Walter Beyerlin

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Walter Beyerlin (1967)

Walter Beyerlin (born June 23, 1929 in Reutlingen ; † December 9, 2015 in Münster ) was a German Protestant theologian and Old Testament scholar .

Education

While he was still at school at the Blaubeuren seminar , Walter Beyerlin was drafted into the war emergency service and became a prisoner of war. He made up his Abitur in 1949. Following a so-called year of service in the church, he joined the Tübingen Abbey in 1950 . Until 1954 Beyerlin studied Protestant theology in Tübingen, Göttingen and Basel, as well as Arabic and Akkadian at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen . He completed his studies with the first evangelical-theological service examination of the Württemberg regional church (1954), whereupon he worked as vicar and parish administrator in Ulm and Stuttgart. He also worked as an assistant consultant in the Württemberg church council and as a repetitee in Tübingen.

In 1955/56 Beyerlin got the opportunity to do post-graduate studies at the University of Edinburgh (Prof. Norman Porteous). He returned to Tübingen and received his doctorate in 1956 ( The cult traditions of Israel in the proclamation of the prophet Micah ). As an assistant to Artur Weiser , he completed his habilitation in 1960 with the work The Yahwist and Elohistic Sinai tradition-historically examined (published in 1961 under the title: Origin and history of the oldest Sinai traditions ). In it he tried to trace a number of traditions back to the pre-state time of Israel, namely the divine name YHWH , the conception of the divine epiphany, the covenant, elements of the Decalogue and the cult. This work received international attention; An English translation was published in Oxford in 1965.

Teaching

From 1963 to 1972 Walter Beyerlin was Professor of the Old Testament at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . He turned increasingly to the psalms research and published several monographs on individual psalms.

In 1973 Beyerlin followed a call to the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster , where he held a professorship for the Old Testament until his retirement in 1994. A new focus was the collaboration with ancient oriental studies , especially Ugarit research. The result of this interdisciplinary collaboration was the textbook on the history of religion on the Old Testament (1975) , which Beyerlin helped to publish .

Publications (in selection)

  • The rescue of the afflicted in the enemy psalms of the individuals examined for institutional connections (= research on religion and literature of the Old and New Testaments . Volume 99) Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1970 ( online )
  • Wisdom reassurance with reference to the Zion cult: Studies on the 125th Psalm (= Orbis biblicus et orientalis . Volume 68) Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1985 ( online )

Web links

Commons : Walter Beyerlin  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary notice Prof. Dr. Walter Beyerlin (Westphalian News December 16, 2015). In: Obituaries in Münsterland. Retrieved September 19, 2018 .
  2. No. 1218: Semesterakten SS 1956. In: Findbuch Ephoratsbestände. Archive of the Evangelical Monastery of Tübingen, accessed on September 19, 2018 (letter of recommendation from Prof. Norman Porteous, Edinburgh, for Walter Beyerlin).