Albertus Klijn
{{short description|Dutch religious scholar}}
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| alma_mater = Utrecht University
| thesis_title = "Western" Text of the Gospels and Acts
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| thesis_year = 1949
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| discipline = New Testament scholar
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Albertus Frederik Johannes Klijn (17 April 1923 – 30 May 2012) was a Dutch scholar of the New Testament and early Judaism and Christianity at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. He was best known for his introductory work on the New Testament, and then later for his publications on early Christian apocryphal literature.
Klijn studied theology at Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht, and submitted his doctoral dissertation in 1949 on the "Western" Text of the Gospels and Acts. In 1951 he became a Reformed pastor in Heinkenszand, Zeeland. Four years later he began teaching, returning to the University of Utrecht as a lecturer. In 1967 Klijn was appointed professor of early Christian literature and interpretation of the New Testament at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. It was at Groningen that he began to specialize in second-temple Jewish pseudepigrapha and in early Christian literature. Klijn was the editor of the series "De prediking van het Nieuwe Testament: Een theologische commentaar", to which he himself contributed volumes on the Pastoral Epistles (1994), the Epistle to the Hebrews (1975) and the Epistle to the Philippians (1974). Klijn retired from Groningen in 1986.
Select works
=Thesis=
- {{cite thesis|author1-last=Klijn |author1-first=Albertus F. J. |title=A Survey of the Researches into the Western Text of the Gospels and Acts |type=Ph.D. |location=Utrecht |publisher=Utrecht University |date=1949 |oclc=4278387 }}
=Books=
- {{cite book|author1-last=Klijn |author1-first=Albertus F. J. |title=Edessa, de stad van de apostel Thomas: Het oudste Christendom in Syrië |series=Neukirchener Studienbücher |volume=4 |location=Neukirchen-Vluyn |publisher=Neukirchener Verlag des Erziehung svereins |date=1965 |oclc=5255941 }}
- {{cite book|author1-last=Klijn |author1-first=Albertus F. J. |author1-mask=3 |title=A Survey of the Researches into the Western Text of the Gospels and Acts; part 2: 1949-1969 |series=Supplements to Novum Testamentum |volume=21 |location=Leiden |publisher=Brill |date=1969 |isbn=9789004016019 |oclc=130026}}
- {{cite book|author1-last=Klijn |author1-first=Albertus F. J. |author1-mask=3 |author2-last=Reinink |author2-first=G. J. |author2-link=G. J. Reinink |title=Patristic Evidence for Jewish-Christian Sects |location=Leiden |date=1973 }}
- {{cite book|author1-last=Klijn |author1-first=Albertus F. J. |author1-mask=3 |title=Na het Nieuwe Testament; de christelijke literatuur uit de tweede eeuw. ISBN 9025940366 |location=Baarn|publisher=Ten Have|date=1973 }}
- {{cite book|author1-last=Klijn |author1-first=Albertus F. J. |author1-mask=3 |title=De wordingsgeschiedenis van het Nieuwe Testament |edition=4th updated |location=Utrecht |date=1974 }}
- {{cite book|author1-last=Klijn |author1-first=Albertus F. J. |author1-mask=3 |title=Seth in Jewish, Christian and Gnostic Literature |location=Leiden |date=1977 }}
- {{cite book|author1-last=Klijn |author1-first=Albertus F. J. |author1-mask=3 |title=An Introduction to the New Testament |location=Leiden |date=1980 }} - English translation of De wordingsgeschiedenis van het Nieuwe Testament
- {{cite book|author1-last=Klijn |author1-first=Albertus F. J. |author1-mask=3 |title=Der lateinische Text der Apokalypse des Esra |series=Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur |volume=131 |location=Berlin |publisher=Akademie-Verlag |date=1983 |oclc=10538911 }}
- {{cite book|author1-last=Klijn |author1-first=Albertus F. J. |author1-mask=3 |title=Apostolische vaders: Vertaald, ingeleid en toegelicht |volume=1 |location=Kampen |date=1981 }}
- {{cite book|author1-last=Klijn |author1-first=Albertus F. J. |author1-mask=3 |title=Apostolische vaders: Vertaald, ingeleid en toegelicht |volume=2 |location=Kampen |date=1983 }}
- {{cite book|author1-last=Klijn |author1-first=Albertus F. J. |author1-mask=3 |author2-last=Leemhuis |author2-first=F. |author2-link=F. Leemhuis |author3-last=van Gelder |author3-first=G. J. H. |author3-link=G. J. H. van Gelder |title=The Arabic Text of the Apocalypse of Baruch: Edited and Translated with a Parallel Translation of the Syriac Text |location=Leiden |date=1986 }}
- {{cite book|author1-last=Klijn |author1-first=Albertus F. J. |author1-mask=3 |title=Jewish-Christian Gospel Tradition |url=https://archive.org/details/jewishchristiang0000klij |url-access=registration |location=Leiden |date=1992 }}
- {{cite book|author1-last=Klijn |author1-first=Albertus F. J. |author1-mask=3 |title=Die Esra-Apokalypse (IV. Esra), nach dem lateinischen Text unter Benutzung der anderen Versionen |location=Berlin |date=1992 }}
- {{cite book|author1-last=Klijn |author1-first=Albertus F. J. |author1-mask=3 |title=Het ontstaan van een nieuw testament |location=Baarn |date=1995 }}
- {{cite book|author1-last=Klijn |author1-first=Albertus F. J. |author1-mask=3 |title=The Acts of Thomas: Introduction, Text, and Commentary |series=Supplements to Novum Testamentum |volume=108 |edition= 2nd revised|location=Leiden & Boston |publisher=Brill |date=2003 |isbn=9781417505975 |oclc=55505373 }}
- {{cite book|author1-last=Klijn |author1-first=Albertus F. J. |author1-mask=3 |title=De apocriefen van het Nieuwe Testament: Buitenbijbelse evangeliën, handelingen, brieven en openbaringen |location=Kampen |date=2006 }}
=Articles & Chapters=
- {{cite journal|author1-last=Klijn |author1-first=Albertus F. J. |author1-mask=3 |title=A Survey of the Researches into the Western Text of the Gospels and Acts (1949-1959) |journal=Novum Testamentum |volume=3 |issue=1 |date=1959 |pages=1–27 |doi=10.1163/156853659X00110 }}
- {{cite journal|author1-last=Klijn |author1-first=Albertus F. J. |author1-mask=3 |title=A Survey of the Researches into the Western Text of the Gospels and Acts (1949-1959) |journal=Novum Testamentum |volume=3 |issue=2 |date=1959 |pages=161–73 }}
Festschriften
- Tjitze Baarda (ed.), Text and Testimony: Essays on New Testament and Apocryphal Literature in Honour of A. F. J. Klijn (Kampen 1988)
References
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External links
- [http://www.refdag.nl/kerkplein/kerknieuws/prof_a_f_j_klijn_overleden_1_648713 "Prof. A. F. J. Klijn overleden", Reformatorisch Dagblad, 1 June 2012]
- [http://www.oogtv.nl/2012/06/hoogleraar-klijn-overleden/ "Hoogleraar Klijn overleden", Omroep Groningen, 1 June 2012]
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Category:Dutch biblical scholars
Category:Dutch historians of religion
Category:New Testament scholars