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Thomas L. Thompson (born January 7, 1939 in Detroit, Michigan) is a biblical scholar and theologian. He was professor of theology at the University of Copenhagen from 1993 to 2009, lives in Denmark and is now a Danish citizen. Thompson is closely associated with the movement known as The Copenhagen School, dubbed biblical minimalism by detractors (other major figures include Niels Peter Lemche, Keith Whitelam, and Philip R. Davies), a loosely knit group of scholars who hold that the Bible's version of history is not supported by any archaeological evidence so far unearthed, indeed undermined by it, and that it therefore cannot be trusted as history.).〔Maurice Casey ''Jesus: Evidence and Argument or Mythicist Myths?'' T&T Clark 2014 THOMAS L. THOMPSON p.24〕 ==Biography== Thompson was raised as a Catholic and obtained a B.A. from Duquesne University, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, in 1962. He was instructor in theology at Dayton University (1964–65) and Assistant Professor in Old Testament studies at the University of Detroit (1967–69). He then studied Catholic Theology under the Catholic faculty at the University of Tübingen, completing his Ph.D. dissertation, "The Historicity of the Patriarchal Narratives: The Quest for the Historical Abraham", in 1971. He also worked as a research fellow on the Tübingen Atlas of the Near East. According to Thompson, the dissertation was rejected because his examiner (Joseph Ratzinger, then Tübingen's Professor of Systematic Theology and later Pope Benedict XVI) did not find it fitting for a Catholic theologian. Thompson then considered submitting his dissertation to the Protestant faculty at Tübingen, but left Tübingen in 1975 without a degree. He was invited to finish his studies at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, receiving his Ph.D. in Old Testament Studies ''summa cum laude'' in 1976.〔Thompson, Thomas L. 2011. On the Problem of Critical Scholarship: A Memoire ()〕〔http://www.encyclopedia.com/article-1G2-3090200153/thompson-thomas-l-1939.html〕 His dissertation study was rejected by Catholic university presses, but was published in 1974 by De Gruyter Press as ''The Historicity of the Patriarchal Narratives''.〔(P.R.F. Moorey, "A Century of Biblical Archaeology", p.114 ).〕 It provoked controversy, and Thompson states that this was what prevented him from obtaining a position in any North American university.〔Thompson, Thomas ''The Mythic Past'' (Basic Books: New York, 1999) pg. xiii〕 Unable to find work in U.S. academia in the late 1970s and early 1980s, he worked as a high school teacher, janitor and house painter until in 1984 he was awarded the guest professorship at the École Biblique in Jerusalem. Thompson states that the École was heavily criticized for hiring him by certain Israeli circles who, according to him, objected to his earlier study casting doubt on the historicity of the Jewish origin narratives. He then worked on Palestinian place names under U.N.E.S.C.O., but the project was closed amidst accusations of antisemitism because of Thompson's critique of Israeli practices of de-Arabicizing Palestinian place names.〔 He taught at Lawrence University (visiting associate professor, 1988–89) and at Marquette University (associate professor 1989–1993), but did not receive tenure, something Thompson blames on conservative Catholics in the faculty under the influence of Ratzinger. In 1990, he met Danish theologian Niels Peter Lemche at a conference and in 1993 joined the faculty of the department of Theology at the University of Copenhagen as Professor in Old Testament exegesis. He retired and was granted emeritus status in 2009. Thompson was named a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow in 1988. He is general editor for the series ''Copenhagen International Seminar'' and associate editor of the ''Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament'', and serves on the editorial boards of the journals ''Holy Land Studies'' and ''Dansk Teologisk Tidsskrift''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thomas L. Thompson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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