Klaus Baltzer

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Klaus Baltzer (born March 3, 1928 in Hamburg ; † September 6, 2017 in Deisenhofen ) was a German Protestant theologian and professor of Old Testament theology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Life

Baltzer, the son of a doctor from Hamburg, attended the humanistic Wilhelm Dörpfeld Gymnasium in Wuppertal from 1936 , where he graduated from high school in 1947. After two semesters of studying Protestant theology at the Kirchliche Hochschule Wuppertal (1947/48), canon law and philosophy at the University of Tübingen (1948/49) and theology and medicine in Heidelberg (1948–1951) and theology in Bonn In 1952 he passed the first theological exam in Düsseldorf . From 1952 to 1953 there was a vicariate in Dierdorf and in 1954 an assistant to Gerhard von Rad at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . Baltzer received his doctorate in 1957 and habilitated in 1959 on the two-part work Das Bundesformular . He was a professor at the Garrett Biblical Institute in Evanston (Illinois) from 1962 to 1963 and was appointed to the Bethel Church College in 1963 .

After the Evangelical Theological Faculty of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich was founded in 1967 with five professors, Baltzer was appointed as the first holder of the chair for Old Testament theology. His first lecture in 1968 dealt with the subject of "Texts on the History of Prophecy". He held this position until his retirement in 1996 and then remained connected to the Ludwig Maximilians University. In 1971/72 and 1988/89 he was dean of the Evangelical Theological Faculty. From 1977 to 1996 he was a member of the regional synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria . Until recently he lived in Munich.

He became known through his extensive commentary on Deutero-Isaiah (Isaiah 40-55). He was co-editor of the US commentary series Hermeneia (Fortress), in which his commentary appeared in English translation. As a member of the research and translation project Septuaginta German , he was responsible for Isa 40–55. Numerous doctoral and post-doctoral students from a number of countries, including Japan and India, have been supervised by him.

Publications (selection)

  • The federal form. (Scientific monographs on the Old and New Testament; 4). 2nd Edition. Neukirchener Verlag der Buchhandlung des Erziehungsverein, Neukirchen / Kr. Moers 1964 (dissertation and habilitation at the same time) (English 1971).
  • On the formal historical determination of the texts of the Servant of God in the Deutero-Isaiah book. In: Hans Walter Wolff (ed.): Problems of biblical theology. Gerhard von Rad on his 70th birthday. Kaiser, Munich 1971, ISBN 3-459-00779-6 , pp. 27-43.
  • The biography of the prophets. Neukirchener Verlag, Neukirchen-Vluyn 1975, ISBN 3-7887-0436-5 .
  • Women and War in Qohelet 7.23-8.1a . In: The Harvard Theological Review . tape 80 , 1987, ISSN  0017-8160 , pp. 127-132 .
  • Isaiah 40: 13-14 . A key to Deutero-Isaiah's unity? In: Biblical Notes . tape 37 , 1987, ISSN  0178-2967 , pp. 7-10 .
  • Scripture interpretation by Deutero-Isaiah? Isaiah 43: 22-28 as an example. In: Manfred Görg (ed.): The fathers of Israel. Contributions to the theology of patriarchal traditions in the Old Testament. Verlag Katholisches Bibelwerk, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-460-32841-X , pp. 11-16.
  • Jerusalem in the patriarchal stories of Genesis? Traditional historical considerations on Gen 14 and 22. In: Erhard Blum (Ed.): The Hebrew Bible and its twofold post-history. Neukirchener Verlag, Neukirchen-Vluyn 1990, ISBN 3-7887-1353-4 , pp. 3-12.
  • City-Tyche or Zion-Jerusalem? The confrontation with the gods of time in Deutero-Isaiah. In: Jutta Hausmann (Ed.): Old Testament Faith and Biblical Theology. Festschrift for Horst Dietrich Preuss on his 65th birthday. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-17-011079-9 , pp. 373-375.
  • Deutero-Isaiah. (Commentary on the Old Testament). Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 1999, ISBN 3-579-04291-2 (English 2001 in the Hermeneia series).
  • with Peter Marinkovic: Human size and limits. On the relationship between God - world - earth - man in Isa. 45.19-13. In: Friedhelm Hartenstein, Jutta Krispenz, Aaron Schart (eds.): Scripture prophecy. Festschrift for Jörg Jeremias. Neukirchener Verlag, Neukirchen-Vluyn 2004, ISBN 978-3-7887-2061-2 , pp. 369-379.
  • The city as a woman. Personification versus city goddess. In: Irmtraud Fischer, Konrad Schmid (ed.): Prophetie in Israel. Lit Verlag, Münster 2003, ISBN 3-8258-5458-2 , pp. 137-147.
  • The Book of Isaiah . In: The Harvard Theological Review . tape 103 , 2010, ISSN  0017-8160 , p. 161-170 .
  • Abraham in the Patriarchal Texts of the Book of Genesis and the Reception of this Tradition in the Book of Isaiah. In: Pernille Carstens, Nils Peter Lemche (Ed.): The Reception and Remembrance of Abraham. (Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures and its Contexts; 13). Gorgias Press, Piscataway / New Jersey 2011, ISBN 978-1-4632-0054-1 , pp. 77-86.
  • Esaias. The book of Isaiah. Introduction and explanations to Isa 40-55. In: Martin Karrer, Wolfgang Kraus (Ed.): Septuaginta German. Explanations and commentaries on the Greek Old Testament. Vol. II: Psalms to Daniel. German Biblical Society, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-438-05122-6 , pp. 2608-2645 (based on preliminary work by Jürgen Kabiersch).

literature

  • Rüdiger Bartelmus, Thomas Krüger, Helmut Utzschneider (eds.): Consistent history of tradition. Festschrift for Klaus Baltzer on his 65th birthday. (Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis; 126), Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1993, ISBN 3-525-53761-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice of Klaus Baltzer. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of September 13, 2017, accessed on September 13, 2017.
  2. ^ Obituary of the Protestant Theological Faculty of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich ; Friedhelm Hartenstein , Christoph Levin : Klaus Baltzer zum Gedenken, September 12, 2017, accessed on February 16, 2020.
  3. ↑ a b c bibelarchiv-vegelahn.de , accessed March 24, 2013.
  4. ↑ Gunther Wenz: 40 Years of Protestant Theology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich ( Memento from April 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), viewed March 23, 2013.
  5. ↑ Fortress Press: Klaus Baltzer , as seen March 23, 2013.
  6. ↑ septuagintaforschung.de: Directory of employees , p. 1470 (PDF file; 260 kB), viewed March 23, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Baltzer, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and professor emeritus for Old Testament theology
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 6th September 2017
Place of death Deisenhofen