Ruben Zimmermann

Ruben Zimmermann (born May 10, 1968) is a German Theologian, New Testament Scholar and Ethicist, currently Professor at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany.

[1] Zimmerman received his PhD at the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg in 1999, and his Habilitation at the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich in 2003.

He is Co-leader of the Mainz Research Center for Ethics in Antiquity and Christianity (e/ac),[a] and he has been elected as one of 15 advanced career scholars in the Templeton "Enhancing Life Project".

[3] Zimmermann is member of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation and was awarded with the Feodor-Lynen-Fellowship and with fundings as visiting scholar in Pretoria (University of Pretoria, 2008), Nijmegen (Radboud University, 2010), Melbourne (Australian Catholic University, 2016), New Haven (Yale University, Divinity School, 2024).

[5] In the Stone-Chaple-Podcast he talks about his approach on the parables of Jesus.