form criticism systematic methodology for Old Testament Theology
Title
Avery Professor of Religion Professor of Old Testament Ordained Elder
Academic background
Alma mater
University of Heidelberg
Thesis
'Die Hauptbegriffe für Sünde im Alten Testament' (1965)
Doctoral advisor
Gerhard von Rad
Academic work
Era
20th century
Discipline
Old Testament scholar Old Testament theologian Biblical scholar
Institutions
University of Heidelberg Claremont Graduate University Claremont School of Theology United Methodist Church
Notable works
• The Task of Old Testament Theology : Substance, Method, and Cases. Grand Rapids, Mich: William B. Eerdmans, 1995. ISBN 9780802807151
• “Old Testament Form Criticism Reconsidered” Interpretation 27 (1973): 435-468.
Rolf Paul Knierim (8 July 1928 – 29 September 2018)[1] was a German American theologian and biblical scholar who specialized in the research of the Old Testament. He was a tenured Professor of Old Testament at the Claremont School of Theology and Avery Professor of Religion at Claremont Graduate University.[2][3]
Knierim was a founding research project director at Claremont Graduate University's internationally esteemed Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, where he initiated and led the Old Testament Form-Critical Project, which produced the Institute's longest-running and most prolific publication series, the Forms of the Old Testament Literature (FOTL) Series.[4]
In 1997, a Festschrift was published in Knierim's honor entitled, Problems in Biblical Theology: Essays in Honor of Rolf Knierim,[5] which included contributions from scholars such as Klaus Koch, Wolfhart Pannenberg, Rolf Rendtorff, James A. Sanders, and Claus Westermann. Once a student of Gerhard von Rad[6] and a former faculty member at the University of Heidelberg,[4] Knierim's most noted scholarly contributions have been his influential role in fostering the global expansion and development of the discipline of form criticism and his methodological proposal that the task of Old Testament theology is by necessity a systematic one, a proposal he vigorously advanced in his seminal 1984 essay, “The Task of Old Testament Theology,”[7] and in his more expansive 1995 multi-essay tome, The Task of Old Testament Theology: Substance, Method, and Cases.[8]
^"California couple killed in I-40 crash near Winslow". My Radio Place. 1 October 2018. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
^"Institute for Antiquity and Christianity: Forms of the Old Testament Literature (FOTL) Project". Claremont Graduate University. Archived from the original on 2016-12-26.
^ abRobinson, James M (2011). "Foreword". In Sun, Henry T.C.; Eades, Keith L. (eds.). Problems in Biblical Theology: Essays in Honor of Rolf Knierim (2 ed.). Eugene, Oregon: WIPF & Stock. ISBN 978-1-61097-157-7.
^Sun, Henry T. C.; Eades, Keith L., eds. (1997). Problems in Biblical Theology: Essays in Honor of Rolf Knierim (2nd ed.). Grand Rapids: Eerdmans. ISBN 9780802838032. OCLC 34919755.
^Ollenburger, Ben C. (2004). Old Testament Theology: Flowering and Future. Eisenbrauns. p. 268. ISBN 9781575060965.
^Knierim, Rolf (1984). "The Task of Old Testament Theology". Horizons in Biblical Theology. 6 (1): 25–57. doi:10.1163/187122084X00043. ISSN 0195-9085.
^Knierim, Rolf P. (1995). The Task of Old Testament Theology: Substance, Method, and Cases. Eerdmans. ISBN 9780802807151. OCLC 476343376.
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"Delitzsch in Context". In Ellens, J. Harold; Ellens, Deborah L.; Knierim, Rolf P.; Kalimi, Isaac (eds.). God's Word for Our World, Volume II: Theological...
(Penn State Extension). Archived from the original on 5 November 2016. Knierim, U.; Irrgang, N.; Roth, B.A. (2015). "To be or not to be horned–consequences...
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De Vries, Edmund S. Meltzer, J. Harold Ellens, Deborah L. Ellens, Rolf P. Knierim, Isaac Kalimi. London: Continuum International Publishing Group. 2004...
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