Jan Joosten (biblical scholar)

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Jan Joosten (born May 17, 1959 in Ekeren, Belgium ) is a Belgian biblical scholar. Since 2014 he has been Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford University ; before that he was professor of the Old Testament at the University of Strasbourg . He was also a member of the Society of Biblical Literature until June 2020 .

In June 2020, he was found guilty of possession of child pornographic images and was given leave of absence from his professorship in Oxford.

academic career

Joosten received his PhD in Brussels in 1981. His main research interests are the Septuagint , Syrian Bible texts, Biblical Qumran manuscripts and a famous harmony of the gospels of antiquity, the Diatessaron . In addition to his work as a biblical scholar, he worked as a pastor from 1988 to 1994 .

Guilty verdict on child pornography

On June 18, 2020, Joosten was sentenced to one year imprisonment by the criminal court in Saverne (Bas-Rhin) and placed on the list of sex criminals because he had 28,000 child pornography pictures and videos. These included depictions of raped children. Joosten confessed to the crimes that went back to 2014. The material was discovered by the Strasbourg LION cyber police (laboratoire d'investigation opérationnelle du numérique) as part of a long investigation.

Works (in selection)

  • The Syriac Language of the Peshitta and Old Syriac Versions of Matthew. Syntactic Structure, Inner-Syriac Developments and Translation Technique , Studies in Semitic Languages ​​and Linguistics 22 (Leiden, Brill, 1996)
  • People and Land in the Holiness Code. An Exegetical Study of the Ideational Framework of the Law in Leviticus 17-26 , Supplements to Vetus Testamentum 67 (Leiden, Brill, 1996)
  • Together with Philippe Le Moigne, Édition des actes du colloque Aspects de la Bible grecque , in: Revue des Sciences Religieuses 280 (1999), pp. 132–228
  • Together with Eberhard Bons and Stephan Kessler , Les Douze Prophètes . Osée, La Bible d'Alexandrie 23, 1 (Paris, Cerf, 2002)
  • The Dura Parchment and the Diatessaron , Vigiliae Christianae, 57, (2003), pp. 159-175
  • Together with Philippe Le Moigne, L'apport de la Septante aux études sur l'Antiquité . Actes du colloque de Strasbourg 8 and 9 November 2002, Lectio Divina 203 (Paris, Cerf, 2005)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Archie Bland: Oxford professor sentenced to jail in France over child abuse images . In: The Guardian , June 22, 2020. Retrieved June 23, 2020. 
  2. ↑ a b Bas-Rhin. Un professeur de théologie condamné pour détention d'images pédopornographiques ( fr ) In: Ouest France . June 19, 2020. Accessed June 23, 2020.
  3. ^ Regius Professor of Hebrew, Oxford University: Jan Joosten . In: Press release . GOV.UK. Retrieved January 22, 2015.
  4. ↑ Christ Church, Oxford: Statement regarding Professor Jan Joosten . Retrieved June 22, 2020.
  5. ↑ Lewis Heslop: Christ Church professor sentenced to jail over child abuse images . In: The Oxford Blue , June 22, 2020. 

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personal data
SURNAME Joosten, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian biblical scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 17th May 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Ekeren, Belgium