Innocent Himbaza

Innocent Himbaza is a Rwandan born Lutheran pastor, hebraist, private lecturer at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) for the exegesis of Biblical theology of the Old Testament.^[1]

Innocent Himbaza is doctor of Theology and Humanities. Eight years was educational assistant. From 1998 he has been the Lutheran pastor of the University of Fribourg. From 1997 to 2004 he was a member of the board in the Swiss Groupes Bibliques des Ecoles et Universités. He is one of the editors of the German Bible Society and participant in their Biblia Hebraica Quinta program.^[2]

In 2020, he was elected as president of the Swiss Bible Society in Bienne.^[3]

He is married to Liliane, and they have four children.^[4]

Himbaza’s publications include;^[5]

• Le Decalogue Et L'histoire Du Texte (2004)
• King Manasseh: Legacy and the Conflict of Forgiveness (2006)
• The Bible on the Question of Homosexuality with Adrien Shenker and Jean-Baptiste Edart (2007)
• Un Carrefour Dans L'histoire De La Bible (as editor) (2008)
• Philology and Textual Criticism (as editor) (2020)
• Leviticus (2021) ^[6]