Claus Westermann

Claus Westermann ( born October 7, 1909 in Berlin, † June 11, 2000 in Heidelberg ) was a German Protestant theologian and pastor who served in Berlin and Heidelberg taught Old Testament, among others in the tray.

Life

Claus Westermann studied theology at the universities of Tübingen, Marburg and Berlin. In Tübingen, he became a member of the fraternity AV Hedgehog. In 1933 he passed the first theological examination before the Protestant Consistory Berlin.

Then the Vicariate initially followed in Arnswalde. At this time he already belonged to a member of the Confessing Church. In Berlin, he joined the emerging under Martin Niemöller seminary of the Confessing Church. In other vicars, he moved later in the Naumburg Seminary under Gerhard Gloege. He was repeatedly arrested by the Gestapo. 1940-45 he performed military service and was 1945-46 in Soviet captivity, during which he began his studies of the Old Testament with a Luther Bible.

1946-1952 was Westermann pastor in Berlin, including the Burckhardt House, since 1949 at the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church as pastor.

In Zurich he became in 1949 a doctorate in Walther Zimmerli Theodor ( 1907-1983 ) with his work, " Praising God in the Psalms " to the theological doctor. At the Church University of Berlin, he was then lecturer, from 1954 the holder of a professorship. From 1958 to 1978 he was professor of Old Testament Theology at the University of Heidelberg until he was retired in 1978.

Honors

  • Honorary Member of the British Society for Old Testament Studies
  • Honorary Member of the American Society of Biblical Literature since 1979 (* Am. Soc. Of Biblical reference )
  • The Burkitt Medal for outstanding contribution to biblical scholarship, awarded by the British Academy of Sciences
  • Theological honorary doctorate from the Georg -August- University of Göttingen

Works

Monographs

  • The structure of the book of Job ( Contributions to Historical Theology Volume 23. ), Tübingen: JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck ), 1956. The structure of the book of Job ( Calw Theological Monographs, Series A: Biblical Studies, Volume 6 ), Stuttgart: Calw Publishing, second, extended edition, 1977.
  • The structure of the book of Job. Third, expanded edition. Calw Verlag, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-7668-0539-8.
  • Research on the Old Testament ( Theological Library; 24). 1964
  • Rainer Albertz et al (Ed.): Research on the Old Testament. For his 65th birthday on October 7, 1974 ( Theology Library; 55). 1974, ISBN 3-459-00988-8.
  • Income of research on the Old Testament ( Theological Library; 73), ISBN 3-459-01574-8.
  • Controversial Bible, Gütersloh, Verlag Gerd Mohn: Gütersloh, 1964.

Papers

  • The Old Testament and human rights. In: Jörg Braun (ed.): On the subject of human rights. Theology attempts and designs. Calw Verlag, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-7668-0550-9, pp. 5-18.
  • The Old Testament and theology. In: Georg Picht include: theology - what is it ': Cross -Verlag, Stuttgart, 1977, pp. 49-66? .
  • Tillage and conservation. In: Helmut Aichelin, Gerhard Liedke (ed.): science and theology. Texts and Comments (border talks; 6). Kaiser Verlag, Munich 1974, p 203-213.
  • The terms for questioning and searching in the Old Testament. Inaugural lecture in 1959. Keryma and Dogma, Vol 6 (1960 ), pp. 2-30.
  • A note on the reform of theological study. In: Monthly Journal of Pastoral Theology Vol 41 (1952 ), pp. 403-414.
  • The Bible corrects its boom. From the responsible use of Scripture. In: Protestant commentaries, 15 ( 1982), pp. 363-365.
  • Biblical aesthetics. The beauty in the Bible. In: Signs of the Times, Vol 4 (1950 ), pp. 277-289.
  • The God of the Old Covenant. In: Andreas Bsteh (ed.): The God of Christianity and Islam. ( Contributions to the theology of religions, 2). Publisher St. Gabriel, Mödling 1992, p 36-49.
  • Hoping in the Old Testament. A conceptual investigation. In: Theologia viatorum, Vol 4 (1952 /53), pp. 19-70.
  • The illusion of atheism. In: Time reversal, Vol 34 (1963 ), pp. 91-100.
  • The speeches of Creator and Creation in the Old Testament. In: Fritz Maas: The far and near word. Festschrift Leonard rust 70th birthday on 30 November 1966 ( Supplements to the Journal of Old Testament scholarship; 105). Töpelmann Verlag, Berlin 1967, pp. 238-244.
  • The role of the lament in the theology of the Old Testament. In: Interpretation, Vol 28 (1974 ), pp. 20-38.
  • The linguistic structure of Romans. The state before and after Christ. In: David Trobisch (ed.): In dubio pro deo. Heidelberg resonances on the 50th birthday of Gerd Theissen on 24 April 1993. Self- Verlag, Heidelberg 1993, pp. 351-361.
  • Structure and history of the action in the Old Testament. In: Journal of the Old Testament Science, Vol 66, (1954 ), pp. 44-80.
  • For two theologies of the Old Testament (Georg Fohrer, Walther Zimmerli ). In: Evangelical Theology, Vol 34 (1974 ), pp. 96-112
  • Body and soul in the Bible. In: What do we know about the soul? . Research and experience in psychology, philosophy and theology, 1967 Publisher: Cross -Verlag Stuttgart - Berlin, pp. 167-176.
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