Michael Theobald (born 7 March 1948) is a German academic theologian who is Professor of New Testament in the Catholic Theological Faculty at the University of Tübingen.
Theobald's research focuses on the New Testament, particularly the Passion Narratives, the Gospel of John, and New Testament epistolary literature (especially the Apostle Paul's Letter to the Romans, and the pseudo-Pauline Epistle to the Ephesians and Pastoral Epistles).
[1] He is a member of the "Kollegium Theologie" of the Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft, of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas (SNTS), and of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft der deutschsprachigen Neutestamentler (AGNT).
Theobald has also been elected to membership in the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Halle (Saale).
Theobald has published very highly regarded scholarship on a wide variety of New Testament topics, including monographs on the Prologue of and dominical sayings in the Gospel of John, commentaries on Romans and the Fourth Gospel, and many articles and essays.