Timo Veijola

Timo Kaarlo Veijola (born April 25, 1947 in Oulu , † August 1, 2005 in Hyvinkää ) was a Protestant Finnish writer on the Old Testament.

Life

Veijola's parents were agronomists; he himself was initially interested in German studies , but then decided to study Protestant theology at the University of Helsinki , among others with the Septuagint expert Ilmari Soisalon-Soininen. Since Helsinki and Göttingen were centers of Septuagint research, Veijola was sent to the University of Göttingen in 1971 as a scholarship holder of the Lutheran World Federation . In 1975 his doctoral thesis ( The Eternal Dynasty: David and the Origin of His Dynasty According to the Deuteronomic Representation ) was accepted by the University of Helsinki. There he received his habilitation in 1980 and has held the chair for the Old Testament since 1985.

Veijola's main research area was Deuteronomy and Deuteronomic history .

Publications (in selection)

• Living according to the direction. Exegetical-historical studies on the Old Testament . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2008. ISBN 978-3-525-53087-0 . ( Digitized version )
• Revelation and Contestation: Hermeneutical-Theological Studies on the Old Testament. Neukirchener Verlag, Neukirchen-Vluyn 2007. ISBN 978-3-7887-2235-7 .
• Moses Erben: Studies on the Decalogue, Deuteronomism and scribes . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2000. ISBN 978-3-17-016698-1 .
• The fifth book of Moses: chapters 1: 1–16, 17. (= The Old Testament German . Revised edition, Volume 8.1). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-525-51138-8 .

literature

• Rudolf Smend : Critics and Exegetes: Portrait Sketches for Four Centuries of Old Testament Science . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2017, pp. 948–982.