Marlene Crüsemann

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Marlene Crüsemann (born November 7, 1953 in Hiddingen , Visselhövede ) is a German scholar of the New Testament. She became known through numerous publications and lectures on the exegesis and social history of the New Testament and on Christian-Jewish dialogue, and as one of the editors of the Bible in Just Language .

Life

Marlene Crüsemann was born as Marlene Cohrs on November 7, 1953 in Hiddingen , a district of the municipality of Visselhövede, in Lower Saxony. After graduating from the Ratsgymnasium in Rotenburg (Wümme) , she studied Protestant theology and German at the Georg-August University of Göttingen and the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg from 1973 to 1979 . After the first theological exam at the Evangelical Church in Baden and the teaching vicariate in a parish in Karlsruhe , the second theological exam followed in 1981. In 1999 Marlene Crüsemann received her doctorate from the University of Kassel with the New Testament work The Letters to Thessaloniki and the Just Judgment of God. Studies on its drafting and on Judeo-Christian social history . Since 1995 Marlene Crüsemann has been involved in the German Evangelical Church Congress with Bible studies and lectures. She is a member of the group of exegetes of the German Evangelical Church Congress and of the working group Jews and Christians . She is also co-editor and translator of the Bible in Just Language and a member of the European Society for Women's Theological Research (ESWTR).

Her publications also reflect her main research interests: New Testament, feminist interpretation of the Bible and Christian-Jewish dialogue. Marlene Crüsemann's discoveries in the texts of the New Testament, which point to the lasting Jewish roots of Christian traditions, are particularly important. At the same time, the socio-historical exegesis serves to research the world and preaching of women in early Christian times. Through her lectures it becomes clear that communicating this scientific knowledge in church services, in parishes, women's groups and in adult education is a special concern of Marlene Crüsemann.

Marlene Crüsemann has been married to the Old Testament scholar Frank Crüsemann since 1982 and has one son.

Works (selection)

  • Marlene Crüsemann and Willy Schottroff (eds.): Debt and Debt . Biblical Traditions in Current Conflicts, Munich 1992.
  • Marlene Crüsemann: The letters to Thessaloniki and the just judgment . Studies on its drafting and on Judeo-Christian social history, Kassel 1999.
  • Marlene Crüsemann: Article AT / Hebrew Bible / First Testament / NT / Second Testament , God's name: Yahweh / YHWH , Late Judaism / Early Judaism , Torah , in: Anti-Judaism in the New Testament? Basics for working with biblical texts, ed. v. Dagmar Henze , Claudia Janssen , Stefanie Müller, Beate Wehn, Gütersloh 1997.
  • Ulrike Bail, Frank Crüsemann, Marlene Crüsemann, Erhard Domay , Jürgen Ebach , Claudia Janssen, Hanne Köhler , Helga Kuhlmann, Martin Leutzsch , Luise Schottroff (ed.): Bible in just language , Gütersloh 2006, 3rd edition 2007.

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personal data
SURNAME Crüsemann, Marlene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German New Testament scholar
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Hiddingen , Visselhövede