Martin Hengel

Martin Hengel (born 14 December, 1926) is a German scholar of religion, focusing on the "Second-Temple Period" or "Hellenistic Period" of early Judaism, which encompasses 200 BCE to 200 CE. He is Emeritus Professor of New Testament and Early Judaism at the University of Tübingen. Martin specializes in the early period of Rabbinical Judaism including early Christianity and the field known as Christian Origins.

Current work

This period of Judaism includes early Christianity and the field known as Christian Origins. Much scholarly work is currently being done around the intersection of Hellenism, Judaism, Paganism, and Christianity and the ways in which these terms are potentially problematic for the Second-Temple era. Such work of the past two or three decades follows 50 years of work by scholars such as Martin Hengel who reconceptualized the scholarly approach to the period in such works as Judentum und Hellenismus.