Otto Kaiser (scholar)

Otto Kaiser ( born November 30, 1924 in Prenzlau ) is a German Protestant theologian and Old Testament scholar.

After high school he began in Eberswalde Emperor at the Military Medical Academy in Berlin to study medicine, but soon came out on the Eastern front to the war effort and wounding. The end of 1945 he continued his studies at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and attended lectures in Protestant theology, philosophy, psycho- diagnostics and Egyptology. 1952-1954 Otto Kaiser was vicar in the Swabian Balingen, 1954-1958 Assistant in Tübingen. He received his doctorate in 1956 with a thesis on the mythical importance of the sea in Egypt, Ras Shamra and Israel (published 1959) and his habilitation in 1958 with The Royal Servant: A traditional historical- exegetical study of the Ebed- Yahweh songs in Deutero-Isaiah.

He received in 1960 as an associate professor at the University of Marburg and 1963 ibid Professor of Old Testament, which he held despite numerous calls to other universities until his retirement in 1993.

The universities of Jena, Tartu and Salzburg awarded him honorary doctorates. Kaiser was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, First Class.

His work follows in the tradition of Rudolf Bultmann; He sees theology as " the study of human reflection on the experience of the divine in time and space ." He has written a three-volume theology of the Old Testament and also an introduction to the Old Testament, which became a standard work. Among his many areas of expertise include the Book of Job, the Ecclesiastes, Sirach and the Apocrypha. Kaiser is also considered the leading expert of ancient and modern philosophy, especially Kant, Hegel, and, most recently, of Aristotelian philosophy and Plato and Nietzsche.

Works in selection

Monographs

  • Ideology and faith. A hazard Christian beliefs at the Old Testament example shown. Radius, Stuttgart 1984. ISBN 3-87173-679-1
  • The man under the destiny. Studies of the history, theology and present meaning of wisdom. De Gruyter, Berlin, 1985 ( BZAW band 161), ISBN 3-11-010095-9
  • The God of the Old Testament. Theology of the Old Testament. Nature and effect, Cambridge University Press, Göttingen 1993-2003, ISBN 3-8252-2428-7 in 3 volumes:
  • Vol. 1: the foundation, 1993, ISBN 3-8252-2024-9 ( UTB ). . ISBN 3-525-03279- X
  • Vol. 2:. Yahweh, the God of Israel, Creator of the world and of man, 1998, ISBN 3-8252-2024-9 ( UTB ) ISBN 3- 525-03279 -X
  • Vol. 3: Yahweh's justice, 2003 ISBN 3-8252-2392-2 ( UTB ) ISBN 3-525-03240-4.
  • The Old Testament Apocrypha. An introduction to basic features. Kaiser / GVH, Gütersloh 2000. ISBN 3-579-02661-5
  • Introduction to the exegetical methods ( with Gottfried Adam and Otto Merk). Kaiser / GVH, Gütersloh 2000, ISBN 3-579-02651-8. ; ISBN 3-579-02651-3 ( ISBN formally wrong )
  • Between Athens and Jerusalem. Studies on Greek and biblical theology, their character and their relationship. de Gruyter, Berlin - New York 2003 ( BZAW band 320) ISBN 3-11-017577-0
  • Beyond nihilism. Christian existence after postmodernism. Radius, Stuttgart 2004. ISBN 3-87173-292-3
  • Wisdom for life. The book Jesus Sirach translated and introduced. Radius, Stuttgart 2005. ISBN 3-87173-313- X
  • Translated The Book of Job and initiated. Radius, Stuttgart, 2006. ISBN 3-87173-363-6
  • The Prophet Isaiah, chapters 1-12. Cambridge University Press, Göttingen 1981 ( German Old Testament Volume 17 ).
  • A man's happiness and God's righteousness. Studies on the biblical tradition in the context of Hellenistic philosophy. ( Tria Corda Volume 1 ), Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-16-149471-0.
  • Christmas in the light of Easter. A Biblical Introduction to the Christian faith, radius, Stuttgart 2008.
  • God. Man and history. Studies to the understanding of man and his history in classical, biblical and nachbiblichen literature. de Gruyter, Berlin - New York 2010 (BZAW 413), ISBN 978-3-11-022809-0.
  • The wisdom of Solomon, translated and introduced. Radius, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-87173-906-4.
  • Otto Kaiser ( ed.): Documents of a friendship in difficult times. Hermann Hupfeld and Johann Wolfgang Bickell. Correspondence from 1832 to 1848. Edited and with an introduction. Publications of the Historical Commission Hesse XXIII / 5, Marburg: Historical Commission Hesse.

Papers

  • "Between Interpretation and over-interpretation: from the ethos of the boom ." In herméneutiques Variations, 6 (May ), 1997, pp. 53-70
  • "The speech of God in an age of nihilism. " In versatility of the Old Testament (FS Georg Sauer 70). James Alfred Loader / Hans Volker Kieweler, eds Frankfurt etc.: Peter Lang, 1999, pp. 411-425. ISBN 3-631-32557-6
  • "The fear and the love of God. Attempting ethics Ben Sira to compare with that of the Apostle Paul. " In Ben Sira 's God. Proceedings of the International Ben Sira Conference, Durham - Ushaw College 2001 Renate Egger -Wenzel, eds Supplements to the Journal for the Old Testament Science, vol.. 321 Berlin - New York: de Gruyter, 2002, pp. 39-75. ISBN 3-11-017559-2

Commemorative

  • " Who is like you, O LORD, among the gods? " Studies of theology and religious history of Israel. Festschrift for Otto Kaiser 's 70th birthday. . Ingo Kottsieper et al, eds Göttingen: Cambridge University Press, 1994, ISBN 3-525-53631-3
  • Righteousness and life in the Hellenistic age. Symposium on the occasion of the 75th birthday of Emperor Otto. Jörg Jeremias, eds Supplements to the Journal for the Old Testament Science, vol. 296 Berlin - New York: de Gruyter, 2001, ISBN 3-11-016823-5
  • Paradiama. Essays in Honor of Otto Kaiser on the Occasion of his 75th Birthday. Wolfgang Drechsler, eds Trames, Vol 3 (53/ 48), H. 3 (Fall 1999)
  • God and Man in the dialog. Festschrift for Otto Kaiser 's 80th birthday. 2 vols Markus Witte, eds Supplements to the Journal of Old Testament scholarship 345/I-II. Berlin - New York: de Gruyter, 2004, ISBN 3-11-018354-4
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