Joachim Jeremias – författare

Dr Jeremias argues that the historical truth can be detected beneath the traditions preserved in the New Testament about the Last Supper. It was a climax of a series of Messianic meals, this time a passover meal. Jesus himself abstained, in anticipation of the new Exodus, to be initiated by the breaking of his body and the outpouring of his blood, but at it the disciples received a share in the atoning power of their Lord's sufferings.

'This attractively produced volume is a fully documented work of scholarship from a scholar of international repute and has for some years now provided an important new work of reference on everything pertaining to the religious, social and economic background of the Holy City in the time of Christ.' (New Blackfriars)'The whole work is a superb quarry of information ... everyone should be richly instructed by its study.' (Times Literary Supplement)`Professor Jeremias brings a deep love for the place to his erudition, particularly in the realm of Jewish sources, and the result is a book of outstanding merit' (Church of England Newspaper)Until his death in 1979, Joachim Jeremias was Emeritus Professor of New Testament in the University of Gottingen.

The almost exclusively Jewish scope of the ministry of Jesus has often been explained as a deliberate concentration with a view to ultimate expansion. To this Dr Jeremias adds the further explanation that Jesus' own thought and policy were guided by a pattern of Old Testament expectation which enabled him to look forward confidently to the pilgrimage of the Gentiles to the Mount of God at the final consumation, and accordingly to preach a bold universalism, while at the same time remaining content during his ministry to limit his actual appeal to the Jews. Dr Jeremias argues his case as always with a wealth of very instructive erudition' (C. F. D. Moule in JTS). Joachim Jeremias, who died in 1979, was Professor Emeritus of New Testament in the University of Gottingen.

This classic work of twentieth-century German biblical scholarship has become a classic in the field of New Testament studies.

This volume, which was formerly published as one of the series Studies in Biblical Theology, is now reissued independently. It contains three essays which 'show the combination of massive learning with fresh and limpid piety that distinguishes all Jeremias's work' (Theology): 'Abba.', 'Daily Prayer in the Life of Jesus and the Primitive Church' and 'The Lord's Prayer in the Light of Recent Research'.

Joachim Jeremias' The Parables of Jesus is a classic of twentieth-century New Testament scholarship. However, to appreciate its original form to the full calls for a knowledge of Greek, and patience to work through much technical and linguistic material. Aware of this, before he died the author worked on a shorter and simplified version which was subsequently also translated into English.'This is an excellent idea, because a book which became for many students a gateway into a new understanding of the parables is now available, in its main substance, to a much wider group of readers'(The Expository Times).Long unavailable, it is now reissued for a new generation of readers who will perhaps find it even more useful than did their predecessors.Joachim Jeremias was Professor of New Testament in the University of Gottingen and died in 1979.

In this text, Joachim Jeremias explores the variety of ways of interpreting the parables of Jesus, including their translation; the way different audiences altered the parables Jesus told; and the role of the New Testament writers in shaping their telling of the parables. He also provides a thematic discussion of the theological messages contained within the parables.

A profound study of infant baptism in the early church by one of the twentieth century's leading New Testament scholars.