The Anglophone Significance of the Work of Joachim Jeremias *

Abstract

Following his outstanding tenure as Professor of New Testament Studies at the Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Joachim Jeremias died eleven years after his retirement in 1968 on the 6^th September 1979. Renowned as an eminent Neutestamentler throughout the world, with his works translated into many languages, a Symposium was held at the University in Göttingen in October 2019 to celebrate Jeremias’s life and scholarship on the occasion of the 40^th anniversary of his death. With contributions reflecting the breadth of his thinking and the depth of the affection in which he is still held, this particular contribution focussed on the Anglophone significance of Jeremias’s work not only as a Biblical scholar, with an encyclopaedic knowledge of the world of the Bible, but also to his sometimes indirect but significant contribution to the work of the ecumenical movement and the formation of clergy.