Timotheas Hembrom

Timotheas Hembrom is an ordained Minister of the Church of North India and an Old Testament Scholar who taught at the Bishop's College,Kolkata, affiliated to the nation's first University, the Senate of Serampore College (University). As a Biblical scholar, Timotheas is a member of the scholarly Society for Biblical Studies in India, with members from the Protestant, Orthodox, Catholic and Charismatic Church societies. He researched on Santali creation traditions and his work was first published in 1996 (reprinted in 2013) was simultaneously reviewed in the Indian Journal of Theology and the Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies.

Timotheas Hembrom had been the editor of the Santali magazine,Jug-Sirijol published by the Santali Cultural and Literary Society, Kolkata in Roman script.

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 stories. In this context of similarity, K. P. Aleaz in A Tribal Theology from a Tribal World - View considers Renthy Keitzer, Nirmal Minz and Timotheas Hembrom as the Theologians with focus on Tribal cultures and ideologies.