Hartmut Gese

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Hartmut Gese (born April 4, 1929 in Pyritz ) is a German Protestant theologian and Old Testament scholar and most recently taught as a professor for the Old Testament at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen .

Life

Gese studied Protestant theology and oriental studies in Mainz and Tübingen from 1948 to 1952 . The first theological exam in 1952 was followed by a one-year study visit to Yale University in New Haven (Connecticut / USA). As part of his work as an Old Testament assistant to Karl Elliger in Tübingen from 1953, he received his doctorate in 1955 with a study of the history of tradition on Ezekiel 40-48. With his habilitation , a thesis on Old Oriental and Old Testament wisdom, he began teaching as a private lecturer in Tübingen in 1957 . Via the stations in Chicago (1959) and Hamburg , where he received an extraordinary professorship in 1961, he returned to Tübingen in 1962, where he took over the chair for the Old Testament as the successor to Artur Weiser . Hartmut Gese has been an emeritus since 1994 . In 1982 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences .

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Among the more recent attempts to regain an all-biblical theology (" Biblical Theology "), Gese represents a traditional-historical approach. He takes up approaches by Albrecht Alt and Gerhard von Rad and continues them. According to Gese, the Old and New Testaments form a single corpus of biblical tradition, which also includes the Apocrypha of the so-called inter- testament epoch. The entire Bible owes itself to a single continuous process of growth, which of course also knows breaks, even breaks. The biblical canon marks the end of this development in the history of tradition. In addition to the traditional process, there is the history of revelation, which also progresses. Beginning with the Sinai event , God reveals himself to his counterpart Israel in a continuous revelation. The New Testament proves to be the goal (telos) and conclusion of this traditional process: “The Old Testament comes into being through the New Testament.” “This is how all Old Testament traditions in Christology are of God's revelation of salvation, God's self-disclosure to the world, to man summarized and concluded. "

On the New Testament side, Geses model is z. B. picked up by Peter Stuhlmacher .

Manfred Oeming is a critic of Geses .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members of the HAdW since it was founded in 1909. Hartmut Gese. Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, accessed on July 6, 2016 .
  2. ↑ The Old Testament as part of the Christian canon? Studies on contemporary theologies of the whole of the Bible. Zurich 2001.

Publications

  • Ezekiel's draft constitution (chapters 40–48). Traditionally examined (= contributions to historical theology. Volume 25). Mohr, Tübingen 1957.
  • Doctrine and Reality in Ancient Wisdom . Studies on the Proverbs of Solomon and the Book of Job . Tübingen 1958.
  • with Maria Höfner , Kurt Rudolph : The religions of Old Syria, Altarabia and the Mandaeans (= The religions of mankind , Volume 10.2). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart a. a. 1970. ISBN 3-17-071177-6 .
  • From Sinai to Zion. Old Testament contributions to biblical theology (= contributions to evangelical theology. Volume 64). Chr. Kaiser, Munich 1974. ISBN 3-459-00866-0 .
  • To biblical theology. Old Testament lectures (= contributions to Protestant theology. Volume 78). Chr. Kaiser, Munich 1977. ISBN 3-459-01098-3 .
  • Tradition and Biblical Theology . In: Odil Hannes Steck (ed.): On tradition and theology in the Old Testament (= biblical-theological studies. Volume 2). Neukirchen-Vluyn 1978. ISBN 3-7887-0553-1 ; Pp. 87-111.
  • Old Testament Studies . Tübingen 1991. ISBN 3-16-145699-8 ; ISBN 3-16-145739-0 .
personal data
SURNAME Gese, Hartmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Pyritz