Tobias Nicklas

Tobias Nicklas (born August 9, 1967 in Burglengenfeld ) is a German Roman Catholic theologian and professor of exegesis and hermeneutics of the New Testament at the University of Regensburg .

Life

After graduating from high school, Tobias Nicklas studied mathematics and Catholic religious studies from 1987 to 1993 for the teaching post at the grammar school at the University of Regensburg. From 1994 to 1996 he continued his training as a student trainee in Augsburg and Gersthofen , after which he worked for a year as a teaching assistant in Regensburg .

In 1997 he took up doctoral studies at the University of Regensburg, which he completed in December 2000 with a doctorate under Hubert Ritt as a Dr. theol. completed. After his habilitation in June 2004 he was awarded the Venia legendi for New Testament Studies . In September 2004 he was appointed private lecturer, again at the University of Regensburg.

In January 2005 Tobias Nicklas turned down a professorship for Catholic Theology / New Testament at the University of Koblenz-Landau (Landau campus). At the same time he accepted a call to the Chair of Exegesis of the New Testament at Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands). He held this chair from April 2005 to 2007.

Since October 1, 2007 he has been a full professor for exegesis and hermeneutics of the New Testament at the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the University of Regensburg.

In addition to his main activity in Regensburg, Tobias Nicklas has also worked as a visiting professor in Leuven , Jerusalem , Ben-Gurion University of the Negev ( Annual Deichmann Lectures 2013), Duke University ( Kenneth-Clark Lectures 2014), Texas Christian University (2014), Friedrich -Schiller University Jena (2014), Cluj-Napoca (Romania), Sibiu (Romania) and Athens .

Tobias Nicklas is married and has four children.

Research priorities

The main focus of Tobias Nicklas' work is the research of ancient Christian apocrypha and the history of Johannine literature (especially the Revelation of John). Another research focus is the early Jewish literature, especially with regard to the deutero-canonical writings of the Septuagint.

Important publications

• Detachment and entanglement. "Jews" and disciples as characters of the narrated world of the Gospel of John and their effect on the implicit reader (RStTh 60), Frankfurt / Main et al. 2001 [Diss. Regensburg, 2000].
• Together with Thomas Hieke , "The words of prophecy of this book": Revelation 22: 6-21 read as the keystone of the Christian Bible Old and New Testaments (BThSt 62), Neukirchen-Vluyn 2003.
• Introduction to the New Testament (correspondence course theology: The Christian Faith Basic Course; Lesson 5), Würzburg 2007 [repr. 2010].
• Together with Thomas J. Kraus & Michael Kruger, Gospel Fragments (Oxford Early Christian Gospel Texts), Oxford et al. 2008.
• Jews and Christians? Second Century 'Christian' Perspectives on the 'Parting of the Ways' (Annual Deichmann Lectures 2013), Tübingen 2014.

Web links

[1] University of Regensburg: Chair for Exegesis and Hermeneutics of the New Testament (tabular curriculum vitae, list of publications, editorships, commitment, links to further information.)