Luise Schottroff (11 April 1934 – 8 February 2015) was a German

New Testament The New Testament grc, Ἡ Καινὴ Διαθήκη, transl. ; la, Novum Testamentum. (NT) is the second division of the Christian biblical canon. It discusses the teachings and person of Jesus, as well as events in first-century Chri ...

and feminist scholar. She was born in

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, and her father was a pastor in the

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. Schottroff studied theology at the University of Mainz, and then pursued a doctorate at the University of Göttingen, completing her degree in 1960. Her dissertation was entitled, "Die Bereitung zum Sterben: Studien zu den frühen reformatorischen Sterbebüchern." She then became an assistant professor in the faculty of Evangelical theology at the

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, in 1961. She completed her habilitation at the University of Mainz in 1969. Schottroff taught at the University of Mainz until 1986, reaching full professor by 1973. She then taught at the

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from 1986 to 1999. Also in 1986, she was a co-founder of European Society of Women in Theological Research (ESWTR), formed to support women scholars. She taught at the Pacific School of Religion, in Berkeley, California, in the United States, as a visiting professor from 2001 to 2005. Schottroff's writings have been influential in the field of biblical scholarship, offering both a feminist and social historical critique of past interpretation and biblical texts themselves. She also integrated a respectful analysis of the Jewish roots of New Testament texts, informed by her study of Jewish-Christian relations and Jewish history. One of her earliest books was ''Jesus of Nazareth: Hope for the Poor'', co-authored with Wolfgang Stegemann, which was published in 1978. She published dozens of other books, many of which have been translated into English, including ''The Parables of Jesus'' and ''Lydia's Impatient Sisters: A Feminist Social History of Early Christianity.'' She co-authored, with Marie-Theres Wacker and Silvia Schroer, ''Feminist Interpretation: The Bible in Women's Perspective,'' which was published in 1998. She married Willy Schottroff, a scholar of the Old Testament, in 1961. He died in 1997. After a long illness, Luise Schottroff died in Kassel, on February 8, 2015.

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* with Wolfgang Stegemann'', Jesus of Nazareth: Hope for the Poor (1978)'' *''Lydia's Impatient Sisters: A Feminist Social History of Early Christianity (1995)'' *with Silvia Schroer and Marie-Theres Wacker, ''Feminist Interpretation: The Bible in Women's Perspective''. Augsburg Fortress, 1998. * with

Dorothee Sölle Dorothee Steffensky-Sölle (, 1929–2003), known as Dorothee Sölle, was a German liberation theologian who coined the term " Christofascism". She was born in Cologne and died at a conference in Göppingen from cardiac arrest. Life and career ...

, ''Jesus of Nazareth''. Westminster John Knox Press, 2002. Translated by John Bowden. *''The Parables of Jesus (2006)''

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* Luise Schottroff entry on German Wikipedia {{DEFAULTSORT:Schottroff, Luise 1934 births 2015 deaths 20th-century German Protestant theologians Women Christian theologians Christian feminist theologians Academic staff of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Academic staff of the University of Kassel

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