Hans Joachim Stoebe

Hans Joachim Stoebe (born February 24, 1909 in Berlin , † December 27, 2002 in Basel ) was a German Protestant clergyman and university professor .

Life

family

Hans Joachim Stoebe was the son of Max Stoebe and his wife Katharina (née Schneider).

He was married to Ilse († November 9, 1999), daughter of Hans Rengel, since 1943; her apartment was in Basel-Bruderholz .

education

Hans Joachim Stoebe enrolled to Easter 1927 at the University of Berlin and began studying Protestant theology and Semitic languages , he at the University of Halle-Wittenberg Friedrichs United and the University of Tuebingen continued.

From an early age he occupied himself with the scientific research of the Old Testament , as can be seen in the writing of an Old Testament work on the Zechariah book , with which he wanted to do his doctorate under Ernst Sellin in the first half of the 1930s . In this work, based on a detailed exegesis of Zechariah, he worked out the double messianic expectation of the book, which is now accepted. Ernst Sellin, however, declared his observations to be impossible and thus deprived him of all courage to continue working; the manuscript was lost during the turmoil of World War II .

After taking his first theological exam , he started a vicariate in the spring of 1932 and was ordained by the council of the Confessing Church in Brandenburg in December 1934 . After the second theological exam he came to the parish office in 1934 ; since 1936 in Kanig in the Guben district .

Career

In 1939 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and worked as a war pastor from February 1942 and as a division pastor from summer 1943. In April 1945 he and his division were taken prisoner in the Ruhr Basin . Because the place where he was appointed pastor had fallen to Poland , he could only be released from captivity if he could prove that he was employed in the West; so he was employed as an assistant preacher in the Iserlohn parish .

In October 1946 he came to the Bethel Theological School , initially as an assistant for Hebrew language lessons, and since 1947 as a lecturer with the same assignment; when he took over the Hebrew editing, he was able to resume his academic work. At the church college he also taught Hebrew, Aramaic and Syriac, among other things .

He received his doctorate at the Protestant Theological Faculty of the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster Dr. theol. with a work on the conceptual history of the noun חםד; the oral exam took place on November 3, 1950.

On May 16, 1961, he was appointed full professor to an Old Testament ordinariate at the University of Basel , he was also active as chairman of the medical-theological working group of the University of Basel, as a member of the theological commission of the church federation and as an examining expert at the Bible School in Aarau ; he also preached frequently in the Basel churches. Helga Weippert was one of his students .

Even after his retirement in 1979 he continued to give lectures and in the winter semester 1980/81 and 1981/82 he represented the vacant Old Testament chair at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen .

His estate contains over 300 sermons, addresses at weddings and funerals as well as biblical reflections from the period from 1946 to around 1990.

Scientific work

Hans Joachim Stoebe dealt mainly with the Samuel books , he conducted word research, dealt with prophecy , Palestine studies and the theology of the Old Testament.

His years of work on the Samuel books are documented in two volumes, which were created in 1973 and 1994 as part of the Commentary on the Old Testament series . His scholarly preoccupation with biblical semantics is made up of nine important contributions to the theological concise dictionary of the Old Testament published by Ernst Jenni and Claus Westermann . He found it necessary to explain biblical terms because often the biblical meaning no longer corresponds to the modern one. Without knowledge of Hebrew, the Greek of the New Testament could not be understood in its full sense, and this renunciation would also make access to the biblical message of the New Testament more difficult.

He has also expressed himself several times on exegetical problems in the field of prophecy and dealt with fundamental questions of the prophecy of Amos in two publications . In two other publications he also dealt with the prophet Jeremiah and portrayed him as a prophet and pastor.

In the fifties and sixties, Palestine studies were an important part of his work, so in 1962 and 1964 he led the teaching courses at the German Evangelical Institute for Classical Studies in the Holy Land and traveled with a small group of scholars to Palestine , the East Bank and the Lebanon and Syria . His broad knowledge of Palestine was very useful in his commentary on the Samuel books. He also authored numerous Palestinian articles on the Biblical-Historical Concise Dictionary .

Fonts (selection)

• God's devoted goodness and loyalty: häsäd wä'ämät. Meaning and history of the term häsäd . Westphalian Wilhelms University Münster 1951.
• God, have mercy on me sinner: an interpretation d. 51. Psalms . Neukirchen: Neukirchener Verlag of the book trade of the educational association 1958.
• The relationship between revelation and religious statement in the Old Testament. In: Acta Tropica , Vol. 21, 1964, pp. 400-414 ( digitized version ).
• The first book of Samueli . Gütersloh: Gütersloh publishing house Mohn 1973.
• David and the Ammonite War . Wiesbaden, 1977.
• History, fate, guilt and belief . Frankfurt am Main: Athenaeum 1989.
• The second book of Samueli . Gütersloh: Gütersloh Publishing House 1994.

literature

• Heinz-Dieter Neef : Living in Faith. In memory of Hans Joachim Stoebe . Theologische Zeitschrift 4/59 (2003), pp. 349-363.

Web links

• Thomas K. Kuhn: Hans Joachim Stoebe. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Hans Joachim Stoebe . In: Index Theologicus .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The government council appoints Dr. theol. Hans Joachim Stoebe, from Berlin, for a proper ... - 16 - 05 - 1961. Retrieved on July 12, 2020 .