Gerd Theissen (M / Germany, 1943), scholar, novelist
Gerd Theissen (b.1943)is a German scholar and novelist, at the University of Heidelberg, Germany.
Biography
Born in 1943. PhD at the University of Bonn. Professor of New Testament at Heidelberg, from 1980.
Works on Second Temple Judaism
Books
- Sociologie des Jesusbewegung (1977 Theissen), book
- Lokalkolorit und Zeitgeschichte in den Evangelien (1989 Theissen), book
- Des historische Jesus: Ein Lehrbuch (1996 Theissen/Merz), book