Ruben Zimmermann

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Ruben Zimmermann (2019)

Ruben Zimmermann (born May 10, 1968 in Nussloch ) is a German Protestant theologian . He is professor for the New Testament and ethics at the University of Mainz with a research focus on ethics, the Gospel of John, parables / parables and miracles of Jesus, and Bible didactics.

Life

Zimmermann studied Protestant theology , philosophy and diaconal science in Erlangen, Bonn, Santiago de Chile and Heidelberg . In 1996 he received the diploma in diaconal science with a medical-ethical, empirical study on the treatment decision of severely damaged newborns. In 1997 he was at the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg as a result of at Klaus Berger and Gerd Theissen -built dissertation Dr. theol. PhD. 1999–2001 he was pastor in Heidelberg . In 2003 he completed his habilitation at the University of Munich . From 2005 to 2009 he was a professor at Bielefeld University , and since 2009 he has been a professor at Mainz University. He was visiting professor in South Africa ( University of Pretoria ) and the Netherlands ( Radboud University Nijmegen ).

In 2015 Zimmermann was accepted into the ethics project Enhancing Life funded by the American Templeton Foundation .

Zimmermann is married to the university professor Mirjam Zimmermann ( University of Siegen ) and they have four children.

Research topics

Zimmermann works on text-related ethics theory (e.g. narrative ethics) as well as on fields of application of medical and bioethics. He researches early Christian writings on contemporary issues of religion and society. The focus is on:

a) Ethics (e.g. of early Christianity, justification of ethics; narrative ethics, metaphorical ethics, mimetic ethics; doxological ethics, applied ethics, e.g. longevity / longevity discourse)

b) John's Gospel (e.g. metaphor, narratology, figure analysis, Johannine ethics, creation)

c) Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke (e.g. synoptic problem; source of logia; parables / parables and miracle stories)

d) Jesus research - Christology (e.g. Jesus-Memory-Approach; Christopoetics)

d) Methodology and hermeneutics of biblical interpretation (e.g. genre theory; reader response criticism; cultural hermeneutic methods; memory research; the fact fiction problem (see the anthology Text and History)

e) Bible didactics

Zimmermann has published compendia on the parables / parables (2007, 2nd edition 2015) and on miracle stories (vol. 1: 2013, vol. 2: 2017). Together with his wife Mirjam Zimmermann , he published a manual on Bible didactics (2013, 2nd edition, 2018).

Publications (selection)

  • Understand imagery. On the hermeneutics of metaphor and other pictorial forms of language . Fink Verlag, Munich 2000.
  • Gender metaphor and relationship to God. Traditional history and theology of an image field in early Christianity and the ancient environment . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2001.
  • Christology of Images in the Gospel of John. The Christopoetics of the fourth Gospel with special reference to John 10 . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2004.
  • Edited in collaboration with D. Dormeyer, G. Kern, A. Merz, Chr. Münch, EE Popkes: Compendium of the parables of Jesus. Gütersloh publishing house, Gütersloh 2007.
  • Published in conjunction with D. Dormeyer, J. Hartenstein, Chr. Münch, EE Popkes, U. Poplutz: Compendium of early Christian miracle stories. Vol. 1: The Miracles of Jesus, Gütersloh 2013; Vol. 2: The Miracles of the Apostles, Gütersloh 2017.
  • Edited together with Mirjam Zimmermann with the collaboration of Susanne Luther and Julian Enners: Handbuch Bibeldidaktik. UTB 3996, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2013, 2nd edition 2018.
  • Edited together with Susanne Luther: Study book Hermeneutics. Biblical interpretation through the centuries as a learning field for text interpretation. Portraits - models - source texts. Gütersloher Verlag, Gütersloh 2014 (with CD-Rom).
  • Puzzling the Parables of Jesus. Methods and Interpretation. Minneapolis 2015
  • The logic of love. The 'implicit ethics' of Paul's letters using the example of 1 Corinthians. BThS 162, Neukirchener Verlag, Neukirchen-Vluyn 2016. (English Logic of Love, Lexington / Fortress 2018).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / enhancinglife.uchicago.edu
  2. ^ E / ac - Ethics in Antiquity and Christianity. In: www.ethikmainz.de. Retrieved May 13, 2016 .
  3. ↑ See the conference " Should we live forever? Biological and Ethical Perspectives " (July 20-21, 2016).
  4. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.christ-in-der-gegenwart.de
  5. ↑ See Art. Hermeneutics in WiBiLex and S. Luther / R. Zimmermann, study book hermeneutics. Biblical interpretation through the centuries as a learning field for text interpretation. Portraits - models - source texts (with CD-Rom), Gütersloher Verlag: Gütersloh 2014, ISBN 978-3-579-08137-3 .
  6. ↑ http://www.fortresspress.com/product/puzzling-parables-jesus-methods-and-interpretation
personal data
SURNAME Carpenter, Ruben
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Nut hole