Dieter Vetter

Dieter Vetter (born September 29, 1931 in Berlin ; † 2006 ) was a German Protestant theologian. He worked as a professor for the Old Testament , Hebrew and Judaism at the Ruhr University in Bochum , where he retired in 1996 .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• Prayers of Judaism . Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 1995, ISBN 3-579-00712-2 .
• Judaism and its Bible. Collected essays . Echter Verlag, Würzburg 1996, ISBN 3-429-01843-9 .
• The root of the olive tree. Judaism (Small Library of Religions; Vol. 5). Herder, Freiburg / B. 1996, ISBN 3-451-23845-4 .

Essays

• “The truth” is always concrete. Law and justice in Plato's teaching and in the Jewish Bible . In: Freiburg circular. Journal for Christian-Jewish Encounters , Vol. 14 (2007), pp. 26–35 ISSN  0344-1385 .
• The ethos of Judaism . In: Adel Theodor Khoury (ed.): The world religions and ethics . Herder, Freiburg / B. 2005, ISBN 3-451-05648-8 , pp. 118-148.
• Charity . “I am a creature and my fellow man is a creature” (bBer 17a) . In: Kerstin Schiffer u. a. (Ed.): Fragmentary dictionary. Contributions to biblical exegesis and Christian theology. Horst Balz on his 70th birthday . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-17-019792-3 , pp. 287-298.

literature

• Frank Matheus (Ed.): "I created this people for myself that they could proclaim my glory". Dieter Vetter on his 60th birthday . GEJD, Duisburg 1992, ISBN 3-928925-00-8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Dieter Vetter in the catalog of the German National Library