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Gerhard von Rad

Gerhard von Rad (21 October 1901 – 31 October 1971) was a German academic, Old Testament scholar, Lutheran theologian, exegete, and professor at the University of Heidelberg.[1]

Gerhard von Rad

(1901-10-21)21 October 1901

Nuremberg, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire

31 October 1971(1971-10-31) (aged 70)

Heidelberg, West Germany

Confessing Church

The Problem of the Hexateuch and Other Essays (1938)[1]
Genesis: A Commentary (1949-1953)[1]
Old Testament Theology (1958-1960)[1]

Professor of Old Testament, University of Heidelberg

Reverend Doctor

The Problem of the Hexateuch and other essays  0-334-01310-0

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Genesis: A Commentary (Old Testament Library)  0-664-20957-2

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Deuteronomy: A Commentary (Old Testament Library)  0-664-20734-0

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Studies in Deuteronomy (Studies in Biblical theology) ASIN B0007JWYNA

Old Testament Theology  0-334-01182-5

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Old Testament Theology, One-Volume Edition  1-56563-652-X

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The Message of the Prophets: Old Testament Theology  0-334-01005-5

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Holy War in Ancient Israel  0-85244-208-4

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Das Alte Testament Deutsch (ATD), Tlbd.2/4, Das erste Buch Mose, Genesis  3-525-51112-4 (This textbook series of detailed theological commentaries on individual books of the bible translates as "The Old Testament [in] German"; the volume is on the book of Genesis)

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God at work in Israel  0-687-14960-6

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Biblical interpretations in preaching  0-687-03444-2

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Gottes Wirken in Israel: Vorträge zum Alten Testament  3-7887-0404-7 ("God's acting in Israel: [public] lectures on the Old Testament")

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Wisdom in Israel  0-687-45756-4 (translation of the German book below ?)

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The message of the prophets ASIN B0006C6BA0

Weisheit in Israel ASIN B000E1Q3CY ("Wisdom in Israel")

Theologie des Alten Testaments (Einführung in die evangelische Theologie) ASIN B0007JBBTI ("Theology of the Old Testament"/ series title: "Introduction into 'evangelisch'[e] theology" ["evangelisch" in German is used in a similar sense as "Protestant" in English, but has other connotations; hence it is not directly translatable; it usually refers to or closely related faith and theology, or Christians adhering to it)

lutheran

Basileia (Bible Key Words from 's Theologisches Wörterbuch zum Neuen Testament) ASIN B000BGT0RW

Gerhard Kittel

Theologie des Alten Testaments, Bd. 2.  3-579-05003-6 (vol.2 of the title above)

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Kaiser Taschenbücher, Bd.1, Theologie des Alten Testaments. Die Theologie der geschichtlichen Überlieferungen Israels.  3-579-05002-8 ("Kaiser [publisher's name] pocketbooks, vol.1, "Theology of the Old Testament. Theology of the historical tradition of Israel")

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Das Alte Testament Deutsch (ATD), Tlbd.8 : Das fünfte Buch Mose (Deuteronomium)  3-525-51136-1 (the volume on the book Deuteronomium of the series mentioned above)

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Erinnerungen aus der Kriegsgefangenschaft, Frühjahr 1945  3-7887-0507-8 ("Memories of a prisoner of war, spring 1945")

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Predigt-Meditationen  3-525-60237-5 ("Sermon meditations")

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Eirene (Pocket crammer series) ASIN B0007FP9LI

Origin of the concept of the day of Yahweh ASIN B0007JF2HA

From Genesis to Chronicles: Explorations in Old Testament Theology  0-8006-3718-6 (review) Archived 2015-09-23 at the Wayback Machine

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a Cambridge tripos and past Principal of the Andhra Christian Theological College, Secunderabad, India in introducing critical methods and tools used in Biblical interpretation writes[12] about von Rad as:

.....a major contributor to Old Testament studies following the literary-critical tradition of Wellhausen and the form-critical and the traditio-historical approach of Hermann Gunkel as developed by Albrecht Alt and Martin Noth.

Victor Premasagar

Prof. Premasagar concludes by saying that

Book of Deuteronomy

Form Criticism

Biblical Criticism

Martin Noth

and Deuteronomist

Deuteronomistic History

Klaus Koch, D.D., Professor Emeritus of Old Testament and History of the Ancient near East Religions at the University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

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former apprentice of Gerhard von Rad

Richard A. Jensen

Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India

Andhra Christian Theological College

Books of Chronicles

. UniSpiegel. July–September 2001. Archived from the original on 2005-11-28. Retrieved 2006-02-24.

"Leben und Werk des Alttestamentlers Gerhard von Rad"

. Encyclopedia of World Bibliography. 2005–2006.

"Gerhard von Rad Biography"

Raymond F. Surburg (April–July 1982). . Concordia Theological Quarterly. Vol. 46, no. 23. Archived from the original on 2006-09-09.

"Justification as a Doctrine of the Old Testament"

; Douglas Dance (2004). "The Metamorphosis of Law into Gospel: Gerhard von Rad's Attempt to Reclaim the Old Testament for the Church". Academia.

Bernard M. Levinson

; Tina Sherman (2010). "Susannah Heschel: The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologian and the Bible in Nazi Germany" (PDF). Review of Biblical Literature (Review). Archived from the original (PDF) on March 22, 2012.

Bernard M. Levinson

Further reading


The July 2008 issue of Interpretation: a Journal of Bible and Theology has as its subject "Gerhard von Rad: Theologian of the Church." See especially: