Background
François Bovon was born on the 13th of March, 1938 in Lausanne, Switzerland; the son of André and Hélène (Mayor) Bovon.
1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
François Bovon earned a license en théologie from the University of Lausanne in 1961.
Petersplatz 1, 4001 Basel, Switzerland
François Bovon obtained a Doctor of Theology from the University of Basel in 1965.
(In this completely revised and updated edition, François ...)
In this completely revised and updated edition, François Bovon provides a critical assessment of the last fifty-five years of scholarship on Luke-Acts. The study divides thematically, with individual chapters covering the subjects of history and eschatology, the role of the Old Testament, Christology, the Holy Spirit, conversion, and the church.
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1987
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This collection of essays reflects the focal points of Francois Bovon's interest during the last years: the New Testament, the ancient church, and Christian apocryphal literature. Eight articles deal with Luke and Acts, and their subject matter ranges from a report on the state of the question to a detailed analysis of Luke's use of Scripture and the formal aspects of quotation.
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2003
(Acclaimed New Testament scholar Francois Bovon engagingly...)
Acclaimed New Testament scholar Francois Bovon engagingly and concisely explores the last days of Jesus. Detailing the similarities and differences in the passion narratives of the four canonical Gospels and the Gospel of Peter, he shows that these stories were not composed by objective witnesses but are reflections of the perspectives of those who wrote them. This lucid, highly readable, yet critical appraisal of Jesus' final days is a masterful example of the discipline of biblical studies.
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2006
(In this volume, world-renowned biblical scholar François ...)
In this volume, world-renowned biblical scholar François Bovon provides twenty-two studies on topics in New Testament and early Christianity. The studies cover three areas: Luke-Acts, New Testament theology, and apocryphal and patristic literature. Originally published in hardcover by Mohr Siebeck in the Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament series, this collection includes translations of ten studies originally available only in French.
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2011
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This is the second volume of Francois Bovon's three-volume commentary on the Gospel of Luke, covering the narration of Jesus travel on the road to Jerusalem the occasion in Luke of most of Jesus teachings to the disciples regarding faithfulness, perseverance, and the practice of justice and mercy.
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2013
François Bovon was born on the 13th of March, 1938 in Lausanne, Switzerland; the son of André and Hélène (Mayor) Bovon.
François Bovon studied at Collège Classique Cantoual in Lausanne, where he received a certificate ès letters in 1954. He attended Gymnase Classique Cantonal in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1956. He earned a license en théologie from the University of Lausanne in 1961 and obtained a Doctor of Theology from the University of Basel in 1965.
Bovon also studied at the Universities of Göttingen, Strasbourg, Edinburgh. In 1993, he got an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Theology at Uppsala University, Sweden.
François Bovon began serving at Swiss Army Infantry in 1958. He launched his academic career at the University of Geneva's divinity school, both as a professor from 1967 to 1993 and as dean from 1976 to 1979. During his tenure at Geneva, he also held numerous visiting professorships in Switzerland and Italy.
Bovon joined Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge in 1993, teaching New Testament and early Christian literature, and he was chair of the New Testament Department from 1993 to 1998 and again from 2001 to 2002. From 2000 to 2010, François was editor of Harvard Theological Review, one of the longest-running scholarly theological journals in the United States.
Bovon published more than 200 articles, book chapters, and essays on early Christian studies and Christology. His first work, De vocatione gentium was published in 1967. His critical edition of the Acts of Philip, done in collaboration with Bouvier and Frédéric Amsler, was published as volume 11 in the Corpus Christianorum: Series Apocryphorum by Brepols in 1999. Some of his most recent publications include The Last Days of Jesus in 2006 and New Testament and Christian Apocrypha in 2011.
Bovon was also an ordained minister of the Église évangélique réformée du Canton de Vaud and of the Église protestante de Genève in Switzerland.
(This is the second volume of Francois Bovon's three-volum...)
2013(This collection of essays reflects the focal points of Fr...)
2003(In this completely revised and updated edition, François ...)
1987(In this volume, world-renowned biblical scholar François ...)
2011(Acclaimed New Testament scholar Francois Bovon engagingly...)
2006Quotations: "I consider myself as a scholar and a theologian. As a scholar, I am an expert on Christian origins and the first centuries of Christianity. My major works deal with Jesus, the Gospel of Luke, the Acts of the apostles, and the noncanonical stories about the apostles. As a theologian, I try to show the relevance of biblical thought and Christian doctrines of the past for the future of humanity".
François Bovon was a member of Académie Internationale des Sciences Religieuses, Association pour l'Étude de la Littérature Apocryphe Chrétienne, Swiss Society of Theology, and Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas.
Quotes from others about the person
"It was always a great pleasure to be François' colleague. His careful exegetical detail and critical engagement were pervaded with a deep passion of faith and intellectual honesty, curiosity, and courage that was inspiring. He was truly a gentleman, a person for whom the name gentle is most definitely appropriate. He brought a bit of European formality, reserve, and elegance to grace our faculty - all with unreserved kindness and good cheer that I for one learned to count on and will miss terribly". - Karen L. King, Hollis Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School.
"François was a friend who happened to be a colleague at the Divinity School. For me, he was a living link to the Reformed (Calvinist) tradition, my native tradition and his and for him a tradition that was also familial, as his father was an important minister within the Swiss Reformed. It was also something to be re-examined, as happened when he studied with Karl Barth. He was far more than the sum of these influences, theologically and otherwise, a quietly independent thinker, ever attempting to connect the intricacies of textual scholarship with the formation of clergy within the wider Christian world". - David D. Hall, Bartlett Research Professor of New England Church History at Harvard Divinity School.
François Bovon was married to Annegreth Thurneysen, but they divorced later. They had two children, Pierre who died in 1996 and Martin.