Ruben Zimmermann (born May 10, 1968) is a German Theologian, New Testament Scholar and Ethicist, currently Professor at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany. [1]
Ruben Zimmermann (born May 10, 1968) is a German Theologian, New Testament Scholar and Ethicist, currently Professor at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany. [1]
Zimmerman received his PhD at the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg in 1999, and his Habilitation at the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich in 2003. From 2005–2009, he was Professor for Biblical Studies at Bielefeld University; since then he is Professor for New Testament and Ethics at the Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz.
He is Co-leader of the Mainz Research Center for Ethics in Antiquity and Christianity (e/ac), [lower-alpha 1] and he has been elected as one of 15 advanced career scholars in the Templeton "Enhancing Life Project". [3]
Zimmermann is member of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation and was awarded with the Feodor-Lynen-Fellowship and with fundings as visiting scholar in Pretoria (University of Pretoria, 2008), Nijmegen (Radboud University, 2010), Melbourne (Australian Catholic University, 2016), New Haven (Yale University, Divinity School, 2024).
His areas of research are in ethics (ethical theory, biblical ethics, applied ethics, e.g. bioethics and climate/earth ethics [4] ) the Gospel of John, the parables of Jesus, and miracle stories. Challenging scholarly consensus Zimmermann identifies also parables in the Gospel of John, such as the parable of the good shepherd (John 10:1-5) or the dying grain (John 12:24). [5] In the Stone-Chaple-Podcast he talks about his approach on the parables of Jesus. See Stone-Chaple-Podcast Episode 190 and 191
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