Joachim Jeremias

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Joachim Jeremias (1900-1979) was born on 20 September 1900 in Dresden and spent his formative years in Jerusalem, where his father worked as a provost for the Evangelical Lutheran Erlöserkirche. He studied theology and eastern languages in Tübingen and Leipzig. After Jeremias gaining his degree in 1925 at the University of Leipzig, he was appointed in 1938 as the Georgia Augusta Professor of Theology, until his retirement in 1968. In 1976, Joachim Jeremias moved from Goettingen to Tübingen, where he died on 6 September 1979.

The scientific work of Joachim Jeremias covers historical, literary, philosophical and archaeological studies, especially for the Hebrew Bible and Rabbinic texts relevant in a critical analysis of the New Testament to reconstruct the historical environment of Jesus in context. The achievements of Joachim Jeremias found national and internationally acknowledgment, thus by the admission into the Göttinger Academy of Sciences 1948 and the award of foreign honorary doctorates.

[edit] Publications

  • Joachim Jeremias, Unknown Sayings of Jesus (SPCK 1957) ISBN 0-281-01298-9
  • _____, Jerusalem in the Time of Jesus: An Investigation into Economic & Social Conditions During the New Testament Period (Fortress Press 1979) ISBN 0-8006-1136-5.
  • _____, The Eucharistic Words of Jesus. ISBN 0-334-00414-4
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