Konrad Schmid (theologian)

Konrad Schmid (born October 23, 1965 in Zurich ) is a Swiss Reformed theologian and professor of the Old Testament at the University of Zurich .

Life

The son of the Zurich Old Testament writer Hans Heinrich Schmid (1937–2014) studied theology at the Universities of Zurich , Greifswald and Munich and received his doctorate in 1996 in Zurich . In 1998 he completed his habilitation while working as a senior assistant in Zurich. From 1999 to 2002 he worked as a professor for Old Testament theology in Heidelberg . Since 2002 he has been professor for Old Testament science and early Jewish religious history in Zurich. In 2006 and 2016 he taught as a visiting professor at the Theological Academic Year, Dormition Abbey , Jerusalem. He spent the academic year 2006–2007 as Member in Residence at the Center for Theological Inquiry (CTI) Princeton NJ . From 2008 to 2010 he was dean of the theological faculty at the University of Zurich . From 2012 to 2013 he was a fellow of the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in a group on Convergence and Divergence in Pentateuchal Studies: Bridging the Academic Cultures between Israel, Europe, and North America . In 2017 he was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ. Since 2017 he has been chairman of the Scientific Society for Theology and member of the research council of the Swiss National Science Foundation . He is the 24th President of IOSOT from 2019 to 2022 . His main research interests are the literary history of the Pentateuch and the books of Isaiah and Jeremiah . Schmid is co-editor of various book series and magazines, including the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel . Konrad Schmid is married to Brigitta Rotach-Schmid and has two children.

Works (selection)

• Book design of the Book of Jeremiah. Investigations into the editorial and reception history of Jer 30–33 in the context of the book (= Scientific Monographs on the Old and New Testament (WMANT) vol. 72). Neukirchen-Vluyn 1996, ISBN 3-78871608-8 .
• Patriarchs and exodus. Investigations on the double justification of the origins of Israel in the history books of the Old Testament (= Scientific Monographs on the Old and New Testament (WMANT) Vol. 81). Neukirchen-Vluyn 1999, ISBN 3-7887-1717-3 .
  • English translation: Genesis and the Moses Story. Israel's Dual Origins in the Hebrew Bible. Winona Lake 2010, ISBN 978-1-57506-152-8 .
• Old Testament literary history. An introduction . Darmstadt, 2008. ISBN 978-3-534-16521-6 , 2nd edition 2014. ISBN 978-3-534-25102-5 .
  • English translation: The Old Testament. A Literary History. Minneapolis 2012, ISBN 978-0-8006-9775-4 .
• Job as a biblical and ancient book. Historical and intellectual contexts of his theology (= Stuttgart Biblical Studies 219?). Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-460-03194-4 .
• Traditional scribed literature. Case studies on the inner-biblical interpretation of scriptures in the Old Testament (= research on the Old Testament (FAT) vol. 77). Tübingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-16-150860-8 .
• Isaiah 1–23 (= Zurich Bible Commentaries (ZBK) Vol. 19/1). Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-290-17605-1 .
• Is there theology in the Old Testament? On the concept of theology in Old Testament science (= Theological Studies (ThSt) (B) Vol. NF 7). Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3-290-17806-2 .
  • English translation: Is There Theology in the Hebrew Bible? (= Critical Studies in the Hebrew Bible (CrStHB) Vol. 4). Winona Lake 2015, ISBN 978-1-57506-351-5 .
• (with Jens Schröter ): The Origin of the Bible. From the first texts to the scriptures. C. H. Beck, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-406-73946-0 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Konrad Schmid in the catalog of the German National Library
• Konrad Schmid on the website of the University of Zurich