Thomas Christian Römer (born 13 December 1955) is a German-born Swiss biblical scholar, exegete, philologist, professor, and Reformed minister.

[5][6] He also studied Biblical Hebrew, Ugaritic, and other Semitic languages notably under the direction of Rolf Rendtorff, professor of Old Testament in Heidelberg, who encouraged him to develop a thesis on the question of the Jewish Patriarchs in the Book of Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomist history.

[4] His doctoral thesis entitled Israels Väter combines structuralist and historico-critical approaches, and is part of the continuation of the work of John Van Seters.

From 1984 to 1989, Römer was a research assistant of Albert de Pury in the Old Testament at the Faculty of Theology of the University of Geneva, and lecturer of Biblical Hebrew and Ugaritic.

Became vice-president of the assembly of professors of the College de France in 2015, he was elected the following year a foreign associate of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, in the chair of the medievalist Peter Lewis.

[3] Thomas Römer adopts an academic approach which combines historical criticism, literary and philological analysis of Old Testament texts,[12] sometimes supported by archeology, seeking to detect the social, political or cultural circumstances which are the framework of the religious thought they generate, regardless of impact or contemporary theological readings.