Carsten Peter Thiede

Carsten Peter Thiede KStJ ( born August 8, 1952 in Berlin, † December 14, 2004 in Paderborn, Germany ) was a German literary scholar, historian and papyrologist.

Life

Carsten Peter Thiede grew up in West Berlin, the son of a civil servant and occasionally plays volleyball in the Bundesliga. He studied comparative literature and history in Berlin and went to Oxford in 1976 for post-graduate studies, where he began to take an interest of New Testament papyri. There he joined the Anglican Church.

Since 1978 he has taught literature and organized in Geneva at the time also the first Stendhal Congress, but retained close links to England, where he married in 1982. Thereafter he lived in London, where he published several books. When St. Margaret's Parish in Roehampton In 1984 he was licensed as a lecturer in the Anglican Church. Until the early 1990s, Thiede worked for several media outlets, including the BBC and ERF and as an editor for R. Brockhaus Verlag. He later moved to Paderborn, where he conducted research as well as the British troops as a lay pastor, and after his ordination in 2000 as the first German military chaplain ( OCF) of the British Army served.

At Christmas 1994 Thiede became known to a wider public, as the Times on the front page the result of an article published, which he had previously published in the Journal for Papyrology and epigraphy. Thiede had papyrus fragments of Matthew's Gospel, which were discovered in 1901 in Upper Egypt and stored in Magdalen College, Oxford, from palaeographical reasons dated AD to the 60s. This new dating of the so-called Papyrus 64, the time of origin has been committed to the existing research around 200 AD, is criticized by palaeographers and Papyrologists. The same is true for an earlier publication Thiede to the text finds of Qumran, in which he, a thesis of the Spaniard Jose O'Callaghan Picking up, argued one of the small papyrus fragments from Cave 7 at Qumran contain passages of the Gospel of Mark.

On behalf of the Israeli Antiquities Authority, in cooperation with the State Independent Theological College ( STH) in Basel Thiede was co-director of excavations from 2001 to 2004 west of Jerusalem, where the localization of the mentioned in the New Testament village of Emmaus was confirmed in the vicinity of today's Moza. He taught as a visiting professor of environmental and History of the New Testament at the STH and was a lecturer at Ben- Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheba / Israel.

Thiede was most recently including legal Knights of St John, President of the Reinhold -Schneider company and a member of PEN

Thiede died at the age of 52 after a heart attack. He left behind three children.

Writings (selection )

  • The oldest manuscript of the Gospels? The Mark fragment from Qumran and the beginnings of the written tradition of the New Testament. R. Brockhaus, Wuppertal, 1986, 4th edition 1994, ISBN 3-417-20502-6.
  • Church in its infancy. The beginnings of Christianity in pictures and words ( with Ken Curtis). R. Brockhaus, Wuppertal / Zurich 1991, ISBN 3-417-24627- X.
  • Discoveries, facts, tracking search. Traces of early Christianity in Europe. R. Brockhaus, Wuppertal / Zurich 1992, ISBN 3-417-24635-0.
  • Religion in England. Representation and data on past and present. Gütersloher publishing house, Gütersloh 1994, ISBN 3-579-00635-5.
  • The Jesus Papyrus. The discovery of a Gospel manuscript from the time of the eyewitnesses ( Matthew D' Ancona). Luchterhand, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-630-87983-7.
  • A fish for the Roman emperor. Jews, Greeks, Romans: The world of Jesus Christ. Luchterhand, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-630-87994-2.
  • Bible Code and Bible word. The search for coded messages in the Bible. Fountain, Basel / Casting 1998, ISBN 3-7655-3689- X.
  • Who are you, Jesus? Light on the man who fit into a schema. Fountain, Basel / Casting 2000. ISBN 3-7655-1216-8
  • Secret Files Peter. In the footsteps of the Apostle. Cross, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-7831-1857-3.
  • The Jesus fragment. Empress Helena and the search for the Cross ( Matthew D' Ancona). Ullsteinhaus, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-550-07146-9.
  • The Resurrection of Jesus - Fiction or Reality? A debate ( with Gerd Lüdemann ). Fountain, Basel / Casting 2001, ISBN 3-7655-1241-9.
  • The roots of anti-Semitism. Hostility towards Jews in antiquity, in early Christianity and the Koran ( with Urs Stingelin ). Fountain, Basel / Casting 2002, ISBN 3-7655-1264-8.
  • The Peter - Report. The rock of the Church in a new light. Sankt Ulrich Verlag, Augsburg 2002, ISBN 3-929246-85-6.
  • Jesus. Faith. The facts. Sankt Ulrich Verlag, Augsburg 2003, ISBN 3-929246-95-3.
  • Paul. Sword of faith, Christ's martyrs. Sankt Ulrich Verlag, Augsburg 2004, ISBN 3-936484-39-2.
  • Jesus and Tiberius. Two sons of God. Luchterhand, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-630-88009-6.
  • The Inconvenient Messiah. Who was Jesus really is. Fountain, Basel / Casting 2006, ISBN 3-7655-3876-0.
  • The Emmaus Mystery. Discovering Evidence of the Risen Christ. Continuum, 2005 ( paperback 2006).
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