Reinhard Gregor Kratz (born July 25, 1957 in Offenbach am Main) is a German biblical scholar, historian of ancient Judaism, and Protestant theologian.
In his various authorial, editorial, advisory, and administrative capacities, Kratz has had a sizeable impact on research into the Hebrew Bible and ancient Judaism.
While serving as Privatdozent in Zürich, from 1991 to 1995, he obtained fellowships from the Deutsches Evangelisches Institut für Altertumswissenschaft des Heiligen Landes and the Heisenberg-Programm.
With such research, he has revitalized an historical account of the Old Testament literature that traces back to Julius Wellhausen—Wellhausen himself having furthered theses already advanced by such figures as Wilhelm Vatke, Eduard Reuss, Karl Heinrich Graf, and Abraham Kuenen.
[10] Kratz sits on a number of editorial boards, for series and journals alike, and on the steering committee for the Northern European research network Old Testament Studies: Epistemologies and Methods (OTSEM).