Albertus Klijn

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A. F. J. Klijn
A. F. J. Klijn
Born (1923-04-17) 17 April 1923 (age 100)
Died30 May 2012(2012-05-30) (aged 89)
NationalityDutch
Academic background
Alma materUtrecht University
Thesis"Western" Text of the Gospels and Acts (1949)
Academic work
DisciplineNew Testament scholar
Early Christianity
School or traditionReformed
InstitutionsRijksuniversiteit Groningen
Main interestsNew Testament
Early Christianity

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

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.

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Festschriften

  • Tjitze Baarda (ed.), Text and Testimony: Essays on New Testament and Apocryphal Literature in Honour of A. F. J. Klijn (Kampen 1988)

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