John W. Rogerson Explained

Honorific Prefix:	The Reverend
John W. Rogerson
Birth Name:	John William Rogerson
Birth Date:	1935
Birth Place:	London, England
Death Place:	Sheffield, England
Spouse:	Rosalind
Module:	Child: yes Church: Church of England Ordained: 1964
Module2:	Child: yes Sub Discipline: Old Testament studies Doctoral Students: Stanley E. Porter^[1]

John William Rogerson (1935–2018) was an English theologian, biblical scholar, and priest of the Church of England. He was professor of biblical studies at University of Sheffield.^[2]

Early life

He was born in 1935 in London and after serving in the Royal Air Force, where he worked in intelligence, he took a degree in theology at the University of Manchester.^[3] Among his teachers were H. H. Rowley, John M. Allegro, F. F. Bruce, S. G. F. Brandon, and Arnold Anderson. His ministerial training was at Ripon Hall, Oxford, followed by an honours degree in Oriental studies at Oxford, where he was taught by, among others, G. R. Driver. He also spent a term at the newly founded St. George's College, Jerusalem. After graduating from Oxford in 1963 he won a scholarship to the Hebrew University, where he studied under Chaim Rabin. In 1964 he moved to Durham as a lecturer and tutor at University College, where he was ordained. In 1971, researching in social anthropology, he made the first of many visits to Germany, which initiated his interest in especially 18th- and 19th-century German philosophy and biblical scholarship.

Academic career

In 1975 he was awarded a DD from the University of Manchester and in 1979 was appointed professor and head of department at the University of Sheffield, where he led a renowned group of scholars. Among his many activities he began a series of annual, and extremely popular, student study visits to the Holy Land. He retired in 1996 and remained an active scholar. A Festschrift in his honour, The Bible in Human Society, was published in 1995, on his retirement from the Sheffield Chair. He has been awarded honorary degrees from Universities of Aberdeen (1998) Jena (2005) and Freiburg (2006).^[3]

John Rogerson's interests ranged widely from linguistics and philosophy to German biblical scholarship, Palestinian topography, and social anthropology. As David J. A. Clines remarked, "There proved to be almost no area to which Old Testament studies could be related in which John Rogerson did not make himself a master".

He was for many years the secretary of the British Society for Old Testament Study and was its president in 1989.^[4] He was a keen musician and played the cello, and continued an active ministry at Beauchief Abbey, Sheffield,^[5] as well as academic and pastoral writing.

Rogerson died on 4 September 2018 whilst in hospital in Sheffield.^[6]

Selected writings

Books

• Book: Rogerson . John W. . Myth in Old Testament Interpretation . Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft . 134 . Berlin ; New York . De Gruyter . 1974 . 978-3-110-04220-7.
• Book: Rogerson . John W. . 3 . The Supernatural in the Old Testament . Interpreting the Bible . Lutterworth . 1976 . 978-0-718-82233-0 .
• Book: Rogerson . John W. . 3 . McKay . John W. . Psalms . Cambridge Bible commentary . Cambridge ; New York . Cambridge University Press . 1977 . 978-0-521-21463-6.
• Book: Rogerson . John W. . 3 . Anthropology and the Old Testament . Growing Points in theology . Atlanta . John Knox Press ; Blackwell . 1979 . 978-0-804-20083-7.
• Book: Rogerson . John W. . 3 . Old Testament Criticism in the Nineteenth Century: England and Germany . Philadelphia . Fortress Press ; SPCK . 1984 . 978-0-800-60737-1 . registration .
• Book: Rogerson . John W. . 3 . Beginning Old Testament Study . Philadelphia, PA . Westminster Press ; SPCK . 1982 . 978-0-664-24451-4.
• Book: Rogerson . John W. . 3 . Davies . Philip R. . Philip R. Davies . The Old Testament World . Englewood Cliffs, NJ ; Cambridge, England . Prentice-Hall ; Cambridge University Press . 1989 . 978-0-136-34049-2.
• Book: Rogerson . John W. . 3 . Atlas of the Bible . Phaidon Press . 1989 . 978-0-714-82632-5.
• Book: Rogerson . John W. . 3 . 1995 . The Bible and Criticism in Victorian Britain: Profiles of F.D. Maurice and William Robertson Smith.
• Book: Rogerson . John W. . 3 . Davies . Margaret . Margaret Davies . Carroll Rodas . Mark Daniel . Mark Daniel Carroll Rodas . The Bible in Ethics: the Second Sheffield Colloquium . Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Supplement Series . 207 . Sheffield, England . Sheffield Academic Press . 1995 . 978-1-850-75573-9.
• Book: Rogerson . John W. . 3 . Introduction to the Bible . London . Penguin Books . 1999 . 978-0-140-25261-3.
• Book: Rogerson . John W. . 3 . Chronicle of the Old Testament Kings: the reign-by-reign record of the rulers of ancient Israel . New York . Thames and Hudson . 1999 . 978-0-500-05095-8 . registration .
• Book: Rogerson . John W. . 3 . Carroll Rodas . Mark Daniel . Mark Daniel Carroll Rodas . Theory and Practice in Old Testament Ethics . Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Supplement series . 405 . London ; New York . . 2004 . 978-0-826-47165-9.
• Book: Rogerson . John W. . 3 . A Theology of the Old Testament: Cultural Memory, Communication and Being Human . SPCK . 2009 . 978-0281058754.

Articles

• Rogerson . John W. . 3 . The Hebrew Conception of Corporate Personality: A Re-Examination . Journal of Theological Studies . 21 . 1970 . 1–16 .

References

Bibliography

• Book: 1995. Preface. Carroll R.. M. Daniel. Clines. David J. A.. David J. A. Clines. Davies. Philip R.. Philip R. Davies. The Bible in Human Society: Essays in Honour of John Rogerson. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series. 200. Sheffield. Sheffield University Press. 9–11. 978-1-85075-568-5.
• Book: Clines , David J. A. . David J. A. Clines. 1998. The Sheffield Department of Biblical Studies: An Intellectual Biography. Clines. David J. A.. David J. A. Clines. Moore. Stephen D.. Auguries: The Jubilee Volume of the Sheffield Department of Biblical Studies. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series. 269. Sheffield. Sheffield University Press. 14–89. 978-1-85075-911-9.
• Gnuse. Robert Karl. 2010. Review of A Theology of the Old Testament: Cultural Memory, Communication, and Being Human, by John W. Rogerson. Horizons. 37. 2. 347–348. 10.1017/S0360966900007349. 170529803. 2050-8557.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Porter . Stanley E. . Stanley E. Porter . 7 September 2018 . Celebrating John W. Rogerson . Domain Thirty-three . 22 April 2020.
2. Web site: The Department of Biblical Studies – 65th Anniversary Celebrations . 2012. 6 September 2018.
3. "John William Rogerson", in Crockford's Clerical Directory (Church House Publishing), p. 715 [2014–15 edition].
4. http://sots1917.org/past-presidents/
5. Web site: Beauchief Abbey Press.
6. News: John Rogerson Obituary – Sheffield . 17 September 2018 . The Star . 17 September 2018.