Jacob Thiessen

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Jacob Thiessen (born March 6, 1964 in Loma Plata , Paraguay ) is a Paraguayan-Swiss theologian. He is the rector of the state-independent Theological University Basel ( STH Basel ).

Life

Thiessen has the citizenships of Paraguay and Switzerland . He studied from 1989 to 1994 theology in Riehen in Basel and received his doctorate in 1998 at the Free Seminar of Theology in Geneva for Doctor of theology (Dr. theol.). In Paraguay he worked a. a. as deputy pastor of the Emanuel Mennonite congregation in his hometown of Loma Plata (2001–2003). He has been a lecturer since 2004 and professor for the New Testament at the STH Basel since 2007 . He has also been the rector there since 2004.

His main research interests include NT introductory science, hermeneutics and exegetical methodology, and Israel theology. A critical reviewer of his book on Israel said of Thiessen: "He is very learned to do careful exegesis".

Works

  • Stephen's speech Acts. 7.2–53 examined and interpreted based on the Old Testament and Jewish background . Publishing house for theology and religious studies, Nuremberg 1999, ISBN 978-3-933372-23-9 (dissertation).
  • Biblical Doctrine . Brunnen, Basel 2004, ISBN 978-3-937965-02-4 (out of print).
  • 1 Corinthians . Brunnen, Basel 2004, ISBN 978-3-937965-03-1 (out of print).
  • The Resurrection of Jesus in Controversy. Hermeneutical-exegetical and theological considerations . LIT, Münster / Zurich 2009, ISBN 3-643-80029-0 .
  • God did not cast Israel out. Biblical-exegetical and theological perspectives in determining the relationship between Israel, Judaism and the community of Jesus . Peter Lang, Frankfurt a. M, et al. 2010, ISBN 978-3-631-59863-4 .
  • God's righteousness and gospel in Romans. Paul's doctrine of justification compared to ancient Jewish conceptions and the New Pauline Perspective . EDIS Edition Israelogie, Volume 8, Peter Lang, Frankfurt a. M, et al. 2014, ISBN 978-3-631-65083-7 .
  • with Harald Seubert : The Kingdom of Yahweh. Festschrift on the retirement of Herbert H. Klement , Studies on Theology and the Bible 13, LIT, Münster 2015, ISBN 978-3-643-80199-9 .
  • The controversial epistles of Paul - copies and forgeries? : intertextual, literary-critical and theological studies, LIT, Zurich 2016, ISBN 978-3-643-80239-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Jacob Thiessen: Vita on the STH Basel website
  2. ^ So Franz Graf-Stuhlhofer in his review of Thiessen's book Gott hat Israel nicht weg (2010), in: Jahrbuch für Evangelical Theologie 24, 2010, p. 283. According to Graf-Stuhlhofer's criticism, Thiessen overlooks “important questions as well as essential biblical statements ".
personal data
SURNAME Thiessen, Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Paraguayan-Swiss theologian, Rector STH Basel
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Loma Plata , Paraguay