Klaus Bieberstein

Klaus Bieberstein (born October 15, 1955 in Landshut ) is a German Roman Catholic theologian .

Life

Bieberstein studied Roman Catholic theology at the University of Tübingen from 1976 to 1983 and in the theological academic year Jerusalem . In 1991/92 he received his doctorate at the University of Tübingen with a thesis on the land grab narratives in the Book of Joshua . In 1998/99 he completed his habilitation at the University of Friborg (Switzerland) with a study on the origins of eschatology in Old Testament literature.

Since 2000 he has been Professor of Old Testament Studies at the Institute for Catholic Theology of the Faculty of Humanities and Cultural Studies at the University of Bamberg . His research interests lie in creation narratives , in discourse stories on theodicy and in eschatology in Old Testament literature and in the history of Jerusalem . In 2017 he published an innovative history of Jerusalem, which, based on new archaeological findings and dealing with alternative designs by Ernst Axel Knauf , David Ussishkin and Israel Finkelstein , creates a new overall picture of the history of the city.

He is a signatory of the memorandum “ Church 2011: A Necessary Awakening ” and married to the Catholic theologian Sabine Bieberstein .

Works (selection)

• with Hanswulf Bloedhorn: Jerusalem . Basics of the building history from the Chalcolithic to the early period of the Ottoman rule (= Tübingen Atlas of the Middle East. Supplement B 100). 3 volumes. Wiesbaden 1994.
• Joshua - Jordan - Jericho . Archeology, history and theology of the land acquisition narratives Joshua 1–6 (= Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis. Vol. 14). Freiburg im Üechtland / Göttingen 1995.
• The gate of Gehenna . The emergence of the eschatological memory landscape of Jerusalem. In: Bernd Janowski , Beate Ego (ed.): The biblical worldview and its ancient oriental contexts (= research on the Old Testament. Vol. 32). Tübingen 2001, pp. 503-539.
• Beyond the death threshold. The Origin of Resurrection Hopes in Old Testament Early Jewish Literature. In: Angelika Berlejung , Bernd Janowski: Death and Beyond in ancient Israel and its environment. Theological, religious-historical, archaeological and iconographic aspects (= research on the Old Testament. Vol. 64). Tübingen 2009, pp. 423-446.
• Make sense of suffering. Interpretations of illnesses and attempts at theodicy in Old Testament literature. In: Günter Thomas, Isolde Karle (Hrsg.): Interpretation of illness in the post-secular society. Theological approaches in an interdisciplinary discussion. Stuttgart 2009, pp. 127-138.
• "An 'illustration' of what is in itself unspacial in space". Mythical space and time in the symbolic system of Jerusalem. In: Communio . Vol. 41, 2012, pp. 521-534.
• Sargon and Moses in a rush basket. Write and read stories. In: Konstantin Lindner, Andrea Kabus, Ralph Bergold, Harald Schwillus (eds.): Erinnern und Erziegen . Theological, humanities, human and cultural studies perspectives (= Bamberg Theological Forum. Vol. 14). Münster 2013, pp. 125–136.
• A Brief History of Jerusalem. From the Earliest Settlement to the Destruction of the City in AD 70 (= treatises of the German Palestine Association. Vol. 47). Wiesbaden 2017.

Web links

• Literature by and about Klaus Bieberstein in the catalog of the German National Library
• Klaus Bieberstein on the website of the University of Bamberg