Matthias Klinghardt (born August 24, 1957 in

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) is a German Protestant theologian and university professor. His theological specialty is the

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. He is known as a revisionist historian of Eucharistic origins and as a proponent of the

Marcion hypothesis The priority of the Gospel of Marcion or Marcionite priority (or priority of the Marcionite Gospel) is a possible solution to the synoptic problem. This hypothesis claims that the first produced or compiled gospel was that of Marcion and that th ...

for the

synoptic problem The gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke are referred to as the synoptic Gospels because they include many of the same stories, often in a similar sequence and in similar or sometimes identical wording. They stand in contrast to John, whose con ...

and the

gospel of John The Gospel of John ( grc, Εὐαγγέλιον κατὰ Ἰωάννην, translit=Euangélion katà Iōánnēn) is the fourth of the four canonical gospels. It contains a highly schematic account of the ministry of Jesus, with seven "sig ...

Education

From 1976 to 1982 Klinghardt studied Protestant Theology at the Kirchliche Hochschule Wuppertal/Bethel, the

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and the

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. This was followed by the first church service test at the '' Evangelische Landeskirche in Baden''. In 1986 he received his doctorate from the Evangelical Theological Faculty of Heidelberg University under Klaus Berger. His dissertation was supported by a scholarship from the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes from 1983 to the end of 1986. This was followed by a research and teaching stay in the

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from 1988 to 1989, during this one-year study stay he was assistant professor at the Department of Religious Studies,

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(

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Career

From 1989 to 1998 Klinghardt was in

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, where he worked as a scientific assistant or senior assistant at the chair "Evangelische Theologie mit Schwerpunkt Biblische Theologie" (Evangelical Theology with a Focus on Biblical Theology) of the Institute for Evangelical Theology of the Faculty of Philosophy I. In 1994 he went to the Faculty of Protestant Theology at the

in the area of

. Since 1998 he has been Professor of Biblical Theology in the Institute for Evangelical Theology of the Faculty of Philosophy at the

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. Klinghardt is married and has three children.

Works

* ''Gesetz und Volk Gottes. Das lukanische Verständnis des Gesetzes nach Herkunft, Funktion und seinem Ort in der Geschichte des Urchristentums.'' (WUNT II/32), Tübingen 1988 * ''Gemeinschaftsmahl und Mahlgemeinschaft.'' Francke, Tübingen 1996 * ''Markion vs. Lukas: Plädoyer für die Wiederaufnahme eines alten Falles.''New Testament Studies, Volume 52, 4. Oktober 2006, S. 484–513, doi:10.1017/S0028688506000270 * ''Das älteste Evangelium und die Entstehung der kanonischen Evangelien. Untersuchung – Rekonstruktion – Übersetzung – Varianten.'' 2 Bände. Francke, Tübingen 2015,

auf books.google.de, Bd. 1 ** ''The Oldest Gospel and the Formation of the Canonical Gospels: Inquiry. Reconstruction - Translation - Variants'', Leiven, Peeters, 2020 * ''Das Aposteldekret als kanonischer Integrationstext: Konstruktion und Begründung von Gemeinsinn.'' In: Markus Öhler (edit.): ''Aposteldekret und antikes Vereinswesen. Gemeinschaft und ihre Ordnung'' WUNT 280, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2011, , S. 91–112 * ''Inspiration und Fälschung. Die Transzendenzkonstitution der christlichen Bibel.'' In: Hans Vorländer (edit.): ''Transzendenz und die Konstitution von Ordnungen.'' De Gruyter, Berlin/New York 2013, , S. 331–355 * ''Markion vs. Lukas: Plädoyer für die Wiederaufnahme eines alten Falles.'' New Testament Studies, (2006), 52 (4), 484–513. doi:10.1017/S0028688506000270 * ''Das marcionitische Evangelium und die Textgeschichte des Neuen Testaments. Eine Antwort an Thomas Johann Bauer und

Ulrich B. Schmid Ulrich B. Schmid (born 31 May 1962 in Stuttgart) is a German Protestant theologian and university teacher. Biography Ulrich Schmid is married and has a child. Education Schmid studied from 1982 to 1989 Protestant theology at the University of ...

.'' Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum 21 (2017), 110–120 * ''The Marcionite Gospel and the Synoptic Problem: A New Suggestion.'' Novum Testamentum 50 (2008), 1–27

References

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