Prof. Dr. Hermut Löhr
Investigator
Faculty of Protestant Theology
Department for New Testament Studies
An der Schlosskirche 2–4
D-53113 Bonn
Phone: +49 228 73 7661
loehr@uni-bonn.de
Academic Profile
Divine Dependency in Ancient Judaism and Emerging Christianity
The project seeks to investigate the relation between experiences, perceptions and imaginations of asymmetrical relationsships between two or more agents (individual or groups) and the description of the relationship between God and human beings in the sources of ancient Judaism and emerging Christianity. Names such as that of the "slave" or "servant of God," of the "son," and of the "children" of God, more generally of widespread family metaphors, or of (royal) anointed ones, some of the names of gods such as kyrios or despotês, or the structures of client-patron or power-powerlessness relationships are prominent examples of this.
So far, scholarship has been particularly interested in the contextual involvement and the traditional history of such designations and ideas, but has shown little or no interest in their relations to contemporary experiences and discourses of social interdependence, their implications and explicates as well as gender differences implied in these relations. The project seeks to fill in this remarkable gap.
2001
Habilitation in Protestant Theology/New Testament, University of Bonn, Germany
1993
Dr. theol., University of Bonn, Germany
1990–1991
Doctoral student, University of Strasbourg, France
1983–1989
Undergraduate and graduate studies in Protestant Theology, History et al. at the Universities of Bonn, Tübingen, and Heidelberg, Germany
since 2017
Professor for New Testament Studies/Ancient Judaism, University of Bonn, Germany
2007–2017
Professor for New Testament Studies, University of Münster, Germany
2003–2007
Professor for New Testament Studies, University of Jena, Germany
2001–2003
Interim Professor for New Testament Studies at the universities of Duisburg and Bonn, Germany
Hebrews, Philippians, Early Jewish and Christian Prayer, Apostolic Fathers (esp. 1Clem, Herm, Ignatian letters), The Archaeology of Jewish-Christian Morality in Antiquity, History of Early Christianity, 1–3 John, Wrath of God in Early Christianity (dissertation project by Paul Becker)
since 2019
Studien zu Judentum und Christentum (SJC), Paderborn/Leiden: Schöningh/Brill
since 2018
Ökumenischer Taschenbuchkommentar zum Neuen Testament (ÖTK), Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus
since 2014
Revue d'histoire et philosophie religieuses (RHPhR), Strasbourg
since 2008
Forschungen zur Literatur und Religion des Alten und Neuen Testaments (FRLANT), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen
since 2008
Themen der Theologie, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck
2013–2018
Area Editor Pauline Epistles for EBR, Berlin et al.: de Gruyter
2010–2013
New Testament Studies, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
- 2021. "Von der Religion zur Philosophie? Überlegungen zu Selbstdarstellungen des frühesten Christentums und ihren 'Wandlungen.'" In Wandel als Thema religiöser Selbstdeutung. Perspektiven aus Judentum, Christentum und Islam , 61–64. Quaestiones disputatae 310. Freiburg: Herder.
- 2019. "The 'Two Aeons': Remarks on an Early Christian Concept of the World and Its Implications and Explications." In Aux commencements – Création et temporalité dans la Bible et dans son contexte culturel. Collected Essays on Creation and Temporality in Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical Texts (=BZAR 24), edited by S. Ramond et al., 101–110. Wiesbaden.
- 2019. "Die Geburt des Autors aus der Überlieferung der Texte: Überlegungen zum Phänomen der Pseudepigraphie in Quellen des entstehenden Christentums." In Autor und Autorität: Historische, systematische und praktische Perspektiven, edited by U. Heil, A. Klein, and A. Schellenberg, 57–71. Wiener Jahrbuch für Theologie 12. Wien.
- 2018. "The Early Christian Household Codes in the Light of Epigraphic Evidence." In Epigraphical Evidence Illustrating Paul's Letter to the Colossians, edited by J. Verheyden et al, 199–215. WUNT 411. Tübingen.
- 2018. "Der Messias als Richter: Zur Entstehung und Bedeutung einer Aussage im zweiten Artikel des Credos in den Anfängen des christlichen Glaubens." In Die Rede von Jesus Christus als Glaubensaussage, edited by J. Herzer et al., 457–477. Tübingen.