Jan van der Watt, Date of Birth

Jan van der Watt

South African writer

Date of Birth: 05-Nov-1952

Profession: editor, university teacher

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Jan Gabriël Van der Watt (born 5 November 1952) is a South African biblical scholar and Bible translator who moved to the Netherlands in 2009 to take up a chair in New Testament and Source texts of early Christianity at Radboud University in Nijmegen.
For a quarter of a century previously, he was professor at the University of Pretoria, where he was named as one of the 100 most influential academic thinkers in the 100-year history of the University of Pretoria, South Africa (see www.up.ac.za under Leading Minds).
Van der Watt was also rated as international acknowledged researcher that is regarded by some of his international peers as international leader in his field, (see www.nrf.ac.za under rated researchers).
Van der Watt is internationally best known for his monograph: Family of the King: Dynamics of Metaphor in the Gosepl According to John.