Aage Bentzen

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Aage Bentzen (born December 13, 1894 in Ordrup , Gentofte Kommune , † June 4, 1953 in Copenhagen ) was a Danish Lutheran theologian and from 1929 until his death professor of the Old Testament at the University of Copenhagen .

Life

Bentzen studied with Frants Buhl and Johannes Pedersen in Copenhagen and with Gustav Hölscher and Paul Kahle in Gießen .

After winning a prize assignment on the history of the Sabbath, he had been a lecturer since 1923 and a full professor of exegesis of the Old Testament in Copenhagen since 1929. At the Old Testament Congress in Leiden in 1950 he was elected the first President of IOSOT and entrusted with the organization of its first congress in Copenhagen (1953). However, he died after a short illness a few weeks before the congress, so that his widow, Edith A. Bentzen-Smith, took over its leadership.

Create

Bentzen published in Danish, German and English and was one of the most productive Old Testament scholars of his time. In addition to work on the history of Israel and the archeology and regional studies of Palestine, he devoted himself in particular to the psalms , but also commented on the book Isaiah , Kohelet and Daniel . His introduction to the Old Testament was published in Danish (1941) and English (1948–49, the second edition in 1952).

Honors

Bentzen received an honorary doctorate from the University of Basel in 1950 and was made an honorary member of the British Society for Old Testament Study in 1953 .

Fonts (selection)

  • The Israelite Sabbath Oprinde! Se og Historie indtil Jerusalems Erobring Aar 70 e. Kr. (Origin and history of the Israelite Sabbath up to the conquest of Jerusalem in 70 AD). Arbejde, indleveret under competitions om Universitetets Docentur i det gamle Testamente, Copenhagen 1923.
  • The Josian Reform and its Requirements, Copenhagen 1926.
  • Daniel (= Handbook to the Old Testament , series 1, vol. 19). Mohr, Tübingen 1937 (2nd, expanded edition 1952).
  • Indledning til det gamle Testamente, Copenhagen 1941. 454 pp.
  • Det sacral congregations. Bemærkninger i an honorable discussion about the gammeltestamentlige Salmer. In: Festskrift Københavns Universitet, November 1945, Copenhagen 1945, pp. 3–127.
  • Introduction to the Old Testament, 2 vols., Copenhagen 1948 (2nd, amended edition 1952)

bibliography

  • Congress Volume Copenhagen (= Supplements to Vetus Testamentum 1). Leiden 1953, pp. IX-XV.

literature

  • E. Hammershaimb: In memoriam Professor Aage Bentzen. In: Congress Volume Copenhagen, Leiden 1953, pp. VII – IX.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rudolf Smend : Fifty Years of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament and Vetus Testamentum. In: Vetus Testamentum 50 (2000), pp. 1-14, p. 9.
personal data
SURNAME Bentzen, Aage
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish Lutheran theologian and professor of the Old Testament at the University of Copenhagen
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Ordrup , Gentofte Commune
DATE OF DEATH 4th June 1953
Place of death Copenhagen