Ulrich Mell

Ulrich Mell (born March 30, 1956 in Neumünster , Holstein ) is a German Protestant theologian . Since 2001, Mell has been a full professor of Protestant theology and its didactics at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Hohenheim ( Stuttgart ).

biography

After studying pedagogy in Hanover and Kiel and Protestant theology in Kiel and Tübingen , Mell was vicar of the North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lübeck . From 1983 to 1998 Mell was a research assistant, then assistant and senior assistant at the Institute for New Testament Studies and Jewish Studies at the Theological Faculty of Christian Albrechts University in Kiel with Jürgen Becker (theologian) . There he received his doctorate in 1988 with a thesis on New Creation under Paul and completed his habilitation in the New Testament1993 with a study of the Jerusalem scene in the Gospel of Mark . From 1998 to 2001 he represented the Chair of Biblical Studies (Old Testament / New Testament) at the University of Education and at the re-established University in Erfurt .

Research priorities

Mell's research interests are the parables of the historical Jesus , the Corpus Paulinum and the Gospel of Mark as well as the history and theological history of early Christianity.

Memberships

• Scientific Society for Theology
• Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas
• German Association for the Exploration of Palestine
• STOA: Theological Association of the Theological Faculty Kiel

Fonts

• New creation. A historical and exegetical study of a soteriological principle of Pauline theology. (BZNW 56) de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1989 ISBN 3-11-011831-9 (revised diss.)
• The "other" winemakers. An exegetical study of the authority of Jesus Christ according to Mark 11: 27-12: 34. (WUNT 77) JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck), Tübingen 1994. ISBN 3-16-146301-3 (Habil.
• The time of God's rule. On the allegory and parable of Mark 4.1–9. (BWANT 144) Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Berlin / Cologne 1998 ISBN 3-17-015896-1
• (Ed.) The parable speeches of Jesus 1899–1999. Contributions to the dialogue with Adolf Jülicher . (BZNW 103) de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1999 ISBN 978-3-11-080897-1
• Biblical attacks. Selected essays. (ABG 30) EVA, Leipzig 2009 ISBN 978-3-374-02682-1
• Christian house church and New Testament. The iconology of the Baptistery of Dura Europos and the Diatessaron Tatians . (NTOA 77) Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2010 ISBN 978-3-525-53394-9
• (Ed. Together with Ulrich Fellmeth): Pilgrimage routes to the “Holy Land”. Contributions to the religious geography of the old church . Peter Lang, Frankfurt a. M. u. a. 2013 ISBN 978-3-631-60025-2

Web links

• Literature by and about Ulrich Mell in the catalog of the German National Library
• Professional career (University of Hohenheim)
• List of publications (University of Hohenheim)