ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE BIBLE AND ITS RECEPTION
Edited by
Hans-Josef Klauck, Bernard McGinn, Choon-Leong Seow, Hermann Spieckermann, Barry Dov Walfish, Eric Ziolkowski
in cooperation with
Dale Allison, Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, Donna Bowman, Brian Britt, Michael Cameron, Ran HaCohen, Jamey Deming, Martin Forward, Peter Gemeinhardt, Haim Goldfus, Menachem Kellner, Ann E. Killebrew, David W. Kling, Volker Leppin, Paul Mendes-Flohr, Martti Nissinen, Dennis T. Olson, Nils Holger Petersen, S. Brent Plate, Christine Roy Yoder, Thomas Römer, Günter Stemberger, Marvin A. Sweeney, Johan C. Thom, David R. Thomas, Samuel Vollenweider, Jan G. van der Watt, Sidnie White Crawford
Name
Prof. Dr. Jan G. van der Watt
Function
Professor and Head of Department of New Testament Studies
Address
University of Pretoria
Pretoria 0002
South Africa
Telephone +27 (0)12 4202384 or +27 (0)12 991 3482
Fax +27 (0)12 991 3482
E-Mail jgvdw@icon.co.za or jgvdw@ccnet.up.ac.za
Biography
Holds Doctor Divinitatis (New Testament) and Doctor Philosophiae (Greek). Professor in New Testament Studies since 1986 at the Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria. Adjunct professor at as well as personal advisor to rector of the Christian University of St Petersburg. Received Alexander von Humboldt fellowship, is member of the Centre of Theological Inquiry (Princeton); Mercator International Professor (Germany); Beeson International visiting Scholar (Asbury Theological Seminary). Member of editorial board of and presently general editor of Review of Biblical Literature. Received award as ‘outstanding academic achiever’ several times from the University of Pretoria and is currently on highest ranking by the National Research Council of South Africa held by (non-retired) theologian in South Africa. Tyndale fellow and member of the South African Academy of Arts and Science. Published 40 books inter alia a translation of the New Testament in Afrikaans (with S. Joubert), translation of OT and several NT apocryphal books as well as some early Church Fathers into Afrikaans, Authored Family of the King. Dynamics of metaphor in the Gospel according to John. Brill: Leiden, 2000. Editor of Salvation in the New Testament. Perspectives on soteriology. Brill:Leiden, 2005 and Christology and theology in the Gospel of John. Peters:Leuven, 2005 (with G. van Belle). Published about 70 articles in journals and books.