Clemens Thoma (November 2, 1932 – December 7, 2011) was a

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theologian Theology is the systematic study of the nature of the divine and, more broadly, of religious belief. It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries. It occupies itself with the unique content of analyzing the ...

. He was professor of theology and Jewish studies and founder of the Institute for Jewish-Christian Studies (IJCF) at the

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. He grew up as one of eleven children in a family in the Canton of

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.Hans Breitenmoser: ''Er beseitigt religiöse Barrieren''. In: Linth-Zeitung. Nr. 2/2002 (4. Jan 2002) After theological studies at St. Augustin near

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and St. Gabriel in

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, he was ordained a priest. At the University of Vienna, he studied Judaism under

Kurt Schubert Kurt is a male given name of Germanic or Turkish origin. ''Kurt'' or ''Curt'' originated as short forms of the Germanic Conrad, depending on geographical usage, with meanings including counselor or advisor. In Turkish, Kurt means "Wolf" and i ...

. As part of his research Thoma undertook a systematic approach to present

Rabbinic Rabbinic Judaism ( he, יהדות רבנית, Yahadut Rabanit), also called Rabbinism, Rabbinicism, or Judaism espoused by the Rabbanites, has been the mainstream form of Judaism since the 6th century Common era, CE, after the codification of the ...

parables to New Testament scholars, for comparative purposes. In 1994 Thoma received the

Buber-Rosenzweig-Medal The Buber-Rosenzweig-Medaille is an annual prize awarded since 1968 by the Deutscher Koordinierungsrat der Gesellschaften für Christlich-Jüdische Zusammenarbeit (DKR; German Coordinating Council of Societies for Christian-Jewish Cooperation) to in ...

. Hayim Perelmuter stated that Thoma's work on the Rabbinic parables "adornes the world of scholarship".Hayim G. Perelmuter "A Response to Clemens Thoma" in ''Reinterpreting Revelation and Tradition: Jews and Christians in Conversation'' by John Pawlikowski and Hayim Goren Perelmuter 2000 page 63

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2011 deaths 1932 births New Testament scholars {{Switzerland-theologian-stub