Heinz-Josef Fabry

Heinz -Josef Fabry ( born December 14, 1944 in Winterberg) is a German professor of the Old Testament and the history of Israel.

Life

After visiting the ancient languages ​​Humanist Circle High School Heinberg he studied from 1966 to 1972 Catholic Theology, Oriental Studies and Education in Bonn. After his graduation exam in 1972, he was a research assistant and in 1975 ( " The root to the semantics of a basic term sub in the Qumran literature. " ) Received his doctorate in theology with a thesis on the reversal in the Qumran literature. For this he received the Prize of the Rector of the University of Bonn. After graduating in 1976 in Catholic religious education and pedagogy, he was 1977-1982 Academic Council.

In 1979 he qualified as a professor in Old Testament science and science Qumran. The habilitation thesis dealt with the ecclesiological terminology of the Old Testament and Qumran ( " The ecclesiology of the Old Testament and the Qumran community. Analysis and semantics of the ecclesiological terminology "). In 1982 he was appointed professor of Introduction to the Old Testament and history of Israel and was from 1990 to 1992 Dean of the Faculty of Catholic Theology Bonn.

Since 1981, Fabry editor of the Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament, which was completed in 1995 with a total of eight volumes and was, among other things translated into English, and ( together with Ulrich Dahmen ) of the three- volumes Theological Dictionary of the Qumran texts, the first volume 2011, the second appeared in 2013. From 1996 to 1999 he was chairman of the AGAT (Association of the German Catholic Alttestamentlerinnen and Old Testament ). He was a student and research assistant by Gerhard Johannes Botterweck.