Jens-Wilhelm Taeger

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Jens-Wilhelm Taeger (born February 16, 1945 , † December 7, 2004 ) was a Protestant theologian and professor of the New Testament . His focus was on researching the Corpus Johanneum , especially the St. John's Apocalypse .

Life

Taeger studied theology and then did his doctorate with a thesis on the two Lukan works in the New Testament, then did his vicariate and then began his work on his habilitation thesis on the John Apocalypse and the Johannine Circle. In 1994 he was appointed professor for the New Testament at the theological faculty of the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster.

Scientific theses

Even before he began his habilitation thesis, he began to deal with his future focus, the St. John Apocalypse. As a habilitation thesis, he presented his most extensive study and tried to describe the author of this work as part of a development that lined up all works of the New Testament originating from one John.

The result of his habilitation thesis is that there is a continuous development of eschatological thinking within the Johannine works. This development is based on a close connection between the circle that is responsible for the creation of the Gospel and the letters and the author of the Apocalypse. Taeger speaks of three stages in this context: the authors of the Gospel, the subsequent authors of the letters and finally the author of the Apocalypse.

His basic thesis is that one can show such a proximity of the individual writings by comparing motifs. This method searches for similar contents of different scriptures and tries to show a development between them. Taeger tried to show this on the basis of the topic of victory and saw three stages of development: First in Joh 16,33  LUT it is spoken of a victory in the past, in the first letter of John of a coming victory, however not from Christ, but from the church, and finally in the John's apocalypse is a form similar to both.

Works

Monographs

  • Man and his salvation. Studies on the image of man and the view of conversion in Luke . StNT 14, Gütersloh 1982.
  • The apocalypse of John and the Johannine circle. Attempt to determine the place of origin in the history of tradition using the paradigm of the water of life topic . BZNW 51, Berlin; New York 1989.

Articles (selection)

  • Paul and Luke on Man , ZNW 71, 1980, pp. 96-108.
  • Some recent publications on John's Apocalypse , VF 29, 1984, pp. 50-75.
  • “Won! O heavenly music of the word! ”On the development of the victory motif in the Johannine writings , ZNW 85, 1994, pp. 23–46.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Friedrich-Wilhelm Hohn: Johannesapokalypse und Johanneischer Kreis , in: Johanneische Perspektiven: Essays on the Johannes apocalypse and on the Johannine circle 1984-2003, Göttingen 2006, Eds. David C. Bienert and Dietrich-Alex Koch , 219-240, here: S. 228
  2. ↑ a b c Friedrich-Wilhelm Hohn: Johannesapokalypse und Johanneischer Kreis , in: Johanneische Perspektiven: Essays on the Johannes apocalypse and on the Johannine circle 1984-2003, Göttingen 2006, Eds. David C. Bienert and Dietrich-Alex Koch, 219-240, here : P. 227
personal data
SURNAME Taeger, Jens-Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian, New Testament scholar
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1945
DATE OF DEATH December 7, 2004