Jerusalem theological academic year

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Beit Joseph training and residence house for the theological academic year

The Theological Academic Year Jerusalem is a two-semester study program for German-speaking students of theology and religious studies in Jerusalem .

History and organization

The Dormition Church

The theological academic year Jerusalem was founded in 1973 by the Benedictine Father Laurentius Klein (1928–2002), the then abbot administrator of the Dormition Abbey on Mount Zion in Jerusalem, and led with interruptions until 1999 and influenced by Abbot Nikolaus Egender . On February 4, 2010, the German Federal Minister of Education Annette Schavan inaugurated the "Laurentius Klein Chair for Biblical and Ecumenical Theology" named after him. The Franciscan Margareta Gruber became the first chair holder (2010–2013); she was followed by Thomas Fornet-Ponse (2013–2016) and Ulrich Winkler (2016–2019) and Johanna Erzberger (from 2019).

The academic sponsor of the theological academic year is still the theological faculty of the Benedictine College of Sant'Anselmo in Rome. It is financially supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the German Bishops' Conference .

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic , the 2020/2021 academic year did not begin in Jerusalem, but at its “mother university”, the Ateneo Sant'Anselmo in Rome.

Education

All German-speaking theology students of all Christian denominations (in diploma and teacher training ) as well as religious studies, including Catholics, Lutherans, Reformed but also Eastern and Free Churches, can take part in the theological academic year .

The place of training and residence is also the Beit Joseph (Josefshaus), which spatially and institutionally belongs to the Dormition Abbey. The nine-month intensive course focuses on the subjects of biblical studies ( Old Testament and New Testament ), ecumenism , Judaism , Islamic studies and Christian archeology . Teachers in the theological year are professors from Germany , Austria , Switzerland , Israel and the West Bank .

Visiting professors included a. active: Arnold Angenendt , Karl-Ernst Apfelbacher , Jan Assmann , Christoph Auffarth , Knut Backhaus , Klaus Bieberstein , Schalom Ben-Chorin , David Bollag , Georg Braulik , Christoph Dohmen , Martin Ebner , Christian Frevel , Jörg Frey , Gotthard Fuchs , Karl Gabriel , Johannes Gründel , Otfried Hofius , Jörg Jeremias , Othmar Keel , Max Küchler , Christoph Markschies , Martin Metzger , Karlheinz Müller , Angelika Neuwirth , Józef Niewiadomski , Friederike Nüssel , Wolfgang Schrage , Shemaryahu Talmon , Michael Theobald , Helga Weippert and Josef Wohlmuth .

Graduates

Numerous graduates of the theological academic year are members of the association Forum of Former Students in the Theological Academic Year Jerusalem (founded in 1997), which has set itself the goal of accompanying and supporting the current academic year, as well as networking its own members. This forum is the editor of the scientific book series Jerusalem Theological Forum (JThF) . Well-known graduates of the theological academic year include a. Egbert Ballhorn , Klaus Bieberstein , Harald Buchinger , Albert Dölken O.Praem. , Andreas Feldtkeller , Jörg Frey , Constanze Giese , Hildegard Gosebrink , Tilman Jeremias , Stefan Kiechle , Christian Lehnert , Volker Leppin , Claudia Lücking-Michel , Christoph Markschies , Maria Neubrand , Katharina D. Oppel , Uta Pohl-Patalong , Hans Rechenmacher , Ludger Schwienhorst-Schönberger and Thomas Staubli .

literature

  • Dormition Abbey Jerusalem, theological academic year; German Academic Exchange Service (Ed.): Theology in Jerusalem. 20 years of Pro Memoria academic year - report and evaluation (= DAAD. Documentations & Materials, Vol. 26). Bonn 1993, ISBN 3-87192-507-1 .
  • Joachim Negel , Margareta Gruber OSF (Ed.): Figures of Revelation. Biblical - religious theological - political. Ecumenical contributions from the theological academic year Jerusalem 1 (= Jerusalemer Theologisches Forum , Vol. 24), Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-402-11025-6 .
  • Thomas Fornet-Ponse (Ed.): Jesus Christ - from Old Testament Messiah ideas to literary figures. Ecumenical contributions from the Jerusalem theological academic year (Jerusalemer Theologisches Forum , Vol. 25), Münster 2015, ISBN 978-3-402-11030-0 .
  • Christoph Markschies and Bernd Schröder, Interreligious Learning in Jerusalem. Two study programs in comparison . In: Journal for Pedagogy and Theology 68 (3/2016) 284-301. PDF version
  • Christoph Strack, Ecumenism in Learning, Learning in Ecumenism. 40 years of theological academic year at the Jerusalem Dormition Abbey . In: Herder Korrespondenz 68 (1/2014) 20-24.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Nicodemus Schnabel : “Atheism in Jerusalem. Among Hooligans ” , FAZ , December 22, 2017