Jürgen Werlitz

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Jürgen Werlitz (born February 9, 1961 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German theologian and university professor .

Life

Werlitz graduated from high school near St. Anna in Augsburg . From 1982 onwards he studied theology at the University of Augsburg . He completed his studies in 1987 with a diploma and obtained his doctorate in 1991 with studies on literary-critical method. Judgment and salvation in Isa 7: 1-17 and Isa 29: 1-8 . Until 1998 he worked as a research assistant / assistant at the chair for Old Testament science at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Augsburg. In 1998 he completed his habilitation with editing and composition. To inquire about the final form of Isa 40-55 and was a senior research assistant for another four years before he was hired at the University of Regensburg as a research assistant for the introduction to the Old Testament at the Chair of Biblical Theology and Hermeneutics, Old Testament .

He is now back at the University of Augsburg as an adjunct professor of Old Testament exegesis. He is also active as a book author and lecturer and, as the successor to the Old Testament writer Otto Wahl, teaches as a visiting professor at the Philosophical-Theological College of the Salesians Don Bosco in Benediktbeuern .

His work focuses on the prophets of the Hebrew Bible and the apocrypha of the Bible .

Works (selection)

  • Studies on the literary-critical method. Judgment and Salvation in Isaiah 7: 1–17 and 29: 1–8 , supplements to the journal for Old Testament science, Vol. 204, Berlin, New York 1992.
  • Editing and composition. Inquiry into the final figure of Isaiah 40–55 , Bonner Biblical Contributions, Vol. 122, Berlin and Bodenheim / Mainz 1999.
  • The books of the kings, New Stuttgart Commentary. Old Testament , Vol. 8, Stuttgart 2002.
  • The secret of the sacred numbers. A key to the riddles of the Bible , Pattloch-Verlag: München 2000; Licensed editions: Fourierverlag: Wiesbaden 2003 (2 editions), Marixverlag: Wiesbaden 2004 (3 editions).
  • The Forbidden Gospels. Apokryphe Schriften , with Katharina Ceming , Pattloch-Verlag: Augsburg 1999; New edition: Marixverlag: Wiesbaden 2004 (since then 12 editions); Paperback edition by Piper, Munich 2007; extended new edition in Marixverlag: Wiesbaden 2007.

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personal data
SURNAME Werlitz, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main