Greetings from Tübingen - review of 2021

by Birgit Hallmann

Review of the past year:

It is hard to believe that we are already at the end of the second year of the pandemic. The constantly changing conditions and restrictions were a great challenge for the Institute and the University. Currently, the access regulations for (unvaccinated) students had to be relaxed again after court cases, but there are still significantly fewer foreign students coming to study in Tübingen than two years ago....

In addition, the director, Beth Langstaff, has been seriously ill and has been unable to work for some time in the past year.

We are very grateful for all the support we have received both from the University (Prof. Tilly) and the many people who have accompanied us in prayer (EES and TCM).

Thanks to this support, we were able to complete the publication of the Symposium Volume on the Lord's Prayer and resume offering the English-German Colloquium f. NT on a weekly basis.

In the process, some of the meetings in the current winter semester also took place in person again, something that many people had greatly missed. At the same time, the good technical basis also made it possible for many participants from other countries to take part in the meetings online.

Some topics of this Semester:

Prof. H.D. Neef : Kritische Lektüre von Irmtraut Fischer, Liebe, Laster, Lust und Leiden. Sexualität im Alten Testament. Theologische Interpretationen 5, Stuttgart 2021

Tom Blanton (Erfurt) : On the Recently Discovered Apotropaic Amulets from Pompeii: Viewing Ritual Objects from the Perspective of „Lived Ancient Religion“.

Ben Nickodemus (Concordia Seminary in Saint Louis, Missouri): The concept of promise as a central element of Paul’s ethnic argument in Galatians 3-4.

There have also been farewells during 2021 We were very sad to hear the news Vicky Kindt Huxford, wife of Wye Huxford, passing in August 2021. In addition to her other accomplishments, Vicki also served as the EES Director of Operations in the U.S. office for several years.