Christian Gers-Uphaus
Christian Gers-Uphaus graduated twice from the University of Muenster: In 2012 with a Diploma in Catholic Theology, and, 2015 with a Master of Arts in Ancient Cultures of the Eastern Mediterranean. During his studies, he received scholarships from the German National Academic Foundation and from the Scholarship Foundation of the Catholic Church in Germany. He has been awarded the Armin-Schmitt Award for Biblical Textual Research in 2013.
Christian is currently a doctoral student in New Testament at the University of Tuebingen. His dissertation takes Paul’s arguments in 1 Corinthians 15 as a starting point to examine the Pauline understanding of the resurrection in the context of different trends within first-century Judaism. The project is supervised by Prof. Dr. Wilfried Eisele (University of Tuebingen, Chair of New Testament) and Prof. Dr. Johannes Schnocks (University of Muenster, Chair of Old Testament). His PhD is supported by the German National Academic Foundation and by the Scholarship Foundation of the Catholic Church in Germany.
He has been a Visiting Research Scholar at the École Biblique et Archéologique Française de Jérusalem in spring 2016, and in the 2016–2017 academic year, he has been appointed Visiting Research Scholar in the Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame du Lac, working with Prof. Dr. John T. Fitzgerald. This spring, he has been nominated as the 2019 Emerging Scholars Fellow for New Testament by the Catholic Biblical Association of America.
For the 2019–2020 academic year, he received a DAAD fellowship and has again been appointed Visiting Research Scholar in the Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame du Lac, continuing his work with Prof. Dr. John T. Fitzgerald.
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Wilfried K. Eisele, Prof. Dr. Johannes Schnocks, and Prof. Dr. John T. Fitzgerald
Christian is currently a doctoral student in New Testament at the University of Tuebingen. His dissertation takes Paul’s arguments in 1 Corinthians 15 as a starting point to examine the Pauline understanding of the resurrection in the context of different trends within first-century Judaism. The project is supervised by Prof. Dr. Wilfried Eisele (University of Tuebingen, Chair of New Testament) and Prof. Dr. Johannes Schnocks (University of Muenster, Chair of Old Testament). His PhD is supported by the German National Academic Foundation and by the Scholarship Foundation of the Catholic Church in Germany.
He has been a Visiting Research Scholar at the École Biblique et Archéologique Française de Jérusalem in spring 2016, and in the 2016–2017 academic year, he has been appointed Visiting Research Scholar in the Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame du Lac, working with Prof. Dr. John T. Fitzgerald. This spring, he has been nominated as the 2019 Emerging Scholars Fellow for New Testament by the Catholic Biblical Association of America.
For the 2019–2020 academic year, he received a DAAD fellowship and has again been appointed Visiting Research Scholar in the Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame du Lac, continuing his work with Prof. Dr. John T. Fitzgerald.
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Wilfried K. Eisele, Prof. Dr. Johannes Schnocks, and Prof. Dr. John T. Fitzgerald
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because it declares prima vista nothing less than the
death of the other gods. After clarifying its historical-critical
tradition within the Old Testament, I analyze the early Christian
reception of Psalm 82 in Jerome’s Homilies on the Psalms
and, finally, compare both ways of interpreting it. By understanding
the אלהים (vv. 1b, 6a) as earthly judges, rather than as
members of a heavenly court as normally assumed by modern
interpreters, Jerome’s interpretation of Psalm 82 offers us not
only a model that is very different from the standard reading of
this text among most exegetes today, but also one which provides
a point of critique within the church.
This online index is made available to public in addition to my book on Psalm 82 in the Stuttgarter Bibelstudien (SBS 240). It lists all references of Psalm 82 in the New Testament, in the Texts from Qumran, and mainly in Early Christian Literature which have been analysed in that study (as well as those which have not).
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The present article provides an overview of the relevance of the Dead Sea Scrolls for Old Testament scholarship, especially concerning the development of the (later) biblical canon. Rejecting the concept of “canonˮ for these texts themselves, the article discusses concepts of authority on the basis of selected texts of Qumran (e.g. Jubilees, Temple Scroll, Psalms, Halachic Letter, Damascus Document) and analyses how texts within this corpus became authoritative for a special group of persons.
›Pagan monotheism‹ has been a subject of intensive focus in recent scholarship in the history of religion. Within this debate the present article raises the question of whether and to what extent this term really offers an appropriate category for describing the discussed phenomena. After a brief overview of the history of research, two religious formulae – θεὸς ὕψιστος and εἷς θεός, which are both well attested in Late Antiquity – are analysed in a selection of pagan inscriptions from that time. In both cases it is concluded that scholarship should speak about ›pagan henotheism‹ instead of ›pagan monotheism‹ in order accurately to describe this complex religious phenomenon of the Eastern Mediterranean.
According to Erich Zenger, Psalm 82 has been considered as one of the most “spectacular” texts of the Old Testament. This psalm not only declares the death of other gods (אלהים) but also defines commitment towards the poor as a criterion for being true god. Within the debate of different methodological approaches to biblical texts, the present article first discusses some selected historical-critical questions of Psalm 82. It then asks the questions, "Who are the poor in this Psalm?" and "Is it accidental that Psalm 82 speaks of the one אלהים in opposition to the other אלהים?" These questions will be answered by offering a canonical exegesis of this Psalm within the corpus of the Psalms of Asaph.
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For a long time, monotheistic concepts of God have dominated the understanding of religionin a Europe shaped by Christianity. For the early Christians, the monotheistic concept of God,which was adopted from Judaism, was an elementary part of their self-image. Not always takeninto account was the fact that monotheistic trends were also noticed in ancient polytheisticculture, trends that are discussed as »pagan monotheism«. The articles in this volume analyzemonotheistic concepts, arguments and models using authors from late antiquity as examples.The authors deal with signi?cant aspects of monotheistic thinking in which the development ofcomplex ancient monotheism is expressed in Christian and in »pagan« texts as well.
Reviews (known so far):
VAN NUFFELEN, Peter, in: ThLZ 139 (2014) 1457/59
EDWARDS, Mark J., in: JEH 66 (2015) 837/8
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Psalm 82 is supposed to be one of the “most spectacular texts of the Old Testament” (Erich Zenger). The concrete reason for discussing it is the debate on monotheism in which it plays a major role, declaring nothing less than the death of the other gods. After clarifying its basics and backgrounds within the Old Testament, this study begins with an analysis of the Jewish reception of this Psalm in the Septuagint (LXX Psalm 81) and in the Dead Sea Scrolls (11QMelchisedek). Subsequently, it focuses on the Psalm’s early Christian reception. After treating its only clear reference in the New Testament (John 10), this study turns to selected early Christian authors, who are divided into two groups: Authors commenting on individual verses of Psalm 82 (like Justin, Irenaeus, Clemens; Tertullian, Cyprian, Novatian) and authors providing a whole commentary on it (like Eusebius, Theodoret; Jerome, Augustine). The study aims to show three different patterns of interpreting this Psalm within its reception: christological, anthropological, and eschatological.
Reviews (known so far):
SCHULZ, Charles, in: CBQ 83 (2021) 495sq.
RENZ, Thomas, in: JSOT 44 (2020) 81sq.
ZIEMER, Benjamin, in: ThRv 116 (2020)
PAVAN, Marco, in: EstBib 78 (2020) 179–182
WISSEMANN, Maren, in: ZAW 132 (2020) 165
WEBER, Beat, in: RBL 1 (2020)
PASCHKE, Boris, in: NRT 141 (2019) 655
KREMSER, Konrad, in: bbs 7 (2019)
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mentlichen Texten,” and “Rabbinische und patristische Perspektiven”), along with an introduction and a summary.
This volume is published in memory of Peter W. Flint, who passed away unexpectedly in 2016.
A brief preface written by Amanda Flint is followed by an introduction, “Peter Flint in Memoriam,” by Ananda Geyser-Fouché and John J. Collins.
The volume contains seventeen essays organized into six different areas: (1) “Text and Canon,” (2) “Text-Critical Studies,” (3) “Canon and Authority,” (4) “Scribal Practice,” (5) “Language,” and (6) “Thematic Studies.
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because it declares prima vista nothing less than the
death of the other gods. After clarifying its historical-critical
tradition within the Old Testament, I analyze the early Christian
reception of Psalm 82 in Jerome’s Homilies on the Psalms
and, finally, compare both ways of interpreting it. By understanding
the אלהים (vv. 1b, 6a) as earthly judges, rather than as
members of a heavenly court as normally assumed by modern
interpreters, Jerome’s interpretation of Psalm 82 offers us not
only a model that is very different from the standard reading of
this text among most exegetes today, but also one which provides
a point of critique within the church.
This online index is made available to public in addition to my book on Psalm 82 in the Stuttgarter Bibelstudien (SBS 240). It lists all references of Psalm 82 in the New Testament, in the Texts from Qumran, and mainly in Early Christian Literature which have been analysed in that study (as well as those which have not).
Accessible via: https://repositorium.uni-muenster.de/document/miami/a8c0e695-5da5-464b-8676-1e796a3b4115/gers-uphaus_2018_zitationsbelege.pdf
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The present article provides an overview of the relevance of the Dead Sea Scrolls for Old Testament scholarship, especially concerning the development of the (later) biblical canon. Rejecting the concept of “canonˮ for these texts themselves, the article discusses concepts of authority on the basis of selected texts of Qumran (e.g. Jubilees, Temple Scroll, Psalms, Halachic Letter, Damascus Document) and analyses how texts within this corpus became authoritative for a special group of persons.
›Pagan monotheism‹ has been a subject of intensive focus in recent scholarship in the history of religion. Within this debate the present article raises the question of whether and to what extent this term really offers an appropriate category for describing the discussed phenomena. After a brief overview of the history of research, two religious formulae – θεὸς ὕψιστος and εἷς θεός, which are both well attested in Late Antiquity – are analysed in a selection of pagan inscriptions from that time. In both cases it is concluded that scholarship should speak about ›pagan henotheism‹ instead of ›pagan monotheism‹ in order accurately to describe this complex religious phenomenon of the Eastern Mediterranean.
According to Erich Zenger, Psalm 82 has been considered as one of the most “spectacular” texts of the Old Testament. This psalm not only declares the death of other gods (אלהים) but also defines commitment towards the poor as a criterion for being true god. Within the debate of different methodological approaches to biblical texts, the present article first discusses some selected historical-critical questions of Psalm 82. It then asks the questions, "Who are the poor in this Psalm?" and "Is it accidental that Psalm 82 speaks of the one אלהים in opposition to the other אלהים?" These questions will be answered by offering a canonical exegesis of this Psalm within the corpus of the Psalms of Asaph.
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For a long time, monotheistic concepts of God have dominated the understanding of religionin a Europe shaped by Christianity. For the early Christians, the monotheistic concept of God,which was adopted from Judaism, was an elementary part of their self-image. Not always takeninto account was the fact that monotheistic trends were also noticed in ancient polytheisticculture, trends that are discussed as »pagan monotheism«. The articles in this volume analyzemonotheistic concepts, arguments and models using authors from late antiquity as examples.The authors deal with signi?cant aspects of monotheistic thinking in which the development ofcomplex ancient monotheism is expressed in Christian and in »pagan« texts as well.
Reviews (known so far):
VAN NUFFELEN, Peter, in: ThLZ 139 (2014) 1457/59
EDWARDS, Mark J., in: JEH 66 (2015) 837/8
https://ixtheo.de/Record/1045951641
Psalm 82 is supposed to be one of the “most spectacular texts of the Old Testament” (Erich Zenger). The concrete reason for discussing it is the debate on monotheism in which it plays a major role, declaring nothing less than the death of the other gods. After clarifying its basics and backgrounds within the Old Testament, this study begins with an analysis of the Jewish reception of this Psalm in the Septuagint (LXX Psalm 81) and in the Dead Sea Scrolls (11QMelchisedek). Subsequently, it focuses on the Psalm’s early Christian reception. After treating its only clear reference in the New Testament (John 10), this study turns to selected early Christian authors, who are divided into two groups: Authors commenting on individual verses of Psalm 82 (like Justin, Irenaeus, Clemens; Tertullian, Cyprian, Novatian) and authors providing a whole commentary on it (like Eusebius, Theodoret; Jerome, Augustine). The study aims to show three different patterns of interpreting this Psalm within its reception: christological, anthropological, and eschatological.
Reviews (known so far):
SCHULZ, Charles, in: CBQ 83 (2021) 495sq.
RENZ, Thomas, in: JSOT 44 (2020) 81sq.
ZIEMER, Benjamin, in: ThRv 116 (2020)
PAVAN, Marco, in: EstBib 78 (2020) 179–182
WISSEMANN, Maren, in: ZAW 132 (2020) 165
WEBER, Beat, in: RBL 1 (2020)
PASCHKE, Boris, in: NRT 141 (2019) 655
KREMSER, Konrad, in: bbs 7 (2019)
mentlichen Texten,” and “Rabbinische und patristische Perspektiven”), along with an introduction and a summary.
This volume is published in memory of Peter W. Flint, who passed away unexpectedly in 2016.
A brief preface written by Amanda Flint is followed by an introduction, “Peter Flint in Memoriam,” by Ananda Geyser-Fouché and John J. Collins.
The volume contains seventeen essays organized into six different areas: (1) “Text and Canon,” (2) “Text-Critical Studies,” (3) “Canon and Authority,” (4) “Scribal Practice,” (5) “Language,” and (6) “Thematic Studies.