Odil Hannes Steck

Odil Hannes Steck (born December 26, 1935 in Munich ; † March 30, 2001 in Zurich ) was a German Protestant theologian and university professor for the Old Testament .

Steck was the first child of Dr. Max Steck and his wife Hanna, b. Marx, born in Munich. From 1942 to 1946 he attended elementary schools in Munich and Risting, and the humanistic grammar school in Traunstein until he graduated in summer 1954. From 1954 to 1961, Steck studied Protestant theology primarily in Heidelberg , and also in Neuendettelsau , Wuppertal and Erlangen . From 1957 to 1962 he was sponsored by the German National Academic Foundation. In the spring of 1961 he passed the first theological exam at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria . In 1962 and 1963 he was vicar in the community service and was ordained in 1963 by the Bavarian regional church . As administrator of an assistant position in the field of practical theology at the University of Heidelberg, he received his doctorate in 1965 under Günther Bornkamm in the field of New Testament , but qualified as a professor in 1967 in the Old Testament (with Gerhard von Rad ). In 1968 Steck was offered a professorship for the Old Testament at the University of Hamburg , moved to the University of Mainz in 1976 and in 1978 became Professor for Old Testament Studies and Late Israelite Religious History at the University of Zurich , where he taught until his death.

His main research interests were the editorial history of the books of the prophets , the apocryphal book of Baruch, and the theology of prehistory and the psalms . His best-known work is the introduction to Exegesis of the Old Testament , written in 1971 together with Hermann Barth and now in its 14th edition (1999) . Guide to the methodology. A workbook for proseminars, seminars and lectures .

Fonts (selection)

• Israel and the violent fate of the prophets. Investigations into the tradition of the Deuteronomistic view of history in the Old Testament, late Judaism and early Christianity (= WMANT vol. 23). 1967 (Diss. Heidelberg 1965).
• Tradition and contemporary history in the Elia stories (= WMANT vol. 26). 1968 (Habil. Heidelberg 1967).
• The problem of theological currents in the post-exilic period . In: Evangelische Theologie 28, 1968, pp. 445–458.
• The paradise tale. An interpretation of Genesis 2,4b – 3,24 (= BSt 60). Neukirchener Verlag, Neukirchen 1970
• Ideas of peace in old Jerusalem. Psalms. Isaiah. Deutero-Isaiah (ThSt 111). 1972.
• The creation account of the priestly scriptures. Studies on literary-critical and traditional history problems in Genesis 1,1–2,4a (= FRLANT 115). 1975.
• The inclusion of Genesis 1 in Anniversaries 2 and 4 Ezra 6 . In: JSJ 8, 1977, pp. 154-182.
• Theological Streams of Tradition . In: DA Knight (Ed.): Tradition and Theology in the Old Testament . Philadelphia 1977, pp. 183-214.
  • Currents of theological tradition in ancient Israel . In: Hartmut Gese , Rudolf Smend , Odil Hannes Steck, Walther Zimmerli : On Tradition and Theology in the Old Testament (= BThSt 2), 1978, pp. 27–56.
• Twenty theses as an Old Testament contribution to the topic: The Judeo-Christian doctrine of creation in relation to science and technology . In: Kerygma and Dogma 23, 1977, pp. 277-299.
• Old Testament impulses for a theology of nature . In: Theologische Zeitschrift 34, 1978, pp. 202-211.
• World and Environment (Kohlhammer Taschenbücher 1006, Biblical Confrontations). 1978.
  • World and Environment (= Biblical Encounter Series). Abingdon, Nashville, 1980.
• Moses and Aron. Arnold Schönberg's opera and its biblical material (Kaiser Taschenbücher 56). Kaiser, Munich 1981.
• Perceptions of God in the Old Testament. Collected studies (ThB 70). Kaiser, Munich 1982.
• The origin of man . Theological Publishing House, Zurich 1983.
• Prepared homecoming. Isaiah 35 as an editorial bridge between the first and second Isaiah (= SBS 121). 1985.
• Studies on Tritojesaja (= BZAW 203). de Gruyter, Berlin 1991.
• The conclusion of prophecy in the Old Testament. An attempt on the question of the prehistory of the canon (= BThSt 17). 1991.
• Servant of God and Zion. Collected essays on Deutero-Isaiah (= FAT 4). 1992.
• The servant of God as "covenant" and "light". Observations in Isaiah II . In: Zeitschrift für Theologie und Kirche 90, 1993, pp. 117-134.
• The apocryphal book of Baruch. Studies on the reception and concentration of «canonical» tradition (= FRLANT 160), 1993.
• The books of the prophets and their theological testimony. Ways of inquiry and tracks to answer . 1996.
  • Prophetic Books and their Theological Witness , transl. by JD Nogalski. Chalice Press, St. Louis MO, 2000.
• The first Isaiah scroll from Qumran (1QIs). Notation as reading instructions for a book of prophets (= SBS 173 / 1.2). 1998.
• Translated and explained the book of Baruch (ATD Apocrypha 5). 1998, pp. 11-68
• Chair for Old Testament Studies in Zurich . In: Theologische Zeitschrift 57, 2001, pp. 199–209 ( PDF file ).
• Discover God in time. The prophetic books of the Old Testament in the late Israelite period as a foundation and model for theology and the church . Neukirchen-Vluyn 2001.
• Follow God's life track. Sermons . Stuttgart, Kohlhammer 2001.

literature

• Reinhard Gregor Kratz , Thomas Krüger (Ed.): Reception and interpretation in the Old Testament and in its environment; a symposium on the occasion of the 60th birthday of Odil Hannes Steck . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1997.
• Reinhard Gregor Kratz, Thomas Krüger, Konrad Schmid (eds.): Scripture interpretation in scripture. Festschrift for Odil Hannes Steck on his 65th birthday (= BZAW 300). de Gruyter, Berlin-New York 2000.
• Thomas Krüger: Professor Dr. Odil Hannes Steck . In: Nekrologe / Universität Zürich, 2001, pp. 35–36.
• Reinhard Gregor Kratz: Odil Hannes Steck and his work on the Old Testament . In: Theologische Literaturzeitung 129, 2004, pp. 467-480.
• Konrad Schmid: Steck, Odil Hannes . In: Religion in Past and Present , 4th ed., Vol. 7, Tübingen 2004, Sp. 1696.
• Konrad Schmid:  Odil Hannes Steck. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 23, Bautz, Nordhausen 2004, ISBN 3-88309-155-3 , Sp. 1428-1433.

Web links

• Literature by and about Odil Hannes Steck in the catalog of the German National Library