Jürgen van Oorschot

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Jürgen van Oorschot (born May 15, 1957 in Düsseldorf ) is a German Protestant theologian and professor of Old Testament theology at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg .

Life

After studying at the Ewersbach Theological Seminary of the Association of Free Evangelical Churches (KdöR) Dietzhölztal-Ewersbach and at the Philipps University of Marburg , he received his doctorate in 1986 in Marburg with a thesis on the Book of Job , supervised by Otto Kaiser , under the title God as Limit. After his ordination as an evangelical clergyman in 1988 , he completed his habilitation in 1991 with an editorial history study on Deutero-Isaiah . From 1992 to 1995 he researched and taught as a Heisenberg fellow , interrupted by a substitute chair in the department of Protestant and Catholic theology and its didactics at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen 1994. From March 1995 to April 2006 he was professor of the Old Testament at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena .

Since the 2006 summer semester he has been a full professor of the Old Testament at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), where he was spokesman for the department of theology and vice dean of the faculty of philosophy and theology from 2011 to 2013 .

Since 2010 he has been establishing a center to bundle religion-related and anthropological research at FAU and has been its spokesman since the founding of such a center under the name of the Central Institute “Anthropology of Religion (s)” in the spring of 2011. From autumn 2010 to autumn 2011 he was deputy chairman of the Evangelical Theological Faculty Conference and from October 2011 to October 2013 its chairman. From 2014–2015 he was a visiting fellow at one of the Käte Hamburger Kollegs , the International College for Research in the Humanities (IKGF) in Erlangen. Together with Andreas Wagner (Bern) initiator and from 2013 to 2020 head of the project group "Anthropology Old Testament" within the framework of the Scientific Society for Theology (WGTh).

Research priorities

Based on the Book of Job , he deals with the Old Testament wisdom literature and its history. He works on cultural and literary transformation processes in the area of ​​Persian prophecy of the Old Testament (Isaiah 40-66) and the Psalms and the Psalter . In addition, he is concerned with the history of science in the 19th century and topics of Old Testament anthropology , which he examines in conversation with other disciplines of historical anthropology .

Editorships

Since January 2009 he has been the publisher of the Journal for Old Testament Science (ZAW), initially together with Ernst Joachim Waschke and since 2015 together with Jan Christian Gertz . Furthermore, as a specialist editor, he is responsible for the theology area in WiBiLex , the scientific Bible lexicon on the Internet. He is one of the editors of the Berliner Theologische Zeitschrift (BThZ).

Publications (in selection)

  • God as a limit. A literary and editorial history study of the divine speeches in the Book of Job. (Supplements to the Journal for Old Testament Science 170). Berlin and New York: De Gruyter 1987. ISBN 3-11-011163-2
  • Hope for Israel. A study of Romans 11: 25-32. Giessen: Brunnen-Verlag 1988. ISBN 3-7655-9055-X
  • From Babel to Zion. A literary and editorial history study on Isaiah 40-55 (BZAW 206). Göttingen: Berlin and New York: De Gruyter 1993. ISBN 3-11-013606-6
  • Post-cult psalms and late biblical scroll poetry. ZAW 106 (1994) , 69-86.
  • Job 28: The hidden wisdom and fear of God as overcoming a generalized håkmâ . In: WAM Beuken (Ed.), The Book of Job (183-201). Peeters Pub (January 1994). ISBN 90-6831-652-4
  • History as memory and science - a contribution to their understanding. In: R. Lux (ed.), Story told. Contributions to narrative culture in ancient Israel (BThSt 40). (1-27). Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchner Verlag (2000). ISBN 3-7887-1817-X
  • Image of man, image of God and human dignity - a contribution from the Book of Job. In: E. Herms (Ed.), Image of Man and Human Dignity (VWGTH 17) (320-343). Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus (2001). ISBN 3-579-01843-4
  • The creation of the Book of Job . In: Th. Krüger, M. Oeming, K. Schmid & Ch. Uehlinger (eds.), The Book of Job and its Interpretation: Contributions to the Job Symposium on Monte Verità from 14.-19. August 2005 (AThANT 88). (165-184). Zurich: Theological Verlag Ag (2007). ISBN 3-290-17407-7
  • Limits of Knowledge as Sources of Knowledge - an Old Testament Contribution to Wisdom and Science. ThLZ 132 (2007) , 1277-1292.
  • On the foundation of Old Testament anthropology - orientation and interjection, in: J. van Oorschot, M. Iff (ed.), "Man as a topic of theological anthropology. Contributions from an interdisciplinary perspective (BThSt 111)" (1-41). Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchner Verlag (2010). ISBN 978-3-7887-2429-0
  • Mensch , TdT Vol. 11, UTB 4763, Tübingen 2018.
  • The Will of Man - Old Testament Aspects of the Debate on Freedom and Unfreedom of Human Will, KuD 64 (2018), 1-19.
  • The emergence of the Pentateuch as a mirror of the history of theology, VuF 64 (2019), 61-69.
  • Nudity and Clothing in the Hebrew Bible: Theological and Anthropological Aspects, in: Clothing and Nudity in the Hebrew Bible , ed. Chr. Berner u. a., London and New York 2019, 237-249.
  • Anthropology (s) of the Old Testament in the explicit and implicit images of man, ThLZ 145 (2020) , 3-16.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www2.hu-berlin.de/bthz
personal data
SURNAME Oorschot, Jürgen van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and Old Testament scholar
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf