Joachim Jeremias (1900-1979), scholar
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Joachim Jeremias (1900-1979) was a German scholar.
Biography
Born in Dresden, Germany, spent his formative years in Jerusalem. Professor at Göttingen from 1935 to 1968. Focused on historical, archaeological and literary data for the reconstruction on the Jewish environment in which Jesus lived.
Works on Second Temple Judaism
Books
- Jerusalem zur Zeit Jesu. Kulturgeschichtliche Untersuchungen zur neutestamentlichen Zeitgeschichte <German> (2 vols.; Leipzig 1923-37; 3rd ed. 1962)
- Jerusalem in the Time of Jesus: An Investigation into Economic and Social Conditions during the New Testament Period, tr. F.H. and C.H. Cave (Philadelphia 1969)
- Jerusalén en tiempos de Jesús <Spanish> (Madrid 1977)
- Gerusalemme al tempo di Gesù <Italian>, tr. A.M. Cantoni e G. Cestari (Rome 1989).