Thomas Schumacher, Dr. theol., is a New Testament scholar and since 2014, he is Professor of New Testament Studies at the University of Freiburg (Switzerland). He was Director of the BIBEL+ORIENT Museum in Freiburg (Switzerland) and Central President of the Swiss Catholic Biblical Association. He specializes in Pauline writings, the New Testament canon, Jewish perspectives in Early Christian scriptures and hermeneutical issues. In the context of these research questions, his focus is on philological, historical-semantic and text-critical aspects.