Tjitze Baarda

Tjitze Baarda (8 July 1932 – 23 August 2017) was a Dutch professor of theology and Religious Sciences. He spent his career at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) and Utrecht University. He specialized in the four gospels of the New Testament.^[1]

Career

Baarda was born on 8 July 1932 in Vogelenzang.^[2] He studied theology and Semitic languages at the VU. He obtained his doctorate in 1975 with a dissertation titled "The gospel quotations of Aphrahat the Persian sage". His doctoral advisors were Matthew Black and R. Schippers. Baarda subsequently became a professor of Biblical criticism, exegesis and canon of the New Testament at the same university.^[2]

In 1981 Baarda became extraordinary professor (Dutch: buitengewoon hoogleraar) at Utrecht University, two years later he became a regular professor. During his time in Utrecht he held the chair of Antique Judaism and explanation of the New Testament.^[2] In 1990 he returned to the VU and held the chair of New Testament. He retired in 1997. During his career he specialized in the four gospels of the New Testament.^[3]

Baarda became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1982.^[4]

Baarda died in Amstelveen on 23 August 2017.^[5]

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