Thomas Pola

Thomas Pola (born May 15, 1956 in Göttingen ) is a Protestant theologian and Old Testament scholar .

Life

From 1976 to 1982 Pola studied Protestant theology at the University of Tübingen . While working as an assistant (1984–1995) with the Tübingen Old Testament scholar Hartmut Gese , he received his doctorate in 1993 with a literary-critical research on the priestly script of the Pentateuch . In 2001 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on Sacharja in Tübingen. Since 2001 he has held the professorship for Protestant theology with special emphasis on the Old Testament at the Faculty of Human Sciences and Theology of the Technical University of Dortmund .

His main research interests in the field of the Old Testament are the exile and early Persian periods as well as biblical archeology .

Since 2005 he has headed the project Tulul adh-Dhahab : Interdisciplinary investigations into the fortified central location in the lower Wadi az-Zarqa / middle East Bank, an excavation project in the Jordanian Jabboktal, whereby the localization of the biblical Penuel (or Mahanaim) and the Hellenistic Amathous is examined. As part of the major project to translate the Septuagint into German, Pola edited the books Haggai and Zechariah.

Publications

• The scope of the original priestly scripture. Observations on literary criticism and the history of tradition by Pg: (Scientific monographs on the Old and New Testament 70), Neukirchen-Vluyn 1995 ISBN 3-7887-1503-0
• Psalter synopsis. Hebrew - Greek - German: Ed. Walter Groß and Bernd Janowski with the assistance of Thomas Pola, Stuttgart 2000 ISBN 978-3-438-05255-1
• The priesthood of Zechariah. Historical and historical studies on the expectation of rulers after exile (research on the Old Testament 35), Tübingen 2003 ISBN 978-3-16-147667-9
• Fear and love God. Studies on the experience of God in the Old Testament , Neukirchen-Vluyn 2nd edition 2007 ISBN 978-3-7887-2002-5

Web links

• Literature by and about Thomas Pola in the catalog of the German National Library
• private homepage of Thomas Pola with extensive bibliography
• Homepage at TU Dortmund
• The "Septuagint German" project
• Excavation report WAZ March 2008
• Publication of the chair of the University of Dortmund on the excavation project on the Tulul adh-Dhahab ( Memento from March 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive )