Michael Lattke
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Michael Stephan Lattke (born May 12, 1942) is a scholar of the New Testament and early Christianity.
Lattke was born in Stettin, Germany. He was brought up in Solingen and studied at Bonn, Tübingen, Münster, Augsburg and München. In spite of his Roman Catholic background, at Tübingen he also studied Protestant theology, especially under the leading Protestant New Testament scholar Ernst Käsemann. He received the Dipl.-Theol. from Tübingen in 1968, the Dr. theol. from Freiburg in 1974, and the Dr. theol. habil. from Augsburg in 1979.
In 1981 Lattke settled in Brisbane, Australia and began teaching at the University of Queensland, where he also received a D.Litt. in 1992. In 1994 he became Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity Studies, and in 1997 he became a Senior Research Fellow of the Australian Research Council. Since October 2007, he has been Emeritus Professor at the University of Queensland.
Lattke has published widely on the New Testament, early Christianity, early Judaism, early Christian hymns, and Gnosticism, and he has established himself as the world's foremost authority on the pseudepigraphical Odes of Solomon. In his comprehensive study of the Odes of Solomon, he has argued that the Odes were written originally in Greek. His commentary on the Odes is currently being translated into English for the Hermeneia series (published by Fortress Press) and he is currently writing a commentary on the Apology of Aristides for the series Kommentar zu frühchristlichen Apologeten (published by Herder Verlag).
In 2003 the Australian Government awarded Lattke a Centenary Medal for his contribution to the field of early Christian studies, and in 2007 he was presented with the Festschrift, I Sowed Fruits into Hearts (Odes Sol. 17:13): Festschrift for Professor Michael Lattke, edited by Pauline Allen, Majella Franzmann and Rick Strelan (Strathfield: St Pauls, 2007).
[edit] Bibliography
A comprehensive bibliography of Lattke's work is compiled in the Festschrift: I Sowed Fruits into Hearts (Odes Sol. 17:13): Festschrift for Professor Michael Lattke, ed. Pauline Allen, Majella Franzmann and Rick Strelan (2007).
- Einheit im Wort: Die spezifische Bedeutung von agape, agapan und filein im Johannesevangelium (1975), originally presented as the author's Dr. theol. thesis, Freiburg (1974)
- Die Oden Salomos in ihrer Bedeutung für Neues Testament und Gnosis, 4 vols. in 5 (1979-98)
- Register zu Rudolf Bultmanns Glauben und Verstehen, Band I-IV (1984)
- Hymnus: Materialien zu einer Geschichte der antiken Hymnologie (1991)
- Collected Studies in Early Judaism, the New Testament and the Odes of Solomon (1974-1991), (1992) University of Queensland D.Litt. thesis
- Oden Salomos (1995)
- Herbert Leroy, Jesus: Überlieferung und Deutung, 3rd edition (1999), edited with an introduction and bibliography by Anne Dawson and Michael Lattke
- Oden Salomos: Text, Übersetzung, Kommentar, 3 vols. (1999-2005)
- The Odes of Solomon (forthcoming in the Hermeneia series, Fortress Press)
- "Die Oden Salomos: Einleitungsfragen und Forschungsgeschichte", Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 98 (2007), 277-307.
- "War der Apologet Aristides ein Mann von Bildung?", in Frühchristentum und Kultur, ed. Ferdinand R. Prostmeier (2007), 35-74.
