Joachim Jeremias

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Joachim Jeremias (born September 20, 1900 in Dresden , † September 6, 1979 in Tübingen ) was a Lutheran theologian and orientalist and abbot of the Bursfelde monastery . He taught at the University of Göttingen from 1935 to 1968 . In his research he tried to present the original Aramaic wording of Jesus' preaching.

Life

Joachim Jeremias lived in Jerusalem from 1910 to 1915 because his father Friedrich Jeremias was provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Redeemer there. In 1922 and 1923 he completed his studies in theology and the oriental languages ​​with a doctoral examination each (thus earned the titles of Dr. phil. And Dr. theol.). There followed a time as a repetitionist at the Theological Seminary of the Brethren in Herrnhut and as a lecturer in Riga .

After his habilitation in the New Testament subject in Leipzig in 1925, he first became associate professor and director of the Institutum Judaicum at the University of Berlin , then in 1929 professor in Greifswald .

Finally he moved to Göttingen in 1935, where he remained until his retirement in 1968. At the Neu-Bethlehem Hospital , which served as a military hospital from 1939 to 1946, he was employed as a sergeant in the management during this time . Jeremias was one of the few Göttingen theologians who were on the side of the Confessing Church , of which he had been a member since 1933. Jeremias had also protested against the introduction of the Aryan paragraph in the church and took a position against the Führer principle and the imperial church . He never joined a Nazi organization.

From 1968 to 1971 Joachim Jeremias was abbot of the Bursfelde monastery in the Weser Uplands . His sons are the New Testament scholar Gert Jeremias and the Old Testament scholar Jörg Jeremias .

His research is based on a wide range of specialist knowledge in theology , philology , history , geography and archeology . He made a special effort to reconstruct the preaching of Jesus against the background of contemporary Judaism. In addition, he also benefited from the knowledge of the conditions in Jerusalem that he had clearly acquired in his childhood.

Honors

Joachim Jeremias received numerous honors. He received honorary doctorates from the University of Leipzig , the University of St. Andrews (Scotland), the University of Uppsala (Sweden) and the University of Oxford . He was the recipient of the Burkitt Medal of the British Academy for Biblical Studies (London). He was a member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen and chairman of its Septuagint Commission, a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences and a member of the British Academy (London).

Publications (selection)

  • Jerusalem in the time of Jesus (1923, his PhD thesis)
  • The Words of the Last Supper (1935)
  • The parables of Jesus (1947, paperback edition 1965) ( , PDF; 27.8 MB, 156 pages at www.carespektiven.de)
  • Unknown Jesus Words (1948, paperback 1980)
  • New Testament theology. Part 1: The Annunciation of Jesus (1971)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joachim Jeremias (1900-1979), philosopher: memorial plaque. In: Göttingen City Archives. Retrieved February 16, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Traudel Weber-Reich: Care and Healing in Göttingen. The Bethlehem Deaconess Institution from 1866 to 1966 . Studies on the history of the city of Göttingen. tape 22 . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1999, ISBN 3-525-85423-4 , pp. 184-185 .
personal data
SURNAME Jeremias, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian, orientalist and abbot
DATE OF BIRTH 20th September 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1979
Place of death Tübingen