Antonius H. Gunneweg

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Antonius Hermanus Josephus Gunneweg (born May 17, 1922 in Rotterdam , † June 17, 1990 in Bonn ) was a Dutch Protestant theologian and professor of the Old Testament in Bonn from 1968 to 1989.

Life

As the son of the ship broker HCM Gunneweg and his wife Cornelia CM, geb. Lammerts, born, he attended the state humanistic grammar school in Schiedam, where he passed the Abitur on July 6, 1940. From 1940 to 1944 Gunneweg first studied law at the University of Utrecht and in 1944 passed the first legal exam. While working on his legal doctoral thesis, he was deported to Germany as a forced laborer in the armaments industry. After the end of the war he initially worked as a legal clerk for foreign exchange and import matters in Rotterdam, but began in 1951 to study theology in Marburg an der Lahn . His most important teachers were Rudolf Bultmann , Ernst Fuchs , Emil Balla and Ernst Würthwein , who also supervised his dissertation Oral and Written Tradition of the Pre-Exilic Prophet Books as a Problem of Modern Prophet Research. He took the first and, after the vicariate in Königstein im Taunus, the second theological examination with the church leadership of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau in Darmstadt. On the 1st day of Pentecost, May 26, 1958, Gunneweg was ordained by Provost Ernst zur Nieden in the Orange Memorial Church in Wiesbaden-Biebrich .

Then he was pastor for a few years in Wiesbaden-Biebrich, in Singhofen near Nassau an der Lahn and in Michelbach near Marburg. On January 30, 1963 he was awarded the venia legendi for the subject of the Old Testament with his habilitation thesis Levites and Priests . In the winter semester 1968/69 Gunneweg was appointed by the Evangelical Theological Faculty of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn as successor to Martin Noth to the chair for the Old Testament, which he held until his retirement in 1987. During his professorship in Bonn, he lived in Villa Raiffeisenstrasse 3 .

Theological work

Gunneweg's work has three main focal points, which are also reflected in his publications: the hermeneutics of the Old Testament, based on his teacher Rudolf Bultmann , the research and presentation of the history of Israel, and the exegesis of Old Testament texts. His work comprises 60 fonts, which have appeared in 292 publications and five languages.

Fonts (selection)

  • Oral and written tradition of the pre-exilic books of prophets as a problem of more recent research on the prophets , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , Göttingen 1959 (dissertation)
  • Levites and priests: main lines of tradition formation and history of the Israelite-Jewish cult personnel , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1965
  • Understanding the Old Testament. Eine Hermeneutik (ATD.E 5), Göttingen 1977, ISBN 978-3-52551-660-7
  • History of Israel up to Bar Kochba , Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1972, 1979 and 1989, ISBN 978-3-17004-981-9
  • History of Israel , Volume 2, Theological Science, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1972, 1976, 1984 and 1989, ISBN 978-3-17010-511-9
  • Essays on Old Testament texts and topics , Volume 2, Sola scriptura, editors: Peter Höffken , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1992, ISBN 978-3-64758-158-3
  • Biblical theology of the Old Testament: a religious history of Israel from a biblical-theological perspective , Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 978-3-17012-199-7

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n80144362/
personal data
SURNAME Gunneweg, Antonius H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gunneweg, Antonius Hermanus Josephus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch Protestant theologian and Old Testament scholar
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Rotterdam
DATE OF DEATH June 17, 1990
Place of death Bonn