Dr. Folker Siegert

Professor
Protestant Theology
University of Munster
Germany

Biography

Academic function: University professor, Director of the Institutum Judaicum Delitzschianum (1996-2012) Short Biography: Born 1947 in Saxony, several school and study places in the Federal Republic of Germany 1979-82 Repetent in Tübingen 1983-91 Pastor of two rural communities in Eschwege 1984 Doctorate (Dr. theol.) In Tübingen 1990 Habilitation (New Testament) in Heidelberg 1991-96 Professor For the New Testament at the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland), Faculté de Théologie 1996-3.2012: Chair of Judaism and the New Testament; Director of the Institutum Judaicum Delitzschianum, in Münster

Research Intrest

Legal commentary on the New Testament (RKNT), Translation of Philon: Quaestiones in Genesim; The sources of the Gospels

List of Publications
Philo of Alexandria: on the divine designation of "benevolent consuming fire" (De Deo), ibid.
The Gospel of John in its original form. Restoration and commentary (writings of the Institutum Judaicum Delitzschianum, 7), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2008 (852 S.).
The life of Jesus. A biography based on pre - canonical traditions (writings of the Institutum Judaicum Delitzschianum, 8,2), Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2010.
Luther and the right, With a contribution by Frieder Lötzsch. Bielefeld 2014 (Studienreihe Luther 3, edited by Dieter Beese, Günter Brakelmann and Arno Lohmann)
The Passa by Josephus, in: Judith Gärtner / Barbara Schmitz (eds.): Exodus. (Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies, 32), Berlin: de Gruyter, 2016, 253-267.