Martin G. Ruf

  1. Current position
  2. Education
  3. Publications
  4. Teaching
  5. Current project
  6. Further information
M. G. Ruf
Current position

PhD student at the Department of Theology, Utrecht University.

Education

1988 - 1995    Studies of theology, Latin language and literature as well as Biblical Hebrew language and literature in Heidelberg and Marburg, Germany; First State Examination for Secondary School Teachers, theology and Latin language and literature, Ruprecht-Karls-Universtität, Heidelberg, Germany, 1994, Supplementary First State Examination for Secondary School Teachers, (biblical) Hebrew, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Heidelberg, Germany, 1995
1995 - 1997    Teacher Traineeship; Second State Examination for Secondary School Teachers, Religious Education and Latin language, Staatliches Seminar für Schulpädagogik Heidelberg, Germany 1997
1999 - 2003    Studies of French language, literature and culture in Halle/Saale, Germany; Supplementary First State Examination for Secondary School Teachers, French language and literature, Martin-Luther-Universität, Halle/Saale, Germany, 2003

Publications
Articles

Ruf, M. (2007). ‘Zoff bei Beelzebuls (Beelzebulgleichnis) - Mk 3,22-26’. In: R. Zimmermann in Zusammenarbeit mit D. Dormeyer, G. Kern, A. Merz, C. Münch, E.E. Popkes (eds.), Kompendium der Gleichnisse Jesu (Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus 2007), 278-286.

Teaching experience

1995 - 1997    junior teacher of Religious Education and Latin, Lieselotte-Gymnasium and Elisabeth-Gymnasium Mannheim, Germany
1997 - 2005    teacher of Religious Education, Latin and French, Dr. Tolberg-Gymnasium, later Dr. Carl-Hermann-Gymnasium, Schönebeck/Elbe, Germany
2004 - 2005    German teacher, Lycée Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, Mirecourt, France

Current project

Second Peter as a metatextual document.
The text of the Second Letter of Peter shows traces of the reuse of other writings: quotations, allusions, commenting and valuing remarks etc. Taking these traces as a point of departure, this project wants to explore the position taken by the author  of the Second Letter of Peter towards these other writings. Intertextual theory furnishes a suitable theoretical background for this approach by claiming that every reference to another text is linked with a process of semantization. As the attribution of a certain value or role to certain (religious!) texts is also a means of canalizing the existing tradition, the results of this project will contribute to the insight in the mechanisms of the construction of religious identity.

Further information

For further information about this individual project, previous work, or related questions, please contact Martin Ruf at: M.G.Ruf@uu.nl. For obtaining more information about the project in general, see Contact.

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