Matthias Konradt

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Matthias Konradt (born July 4, 1967 in Bochum ) is a German Protestant theologian . He works as a professor for New Testament theology at Heidelberg University .

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From 1986 to 1988 Konradt studied Protestant theology at the Ruhr University in Bochum and until 1993 at the Ruprecht Karls University in Heidelberg. After the first theological exam of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia in 1993, he worked until 1995 as a research assistant at the theological faculty of the University of Heidelberg at the chair of his doctoral supervisor, Christoph Burchard, in the New Testament . In the following year Konradt received a doctoral scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation and obtained his doctorate in October 1996 at the Theological Faculty of the University of Heidelberg with his dissertation on the subject of Christian existence according to the Letter of James , which was awarded the 1997 Ruprecht Karls Prize of the University of Heidelberg has been.

From 1996 to 1999 he completed the vicariate in Bochum, passed the 2nd theological exam in the Evangelical Church of Westphalia in February 1999 and was ordained in June 1999 .

From July 1999 to February 2003 Konradt worked as a research assistant at the Collaborative Research Center Judaism - Christianity. Constitution and differentiation in antiquity and the present. Subproject A3: Ethos and identity in early Christianity and its environment at the University of Bonn with Michael Wolter , where he worked on the subproject Ethos and Identity in the context of the conception of judgment according to the works of Paul . At the Protestant Theological Faculty of the University of Bonn , he completed his habilitation in November 2002 with his work on Judgment and Congregation. Studies on the meaning and function of judicial statements in the context of Pauline ecclesiology and ethics in 1 Thess and 1 Cor.

At the same time he was offered a professorship at the University of Bern , where he was full professor for the New Testament from March 2003 to September 2009 . Here he was significantly involved in the establishment of the chair for Jewish studies and from September 2005 to February 2008 he was co-director of the inter-faculty research center for Jewish studies. Konradt has been a full professor of New Testament theology at the Theological Faculty of Heidelberg University since October 2009 .

Konradt's work focuses on researching the Gospel of Matthew , the Epistles of Paul , the Epistle of James , New Testament ethics and early Judaism as the motherland and context of emerging Christianity.

Konradt was initially co-editor of the Zeitschrift für die Neue Testamentliche Wissenschaft (ZNW, since 2010), and since 2013 he has been the managing editor. He is also co-editor of the monographic series supplements to the journal for the New Testament Science (BZNW), treatises on the theology of the Old and New Testament (AThANT) and Biblical-Theological Studies (BThSt). From 2010 to 2012 he was a member of the "editorial board" of the New Testament Studies (NTS), from 2009 to 2015 he was also co-editor of the Zeitschrift für Theologie und Kirche (ZThK).

Publications

Monographs

  • Christian existence according to the letter of James. A study on his soteriological and ethical conception (= studies on the environment of the New Testament. Vol. 22). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1998, ISBN 3-525-53376-4 (= dissertation , University of Heidelberg, 1996).
  • Court and community. A study on the meaning and function of judicial statements in the context of Pauline ecclesiology and ethics in 1 Thess and 1 Cor. (= Supplements to the journal for the New Testament science and the news of the older church. Vol. 117). De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-017596-7 (= habilitation thesis , University of Bonn, 2002).
  • Israel, Church and the Nations in the Gospel of Matthew (= Scientific Studies on the New Testament. Vol. 215). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-16-149331-7 . English translation and revised edition: Israel, Church, and the Gentiles in the Gospel of Matthew , translated by Kathleen Ess (= Baylor - Mohr Siebeck Studies in Early Christianity . Vol. 2), Baylor University Press, Waco (TX) 2014
  • The Gospel according to Matthew (= The New Testament German. Vol. 1). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2015
  • Studies on the Gospel of Matthew , ed. v. Alida Euler (= Scientific Investigations on the New Testament. Vol. 358). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-16-153886-5 .

For a complete bibliography see http://www.theologie.uni-heidelberg.de/fakultaet/lösungen/konradt_bib.html

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personal data
SURNAME Konradt, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Bochum