13 Facts About David Trobisch

David Johannes Trobisch was born on on August 18,1958 and is a German scholar whose work has focused on formation of the Christian Bible, ancient New Testament manuscripts and the epistles of Paul.

Trobisch grew up in Cameroon where his parents served as Lutheran missionaries, and David Trobisch grew up in West Africa.

David Trobisch went to school in Austria and after passing the Abitur, in 1976, he moved to Germany and studied Koine Greek at Augustana Divinity School.

David Trobisch studied in Tubingen, and in 1977 he studied biblical Hebrew at the Heidelberg University.

In 1982 David Trobisch earned his Master of Theology from Heidelberg University.

From 1995, David Trobisch holds his Habilitation with the thesis Die Endredaktion des Neuen Testaments: eine Untersuchung zur Entstehung der christlichen Bibel from Heidelberg University.

David Trobisch has taught at Heidelberg University, Missouri State University, and Yale Divinity School.

David Trobisch served as the founding Director of Museum of the Bible.

David Trobisch is recognized for his work on the Letters of Paul, the Formation of the Christian Bible, Performance Theory in Antiquity, and Bible Manuscripts.

David Trobisch is on the editorial board of the Novum Testamentum Graece.

Since the publication of his book The First Edition of the New Testament in 2000, David Trobisch has argued against the commonly held notion that the New Testament canon developed gradually over centuries.

David Trobisch argues that this "first edition of the New Testament" was published some time in the mid- to late second century.

David Trobisch holds the view, shared by scholars such as John Knox and Joseph Tyson, that the gospel used by Marcion is earlier than the canonical Luke-Acts, and that Luke-Acts was in fact published as a response to Marcion's canon, contemporaneously with the publishing of the first edition of the New Testament as a whole.