Herbert Niehr

Herbert Niehr (born August 13, 1955 in Nettetal ) is a Roman Catholic theologian .

Life

After receiving his doctorate in 1985 and his habilitation in Würzburg in 1989, he became professor for Introduction to the Old and New Testament at the Catholic theological faculty of the University of Tübingen in 1992 .

Rule and Judge. The root špṭ in the Old Orient and the Old Testament (Research on the Bible 54), Würzburg 1986.
Jurisprudence in Israel. Studies on the history of court organization in the Old Testament (Stuttgarter Bibelstudien 130), Stuttgart 1987.
The highest god. Old Testament YHWH belief in the context of the Syrian-Canaanite religion of the 1st millennium BC Chr. (Supplement to the Journal for Old Testament Science 190), Berlin-New York 1990.
Religions in Israel's Environment. Introduction to the north-west Semitic religions Syria - Palestine (Die Neue Echter-Bibel supplementary series 5), Würzburg 1998.
- Il contesto religioso dell'Israele antico (Introduzione allo studio della Bibbia. Supplementi 7), Brescia 2002.
Ba'alšamem. Studies on the origin, history and reception history of a Phoenician god. Studia Phenicia XVII (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 123), Leuven 2003.
with Izak Cornelius : Gods and Cults in Ugarit. Culture and religion of a northern Syrian royal city in the Late Bronze Age (Zabern's illustrated books on the Old World), Mainz 2004.
Aramaic Aḥiqar (Jewish writings from Hellenistic-Roman times. New series II / 2), Gütersloh 2007.
with Corinne Bonnet : Religions in the environment of the Old Testament II. Phoenicians, Punians, Aramäer (Kohlhammer Studienbücher Theologie 4,2), Stuttgart 2010.
- La religion des Phéniciens et des Araméens (Le Monde de la Bible 66), Geneva 2014.

Oliver Dyma, Stefanie-Ulrike Gulde-Karmann and Dagmar Kühn (eds.): "May the Lord of Heaven make his days and years long". Contributions to the history of religion. Festschrift for Herbert Niehr on his 60th birthday . Ugarit-Verlag, Münster 2015, ISBN 3-86835-171-X .