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	In his second stint at the College in [[Bangalore]] between 1971-1973,<ref name="Hiwale"/> Timotheas enrolled for postgraduate studies, [[Master of Theology]], specialising in [[Old Testament]] under his Teachers, [[E. C. John]], [[G. M. Butterworth]] and [[Gerhard Wehmeier]] working out a dissertation entitled ''Man and his destiny in the priestly sections of the [[Pentateuch]]''.<ref>T. Hembrom, ''Man and his destiny in the priestly sections of the [[Pentateuch]]'' in ''Thesis Titles'', [[Board of Theological Education of the Senate of Serampore College]], Bangalore, 1991.</ref> Timotheas was part of the pioneer group of postgraduate students<ref name="Hiwale"/> who specialised in [[Old Testament]] comprising A. P. Chacko, [[Basil Rebera]], G. Babu Rao, [[N. K. Achumi]], and [[S. J. Theodore]]. However, Hembrom was awarded a degree only in 1975 in the ensuing convocation of the [[Senate of Serampore College (University)]] held on 1 February 1975<ref name="Convocation">''Convocation Brochure'', 1 February 1975 Serampore College, Serampore.</ref> at the [[Serampore College]], [[Serampore]] under the Registrarship of [[C. Devasahayam]], Hembrom was awarded a [[Master of Theology]] degree where the [[Commemoration (observance)\|Convocation Commemoration]] [[Mass (liturgy)\|Mass]] in [[Serampore]] was conducted by his [[seminary]] companion, G. Babu Rao<ref>G. Babu Rao, ''Content Analysis of Theological Syllabi – [[Old Testament]]'' in ''Religion and Society'', Christian Institute for the Study of Religion and Society, 3 September 1985. [https://books.google.com/books?um=1&q=g.babu+rao+doctoral+studies&btnG=Search+Books]</ref~~><ref name="Convocation"/~~> who had already become an [[Old Testament]] Teacher at [[Serampore College]].<ref>''The Story of Serampore and its College'', Council of Serampore College, Serampore (Fourth Edition), 2005, p.92.</ref> at the [[Church of North India\|CNI]]-St. Olave's Church, [[Serampore]].		In his second stint at the College in [[Bangalore]] between 1971-1973,<ref name="Hiwale"/> Timotheas enrolled for postgraduate studies, [[Master of Theology]], specialising in [[Old Testament]] under his Teachers, [[E. C. John]], [[G. M. Butterworth]] and [[Gerhard Wehmeier]] working out a dissertation entitled ''Man and his destiny in the priestly sections of the [[Pentateuch]]''.<ref>T. Hembrom, ''Man and his destiny in the priestly sections of the [[Pentateuch]]'' in ''Thesis Titles'', [[Board of Theological Education of the Senate of Serampore College]], Bangalore, 1991.</ref> Timotheas was part of the pioneer group of postgraduate students<ref name="Hiwale"/> who specialised in [[Old Testament]] comprising A. P. Chacko, [[Basil Rebera]], G. Babu Rao, [[N. K. Achumi]], and [[S. J. Theodore]]. However, Hembrom was awarded a degree only in 1975 in the ensuing convocation of the [[Senate of Serampore College (University)]] held on 1 February 1975<ref name="Convocation">''Convocation Brochure'', 1 February 1975 Serampore College, Serampore.</ref> at the [[Serampore College]], [[Serampore]] under the Registrarship of [[C. Devasahayam]], Hembrom was awarded a [[Master of Theology]] degree where the [[Commemoration (observance)\|Convocation Commemoration]] [[Mass (liturgy)\|Mass]] in [[Serampore]] was conducted by his [[seminary]] companion, G. Babu Rao<ref name="Convocation"/><ref>G. Babu Rao, ''Content Analysis of Theological Syllabi – [[Old Testament]]'' in ''Religion and Society'', Christian Institute for the Study of Religion and Society, 3 September 1985. [https://books.google.com/books?um=1&q=g.babu+rao+doctoral+studies&btnG=Search+Books]</ref> who had already become an [[Old Testament]] Teacher at [[Serampore College]].<ref>''The Story of Serampore and its College'', Council of Serampore College, Serampore (Fourth Edition), 2005, p.92.</ref> at the [[Church of North India\|CNI]]-St. Olave's Church, [[Serampore]].

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'''Timotheas Hembrom''' is an ordained Minister of the [[Church of North India]]<ref name="Water"/> and an [[Old Testament]]<ref name="Water"/> Scholar who taught<ref name="Dissertation"/> at the Bishop's College,<ref name="Water"/> [[Kolkata]], affiliated to the nation's first<ref name="UNESCO"/> University, the [[Senate of Serampore College (University)]]. As a [[Biblical scholar]], Timotheas is a member<ref name="Max">[[Father (title)|Fr.]] Max Gonsalves (Ed.), Society for Biblical Studies in India Directory 1998.</ref> of the scholarly Society for Biblical Studies in India, with members from the [[Protestant]], [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox]], [[Catholic]] and [[Charismatic]] Church societies. He researched on [[Santhal people|Santali]] creation traditions and his work was first published in 1996 (reprinted in 2013) was simultaneously reviewed in the ''[[Indian Journal of Theology]]''<ref>[http://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/ijt/39-2_085.pdf Book reviews in the Indian Journal of Theology]</ref> and the ''[[Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies]]''.<ref>Thompson, A. F., Book Review: ''The Santals, Anthropological-Theological Reflections on Santali and Biblical Creation Traditions'', ''Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies'', Vol. 11, Article 14, 1998. [https://dx.doi.org/10.7825/2164-6279.1187]</ref>

Timotheas Hembrom had been the editor<ref name="Adivani"/> of the [[Santhal people|Santali]] magazine,<ref>K. P. Aleaz, ''Theology of Religions: Birmingham Papers and Other Essays'', Moumita Publishers and Distributors, Calcutta, 1998, p.265. [https://books.google.com/books?id=izjkAAAAMAAJ&q=jug+sirijol&dq=jug+sirijol&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CEIQ6AEwCGoVChMI4bXE3PCPyQIVxRiOCh0dgQIB]</ref> ''Jug-Sirijol<ref name="Punthi"/>'' published by the Santali Cultural and Literary Society,<ref name="Adivani"/> Kolkata in Roman script.<ref>Anadi Kumar Mahapatra, ''Tribal Politics in West Bengal'', Suhrid Publication, Calcutta, 1987, p.103. [https://books.google.com/books?id=2e4tAAAAMAAJ&dq=jug+sirijol&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=jug+sirijol]</ref>

[[File:A Santal drummer playing Tumda.jpg|right|thumb|A [[Santal]] drummer playing a [[Tumdak']]. The playing of [[Tumdak']] caused an unexpected setback in the life of Timotheas Hembrom and his students.]]
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==Contribution==

===Comparative studies between creation stories===
Hembrom's research and [[exegetical]] work on the [[Santhals]] highlights the hitherto unknown facts about their creation traditions which seem identical to the [[Biblical]] creation traditions. K. P. Aleaz writes that Timotheas worked on finding out parallels between the [[Biblical]] creation stories and the [[Santal]] creation stories, which seemed identical with those in the [[Genesis creation narrative|Genesis]] creation stories. In this context of similarity, K. P. Aleaz in ''A Tribal Theology from a Tribal World - View''<ref>K. P. Aleaz, ''A Tribal Theology from a Tribal World - View'' in ''[[Indian Journal of Theology]]'', Volume 44, 1 and 2, 2002, pp.20-30. [http://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/ijt/44_020.pdf]</ref> considers Renthy Keitzer, [[Nirmal Minz]] and Timotheas Hembrom as the Theologians with focus on [[Tribal]] cultures and ideologies.

In a recent work by the Scholar Ivy Imogene Hansdak<ref>[http://jmi.ac.in/lvylmogenehansdak Jamia Millia Islamia, Department of English]</ref> of the [[Jamia Millia Islamia]] on [[Santal]] creation stories the research of Timotheas Hembrom was highlighted<ref>Ivy Imogene Hansdak, ''The Creation Myth of the Santals'' in Lokaratna Volume VIII, 2015 {{ISSN|2347-6427}}, pp.14-18. [http://www.himalaya.socanth.cam.ac.uk/collections/journals/.../pdf/Lokaratna_08.pdf]{{Dead link|date=July 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=no }}</ref>
{{quote|''The Santal theologian and writer, Dr. Timotheas Hembrom, has made a study of the Santal creation myth in his work, ''The Santals: Anthropological-Theological Reflections on Santali and Biblical Creation Traditions (1996)''. Here he begins by comparing [[Lars Olsen Skrefsrud|Skrefsrud]]‘s version with Campbell‘s version, and then concludes by validating the latter. This version is then compared with the Biblical creation narrative. Two other writers, Marine Carrin and Harald [[Tambs-Lyche]], have also commented on [[Lars Olsen Skrefsrud|Skrefsrud]]‘s version of the Santal creation myth in their work, An Encounter of Peripheries: Santals, Missionaries, and their Changing Worlds, 1867-1900 (2008). According to them, [[Lars Olsen Skrefsrud|Skrefsrud]] presented this myth as a parallel to [[Book of Genesis|Genesis]], a tendency still found among Christian Santals.''}}

As a [[comparative religion]] scholar who drew parallels between the [[Genesis creation]] story and the [[Santal]] creation traditions, Timotheas attributes the lead given by [[Old Testament]]'s leading Scholar, [[Claus Westermann]],<ref name="Punthi" /> "''Our very extensive knowledge of literature about creation and primeval time does not allow us to draw a sharp line of distinction between the high cultures and the primitive cultures and then to exclude the latter from the pre-history of the biblical story of primeval events.''"

===Santali Linguistics===
The ''Jug-Sirijol'' which advances [[Santali language]] and literature focusing on the tribal identities continues to be published in [[Roman script]] which has been in use since the [[pre-colonial]] times. Timotheas had been editor of ''Jug-Sirijol'' for a number of years'. Although a new script, [[Ol Chiki alphabet]] was propagated in 1979,<ref name="DKUUG">Divyendu Tudu Raska and Archer Anthony Marandi, ''Letter to the University of Berkeley Linguistics Department addressed to Prof. Deborah Anderson'', 30 November 2002. {{cite web |url=http://www.std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2561.pdf |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2015-11-14 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150104032744/http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2561.pdf |archivedate=2015-01-04 }}</ref> it had met dissent with the [[Santhal people]] who voiced their concerns to the scholarly fora including the [[University of California, Berkeley]]<ref name="DKUUG"/> and had also referred to the concerns of Timotheas Hembrom who wrote<ref name="DKUUG"/> on the use of [[Ol Chiki alphabet]],
{{quote|''(adapted)…in West Bengal the issue of Santali script was further complicated by the Government when in 1979 it recognized [[Ol Chiki alphabet|Ol Chiki]] Script for publication of Santali literature.... but the [[Ol Chiki alphabet|Ol Chiki]] script has remained as an abnormally born baby still in an incubator all through these last twenty years.''}}

==Studies==

===Pre-graduate===
After early schooling at the Kaerabani Santal High School in Kaerabani, [[Dumka district]], Timotheas had his ministerial formation at Santal Theological College, Benagaria, which had just then received affiliation<ref>Olav Hodne, ''The Seed Bore Fruit: A Short History of the Santal Mission of the Northern Churches 1867-1967'', Santal Mission of the Northern Churches, Dumka, 1967, p.92. [https://books.google.com/books?id=3vc-AAAAIAAJ&dq=santal+theological+college+affiliation&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=serampore]</ref> from the nation's first<ref name="UNESCO"/> University, the [[Senate of Serampore College (University)]]. Timotheas studied at the College during the Principalship of [[J. T. Krogh]] and moved to [[Serampore College]], [[Serampore]] in 1967<ref name="Directory">[[S. J. Samartha]], [[M. P. John]] (Compiled), ''Directory of students 1910-1967'', Serampore College (Theology Department), Serampore, 1967, p.27.</ref> from where he obtained a [[Licentiate in Theology]] from the University under the Registrarship of [[C. Devasahayam]].

===Graduate===
In order to upgrade his academics, Timotheas proceeded to [[Bangalore]] where he studied from 1968 to 1970<ref name="Hiwale">K. M. Hiwale (Compiled), ''Directory of the United Theological College 1910-1997'', Bangalore, 1997. Past students of the college diploma course, p.38; Postgraduate course, p.107.</ref> at the [[United Theological College, Bangalore]], affiliated to the nation's first<ref name="UNESCO">[http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0017/001790/179035eb.pdf UNESCO Structures of University Education in India, 1952]</ref> University, the [[Senate of Serampore College (University)]], under the Principalship of [[Joshua Russell Chandran]] where he upgraded to [[Bachelor of Divinity]]. Timotheas companions at the College included [[H. S. Wilson]], [[P. J. Lawrence]], [[J. W. Gladstone]] and others who studied at varying intervals.<ref name="Hiwale"/>

===Postgraduate===
In his second stint at the College in [[Bangalore]] between 1971-1973,<ref name="Hiwale"/> Timotheas enrolled for postgraduate studies, [[Master of Theology]], specialising in [[Old Testament]] under his Teachers, [[E. C. John]], [[G. M. Butterworth]] and [[Gerhard Wehmeier]] working out a dissertation entitled ''Man and his destiny in the priestly sections of the [[Pentateuch]]''.<ref>T. Hembrom, ''Man and his destiny in the priestly sections of the [[Pentateuch]]'' in ''Thesis Titles'', [[Board of Theological Education of the Senate of Serampore College]], Bangalore, 1991.</ref> Timotheas was part of the pioneer group of postgraduate students<ref name="Hiwale"/> who specialised in [[Old Testament]] comprising A. P. Chacko, [[Basil Rebera]], G. Babu Rao, [[N. K. Achumi]], and [[S. J. Theodore]]. However, Hembrom was awarded a degree only in 1975 in the ensuing convocation of the [[Senate of Serampore College (University)]] held on 1 February 1975<ref name="Convocation">''Convocation Brochure'', 1 February 1975 Serampore College, Serampore.</ref> at the [[Serampore College]], [[Serampore]] under the Registrarship of [[C. Devasahayam]], Hembrom was awarded a [[Master of Theology]] degree where the [[Commemoration (observance)|Convocation Commemoration]] [[Mass (liturgy)|Mass]] in [[Serampore]] was conducted by his [[seminary]] companion, G. Babu Rao<ref>G. Babu Rao, ''Content Analysis of Theological Syllabi – [[Old Testament]]'' in ''Religion and Society'', Christian Institute for the Study of Religion and Society, 3 September 1985. [https://books.google.com/books?um=1&q=g.babu+rao+doctoral+studies&btnG=Search+Books]</ref><ref name="Convocation"/> who had already become an [[Old Testament]] Teacher at [[Serampore College]].<ref>''The Story of Serampore and its College'', Council of Serampore College, Serampore (Fourth Edition), 2005, p.92.</ref> at the [[Church of North India|CNI]]-St. Olave's Church, [[Serampore]].

===Doctoral===
While teaching at the Bishop's College, [[Kolkata]], Hembrom availed study leave and pursued research studies with the [[South Asia Theological Research Institute]], [[Bangalore]], a doctoral-level institute under the [[Senate of Serampore College (University)]] researching on the Santals with special reference to their creation stories and was supervised by Renthy Keitzar and [[Nirmal Minz]] who enabled him to work on his thesis after which Timotheas was able to submit his doctoral dissertation in 1991<ref name="Dissertation"/> which was originally entitled ''The Creation narrative of the Santals and the Genesis Creation narrative: A probing into their theological motifs''<ref name="Dissertation">T. Hembrom, ''The Creation narrative of the Santals and the Genesis Creation narrative: A probing into their theological motifs''. Cited in ''Indian Church History Review'', Volumes 27-32, Church History Association of India, 1993, p.122. [https://books.google.com/books?id=ssfYAAAAMAAJ&q=jug+sirijol&dq=jug+sirijol&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CC4Q6AEwBGoVChMI863F1-2PyQIVxguOCh0OuQyG]</ref> after which the [[Senate of Serampore College (University)]] awarded<ref name="Senate"/> him a doctoral degree in 1992<ref name="Senate">[http://senateofseramporecollege.edu.in/doctor-theology.html Senate, ''List of the Recipient of the Degree of Doctor of Theology''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150919053219/http://www.senateofseramporecollege.edu.in/doctor-theology.html |date=2015-09-19 }}</ref> during the registrarship of [[D. S. Satyaranjan]].

==Inculturation and the practicalities==
Timotheas belonged to the [[Lutheran]]<ref name="Punthi"/> Danish Santal Mission ([[Northern Evangelical Lutheran Church]]). In the 1960s, an unexpected turn of events took place relating to the issue of [[inculturation]]. Although Timotheas had his schooling at the Mission schools established by the Danish Santal Mission<ref name="Lutheranism"/> which was founded in 1867,<ref name="Lutheranism">Günther Gassmann, Mark W. Oldenburg, ''Historical Dictionary of Lutheranism'', Second Edition, Scarecrow, Lanham, 2011, p.112.[https://books.google.com/books?id=SLlKBAAAQBAJ&lpg=PA112&ots=GMTDXrSeRo&dq=santal%20theological%20seminary&pg=PA112#v=snippet&q=danish%20santal&f=false]</ref> where he grew on strong [[Christian ethics]] and enrolled for theological studies at the Santal Theological College, [[Dumka district]] and later at the Protestant Regional Seminary in [[Bangalore]]<ref name="Hiwale"/> where he completed graduate studies in theology ''([[Bachelor of Divinity]])'', returning to his [[alma mater]] in 1970<ref name="Punthi"/> to resume teaching when [[J. T. Krogh]] still happened to be the Principal. This was the 1960s when the [[Second Vatican Council]] had concluded and [[Papal encyclicals]] were issued concerning the local cultures and their adaptation in the [[Christian liturgy]]. [[The Reverend|Rev.]] [[Father (title)|Fr.]] [[D. S. Amalorpavadass]] who pitched for [[inculturation]] at the [[Second Vatican Council]] found that his appeals had been met. However, back at the Santal Theological College, the [[Lutherans]] were yet to adapt the local traditions into the [[Christian liturgy]]. During that period, Timotheas Hembrom took a couple of his students to a [[Santali people|Santali]] wedding<ref name="Ruby"/> where they happened to participate in music and dance which involved the playing of [[Santal music]] using the [[Tamak']] and [[Tumdak']].<ref name="Ruby"/> The Danish Santali Mission ([[Northern Evangelical Lutheran Church]]) took a rigid stance debarring<ref name="Ruby"/> not only Timotheas Hembrom but even those students who accompanied him. In the ensuing student unfriendly environment, the Principal, [[J. T. Krogh]] voiced<ref name="Ruby"/> his apprehension at the decision of the Council of the [[Northern Evangelical Lutheran Church]] and left<ref name="Ruby"/> the College taking along with him the five<ref name="Ruby"/> debarred students as well as his debarred colleague Timotheas and joined [[en masse]] in the [[Church of North India]]-led [[Bishop’s College, Calcutta]]. The students continued their studies at the [[Bishop’s College, Calcutta]], Timotheas Hembrom was sent by the College for postgraduate studies to [[Bangalore]] while [[J. T. Krogh]]<ref name="Lexocon">[http://www.denstoredanske.dk/index.php?sideId=293049 Dansk Biografisk Leksikon (Danish Biographic Lexicon), 2011]</ref> was accommodated into the Faculty<ref>[http://fotoarkiv.danmission.dk/fotoweb/archives/5001-Danmission%20Photo%20Archive/archive/photo_archive/Folder114_00004A.tiff.info Danish Mission Photo Archives, Folder 114]</ref> at the [[Bishop’s College, Calcutta]].

Timotheas continued to be grateful<ref name="Punthi"/> to the [[Lutheran]] Danish Santal Mission ([[Northern Evangelical Lutheran Church]]) and rather attributed the circumstances to lack of understanding at that point of time. The issue of [[inculturation]], also referred to as [[indigenization]] took a dominant role in the scholarly meetings of the Society for Biblical Studies in India in which Timotheas also happens to be a member. Successive biennial<ref name="Max"/> conclaves of the [[Old Testament]] and [[New Testament]] scholars of the [[Protestant]], [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox]], [[Catholic]] and [[Charismatic]] traditions discussed whether it is possible to interpret the [[Bible]] in an [[India]]n way.<ref name="Max"/> [[The Reverend|Rev.]] [[Father (title)|Fr.]] [[Joseph Pathrapankal]], [[The Reverend|Rev.]] [[Dr.]] [[E. C. John]], [[The Reverend|Rev.]] [[Father (title)|Fr.]] [[Matthew Vellanickal]] and other members of the scholarly society contributed immensely to the Indian interpretation and adopting of traditional forms in worship. Year's later, [[Biblical scholars]] also published ''Indian Interpretation of the Bible'' in 2000 honouring [[The Reverend|Rev.]] [[Father (title)|Fr.]] [[Joseph Pathrapankal]]. Similarly, [[Comparative religion]] scholars of the Indian seminaries began to adopt the native traditions and particularly the Indian ethos in [[Christian liturgy]].

==Ecclesiastical ministry==

===Benagaria===
Timotheas was a Teacher at his [[alma mater]], the Santal Theological College, Benagaria and started his ecclesiastical teaching ministry. After a two-year break during 1968-1970<ref name="Hiwale"/> to upgrade his academics at Bangalore, he returned to the Benagaria<ref name="Ruby">Ruby Hembrom, ''The Santals and the Bodding Paradox'', paper presented at the [[Paul Olaf Bodding]] Symposium during 3–5 November 2015 at the [[University of Oslo]]. [http://www.khm.uio.no/forskning/aktuelt/arrangementer/konferanser/2015/pdf/program-final.pdf]</ref> and taught again during 1970-1971.

===Cherrapunji===
After Timotheas specialised in [[Old Testament]], he proceeded to the Chera Theological College, [[Cherrapunji]] where he taught from 1973-1977.<ref name="Punthi"/>

===Kolkata===
After a stint of four years at [[Cherrapunji]], Timotheas moved to the [[Bishop’s College, Calcutta|Bishop’s College]], [[Kolkata]] and was Professor of Old Testament from 1977.<ref name="Punthi"/> His other colleagues at the Seminary included the renowned Religions Scholar, [[Yisu Das Tiwari]].<ref>Ravi Tiwari, ''[[Yisu Das Tiwari|Yisu Das]]: Witness of a Convert'', ISPCK, New Delhi, 2000.</ref> During the latter half of the 1980s, [[G. D. V. Prasad]] who specialized in [[Old Testament]] joined the College as a Teacher and became a colleague of Timotheas.

Timotheas also acted as Research Guide and was Registrar<ref name="NIIPGTS">North India Institute of Post Graduate Theological Studies , Administration. {{cite web |url=http://niipgts.net/administration.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2015-11-15 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130103204342/http://niipgts.net/administration.html |archivedate=2013-01-03 }}</ref> at the [[North India Institute of Post Graduate Theological Studies]], a joint initiative of [[Serampore College]] and the [[Bishop’s College, Calcutta|Bishop’s College]], [[Kolkata]]. As a member of the [[Church History Association of India]], Hembrom was also elected as the Treasurer of the Eastern India Branch of the Society in 2006.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=88jYAAAAMAAJ&q=timothy+hembrom&dq=timothy+hembrom&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CBsQ6AEwAGoVChMIzoDvndv2yAIVCyaUCh1y-gCg ''Indian Church History Review'', Volume 40, 2006, p.177]</ref>

===Ranchi===
Timotheas also taught at the [[Gossner Theological College]], [[Ranchi]],<ref name="Punthi"/> an institution known for the [[Theologian]] [[Nirmal Minz]] who happened to be one of his doctoral supervisors.<ref name="Punthi"/>

==Writings==
'''No date''', ''Doing Theology with the people of primal religion in India: Absence of Hymns and Praises to God has a theological reason in the ancestral religion of the Santals''<ref name="Doing">T. Hembrom, ''Doing Theoogy with the people of primal religion in India: Absence of Hymns and Praises to God has a theological reason in the ancestral religion of the Santals'' in ''[[Indian Journal of Theology]]'', Volume 37, p.3-10. [http://biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/ijt/37-2_003.pdf]</ref> '''1996''', ''Maran Buru Bonga - Satan Equation a Theological Crime'',<ref name="Maran">T. Hembrom, ''Maran Buru Bonga - Satan Equation a Theological Crime'' in ''[[Indian Journal of Theology]]'', 1996, Volume 32, Issue 2, pp.43-54. [http://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/ijt/38-2_043.pdf]</ref> '''1996'''/'''2013''',<ref name="Adivani">[http://adivaani.org/tag/timotheas-hembrom/ Adivani. ''Timotheas Hembrom’s new book is out!'']</ref> ''The Santals: Anthropological-Theological reflections on [[Santhal people|Santali]] and [[Biblical]] Creation Traditions'',<ref name="Punthi">T. Hembrom, ''The Santals: Anthropological-Theological reflections on [[Santhal people|Santali]] and [[Biblical]] Creation Traditions'', Punthi Pustak, Calcutta, 1996. [https://books.google.com/books?id=aFzkAAAAMAAJ&q=The+Santals:+Anthropological-Theological+reflections+on&dq=The+Santals:+Anthropological-Theological+reflections+on&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CBwQ6AEwAGoVChMIrZ60sc72yAIVARaUCh1g8gyf]</ref> '''2007''', ''The significance of water in the Old Testament'',<ref name="Water">T. Hembrom, ''The significance of water in the Old Testament'' in V. J. John, ''Water Struggle'', ISPCK, New Delhi, 2007, pp.118, 49-56.[https://books.google.com/books?id=YSzBLY8Ar_kC&lpg=PA118&dq=North%20India%20Institute%20of%20Post%20Graduate%20Theological%20Studies&pg=PR5#v=onepage&q=hembrom&f=false]</ref> '''2012''' (in [[Santali language|Santali]]), ''Santal, Sirjon binti ar bhed-bhangao''<ref name="Sirjon">T. Hembrom, ''Santal, Sirjon binti ar bhed-bhangao'', Adivani, Kolkata, 2012. [http://adivaani.org/catalogue/]/</ref>

==Honours==
In 2014, the Diocese of Durgapur of the [[Church of North India]] awarded the annual [[Paul Olaf Bodding]] memorial award to Timotheas Hembrom for his writings highlighting the [[Tribal]] ethos of India.<ref>[https://dodcni.wordpress.com/2014/03/06/tribal-awards-2014/ Diocese of Durgapur, Tribal Awards 2014]</ref>

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* {{cite book
| author=Fauzia Knight
| title=Law, Power and Culture: Supporting Change From Within
| year=2014
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| url =https://books.google.com/books?id=jQk8BQAAQBAJ&lpg=PA113&dq=timotheus%20hembrom&pg=PR4#v=onepage&q=timotheus%20hembrom&f=false
| publisher=Palmgrave Macmillan, Hampshire
| isbn=978-0-230-30453-6
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