Matthias Klinghardt

Matthias Klinghardt (born August 24, 1957 in Waldshut , South Baden ) is a German Protestant theologian and university professor. His theological area of expertise is the New Testament .

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Klinghardt studied Protestant theology from 1976 to 1982 at the Kirchliche Hochschule Wuppertal , the University of Tübingen and the University of Heidelberg . This was followed by the first church service examination at the Evangelical Church in Baden . In 1986 he received his doctorate from the Protestant Theological Faculty of Heidelberg University under Klaus Berger . His dissertation was supported by a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation from 1983 to 1986. This was followed by a research and teaching stay in the United States of America from 1988 to 1989 , during this one-year study visit he was Assistant Professor at the Department of Religious Studies, Rice University in Houston (Texas).

From 1989 to 1998 Klinghardt stayed in Augsburg , where he worked as a research assistant or senior assistant at the chair “Protestant theology with a focus on biblical theology” of the Institute for Protestant Theology of the Philosophical Faculty I. In 1994 he went to the Protestant Theological Faculty of Heidelberg University to study the New Testament for his habilitation .

The reconstruction of the 'Gospel of Marcion' and its significance for the synoptic problem

In the ' mainstream ' of theological-historical discourse , the origin of the Epistles of Paul was estimated at around the year 50 AD and that of the four Gospels between around 50 and 110 AD. A - only reconstructed - logia source Q as a used basis of the synoptic gospels is no longer available. Around the year 144, Markion put together a variant of the Gospel of Luke and ten letters from Paul, which accentuated his efforts to formulate a canon of binding scriptures. Klinghardt's interest lies in the early Christian theologian Markion, whose adjusted Gospel of Luke he tried to reconstruct mainly from the writings of the church fathers . His intentions, however, went beyond the actual reconstruction of the text, so he tried to resolve the synoptic problem by partially restoring it . On this basis, the scientifically controversial network of relationships between the three canonical Gospels of the New Testament is reevaluated in the course of their creation. With this, Klinghardt also contradicts the traditional reproach to Markion, who is stigmatized as a heretic , that he falsified the Gospel of Luke, shortened it more precisely. According to Klinghardt, the relationship between these texts should be read the other way around. According to Klinghardt, the problematic passages in the Gospel according to Luke can be better explained by the fact that the author of the Gospel of Luke expanded the Gospel of Marcion. The other Gospels are to Klinghardt depending on the mark ionic gospel (see original Gospel ). His reconstruction, for example, manages without the hypothetical source of logic "Q" . In 2015 Matthias Klinghardt reconstructed the Marcionite Gospel ("Mcn"), although it remains open whether Marcion wrote the text ("Mcn"). No original manuscripts have survived from the “Mcn Gospel”, which was part of the “Marcion Bible” (around 139 to 144 AD) together with the collection of ten Paul’s letters. It can only be reconstructed from the testimonies of the heresiologists of the early Church .

The imprecise, incomplete and contradicting text citations of the historical source material must be critically weighed and checked.

Schematic representation of the relationships between the reconstructed "Gospel of Markion" and the Synoptics according to Matthias Klinghardt (2015)

Since 1998 he has been Professor of Biblical Theology (Evangelical) in the Institute for Evangelical Theology of the Philosophical Faculty at TU Dresden . Klinghardt is married and has three children.

Works

Law and People of God. The Lukan understanding of the law according to its origin, function and its place in the history of early Christianity. (WUNT II / 32), Tübingen 1988
Community meal and meal community. Francke, Tübingen 1996
Marquee vs. Lukas: Plea for the resumption of an old case. New Testament Studies, Volume 52, October 4, 2006, pp. 484-513, doi: 10.1017 / S0028688506000270
The oldest gospel and the genesis of the canonical gospels. Investigation - reconstruction - translation - variants. 2 volumes. Francke, Tübingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-7720-8549-9 . [2] on books.google.de, vol. 1
The Apostle's Decree as a canonical integration text: construction and justification of public spirit. In: Markus Öhler (Hrsg.): Apostle Decree and ancient associations. Community and its order WUNT 280, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-16-150363-4 , pp. 91–112
Inspiration and falsification. The transcendence constitution of the Christian Bible. In: Hans Vorländer (ed.): Transcendence and the constitution of orders. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-030075-8 , pp. 331–355
Marquee vs. Lukas: Plea for the resumption of an old case. New Testament Studies, (2006), 52 (4), 484-513. doi: 10.1017 / S0028688506000270
The Marcionite Gospel and the Textual History of the New Testament. An answer to Thomas Johann Bauer and Ulrich B. Schmid . Journal for Ancient Christianity 21 (2017), 110–120
The Marcionite Gospel and the Synoptic Problem: A New Suggestion. Novum Testamentum 50 (2008), 1-27

literature

Ulrich Schmid: The Marcionite Gospel and the (text) transmission of the Gospels. An examination of the design by Matthias Klinghardt. Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity, Volume 21, Issue 1, pp. 90-109, DOI: 10.1515 / zac-2017-0006 .

Web links

Berthold Seewald: Oldest Gospel reconstructed from the heretic Bible. 1800 years ago Christians insulted Marcion and his Bible as a “rat”. A Dresden theologian found the first gospel of Christianity in it. It was a template for everyone else. In: welt.de , published on July 21, 2015.
Prof. Dr. Matthias Klinghardt

Individual evidence

^ Biographical information from the TU Dresden
↑ Guide to the Rice University Past Faculty and Staff records, 1961–1996 UA 008, Box 21 [1]
^ Matthias Klinghardt: The oldest gospel and the origin of the canonical gospels. Investigation - reconstruction - translation - variants. 2 volumes. Francke, Tübingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-7720-8549-9 , pp. 24-25, 29 f., 351 f.
↑ Ulrike Margarethe Salome Röhl: The Paulus student Markion. A critical examination of 2nd century anti-Judaism. Vol. 8, Scientific articles from Tectum Verlag, Tectum, Marburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8288-3344-9 , pp. 39–91.
^ Matthias Klinghardt: The oldest gospel and the origin of the canonical gospels. Investigation - reconstruction - translation - variants. 2 volumes. Francke, Tübingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-7720-8549-9 , p. 191.

personal data
SURNAME	Klinghardt, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Protestant theologian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	August 24, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH	Waldshut , South Baden

[1] Biographical information from the TU Dresden

[2] Guide to the Rice University Past Faculty and Staff records, 1961–1996 UA 008, Box 21 [1]

[3] Matthias Klinghardt: The oldest gospel and the origin of the canonical gospels. Investigation - reconstruction - translation - variants. 2 volumes. Francke, Tübingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-7720-8549-9 , pp. 24-25, 29 f., 351 f.

[4] Ulrike Margarethe Salome Röhl: The Paulus student Markion. A critical examination of 2nd century anti-Judaism. Vol. 8, Scientific articles from Tectum Verlag, Tectum, Marburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8288-3344-9 , pp. 39–91.

[5] Matthias Klinghardt: The oldest gospel and the origin of the canonical gospels. Investigation - reconstruction - translation - variants. 2 volumes. Francke, Tübingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-7720-8549-9 , p. 191.