Rainer Albertz
Rainer Albertz (born May 2, 1943 in Röstfelde / Upper Silesia ) is a German Protestant theologian and professor emeritus of the Old Testament .
biography
Albertz is the son of the pastor, SPD politician and former governing mayor of Berlin Heinrich Albertz . After graduating from the Lilienthal School in West Berlin in 1962, he studied Protestant theology from 1962 to 1968 at the Church University of Berlin and the University of Heidelberg . Here he passed his first theological exam in 1969.
From 1972 to 1977 he was a research assistant at the University of Heidelberg with Claus Westermann . In 1972, following his doctorate on the subject of world creation and human creation , he studied Assyriology with Karlheinz Deller . 1977 followed the habilitation in Heidelberg on the subject of personal piety and official religion . From 1977 to 1980 he worked as a private lecturer, then from 1980 to 1983 as a professor for Old Testament theology including the history of ancient oriental religions in Heidelberg.
In 1983 he moved to the then University of Siegen as a professor of biblical theology and its didactics , and from 1995 until his retirement in 2008 he held the professorship for the Old Testament at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . Since retiring from active service, he has been a senior professor in the Cluster of Excellence Religion and Politics in the Cultures of Pre-Modern and Modern Times . He was President of the European Association of Biblical Studies (EABS). Rainer Albertz is married and has a daughter.
Scientific focus
Albertz's scientific work focuses on the religious history of Israel in its ancient oriental environment, family religion in ancient Israel and creation in the Old Testament and in the ancient oriental environment. Furthermore, he deals with the history and literary history of the exile , the origin of the Pentateuch and Hexateuch , the history of the prehistory and the father , Elijah , the Book of the Twelve Prophets , Deutero-Isaiah , the Psalms , Job , Daniel and Apocalyptic . In connection with the elaboration of his commentary on the Exodus, Albertz developed a new, compositional and editorial history oriented Pentateuch theory.
Bibliography (selection)
- World creation and human creation. Examined in Deutero-Isaiah, Job and in the Psalms, CTM A3, Stuttgart 1974.
- Personal piety and official religion. Religious pluralism in Israel and Babylon, CTM A9, Stuttgart 1978.
- The god of Daniel. Studies on Dan 4-6 in the Septuagint version as well as on the composition and theology of the Aramaic Daniel book, SBS 131, Stuttgart 1988.
- Man as guardian of his world. Old Testament Bible studies on topics of the conciliar process, CTB 16, Stuttgart 1990.
- Religious history of Israel in the Old Testament period , vol. 1: From the beginnings to the end of the royal era, vol. 2: From exile to the Maccabees, outlines of the Old Testament. ATD supplementary series 8/1 + 2, Göttingen 1992, 2nd edition, Vol. I, Göttingen 1996; Vol. II, Göttingen 1997.
- A History of Israelite Religion in the Old Testament Period , Vol. I: From the Beginnings to the End of the Monarchy, Vol. II: * From the Exile to the Maccabees (translated by J. Bowden), London 1994 = OTL, Louisville 1994. (Spanish translation: Madrid 1999; Korean translation: Goyang 2003f.)
- Anger at injustice. On faith that wants to change, Neukirchen-Vluyn 1996.
- "Take off your shoes ...!" From the unreasonable demands of God, Leipzig 2001.
- The time of exile. 6th century BC Chr., Biblical Encyclopedia, Vol. VII, Stuttgart 2001. (English translation: Atlanta 2003)
- History and theology. Studies on the exegesis of the Old Testament and on the religious history of Israel (edited by I. Kottsieper / J. Wöhrle with the collaboration of G. Kern), supplements to the journal for Old Testament science 326, Berlin 2003.
- Elijah. A fiery fighter for God, Leipzig 2006.
- Family and Household Religion in Ancient Israel and the Levant (together with R. Schmitt), Winona Lake, IN 2012.
- Exodus 1-18.19-40 , 2 vols., ZB.AT 2.1-2, Zurich 2012/2015.
- Pentateuch studies (edited by J. Wöhrle with the assistance of F. Neumann), FAT 117, Tübingen 2018.
Individual evidence
Web links
- Literature by and about Rainer Albertz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage of Rainer Albertz at the University of Münster
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Albertz, Rainer |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Protestant theologian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 2, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Röstfelde , Upper Silesia |