Rudolf Mack

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Rudolf Mack (born July 24, 1932 in Mannheim ; † January 7, 2006 ) was a German religious educator.

Life

After studying Protestant theology at the University of Heidelberg , the vicariate in Karlsruhe and Badenweiler, Mack was pastor in Todtmoos from 1962 to 1967 . He received his doctorate from the University of Edinburgh in 1969 with a thesis on Martin Buber's translation of the Bible to become Dr. phil. He then taught from 1969 to 1975 as a lecturer in Old Testament and Hebrew at Trinity College in Legon, Ghana. In 1975 he took over a lectureship for the Old Testament and specialist didactics of religious instruction at the Evangelical Oberseminar Freiburg, an institution of the Evangelical Church in Baden . From August 1, 1978 to March 1, 1995, he was Professor of Old Testament and Religious Education at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences in Freiburg . He was editor of the series Oberstufe Religion in Calwer Verlag.

In 2003 Mack had the idea of founding a Bible gallery. In July 2003 this biblical experience museum was founded in the legal form of a non-profit GmbH in Meersburg . Mack supported the foundation financially and with valuable loans from biblical and archaeological finds. After his death, his wife Waltraud took over his position as a member of the board of trustees.

Publications (selection)

  • together with Claus Ramsperger and Dieter Volpert: Jesus - new aspects of Christology: the feature film “Jesus von Montreal” in class . In: Calwer materials . Calwer Verlag, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-7668-3305-7 , p. 77 .
  • Intuition and interpretation in Martin Buber's handling of the Hebrew Bible . In: Journal of Religious and Intellectual History . No. 33 . Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden 1981, pp. 21-31 .
  • Mysticism - Hasidism - Dialogue. On Martin Buber's handling of Jewish tradition . In: Journal of Religious and Intellectual History . No. 31 . Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden 1979, pp. 159-172 .
  • together with Dieter Volpert: The Bible - Suggestions for Life . Student book and teacher volume. Stuttgart 1998.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ page of the Bible Gallery Meersburg , accessed on December 1 2012
  2. ↑ Negotiations  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 9.3 MB) of the regional synod of the [Evangelical Church in Baden], 5th conference, 17. – 21. October 2010, p. 114; Retrieved December 1, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.ekiba.de  
personal data
SURNAME Mack, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German religious educator
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 2006