abstract:Michael Theobald (born 1948) is a German academic theologian who is currently Professor of New Testament in the Catholic Theological Faculty at the University of Tübingen. His research focuses on the New Testament, particularly the Passion Narratives, the Gospel of John, and New Testament epistolary literature (especially the Apostle Paul's Letter to the Romans, and the pseudo-Pauline Epistle to the Ephesians and Pastoral Epistles).