Thomas Staubli

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Thomas Staubli (born September 28, 1962 in Köniz ) is a Swiss Roman Catholic theologian , Old Testament scholar and author.

Thomas Staubli built up the collection of the BIBEL + ORIENT Museum in Friborg.

Life

As a youth in his home parish, Thomas Staubli experienced the changes brought about by the Second Vatican Council , especially Bible study, ecumenism, and commitment to the poor: topics that became important in his theological work. He studied Catholic theology , religious studies , Egyptology and Oriental studies in Friborg, Jerusalem, Berlin and Bern. Othmar Keel's approach to ancient oriental symbolism was formative for Staubli. From 1986 to 1987 he was the director of studies for the Jerusalem Theological Year . From 1989 he headed the diocesan biblical pastoral office of the diocese of St. Gallen . He received his doctorate in 1991 with a thesis on the image of nomads in ancient Israel and the iconography of its settled neighbors . In 1995, when he started a family, he worked as a househusband and freelance theologian, until in 1997 he became a lecturer in the Old Testament at the University of Friborg . Since 1999 he has built up the BIBLE + ORIENT Museum there, which he himself directed until 2012. From 2012 to 2013 he was visiting professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In the autumn of 2016, in addition to his lectureship at the University of Friborg, he started a part-time position as a pastoral assistant in the parish of Bösingen .

Thomas Staubli is married to Silvia Schroer ; the two have written several essays and books together.

Focus

Thomas Staubli conducts research on biblical anthropology and social history. His books, which deal with everyday culture and the pictorial symbolism of the Old Testament, have been translated into several languages.

Works (in selection)

  • Companion through the First Testament . Patmos, Düsseldorf 1997 (4th edition 2008)
  • (with Silvia Schroer) The body symbolism of the Bible . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1998 (2nd edition 2005)
  • (with Othmar Keel) «In the shadow of your wings.» Animals in the Bible and in the ancient Orient . University Press Friborg 2001
  • (with Othmar Keel and Ernst Axel Knauf ) Salomon's Temple . Friborg 2004
  • (with Silvia Schroer) Images of man in the Bible . Patmos, Düsseldorf 2014

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Bösingen parish gazette and Laupen pastoral care group. October 2016, accessed February 15, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b Burkhard Weitz: Stones, steles, statuettes. In: chrismon. March 20, 2017. Retrieved February 15, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Staubli, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Catholic theologian, Old Testament scholar and book author
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Koeniz