Albert C. Sundberg

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Albert Carl Sundberg, Jr. (born August 12, 1921 in Big Creek , California , † March 17, 2006 in San Clemente , California) was Professor of New Testament and ordained pastor of the Reformed United Church of Christ . His studies of the biblical canon in the early church received strong scholarship.

Life

Sundberg graduated from high school in Los Angeles and received in 1942 a Bachelor of Arts at Bethany College ( Kansas ). In 1957 he got a Ph.D. for New Testament from Harvard University in Massachusetts . He was ordained pastor in the Evangelical Mission Covenant Church in 1945 and was later a pastor in the Congregational Church (1954) and in the United Church of Christ. He has pastored churches in Iowa and Kansas (Evangelical Covenant Churches) and in New Hampshire and Massachusetts (Congregational Church).

In 1956 he was at the Southern Methodist University in Dallas professor . 1958/59 he was Fulbright Research Professor at the University of Heidelberg . In 1960 he was at the Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary at Northwestern University in Evanston (Illinois) first assistant professor, later professor of "New Testament Interpretation". One focus of research was the Bible canon in the early church. His publications are often cited on this subject; John Barton, for example, mentions him in his book The Spirit and the Letter almost as often as the theologians Adolf von Harnack , Franz Stuhlhofer or Theodor Zahn . With his unconventional late dating of the Muratori canon to the late 4th century, he represented a predominantly rejected position. Sundberg's assessment is supported by Geoffrey Mark Hahneman: The Muratorian Fragment and the Development of the Canon. Clarendon, Oxford 1992.

He was married to Helen Luise Crum; they had two daughters. He enjoyed doing astronomy, world travel and photography.

Works

book

  • The Old Testament of the Early Church (= Harvard Theological Studies, Volume 20). Harvard University Press, Cambridge 1964.

Articles (selection)

  • The Old Testament of the Early Church (a Study in Canon). In: Harvard Theological Review. Volume 51, 1958, pp. 205-226.
  • On testimonies. In: Novum Testamentum. Volume 3, 1959, pp. 268-281.
  • The “Old Testament”: A Christian Canon. In: Catholic Biblical Quarterly. Volume 30, 1968, pp. 143-155.
  • Dependent Canonicity in Irenaeus and Terullian . In: Frank Leslie Cross (ed.): Studia Evangelica. Volume 3, Part 2 (= texts and studies on the history of early Christian literature, volume 88). Berlin 1964, pp. 403-409.
  • Protestant Old Testament Canon: Should It Be Re-Examined? In: Catholic Biblical Quarterly. Volume 28, 1966, pp. 194-203.
  • Towards a Revised History of the New Testament Canon . In: Frank Leslie Cross (ed.): Studia Evangelica. Volume 4 (= texts and studies on the history of early Christian literature, volume 102). Berlin 1968, pp. 452-461.
  • Canon Muratori: A Fourth-Century List. In: Harvard Theological Review. Volume 66, 1973, pp. 1-41.
  • Bible Canon and the Christian Doctrine of Inspiration. In: Interpretation. Volume 29, 1975, pp. 352-371.
  • Christology in the Fourth Gospel. In: Biblical Research. Volume 21, 1976, pp. 29-37.
  • The Old Testament Canon of the New Testament Church. In: Interpretation. Volume 42, 1988, pp. 78-82.
  • The Canon of the New Testament: Its Origin, Development, and Significance. In: Journal of the American Academy of Religion. Volume 60, 1992, pp. 350-355.
  • "The Old Testament of the Early Church" Revisited. In: Thomas J. Sienkewicz, James E. Betts (Ed.): Festschrift in Honor of Charles Speel. Monmouth College, Monmouth (Illinois) 1996, pp. 88-110.
  • The Septuagint: The Bible of Hellenistic Judaism. In: Lee Martin McDonald, James A. Sanders (Eds.): The Canon Debate . Hendrickson Publishers, Peabody (Massachusetts) 2002, pp. 68-90.

literature

  • Brief presentations in The Garrett Tower (Garrett Evangelical Seminary, Evanston) 35 (1960) June, p. 44f, or 40 (1965), June, p. 25.

Web links

Single receipts

  1. ^ John Barton: The Spirit and the Letter. Studies in the Biblical Canon. London 1997.
  2. ↑ Jens Schröter says that this late dating did not prevail : From Jesus to the New Testament. Studies on the early Christian history of theology and the emergence of the New Testament canon. Tübingen 2007, p. 310, note 60.
personal data
SURNAME Sundberg, Albert C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sundberg, Albert Carl Jr.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American New Testament scholar
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Big Creek , California
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 2006
Place of death San Clemente , California