Jan Dochhorn

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Jan Dochhorn (born December 23, 1968 in Hanover ) is a German New Testament scholar and Judaist .

Life

Dochhorn studied Protestant theology at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster and the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen . He received his doctorate from the theological faculty of the Georg-August University in Göttingen with a study on the Apocalypse of Moses . From 1998 to 2002 he was a research assistant at the University of Münster in a project on the Phoenician-Punic religion. From 2002 to 2004 he worked at the New Testament seminar at the University of Göttingen. From 2005 to 2007 he worked at the Septuagint company of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . From 2007 to 2014 he was Associate Professor of New Testament at Aarhus University in Denmark. In 2012 he took part in a disputate at Aarhus Universitet on a study on the Apocalypse of John . Since 2014 he has been a Senior Lecturer in New Testament Studies at Durham University in England .

His research interests include the religious and literary history of early Christianity and early Christianity, the devil in ancient Judaism and Christianity , the Apocalypse of Moses and the Testament of Abraham . Dochhorn is together with Nils Arne Petersen head of the working group "Den Kristne Orient" at Aarhus University. Together with Felix Albrecht, he leads the research project "Manuscript research on parabiblical literature". Dochhorn is a member of the Society of Biblical Literature, the German University Association , the Collegium Biblicum, the Teologisk Forening and the Scientific Society for Theology .

In 2012, Dochhorn initiated an "open letter to the Federal President for a free education system and for freedom of research and teaching", which is supported by more than fifty signatories.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Appeal ( Memento from January 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Quarterly Journal for Scientific Pedagogy 88 (2012), pp. 341–349.
personal data
SURNAME Dochhorn, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and Judaist
DATE OF BIRTH 23rd December 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover