Henning Graf Reventlow

Henning Graf Reventlow , full Henning Lothar Gert Graf Reventlow (born September 22, 1929 in Potsdam , † September 9, 2010 ) was a German Protestant theologian, Old Testament scholar and university professor.

He came from the Altenhof line and the branch of the von Reventlow family, resident on Gut Wittenberg, now part of Martensrade , and was the son of Detlev Graf Reventlow and Edith nee. Angel .

In 1958 he was awarded a doctorate degree from the Georg-August University of Göttingen with a dissertation on the Law of Holiness. theol. PhD. He completed his habilitation in 1962 at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel in the subject of the Old Testament . From 1965 until his retirement in 1994 he taught at the Ruhr University in Bochum . He was visiting professor at the United Theological College in Bangalore , India , from 1994 to 1996 , and at the University of Tartu in Estonia in 1998 .

Reventlow's focus became the history of interpretation and research; his main work was the four-volume work Epochs of Biblical Interpretation .

Works

• The law of holiness examined form-historically. Neukirchen: Neukirchener Verlag 1961 (Scientific Monographs on the Old and New Testament 6), Diss. Göttingen 1958
• Guardian of Israel: Ezekiel and His Tradition. Berlin: Töpelmann 1962 (Habil.)
• Commandment and sermon in the Decalogue. Gütersloh: Gütersloh publishing house G. Mohn 1962
• The office of the prophet with Amos. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1962 (research on the religion and literature of the Old and New Testament 80)
• Liturgy and prophetic self in Jeremiah. Gütersloh: Gütersloh publishing house G. Mohn 1963
• Sacrifice your son: An interpretation of Genesis 22. Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag des Erziehungsverein 1968 (Biblical Studies 53)
• Justification in the Old Testament horizon. Munich: Kaiser 1971 (Contributions to Protestant Theology 58) ISBN 3-459-00632-3 .
• Biblical Authority and Modern Spirit: The Importance of Understanding the Bible for Spiritual History and Political Development in England from the Reformation to the Enlightenment. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht 1980 (Research on Church and Dogma History 30) 3-525-55135-5.

engl .: The authority of the Bible and the rise of the modern world.

• Main problems of Old Testament theology in the 20th century. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 1982 (income from research 173) ISBN 3-534-06689-8 .
• Main problems of biblical theology in the 20th century. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 1983 (income from research 203) ISBN 3-534-08790-9 .
• Prayer in the Old Testament. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 1986 ISBN 3-17-009238-3 .
• (Ed.) Historical criticism and biblical canon in the German Enlightenment. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 1988 (Wolfenbütteler Forschungen 41) ISBN 3-447-02884-X .
• The prophets Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi . Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht 1993 (ATD 25.2) 9th, completely reworked. Ed., (1st ed. Of this arrangement) ISBN 3-525-51238-4 .
• (Ed.): Wisdom, Ethos and Commandment. Wisdom and Decalogue Traditions in the Bible and Early Judaism. Neukirchener Verlag, Neukirchen-Vluyn 2001, ISBN 3-7887-1832-3 .
• Epochs of Biblical Interpretation. Munich: Beck ( History of Biblical Interpretation. Atlanta, Ga: Society of Biblical Literature)

Volume 1 From the Old Testament to Origen. 1990 ISBN 3-406-34663-4 .

Volume 2 From late antiquity to the end of the Middle Ages. 1994 ISBN 3-406-34986-2 .

Volume 3 Renaissance, Reformation, Humanism. 1997 ISBN 3-406-34987-0 .

Volume 4 From the Enlightenment to the 20th Century. 2001 ISBN 3-406-34988-9 .

literature

• Peter Mommer and Winfried Thiel (ed.): Old Testament - Research and Effect: Festschrift for Henning Graf Reventlow. Frankfurt am Main; Berlin; Bern; New York; Paris; Vienna: Lang 1994 ISBN 3-631-46609-9 (bibliography p. 395–407)

Web links

• The Bible as a Western Cultural Asset (2009 essay)