Jan Christian Gertz

Jan Christian Gertz (* 1964 in Hanover ) is a German Protestant theologian and Old Testament scholar .

Life

Gertz studied Protestant theology , philosophy and ancient oriental languages from 1983 to 1990 at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , the University of Vienna and the University of Hamburg . Then he passed the first theological exam of the Hanover regional church . He received his doctorate in 1993 from the Georg-August University in Göttingen and completed his habilitation in 1998, also in Göttingen.

In 1999 he took part in a teaching course in Syria , Jordan , Lebanon , Israel and Palestine as a scholarship holder of the German Evangelical Institute for Classical Studies . In the same year he also received a Heisenberg grant from the German Research Foundation .

From 2000 to 2004 Gertz held the chair for Old Testament and Biblical Archeology at the Evangelical Theological Faculty of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz . Since 2004 he has held the chair for the Old Testament at the Evangelical Theological Faculty of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg .

From 2006 to 2010 Gertz was director of the International Science Forum at Heidelberg University. From 2012 to 2013 he was a Fellow at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . He declined appointments to the Humboldt University of Berlin (2009) and the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen (2011).

Research priorities

• Literary history of the Old Testament;
• Biblical and ancient oriental legal history;
• Pentateuch ;
• Biblical prehistory.

Publications (selection)

• The judicial organization of Israel in the Deuteronomic Law (= research on the religion and literature of the Old and New Testaments. Volume 165), Göttingen 1994.
• Tradition and Redaction in the Exodus Tale. Studies on the final editing of the Pentateuch (= research on religion and literature of the Old and New Testaments. Volume 186), Göttingen 2000.
• Farewell to the Yahwist. The composition of the Hexateuch in the recent discussion . Edited together with Konrad Schmid and Markus Witte (= supplements to the journal for Old Testament science . Volume 315). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2002. ISBN 978-3-11-017121-1 .
• Basic information Old Testament , UTB 2745. Ed. Together with Angelika Berlejung , Konrad Schmid and Markus Witte. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006, 2nd edition 2007, 3rd edition 2009, 4th edition 2010, 5th edition 2016. ISBN 978-3-82-522745-6 .
• Hermeneutics of the Old Testament (= publications of the Scientific Society for Theology . Volume 47). Edited together with Markus Witte. EVA, Leipzig 2017. ISBN 978-3-374-05092-5 .
• The first book of Moses (Genesis). The prehistory Gen 1–11 (= Old Testament German . Volume 1 new). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-525-57055-5 .
• Anti-Babylonian polemics in the priestly account of creation? In: Zeitschrift für Theologie und Kirche 106 (2009), pp. 137–155

Web links

• University of Heidelberg: Prof. Dr. Jan Christian Gertz