgart ) is a German Protestant theologian . Since 2010 he has been Professor of the Old Testament at the Protestant Theological Faculty of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Life

From 1983 to 1989 Hartenstein studied Protestant theology , Assyriology and Near Eastern archeology in Munich , Jerusalem and Bonn . In 1989 he passed the first theological exam at the Evangelical Church in Württemberg . From 1989 to 1994 he completed a doctoral degree in Munich, from 1991 to 1994 assistant at the chair for theology of the Old Testament ( Jörg Jeremias ). After receiving his doctorate in Munich in 1996, he completed the vicariate and assistant pastor (1994–1997) in the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck . After the second theological exam and ordination in 1996, he received a post- doctoral scholarship from the DFG from 1997 to 1999 . After his habilitation in 2001 in Marburg , where he was an assistant in the Old Testament department from 2000 to 2002, he taught from 2002 to 2010 as a professor for the Old Testament and the history of ancient Near Eastern religions at the Protestant Theology department at the University of Hamburg . Since 2010 he has been Professor of Old Testament II (theology of the Old Testament and the history of religion in Israel in its ancient oriental context) at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

His main research interests are the religious history of Israel and the Ancient Near East, with a focus on iconography, exegesis and theology of the Old Testament, with a focus on psalms and prophecy and hermeneutics of the Old Testament.

Fonts (selection)

• God's inaccessibility in the sanctuary. Isaiah 6 and the place of residence of YHWH in the Jerusalem cult tradition (= scientific monographs on the Old and New Testament, Volume 75). Neukirchener Verlag, Neukirchen-Vluyn 1997, ISBN 3-7887-1640-1 (also dissertation, Munich 1996).
• The face of YHWH. Studies on its courtly and cultic meaning in the Psalms and in Exodus 32 - 34 (= research on the Old Testament, Volume 55). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2008, ISBN 3-16-148729-X (also habilitation thesis, Marburg 2001).
• The archive of the hidden God. Studies on Isaiah's prophecy of doom and the Zion theology of the Psalms in Assyrian times (= Biblical-Theological Studies, Volume 74). Neukirchener Verlag, Neukirchen-Vluyn 2011, ISBN 978-3-7887-2139-8 .
• The enduring importance of the Old Testament. Studies on the relevance of the first part of the canon for theology and the church (= Biblical-Theological Studies, Volume 165). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen / Bristol 2016, ISBN 3-7887-3047-1 .

Web links

• Prof. Dr. Friedhelm Hartenstein