Barbara Aland

Barbara Aland (born Ehlers, born April 12, 1937 in Hamburg ) is a German Protestant theologian and was until 2002 Professor of Church History and New Testament Textual Research at the University of Münster.

Biography

After studying Protestant theology and classical philology in Frankfurt, Marburg and Kiel she received her doctorate in 1964 in Frankfurt with a dissertation on the Socratic Aeschines. In 1969 she earned a Licentiate in Oriental Faculty at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome. In 1972 she qualified as a professor in Göttingen about the Syrian gnostic Bardesanes of Edessa. In 1972, she married Kurt Aland. Since 1972 she has worked as a lecturer, since 1980 as a professor with the right to teach " Church History and New Testament textual research with particular consideration of Christian Orient" at the Faculty of Protestant Theology in Münster. In 1983, she was director of the company founded by Kurt Aland 1959 Institute for New Testament Textual Research and the affiliate thereof Bible Museum. The Institute has achieved worldwide renown with the publication of become known under the name of Nestle -Aland Novum Testamentum Grace. Until her retirement, she was managing director of the Hermann Arts Foundation for the Promotion of New Testament Textual Research, the board of the Scientific Advisory Board she is. Even in her retirement Barbara Aland is still scientifically active.

Work

Become internationally known Barbara Aland mainly through joint work with her ​​late husband Kurt Aland in 1994 on the original Greek text of the New Testament. Together, they have largely worked in an international and interdenominational composite Editorial Board to constantly improve and update the manual editions of the Greek New Testament, called the Nestle -Aland Greek New Testament and the. The Münster responsible edited editions are teaching and research worldwide basis.

In addition, the first deliveries of the so -called Great edition of the Greek New Testament, the " Editio Critica Maior ", have appeared under Aland line since 1997. This edition is based for the first time on the entire tradition in Greek manuscripts, patristic quotations and old translations.

In 1999 she was a founding member of the " Academia Platonica Septima Monasteriensis ", which is not concerned primarily with the writings of Plato, but to those of his interpreters, the Platonists, from antiquity to the Renaissance. The aim of the Academy is to promote the study of the texts of the Platonists.

Barbara Aland is a member of the Board of " Gertrude and Alexander Böhlig Foundation " in the Donors ' Association for German Science, the Alexander - Böhlig Prize for outstanding promotions and Habilitation from the field of the Christian East and the ancient Christian history of the eastern half of the Empire gives.

Honors

Barbara Aland received the following honorary degrees:

She received the following awards:

Selected publications ( in chronological order )

Monographs

  • (as Barbara Ehlers ): A vorplatonische interpretation of Socratic Eros. The Aspasia of Aeschines Sokratikers dialogue. Diss Frankfurt am Main in 1964, published 1966 ( Zetemata, Issue 41).
  • ( with Kurt Aland ): The text of the New Testament. Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism, Stuttgart 1982. 2nd edition 1989, ISBN 3-438-06011-6 English translation: The text of the New Testament. An introduction to the critical editions and to the theory and practice of modern textual criticism. In 1987.
  • Italian translation: Il testo del Nuovo Testamento. Traduzione di Sebastiano Timpanaro. Marietti, Genova, 1987, ISBN 88-211-6772-0.

Edition of the New Testament (including aids)

  • A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament. A Companion Volume to the United Bible Societies Greek New Testament ( third edition ) by BM Metzger on behalf of and in cooperation with the Editorial Committee of the United Bible Societies Greek New Testament K. Aland, M. Black, CM Martini, BM Metzger and A. Wikgren, 1971.
  • Novum Testamentum Grace post Eberhard Nestle Erwin Nestle et communiter ed. K. Aland, M. Black, CM Martini, BM Metzger, A. Wikgren, apparatum criticum recens. et editionem novis curis elaborav. K. Aland et B. Aland una cum Instituto Studiorum Novi textus Testamenti Monasteriensi ( Westphalia ), 26th edition, 1979.
  • Novum Testamentum Latine. Novam Vulgatam Bibliorum Sacrorum Editionem secuti apparatibus titulisque additis ediderunt Kurt Aland et Barbara Aland una cum Instituto Studiorum Novi textus Testamenti Monasteriensi, 1984.
  • Greek - German dictionary on the writings of the New Testament and Early Christian Literature by Walter Bauer. 6th, completely revised edition of the Institute for New Testament Textual Research / Munster ed with special participation of Viktor Reichmann. by Kurt Aland and Barbara Aland, 1988.

Editorial Boards

  • Gnosis. Festschrift für Hans Jonas, in conjunction with Ugo Bianchi, ed. by Barbara Aland, 1978.
  • Günther Zuntz: Lucian of Antioch and the text of the Gospels. Edited by Barbara Aland and Klaus Wachtel. With a tribute to the author by Martin Hengel, 1995.
  • The worldliness of faith in the early church. Festschrift für Ulrich Wickert the seventieth birthday. Ed in conjunction with Barbara Aland and Christoph Schäublin. by Dietmar Wyrwa, 1997.
  • Literary constitution of identification figures in antiquity, ed. by Barbara Aland, 2003.
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