Michael Goulder

Michael Douglas Goulder (* May 31, 1927; † 6 January 2010) was a British Bible scholar. He spent most of his academic life at the University of Birmingham where he retired in 1994 as professor of Biblical studies.

Academic work

Goulder should have become best known for his contributions to the Synoptic Problem, and specifically to Farrerhypothese emanating from the temporal priority of Mark's Gospel, but has passed from the Sayings Source Q and for proposing the Evangelist Luke have known the Gospel of Matthew. Goulder was also associated with the theory that the evangelists were highly creative authors, and Matthew and Luke would have been had only minimal source material. In recent years, Goulder wrote extensively on a theory of Christian origins, after which there was a fundamental difference between Paul and the Jerusalem Christians Peter and James, the brother of Jesus given. This was seen as a revival attempt at a hypothesis that was erected by Ferdinand Christian Baur.

Goulder was an unusual Bible scholar, for he knew his way around in both Testaments. For two decades, he has published extensively on various Old Testament subjects, but especially on the Psalms. In this field his work aimed, inter alia, to the elaboration of the historical context in which the individual psalms were used for worship. He made ​​comparisons with the traditions that are behind other biblical texts, such as behind the five books of Moses ( Pentateuch ). Despite some criticism of his conclusions on the part of other scholars Goulder was referred to as " renowned leader in the study of the Hebrew Psalter ."

Career

Goulder was educated first at Eton College and then at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a degree in classical philology. He was in Hong Kong by Ronald Hall, the Anglican Bishop of Victoria, Hong Kong and Macau, ordained, but originally wanted a secular job seeking. Without an (at least formal ) theological training, he returned to England and studied under Austin Farrer at Trinity College ( Oxford ), while he knew a delegate at the University community. After several years of parish ministry official in Withington (Manchester), he returned to Hong Kong to officiate there as Rector of the Union Theological College. He then took a position at the extracurricular department ( "Extra Mural Department" ) of the University of Birmingham. Some years later he returned to the Trinity College back (1969-1971), to lecture on the way, as Matthew wrote his Gospel. While Goulder did, he renounced the hypothetical sayings source Q, what you gave him the doctorate degree. In Birmingham he held courses for clergy, but after an invitation to lecture in Hong Kong, he decided to resign from his priestly ordinations, which he did in 1981. Goulder was never an aggressive atheists, but was a member of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Religion ( CSER ), a branch of the " Council for Secular Humanism " ( Council for Secular Humanism ), and in 1993 chairman of Birmingham Humanists, shortly before he retired from academic life.