Josef Scharbert

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Josef Scharbert (born June 16, 1919 in Grosse (Sudetenland), † April 21, 1998 in Munich ) was a German Roman Catholic theologian , Old Testament scholar and university professor. From 1969 to 1984 he taught as a full professor of Old Testament exegesis at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Life

Born as the son of Oskar Scharbert and Maria Scharbert (née Kammer), Josef Scharbert studied theology at the seminary in Olomouc from 1938 and later switched to the Archbishop's Philosophical-Theological College in Weidenau. In 1939 he was called up for military service as a medic. In 1943 he returned from Russia because of injuries, was taken prisoner of war in Russia in 1945 and fled to western occupation zones. In 1946 he resumed his studies in Passau, where he was ordained a priest in 1948. He then worked from 1948 to 1951 as a cooperator in Schönberg / Bavarian Forest , Thurmannsbang and Passau-Ilzstadt . This was followed in 1951 by a doctorate in Bonn with Friedrich Nötscher , which he completed in 1953 . He studied for another year at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome , where he obtained a licentiate in biblical studies in 1954. In 1955 and 1956 he worked as a teacher of Hebrew in Tübingen , followed by his habilitation in the subject of Old Testament exegesis by the University of Bonn in 1957, where he subsequently worked as a private lecturer , in 1958 as a substitute professor and from 1960 as an associate professor.

From 1964 Scharbert was a full professor at the Philosophical-Theological University of Freising . In 1968 he moved to the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich as a full professor of Old Testament exegesis . In 1984 he retired . His students include a. Werner Berg and Edith Heindl.

Awards

Works (selection)

Publications in book form

  • The pain in the Old Testament (= Bonner Biblical Contributions, Volume 8), Hanstein, Bonn 1955 (at the same time university publication Bonn, Catholic-theol. Fact, dissertation dated September 5, 1953, under the title The pain in the Old Testament philological, psychological and theologically examined .)
  • Solidarity in blessings and curse in the Old Testament and in its environment (= Bonn Biblical Contributions, Volume 14), Hanstein, Bonn 1958 (Volume 1, Fathers Curse and Fathers Blessings, at the same time university paper, habilitation paper, Bonn 1957).
  • Introduction to the Holy Scriptures (= The Christ in the World, Series 6, The Book of Books, Volume 1), Pattloch Aschaffenburg 1959.
  • Mediator of Salvation in the Old Testament and the Old Orient , (= Quaestiones disputatae, Volume 23/24), Herder, Freiburg i. Br., Basel, Vienna 1964.
  • The non-fiction book on the Bible , Christiana-Verlag, Zurich 1965.
  • Flesh, spirit and soul in the Pentateuch. A contribution to the anthropology of the Pentateuch sources (= Stuttgarter Bibelstudien, Volume 19), Katholisches Bibelwerk, Stuttgart 1966.
  • Prolegomena of an Old Testament scholar on the doctrine of original sin (= Quaestiones disputatae, Volume 37), Herder, Freiburg i. Br., Basel, Vienna 1968.
  • (Author), Werner Berg (contribution), Selected Topics of the Introduction to the Old Testament (= University of Munich. Chair for Theology of the Old Testament (Ed.), Scripts of the Chair for Theology of the Old Testament, volume 4).
  • (Author), Werner Berg (Appendix), God in the Old Testament (= Selected Topics of the Theology of the Old Testament, Part 1, University of Munich. Chair for Theology of the Old Testament (Ed.), Scripts of the Chair for Theology of the Old Testament, Volume 5), Munich 1982
  • The Messiah in the Old Testament. With an appendix on the 65th birthday of the editor (= University of Munich. Chair for Theology of the Old Testament (Ed.), Selected Topics of the Theology of the Old Testament, Part 3, Scripts of the Chair for Theology of the Old Testament, Book 7), Institute for Biblical Exegesis of the University, Old Testament II, Munich 1984.
  • Forced resettlement in Western Asia between the 10th and 6th centuries BC According to ancient oriental and biblical sources (= Sudeten German Academy of Sciences and Arts. Humanities class: session reports, volume 1), Verlag-Haus Sudetenland, Munich 1988.
  • "I am Josef, your brother". The story of Joseph and his brothers as it is not in the Bible , EOS-Verlag, St. Ottilien 1988, ISBN 978-3-88096-703-8 .
  • (Author) Exodus , (= Josef G. Plöger (Hrsg.), Josef Schreiner (Hrsg.), Die neue Echter-Bibel, Commentary on the Old Testament with the standard translation, delivery 24), Echter Verlag, Würzburg 1989, ISBN 978- 3-429-01245-8 .
  • "Do not be afraid! I am with you ”(Isa. 43,5). A theology professor's review of his youth in chaotic times (= Sudetendeutsches Priesterwerk (ed.), Series of publications by the Sudetendeutsches Priesterwerk Königstein, Taunus, volume 27), Sudetendeutsches Priesterwerk, Königstein 1991.
  • A letter to expellees from the year 595 BC Chr., Its cause and its consequences , Verlags-Haus Sudetenland, Munich 1991, (= Sudetendeutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften und Künste. Humanities class, meeting reports, booklet 8)
  • Numeri (= Josef G. Plöger (Hrsg.), Josef Schreiner (Hrsg.), Die neue Echter-Bibel, Commentary on the Old Testament with the standard translation, delivery 27), Echter, Würzburg 1992, ISBN 978-3-429-01429 -2 .
  • (Author) and Georg Hentschel (Author), Rut and 1 Samuel (= Josef G. Plöger (Hrsg.), Josef Schreiner (Hrsg.), Die neue Echter-Bibel, Commentary on the Old Testament with the standard translation, delivery 33), Echter, Würzburg 1994, ISBN 978-3-429-01597-8 .
  • Deutero-Isaiah - the 'servant of Yahweh'? , Kovač, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 978-3-86064-319-8

Magazine articles

Lexicon article

Literature on Josef Scharbert

  • Manfred Görg , honoring the 70th birthday of Prof. Dr. Josef Scharbert , in: BiKi 44 (1989) 124.
  • Manfred Görg, The Fathers of Israel. Contributions to the theology of patriarchal tradition in the Old Testament. Festschrift for Josef Scharbert's 70th birthday , Stuttgart 1989.
  • Manfred Görg, On the death of Josef Scharbert , in: MThZ year 50, 1999, pp. 1–4.
  • Christoph Schmitt, Art. Josef Scharbert , in: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) Volume 18, 2001, pp. 1219–1226. available online
  • Ernst Haag , Art. Scharbert, Josef , in: LThK³, Volume 11, 2001, p. 231.

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personal data
SURNAME Scharbert, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic theologian, Old Testament scholar and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Large (Sudetenland)
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1998
Place of death Munich