Martin Karrer

Martin Karrer (born September 7, 1954 in Weißenburg in Bavaria ) is a German Protestant theologian and professor of the New Testament .

Live and act

From 1972 to 1979 Karrer studied Protestant religious studies and theology as well as German at the Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen , at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen , at the University in Zurich and at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . He completed his studies with a state examination and a church examination .

In 1980 he obtained his master's degree in Protestant social ethics . In 1983 he received his doctorate at the University of Erlangen in the subject of the New Testament through a study on the Revelation of John . In 1988 Karrer received his habilitation in the New Testament . Thematically, he dealt with the Christ titles.

Since April 1, 1990, Karrer has been a full professor for the New Testament at the Church of Wuppertal University . In 1995 he was offered a position at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz , which he declined.

Collaboration in institutions

• Karrer has been a member of the editorial board of the magazine Kerygma and Dogma since 1998 .
• Since 1999 he has been a member of the board of trustees of the Evangelical University of Applied Sciences Rhineland-Westphalia-Lippe in Bochum .
• In 1999 he became with Wolfgang Kraus head of the Septuagint -Arbeitsstelle . Since 2007 Karrer has headed a research project that investigates the Septuagint texts of the New Testament authors.
• Karrer has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Evangelical Federation since 2001 .
• In 2007 he became a member of the editorial board of the journal Horizons in Biblical Theology .
• Since 2009, Karrer and Siegfried Kreuzer have headed the Institute for Septuagint and New Testament Text Research at the Wuppertal / Bethel University of Applied Sciences.

Awards

In 2004 and 2007 Karrer received the science award of the German Dental Journal for contributions to aesthetics and ethics in the field of dentistry .

Books

• Jesus Christ in the New Testament ( New Testament floor plans; 11). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1998.
• "The Revelation of John, Part 1, 1,1-5,14 (Evangelical-Catholic Commentary Volume 24 / I). Patmos, Ostfildern 2017.

Web links

• Martin Karrer on the homepage of the Church University of Wuppertal / Bethel