Thomas Römer (theologian)

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Thomas Christian Römer (born December 13, 1955 in Mannheim ) is a Swiss-German Protestant theologian, Old Testament scholar and ancient historian at the University of Lausanne and at the Collège de France in Paris. In 2019 he was elected head of the college by the professors of the Collège de France.

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From 1974 he studied theology and Semitic languages ​​at the universities of Heidelberg and Tübingen. After receiving his doctorate in 1988 ( Israel's Fathers. Investigations on Fathers' Issues in Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomic Tradition ), he taught at the University of Geneva , and from 1993 as full professor of the Hebrew Bible at the Faculty of Religious Studies and Theology in Lausanne. Since 2007 he has also held the professorship for Milieux Bibliques at the Collège de France.

Works (selection)

  • Israel's fathers. Investigations on the father issue in Deuteronomy and in the Deuteronomic tradition (OBO 99), Academic Press / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Freiburg / Göttingen 1990
  • with JD Macchi: Guide de la Bible hébraïque. La critique textuelle dans la Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS), Labor et Fides, Genève 1994
  • Dieu obscur: Cruauté, sexe et violence dans l'Ancien Testament (Essais Bibliques 27), Labor et Fides, Genève 1996, 1998
  • Le peuple élu et les autres. L'Ancien Testament entre exclusion et ouverture , Éditions du Moulin, Poliez-le-Grand 1997
  • The chemins de la sagesse. Proverbes, Job, Qohéleth , Éditions du Moulin, Poliez-le-Grand 1999
  • Moïse "lui que Yahvé a connu face à face" ( Découvertes Gallimard 424), Gallimard, Paris 2002
  • Jérémie. Du prophète au livre , Éditions du Moulin, Poliez-le-Grand 2003
  • with L. Bonjour: L'homosexualité dans le Proche-Orient ancien et la Bible (Essais bibliques 37), Labor et Fides, Genève 2005
  • The So-Called Deuteronomistic History. A Sociological, Historical and Literary Introduction . T&T Clark-Continuum, London 2005
  • Psaumes interdits , Éditions du Moulin, Aubonne VD 2007
  • Les Cornes de Moïse: Faire entrer la Bible dans l'histoire , Fayard, Paris 2009 (opening lecture at the Collège de France, February 5, 2009)
  • with Jean-Marie Durand, Jean-Pierre Mahé: La faute et sa punition dans les sociétés orientales . Peeters, Leuven 2013
  • with Diana Edelman, Philip Davies and Christophe Nihan: Clés pour le Pentateuque, état de la recherche et thèmes fondamentaux (Le Monde de la Bible 65), Labor et Fides, Geneva 2013 ISBN 978-2-8309-1518-1
  • with Philip R. Davies: Writing the Bible. Scribes, Scribalism and Script . Acumen Publ., Series “BibleWorld”, 2013
  • L'Invention de Dieu . Seuil, coll. "Les Livres du nouveau monde", Paris 2014
  • La Bible, quelles histoires! Les dernières découvertes, les dernières hypothèses . Labor et Fides, 2014 ISBN 978-2-8309-1541-9
  • as Ed .: Introduction to the Old Testament. The books of the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament scriptures of the Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox churches. (Introduction à l'Ancien Testament). Translated from Christine Henschel. Theological Publishing House Zurich TVZ, 2013
  • The invention of God. A journey to the sources of monotheism (translated from the French by Annette Jucknat), Darmstadt 2018.

Web links

notes

  1. ↑ Deutschlandfunk, day by day, November 19, 2019
  2. ↑ Video recording of the lecture on the website of the Collège de France
personal data
SURNAME Romans, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Römer, Thomas Christian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swiss Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim