Ulrich Kellermann

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Ulrich Kellermann (born March 23, 1936 in Wuppertal ) is a Protestant theologian .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1956 at the New Language Humanistic Gymnasium Wuppertal- Barmen , he studied Protestant theology from 1956 to 1962 at the Wuppertal Church University and at the Universities of Tübingen , Bonn and Münster . After the first theological exam at the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland in 1962, he completed the vicariate as assistant for the New Testament at the Wuppertal Church University from 1962 to 1965 . After the 2nd theological exam at the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland in 1965 and his doctorate in 1966, he held a teaching position for the history and theology of Judaism in the Hellenistic Age at the Wuppertal Church from 1970 to 1992. After his habilitation in 1975 in Münster, he was appointed adjunct professor for the Old Testament in Münster in 1980. He was a full-time Protestant parish priest from 1965 to 1972 in Wuppertal- Unterbarmen / West and from 1972 to 2000 in Mülheim an der Ruhr . In 2018 he was awarded the Hope Prize by the church district An der Ruhr .

His research areas are late writings of the Old Testament, Judaism in the Hellenistic Age, Biblical theology and conversations between Christians and Jews.

Fonts (selection)

  • The praise of God of the resurrected. Motif-historical observations in texts of the Old Testament, early Judaism and early Christianity . Neukirchen-Vluyn 2001, ISBN 3-7887-1861-7 .
  • The eighteen petition prayer. Jewish Faith in New Testament Times. A comment . Neukirchen-Vluyn 2007, ISBN 3-7887-2189-8 .
  • Marriages in Early Judaism. Studies on the reception of the Levirate Torah, on the marriage rituals in the Tobit Book and on the marriages of the Samaritan woman in John 4 . Berlin 2015, ISBN 3-11-033992-7 .
  • Elijah as a Torah teacher and reconciler. Mal 3: 22–24 and the motif of Elijah's hearts of fathers and sons being turned in early Judaism . Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-643-13571-1 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Press release of the church district from December 4, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Kellermann, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Protestant Old Testament scholar
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal