Rainer Riesner

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Rainer Riesner (born June 2, 1950 in Friedberg (Hessen) ) is a German theologian and professor emeritus who taught the New Testament at the Institute for Protestant Theology at the Technical University of Dortmund . He is particularly interested in the historicity of the processes described in the New Testament and the environment of the NT - researched in the contemporary history of the New Testament .

Rainer Riesner

Life

From 1969 Rainer Riesner studied Protestant theology in Neuendettelsau , Heidelberg and Tübingen . In 1975 he passed his first theological exam . From 1976 to 1980 he was a temporary assistant at the Department of Ancient History at the University of Tübingen , where he was involved in the editorial work of the " Rise and Fall of the Roman World " .

In 1980 the doctorate to Dr. theol. of the Evangelical-Theological Faculty of Tübingen (supervisor Otto Betz ) with a widely acclaimed study about Jesus as a teacher . A generally understandable version was also published under the title Jesus and his disciples.

Also in 1980 he was ordained a pastor in the Evangelical Church of Württemberg . After the second theological exam 1980-82 he took over a vicariate in Crailsheim and Dusslingen . He then worked as a research assistant for the New Testament at Peter Stuhlmacher in Tübingen until 1987 . Another important teacher in Tübingen was Martin Hengel . Until 1989 Riesner was a scholarship holder of the German Research Foundation . In 1990 he completed his habilitation in the New Testament in Tübingen with a study on the early days of the Apostle Paul . Then Riesner was pastor in the university service and lecturer for the New Testament in Tübingen until 1997 . During this time he also led exegetical and archaeological courses for priests in Wuerttemberg in Israel .

In the academic year 1997–1998 he took over the representation of the chair of Biblical Theology : Old and New Testament at the Technical University of Dresden . From 1998 to 2013 he taught as professor for Protestant theology with a focus on the New Testament at the Technical University of Dortmund. In addition to research on Jesus and the history and archeology of early Christianity, Riesner dealt intensively with the Lucanian double work and its special traditions. In the discussion about Qumran and the Essenes , he and his teacher Otto Betz countered sensational reports about the text fragments that were made generally accessible around 1990. He also tried to scientifically justify the thesis put forward by the Benedictine and amateur archaeologist Bargil Pixner of an Essen district in Jerusalem and Essenian influences on the early community. After his retirement at the University of Dortmund, Riesner took over responsibility for the doctoral thesis at the Albrecht Bengel House in Tübingen in October 2013 , which he handed over to Roland Deines in October 2018 .

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Teaching

The path taken by Riesner in dealing with the New Testament is reminiscent of that of Adolf Schlatter . The philological research of texts and the historical context play an important role.

Private

He has been married to the doctor Cornelia Riesner since 1986 and has four children.

Awards

Riesner received the Johann Tobias Beck Prize in 1995 for his work on The Early Days of the Apostle Paul. Studies in chronology, mission strategy and theology . Riesner's students and colleagues published a commemorative publication on his 65th birthday.

Works

As a sole author

As a co-author

As editor

As translator

Web links

Single receipts

  1. Subtitle: How reliably were Jesus' words delivered? Brunnen, Giessen 1991, by Franz Stuhlhofer .
  2. Employee profile on the TU Dortmund University website.
  3. Otto Betz / Rainer Riesner: Jesus, Qumran and the Vatican. Clarifications. 5th edition. Brunnen / Herder, Giessen / Freiburg 1994.
  4. ^ Rainer Riesner: Essener and Urgemeinde in Jerusalem. New finds and sources . Brunnen-Verlag, Giessen 1998.
  5. ^ Bargil Pixner: Ways of the Messiah and Places of the Early Church. Jesus and early Christianity in the light of new archaeological knowledge . Ed .: Rainer Riesner. 2nd Edition. Brunnen, Giessen, ISBN 3-7655-9802-X , p. 1994 .
  6. Doctoral thesis at ABH , bengelhaus.de, accessed on January 18, 2019.
  7. ^ Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas (SNTS) Website of the STUDIORUM NOVI TESTAMENTI SOCIETAS (SNTS).
  8. ^ Theological contributions - editorial group website of the theological contributions.
  9. As judged by Armin Daniel Baum : Rainer Riesner on his 60th birthday. In: Theological Conversation 41, 2010, p. 91f.
  10. Employee profile on the TU Dortmund website Website of the TU Dortmund.
  11. ^ Winner of the Johann Tobias Beck Prize , afet.de, accessed on June 5, 2014.
  12. Armin D. Baum / Detlef Häußer / Emmanuel L. Rehfeld (eds.): The Jewish Messiah Jesus and his Jewish Apostle Paul ( WUNT II, vol. 425), Tübingen 2016.