Barbara Aland

Barbara Aland (née Ehlers, 12 April 1937 – 10 November 2024) was a German theologian and professor of New Testament Research and Church History at the University of Münster until 2002. She was internationally recognized for her work on the Novum Testamentum Graece and the Greek New Testament, which she undertook with her husband, Kurt Aland.

Life and career

Barbara Ehlers was born in Hamburg on 12 April 1937.

Honours

Aland achieved the following honorary doctoral degrees: 1988: "D.Litt." (Doctor of Literature), Wartburg College (Waverly/Iowa)

She received following awards: 1998: of Münster 2005: Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge 2006: Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences 2011: Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 2016: Burkitt Medal for Biblical Studies

Works Dissertation (as Barbara Ehlers): Eine vorplatonische Deutung des sokratischen Eros. Der Dialog Aspasia des Sokratikers Aischines. Dissertation. Frankfurt am Main 1964, published 1966 (, issue 41).

Monographs (with Kurt Aland): Der Text des Neuen Testaments. Einführung in die wissenschaftlichen Ausgaben sowie in Theorie und Praxis der modernen Textkritik, 1982. English translation: The text of the New Testament. An introduction to the critical editions and to the theory and practice of modern textual criticism. 1987. Erziehung durch Kirchengeschichte? Ein Plädoyer für mehr Kirchengeschichte im Religionsunterricht. Published: Idea e.V., 1984. Frühe direkte Auseinandersetzung zwischen Christen, Heiden und Häretikern. 2005. Was ist Gnosis? Studien zum frühen Christentum, zu Marcion und zur kaiserzeitlichen Philosophie. 2009 Editions of the New Testament A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament. A Companion Volume to the United Bible Societies Greek New Testament (third edition) by B. M. Metzger on behalf of and in cooperation with the Editorial Committee of the United Bible Societies Greek New Testament K. Aland, M. Black, C. M. Martini, B. M. Metzger and A. Wikgren, 1971. Novum Testamentum Graece post Eberhard Nestle et Erwin Nestle communiter ed. K. Aland, M. Black, C. M. Martini, B. M. Metzger, A. Wikgren, apparatum criticum recens. et editionem novis curis elaborav. K. Aland et B. Aland una cum Instituto studiorum textus Novi Testamenti Monasteriensi (Westphalia), 26th edition, 1979. Novum Testamentum Latine. Novam Vulgatam Bibliorum Sacrorum Editionem secuti apparatibus titulisque additis ediderunt Kurt Aland et Barbara Aland una cum Instituto studiorum textus Novi Testamenti Monasteriensi, 1984. Griechisch-deutsches Wörterbuch zu den Schriften des Neuen Testaments und der frühchristlichen Literatur by Walter Bauer. 6th edition, Institut für Neutestamentliche Textforschung Münster, with Viktor Reichmann, ed. by Kurt Aland and Barbara Aland, 1988. Publications Gnosis. Festschrift für Hans Jonas, with Ugo Bianchi, ed. by Barbara Aland, 1978. Günther Zuntz: Lukian von Antiochien und der Text der Evangelien. ed. Barbara Aland and Klaus Wachtel. With an obituary for the author by Martin Hengel, 1995. Die Weltlichkeit des Glaubens in der Alten Kirche. Festschrift für Ulrich Wickert zum siebzigsten Geburtstag. With Barbara Aland and Christoph Schäublin, ed. by Dietmar Wyrwa, 1997. Literarische Konstituierung von Identifikationsfiguren in der Antike, ed. by Barbara Aland, 2003.