Jan Joosten (Theologe)
Vorlage:Use dmy dates Jan Joosten (born 17 May 1959 in Ekeren, Belgium) is a Belgian biblical scholar. Since 2014, he has been Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Oxford. He was previously Professor of the Old Testament at the University of Strasbourg.[1] He is a member of the Society of Biblical Literature.
Career
Joosten finished his studies in 1981 in Brussels. His areas of interest are the Septuagint, Syriac versions of the Bible, a biblical manuscript found at Qumran, and the Diatessaron.
Child pornography conviction
On June 18, 2020, Joosten was sentenced by the Saverne (Bas-Rhin) criminal court to one year in prison for holding thousands of child pornography videos and images.[2] Joosten admitted to offences, which included images of children being raped among the thousands of images and videos, dating from 2014–May 2020 after being exposed by Strasbourg LION (laboratoire d’investigation opérationnelle du numérique) as part of a lengthy investigation.[3]
Works
- "The Syriac Language of the Peshitta and Old Syriac Versions of Matthew. Syntactic Structure, Inner-Syriac Developments and Translation Technique", Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics 22 (Leiden, Brill, 1996)
- "People and Land in the Holiness Code. An Exegetical Study of the Ideational Framework of the Law in Leviticus 17–26", Supplements to Vetus Testamentum 67 (Leiden, Brill, 1996)
- "Édition (avec Ph. Le Moigne) des actes du colloque Aspects de la Bible grecque", dans la Revue des Sciences Religieuses 280 (1999), pp. 132–228.
- En collaboration avec Eberhard Bons et Stephan Kessler, Les Douze Prophètes. Osée, La Bible d'Alexandrie 23, 1 (Paris, Cerf, 2002).
- "The Dura Parchment and the Diatessaron", Vigiliae Christianae, 57, (2003), 159–175.
- "En collaboration avec Philippe Le Moigne, L'apport de la Septante aux études sur l'Antiquité". Actes du colloque de Strasbourg 8 et 9 novembre 2002, Lectio Divina 203 (Paris, Cerf, 2005).
See also
References
External links
- Jan Joosten at the University of Strasbourg
- Publications of Jan Joosten
- Joosten Sentenced by Criminal Court
Vorlage:Regius Professors of Hebrew (Oxbridge) Vorlage:University of Oxford
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- ↑ Regius Professor of Hebrew, Oxford University: Jan Joosten. In: Press release. GOV.UK, abgerufen am 22. Januar 2015.
- ↑ Joosten Sentenced by Criminal Court.
- ↑ https://www.dna.fr/faits-divers-justice/2020/06/19/un-professeur-d-universite-juge-pour-detention-d-images-pedopornographiques?fbclid=IwAR2DOLRj3RKRheHnPPExKaV1LPynPe7154PEX-c8GqzKCWpL0S1NRUrG6_w