Horst Balz

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Horst Robert Balz (born March 21, 1937 in Leipzig ) is a German Protestant theologian and New Testament scholar.

Life

Horst Balz studied Protestant theology and received his doctorate in 1966 under Gerhard Friedrich in Erlangen , whose assistant he became, first in Erlangen and then in Kiel . After his habilitation in the subject of the New Testament in Kiel in 1969, Horst Balz was a university lecturer in Kiel until 1972 and then, also in Kiel, an Oberlandeskirchenrat. From 1974 until his retirement in 2002 he was professor of theology and contemporary history of the New Testament at the Ruhr University in Bochum .

Focus

Horst Balz is best known for his co-editing of specialist encyclopedias, for which he wrote numerous articles of his own:

As an assistant to Gerhard Friedrich, he was involved in the last volumes of the Theological Dictionary of the New Testament (ThWNT). From 1976 to 2004 he was the specialist editor of the New Testament for the Theologische Realenzyklopädie (TRE). Together with Gerhard Schneider, he edited the Exegetical Dictionary for the New Testament (EWNT) from 1978 to 1983.

Works (in selection)

  • Methodical problems of New Testament Christology , Neukirchen-Vluyn 1967
  • Salvation trust and world experience. Structures of Pauline eschatology according to Römer 8, 18-39 , Kaiser, Munich 1971
  • The letters to Timotheus and Titus (NTD 4), Göttingen 1974 ISBN 9783525513354
  • (with Wolfgang Schrage ) The "Catholic" letters. The letters of Jakobus, Petrus, Johannes und Judas (NTD 10), Göttingen 1993 ISBN 978-3-525-51330-9
  • Salvation and healing in the New Testament . In: Karl Hoheisel, Hans-Joachim Klimkeit (Hrsg.): Heil und Heilung in den Religionen , Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1995 ISBN 978-3-447-03619-1

literature

  • Kerstin Schiffner, Klaus Wengst , Werner Zager (eds.): Fragmentary dictionary: Contributions to biblical exegesis and Christian theology; Horst Balz on his 70th birthday , Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2007.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Hartmut Rudolph: Evangelical Church and Expellees 1945 to 1972: Churches without a country . S. 531 (Biographical information: register of persons).
personal data
SURNAME Courtship, Horst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Balz, Horst Robert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and New Testament scholar
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig