Education
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.
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Career
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). He earned his Habilitation (Doctor 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.
Theobald has also been elected to membership in the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Halle (Saale).
Membership
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).
