10 Facts About Joachim Jeremias

Joachim Jeremias was a German Lutheran theologian, scholar of Near Eastern Studies and university professor for New Testament studies.

Joachim Jeremias was born in Dresden and spent his formative years in Jerusalem, where between 1910 and 1918 his father, Friedrich Jeremias, worked as Provost of the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer.

Joachim Jeremias studied Lutheran theology and Oriental languages at the universities of Tubingen and Leipzig.

In 1976, Joachim Jeremias moved from Gottingen to Tubingen, where he died in 1979.

Joachim Jeremias's achievements found national and international acknowledgment, recognized by the admission into the Gottingen Academy of Sciences in 1948 and the award of honorary doctorates from the universities of Leipzig, St Andrews, Uppsala, and Oxford.

Joachim Jeremias became a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1958.

Joachim Jeremias was elected a corresponding fellow of the British Academy in 1973.

Joachim Jeremias worked with Wilhelm Schneemelcher in revisions of the Hennecke-Schneemelcher collection of New Testament Apocrypha.

Joachim Jeremias took a stand on the passages generally regarded as relating to Jesus in the Talmud which supported medieval rabbinical defences that the Yeshu the deceiver mentioned in the Talmud was a different Jesus from the Jesus of Christianity.

Joachim Jeremias himself recounted in 1966 that he had discovered the only known confirmed inscription of the spelling Yeshu in Bethesda, but that this inscription was now covered.