Michael Theobald

Michael Theobald (born 7 March 1948) is a German academic theologian who is Professor of New Testament in the Catholic Theological Faculty at the University of Tübingen. His research focuses on the New Testament, particularly the Passion Narratives, the Gospel of John, and New Testament epistolary literature (especially the Apostle Paul's Letter to the Romans, and the pseudo-Pauline Epistle to the Ephesians and Pastoral Epistles).

Theobald studied theology at the Universities of Bonn and Münster (Germany) and received his Doctorate of Theology from the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany in 1979. He earned his Habilitation (Dr. habil.) at the University of Regensburg, Germany in 1985. Theobald was Professor for Biblical Theology at the Freie Universität Berlin from 1985-1989, and since 1989 has been full Professor of New Testament at the University of Tübingen. Since 2009, Theobald has been the chair of the Katholischen Bibelwerks. He is a member of the "Kollegium Theologie" of the Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft, of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas (SNTS), and of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft der deutschsprachigen Neutestamentler (AGNT). Theobald has also been elected to membership in the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Halle (Saale).

Theobald has published very highly regarded scholarship on a wide variety of New Testament topics, including monographs on the Prologue of and dominical sayings in the Gospel of John, commentaries on Romans and the Fourth Gospel, and many articles and essays. He has also worked on the revision of the German Einheitsübersetzung.

• Das Evangelium nach Johannes, Kapitel 1-12 (Regensburger Neues Testament; Regensburg 2009)
• Herrenworte im Johannesevangelium (Herders Biblische Studien 34; Freiburg 2002)
• Römerbrief, 2 vols. (Stuttgarter Kleiner Kommentar, Neues Testament 6/1-2; Stuttgart 2001-2003) (2nd/3rd edition)
• Studien zum Römerbrief (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 136; Tübingen 2001)
• "'Geboren aus dem Samen Davids ...' (Röm 1,3): Wandlungen im paulinischen Christus-Bild?" Zeitschrift für die Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 102 (2011) 235-260
• "Le prologue johannique et ses 'lecteurs implicites': Remarques sur une question toujours ouverte," Recherches de Science Religieuse 83 (1995) 193-216
• "Die Anfänge der Kirche: Zur Struktur von Lk. 5.1-6.19," New Testament Studies 30 (1984) 91-108