Tobias Nicklas

Tobias Nicklas (born 9 August, 1967) is a German professor of the New Testament at the University of Regensburg.

Biography Nicklas was born in Burglengenfeld, Bavaria, West Germany on 9 August, 1967. He studied mathematics and Catholic theology at the University of Regensburg for his education, beginning in 1987. He began his doctoral program at Regensburg in 1997, which he completed in December 2000 with a doctorate in theology with as his advisor. He finished his habilitation in June 2004, and was appointed a lecturer at Regensburg in September 2004. He acquired work as an associate professor at Radboud University Nijmegen in April 2005 in the New Testament, and worked there until 2007. In 2007, he returned to Regensburg where he had spent so many years in study after acquiring a full professorship there. He teaches the New Testament and its exegesis in the Faculty of Catholic Theology.

In 2018, Regensburg established the Centre for Advanced Studies "Beyond Canon" project, with support from the German Research Foundation. Nicklas serves as its director, and it funds research by various academics into biblical apocrypha and the wider world of Early Christianity and medieval Christianity, including folk religion. One of the core messages from its research was that the boundaries between the canonical and "parabiblical" traditions were not fixed, and authority and recognition came from both among Christians.

Nicklas has served as co-editor of Novum Testamentum Patristicum, a scholarly book series published by Brill, and Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, a long-running series published by Mohr Siebeck.

Nicklas married his wife Eva in 1994; the two have four children together.

Research Nicklas has researched and published on Johannine literature, works in the New Testament attributed to the apostle John and related Johannine communities, including the Book of Revelation.

(later reprinted and revised in 2010, 2015, 2017)

(translation of a 2021 German work, )

Monograph collections edited by Nicklas include: