Gerd Theissen (M / Germany, 1943), scholar, novelist
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Gerd Theissen 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. Ein Beitrag zur Enstehungsgeschichte des Urchristentums (Munchen 1977)
- The First Followers of Jesus (London 1978)
- Sociology of Early Palestinian Christianity (Philadelphia: 1978)
- Sociologia del cristianesimo primitivo (Genova 1987).
- [[(with Annette Merz). Des historische Jesus: Ein Lehrbuch (Göttingen 1996)
- The Historical Jesus: A Comprehensive Guide, tr. John Bowden (London 1998)