Markus Philipp Zehnder

Markus Philipp Zehnder (* 1964 in Basel ) is a Swiss Protestant theologian who has been teaching Old Testament and Biblical Hebrew at the Talbot School of Theology at Biola University in La Mirada , California , since 2016 .

Life

Markus Philipp Zehnder attended high school at the Kohlenberg in Basel from 1975 to 1983 . From 1983 to 1990 he studied theology at the University of Basel and the University of Bern . From 1990 to 1991 he completed a vicariate in the Evangelical Reformed Church in Riehen . He did his doctoral studies under the Old Testament scholar and Semitic linguist Ernst Jenni and wrote his dissertation on the subject of path metaphors in the Old Testament. A semantic investigation of the Old Testament and Old Oriental way-lexemes with special consideration of their metaphorical use . He was awarded a Dr. theol. PhD at the University of Basel .

In 1994 he took part in an archaeological teaching course at the German Evangelical Institute for Classical Studies in the Holy Land in Jordan and Israel; he also took part in excavations at Tell el-Oreyme . From 1995 to 1998 he was a member of the Evangelical Reformed Synod of Basel-Stadt. From 1996 to 1998 he taught the Old Testament and Biblical Hebrew at the Theological-Diaconal Seminar in Aarau . From 1998 to 2001 he was a Fellow of the Swiss National Science Foundation , a Visiting Research Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at the Department of Languages and Civilization of the Middle East at Harvard University . From 2002 to 2003 he worked again for the Swiss National Science Foundation, this time as a research assistant for the research project on the Parthian Empire.

After completing his habilitation in 2003 at the University of Basel, he worked there as a private lecturer for the Old Testament until 2004. From 2004 to 2006 he headed the Biblical Studies of the Catechist Education of the Reformed and Catholic Churches in Basel-Stadt and Basel-Land . From 2004 to 2017 he was a lecturer for the Old Testament at the Theological Faculty of the University of Basel. From 2005 to 2006 he was professor for the Old Testament at the Ewersbach Theological Seminary . From 2006 to 2016 he was Professor of Biblical Studies at Ansgar Theological College and Seminary in Kristiansand , Norway , and has also been Co-Director of the Norwegian Summer Academy for Biblical Studies there since 2012. From 2008 to 2009 he was a Research Fellow at the German University of Bochum on the subject of "Dynamics in the history of religion between Asia and Europe". From 2013 to 2016 he held the chair for the Old Testament at the Protestant Theological Faculty in Leuven , Belgium . Since 2016 he has been professor of Old Testament and Semitic Languages at the Talbot School of Theology at Biola University in La Mirada near Los Angeles .

Fonts (selection)

Path metaphors in the Old Testament. A semantic investigation of the Old Testament and Old Oriental way-lexemes with special consideration of their metaphorical use . Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-11-016300-4 (dissertation).
Dealing with strangers in Israel and Assyria. A contribution to the anthropology of the “foreign” in the light of ancient sources . Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-17-018997-2 .
with Peter Stephan Wick (Ed.): The Parthian empire and its religions. Studies in the dynamic of religious diversity. The Parthian Empire and its Religions. Studies on the Dynamics of Religious Plurality . Gutenberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-940598-13-4 .
with Hallvard Hagelia (ed.): Encountering violence in the Bible . Sheffield 2013, ISBN 1-909697-01-X .
New studies in the Book of Isaiah. Essays in honor of Hallvard Hagelia . Piscataway 2014, ISBN 1-4632-0356-X

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personal data
SURNAME	Zehnder, Markus Philipp
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Zehnder, Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss theologian
DATE OF BIRTH	1964
PLACE OF BIRTH	Basel

[1] Review Wegmetaphorik in the Old Testament by Stefan Schorch in: Theologische Literaturzeitung, Leipzig January 2000, Sp. 55–57

[2] Markus Zehnder, Professor of Old Testament and Semitics, Talbot School of Theology, Biola University