ABSTRACT
Joachim Jeremias was born in Dresden, Germany, in 1900. As a youth, he spent five years in Jerusalem while his father was the provost of the Deutsche Gemeinde. Jeremias later studied oriental languages and theology at the University of Leipzig where he received a Ph.D. in 1922. He went on to serve as a professor at the University of Greifswald from 1929 to 1934, and then held the New Testament chair from 1935 to 1968 at the University of Göttingen. During his distinguished career Jeremias received several honorary doctorates from many prestigious universities, including Oxford, Uppsala, Leipzig, and St Andrews.
