Matthias Koeckert

Matthias Köckert (born April 8, 1944 ) is a German Protestant theologian ( Old Testament scholar ).

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Köckert first studied church music in Dresden (1962–65), which was followed by studies of Protestant theology in Leipzig and Greifswald (1965–70). He has been married to Heidelore Köckert since 1970 and they have three children. After his ordination in 1975 he taught at the Paulinum Theological Seminary in Berlin. In 1984 he became a lecturer in the Old Testament at the Sprachenkonvikt Berlin. After his habilitation in Jena in 1991, he became a professorfor the Old Testament at the Theological Faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin . His daughter is the church historian Charlotte Köckert .

Fonts

• God the father and the promises of the father. A dispute with Albrecht Alt and his heirs . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1988 (originally Diss. Leipzig, 1983). ISBN 3-525-53821-9 .
• Dare to walk. God's story with Sarah and Abraham (= texts on Bible 9). Aussaat-Verlag, Neukirchen-Vluyn 1993. ISBN 3-7615-4875-3 .
• Living in God's Presence. Studies to Understand the Law in the Old Testament . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2004 (originally Habil., Jena 1991). ISBN 3-16-148415-0
• The Ten Commandments . Beck, Munich 2007.

Editing

• Old Testament Handbook . Mohr, Tuebingen.
• Committed to the truth of God. Theological contributions from the Language Convict Berlin for Rudolf Mau . Wichern-Verlag, Berlin 1993.
• God's people at Sinai. Investigations on Ex 32–34 and Dtn 9–10 . Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2001. ISBN 3-579-05346-9 .
• (with Bernd Janowski ): Religious history of Israel. Formal and material aspects . Gütersloh publishing house, Gütersloh 2002.
• Prophets in Mari, Assyria and Israel . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2003.

Web links

• Literature by and about Matthias Köckert in the catalog of the German National Library
• chbeck.de