Klaus Haacker

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Klaus Haacker (born August 26, 1942 in Wiesbaden-Erbenheim ) is a German Protestant theologian . From 1975 to 2007 he was professor for the New Testament at the Church University of Wuppertal .

Life

After graduating from high school, Klaus Haacker studied Protestant theology at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz , the Georg August University of Göttingen , the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster and the Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg . He completed his studies in 1967 with the faculty examination in Heidelberg . In 1970 Haacker received his doctorate from Gustav Stählin with the text The Foundation of Salvation. Studies on the structure of Johannine theology at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz for Dr. theol. and worked between 1970 and 1974 as a research assistant with a teaching position for the early history of Christianity and connection with Judaism with Otto Michel and Martin Hengel at the Institutum Judaicum of the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen .

In 1974 he switched to the New Testament Lecturer at the Wuppertal Church University, where he held the New Testament Chair from 1975 to the 2007 summer semester. Klaus Haacker has been a member of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas (SNTS), the world's largest scientific association of New Testament scholars, since 1976 .

From 1982 to 1996 Haacker was a member of the Christian and Jewish Expert Committee of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland , which tried to renew the relationship between Christians and Jews on the basis of the Rhenish synodal resolution of 1980.

With Lothar Coenen (1925–2003) he is editor of the Theological Glossary of Terms for the New Testament . Until August 2007 he was also the editor of the journal Theological Contributions .

Haacker worked on various Bible translations and revisions, such as the standard translation of the New Testament, the 1984 revision of the Luther Bible and the 1997 revision of the interdenominational Good News Bible . One focus of his research is the PharosBiblia, an internet project to promote Bible translation.

Klaus Haacker has been married to the psychologist Dorothea Damrath since 1964 , the marriage resulted in two sons, the younger, Christoph Haacker, is the owner of Arco Verlag .

Works

  • The Acts of the Apostles (=  Theological Commentary on the New Testament, Vol. 5 ). 1st edition. W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2019, ISBN 978-3-17-026990-3 (463 pages).
  • Paul's letter to the Romans . 4th, again verb. and exp. Edition. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2012, ISBN 978-3-374-02455-1 (393 pages).
  • What Jesus taught: the preaching of Jesus - unfolded from the Our Father . Neukirchener Theologie, Neukirchen-Vluyn 2010, ISBN 978-3-7887-2427-6 (280 pages).
  • as ed. with Dorothea Damrath: The Lord is my gardener: spiritual songs and poems . 1st edition. Arco-Verlag, Wuppertal 2008, ISBN 978-3-938375-32-7 (103 pages).
  • Paul the apostle: how he became what he was . kbw Bibelwerk, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-460-30021-7 (176 pp.).
  • Reconciliation with Israel: exegetical contributions . In: Publications of the Kirchliche Hochschule Wuppertal, Vol. 5 . Foedus, Wuppertal 2002, ISBN 3-932735-58-7 (223 pages).
  • Biblical theology as committed exegesis: basic theological questions and thematic studies . In: TVG monographs and study books . Brockhaus, Wuppertal, Zurich 1993, ISBN 3-417-29384-7 (216 pages).
  • with Heinzpeter Hempelmann: Hebraica veritas: the Hebrew basis of biblical theology as an exegetical and systematic task . In: Monographs and Study Books . R. Brockhaus , Wuppertal 1989, ISBN 3-417-29352-9 (78 pages).
  • Greetings to Orpheus: poems . Radius-Verlag, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-87173-725-9 (77 pages).
  • New Testament Science. An introduction to questions and methods . In: Monographs and Study Books . R. Brockhaus, Wuppertal 1985, ISBN 3-417-29303-0 (120 pages).
  • with Anneliese Hecht: Ways of the Word: Acts of the Apostles . In: Biblical Interpretation for Practice . Verlag Katholisches Bibelwerk, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-460-25201-4 (160 pages).
  • with Gerhard Hörster a. a .: Gifted with spirit . In: Witten series No. 147 . 1st edition. Bundes-Verlag, Witten 1983, ISBN 3-8137-0147-6 (103 pages).
  • as Ed .: Learning and Living. Addresses to theology students. Texts by Karl Barth, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Karl Heim and many others. In: Edition sowing . Aussaat-Verlag, Wuppertal 1981, ISBN 3-7615-4660-2 (144 pages).
  • The Authority of Scripture . In: Calwer booklets for the promotion of biblical faith and Christian life . Issue 125. Calwer Verlag, Stuttgart 1972, ISBN 3-7668-0394-8 (44 pages).
  • The foundation of salvation. Investigations into the structure of Johannine theology . Evang.-theol. Faculty, Mainz February 12, 1970 (288 pages, dissertation).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ PharosBiblia.net
personal data
SURNAME Haacker, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and university professor, professor of the New Testament
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden-Erbenheim