Rainer Hirsch-Luipold

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Rainer Hirsch-Luipold (birth name Rainer Luipold , born June 21, 1967 ) is a German classical philologist and Protestant theologian .

Life

After attending the Protestant theological seminar in Maulbronn and Blaubeuren (1981–1986), Hirsch-Luipold studied Protestant theology and Greek philology at the universities of Tübingen , Munich , Cambridge and Berlin from 1987 and passed the first theological examination in 1994. He then worked from 1995 to 2000 as a research assistant at the chair for Biblical Theology at the University of Bayreuth with Reinhard Feldmeier . During the vicariate in Großsachsenheim (2000–2002) Hirsch-Luipold received his doctorate in 2001 with the dissertation image and imagery with Plutarch at the University of Heidelberg .

After passing the second theological exam, he worked for a year as a pastor for employment with the Evangelical Society in Stuttgart . In 2003 he became a research assistant to Reinhard Feldmeier, who meanwhile held the chair for the New Testament at the University of Göttingen . From 2004 to 2006, Hirsch-Luipold was a member of the Graduate School in Göttingen : Images of Gods - Images of God - Images of the World. Polytheism and Monotheism in the Ancient World . Since 2006 he has headed the research group Ratio religionis: Religious Philosophy and Philosophical Religion in the Early Imperial Era , which is funded by the Emmy Noether Program of the German Research Foundation.

The main research interests of Hirsch-Luipold include the Greek writer Plutarch , the Johannine and Pauline theology and ethics, and the religious history of the imperial era. Since 2000 he has been co-editor (2003–2005 spokesman for the editorial board ) of the SAPERE series , principal investigator of the Courant research center EDRIS ( Education and Religion from Early Imperial Roman Times to the Classical Period of Islam ) and chairman of the German section of the International Plutarch Society.

After his habilitation in June 2010, Hirsch-Luipold became an Associate Fellow at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg in the 2010/2011 academic year. In the 2010/2011 winter semester, he represented the New Testament Chair at the University of Munich. Since August 2011 he has been a full professor for the New Testament at the University of Bern .

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