Johann Maier (talmudic scholar)

Johann Maier ( born May 15, 1933 Arriach, Carinthia ) is an Austrian Judaic scholar, historian and theologian.

Maier studied Protestant theology (PhD 1958) and from 1956, Judaism, Semitic Studies and History in Vienna, among others, Kurt Schubert. In 1960, a second doctorate in Vienna and 1964, the Habilitation of Jewish Studies in Vienna. He was founder and director of the 1966 Martin Buber Institute, University of Cologne, where he has been a full professor since 1966. He retired in 1996.

He wrote in German standard works on Jewish history and Judaism, dealt with the Qumran research, Kabbalah tradition of Jesus in the Talmud, Jewish philosophy and the ratio Judaism to Christianity.

Writings

  • Judaism. From biblical times to the modern era, Kindler Culture History 1973
  • Jesus of Nazareth in the Talmudic tradition, income research 82, Darmstadt University Press 1978
  • Intellectualism and mysticism as factors of Jewish self-definition, Kairos, Volume 27, 1985, p 229-240
  • Judaism from A to Z: faith, history, culture, Freiburg / Basel / Vienna 2001
  • Judaism, studying religion, Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2007, 2nd edition 2013
  • Judaism: Reader, studying religion, Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht 2007
  • History of the Jewish religion Berlin, 1972; Freiburg 1992
  • Jewish History in data, Munich 2005
  • The Judaic system of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Jacob Neusner (Editor ) Judaism in Late Antiquity, Volume 2, 2004, pp. 84-108
  • The Kabbalah. Munich, 1995, 2005
  • The Qumran Essenes. Texts from the Dead Sea, 3 vols, Munich, UTB 1995
  • Law of war and peace in the Jewish tradition, theology and peace 14, Stuttgart, inter alia, 2000
  • Peace order and martial law in medieval Judaism. Shown on the basis of the writings of Maimonides, Contributions to Peace Ethics 16, Stuttgart 1993
  • With Anton Grabner - Haider cultural history of early Christianity, Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2008
  • With Anton Grabner - Haider, Karl Prenner cultural history of the early Middle Ages. From 500 to 1200 AD, Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht 2010
  • The same cultural history of the late Middle Ages. From 1200 to 1500 AD, Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht 2012
  • From cult to gnosticism. Studies of pre-and early history of the " Jewish Gnosticism ". Ark, God's throne and Märkabah, Cairo - Religionswissenchaftliche studies 1, Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg 1964
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