Wolfgang Roth (scholar) explained

Wolfgang Roth, UCC
Birth Date:1 October 1930[1]
Birth Place:Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany
Death Date:[2]
Death Place:Evanston, Illinois, United States of America
Church:Methodist Church in India/United Church of Canada
Congregations:Canada
Offices Held:Pastor, Canada
Professor, Leonard Theological College, Jabalpur
Professor, Garrett–Evangelical Theological Seminary, Evanston, Illinois
Professor Emeritus, Garrett–Evangelical Theological Seminary, Evanston, Illinois
Reverend Doctor
Parents:Kaethe (née Fiebig) and Ludwig Wilhelm Roth

Wolfgang Max Wilhelm Roth (1 October 1930 – 24 November 2013), also known as W. M. W. Roth, was a German pastor[3] of the United Church of Canada and an Old Testament scholar with major contribution to the growth of Old Testament scholarship for more than half a century from 1959 through 2013. Roth was a scholar in the line of Gerhard von Rad acknowledging the influence of the master-specialist of Old Testament ever since his study days at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. Roth's writings drew the attention of the world of Old Testament scholarship through his writings which began appearing in journals like Catholic Biblical Quarterly, Journal of Biblical Literature, Vetus Testamentum, theological commentaries and other theological treatises.

Studies

Germany

Initial graduate studies were undertaken by Roth at the Universities[1] of Tübingen, Heidelberg, and Marburg.[1] Roth acknowledges the inspiration of Gerhard von Rad, his Professor at Heidelberg.

Canada

Roth studied for postgraduate and doctoral degrees at Emmanuel College under the Old Testament Professor Robert Dobbie. During Roth's study days in 1953[4] at the college in Toronto, he happened to be a companion of A. B. Masilamani, the Indian lyric writer who was studying at the college in 1952.[5] In their later years, both Roth and Masilamani happened to teach at seminaries in India affiliated to the Senate of Serampore College (University). While Roth began teaching from 1959 onwards at the Leonard Theological College, Jabalpur, Masilamani was already on the faculty of a seminary located further south at the Baptist Theological Seminary, Kakinada.

Professorship

Leonard Theological College, Jabalpur, India

From 1959 to 1967 Roth taught Old Testament at the Leonard Theological College, Jabalpur, which is affiliated with the Senate of Serampore College (University).

Garrett–Evangelical Theological Seminary, Evanston, Illinois

In 1967, Roth moved to the Garrett–Evangelical Theological Seminary, Evanston, Illinois where he began teaching Old Testament. He was the Frederick Carl Eiselen Professor of Old Testament Interpretation from 1981 until his retirement in 1996. The Seminary continued to keep Roth under its teaching faculty and designated him as Professor Emeritus from 1996 onwards. Roth continued to teach at the Seminary until his death in 2013.

Writings

Books authored

Books co-authored/edited

Articles written

References

Notes
  • Further reading

    • Notes and References

    1. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/chicagotribune/obituary.aspx?pid=168992561#sthash.FacKN5ne.dpuf Wolfgang Roth in Chicago Tribune Obituaries, January 10–12, 2014
    2. Two Prominent Figures in the Seminary's History, Roth and Clymer, Now Deceased, News, 26 November 2013. Garrett–Evangelical Theological Seminary. https://www.garrett.edu/news/two-prominent-figures-seminarys-history-roth-and-clymer-now-deceased
    3. 1964 Year Book of the United Church of Canada, Volumes 1–2, United Church of Canada, 1964, p. 198. https://books.google.com/books?id=-53tAAAAMAAJ&q=Wolfgang+roth+jabalpur
    4. The Bulletin – Committee on Archives of the United Church of Canada, issues 5–13, United Church of Canada Committee on Archives, United Church Publishing House, 1952, p. 52. https://books.google.com/books?id=PTdKAAAAMAAJ&q=wolfgang+roth+emmanuel+college
    5. A. B. Masilamani, Hindu Anticipations of the Christian Gospel, Emmanuel College, Canada, 1953. https://books.google.com/books?id=8yqRNwAACAAJ&q=a.b.masilamani
    6. W. M. W. Roth, Numerical Sayings in the Old Testament: A Form-Critical Study, E. J. Brill, Leiden, 1965. https://books.google.com/books?id=SKg3AAAAIAAJ&dq=w.m.w.roth+victoria+university&pg=PP15
    7. W. M. W. Roth, Old Testament Theology, Published by the Christian Students Library of the Senate of Serampore College (University) and printed at the Christian Literature Society, Madras, 1968. https://books.google.com/books?id=6c5eGwAACAAJ&q=Old+Testament+Theology+roth
    8. W. M. W. Roth, Hebrew Gospel: Cracking the Code of Mark, Wipf and Stock Publishers, Eugene, 2009. Previously published in 1988 through Meyer Stone in 1988. https://books.google.com/books?id=mmhMAwAAQBAJ
    9. https://books.google.com/books?id=nh3QAAAACAAJ W. M. W. Roth, Isaiah, John Knox Press, Louisville, 1988
    10. W. M. W. Roth, H. Burkle, (Edited), Indian Voices in Today's Theological Debate, Lucknow Publishing House/ISPCK/CLS, Lucknow/New Delhi/Madras, 1972. Cited in Priscilla Pope-Levison, John R. Levison, Jesus in Global Contexts, Westminster/John Knox Press, Louisville, 1992, First Edition, pp. 83 and 204. https://books.google.com/books?id=kTFyui8hjUsC&pg=PA204
    11. W. M. W. Roth, George Johnston (Edited), The Church in the Modern World, Ryerson Press, Toronto, 1967, pp. 1–8. Cited in Annual Report – McGill UniversityMcGill-Queen's University Press, 1966, p. 130. https://books.google.com/books?id=kXALAAAAIAAJ&q=The+Church+in+the+Modern+World.+Essays+in+honour+of+J.+S.+Thomson.+George+Johnston+and+Wolfgang+Roth
    12. W. M. W. Roth, George W. Hoyer, Pentecost 2, Fortress Press, Minnesota, 1974. https://books.google.com/books?id=FW2vLho86FEC
    13. W. M. W. Roth, Rosemary Radford Ruether, The Liberating Bond: Covenants-Biblical and Contemporary, Friendship Press, New York, 1978. https://books.google.com/books?id=3qmNAAAACAAJ
    14. W. M. W. Roth, NBL, Vetus Testamentum, volume 10, issue 1, 1960, pp. 394–409. http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/156853360x00409
    15. W. M. W. Roth, The Numerical Sequence x/x+l in the Old Testament, Vetus Testamentum, volume 12 (July 1962), p. 304. Cited in John J. Davis, The Rhetorical Use of Numbers in the Old Testament, Grace Journal 8.2 (Spring 1967), p. 47. https://faculty.gordon.edu/hu/bi/ted_hildebrandt/otesources/20-proverbs/text/articles/davis-numbers-gtj.pdf
    16. W. M. W. Roth, Love in the New Testament, Religion and Society, volume 10, CISRS, 1963, p. 7. https://books.google.com/books?id=xKnz2UiIoIIC&q=roth
    17. W. M. W. Roth, Hinterhalt und Scheinflucht, ZAW 75, 1963, pp. 296–303. Cited in Sa-Moon Kang, Divine War in the Old Testament and in the Ancient Near East, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 1989, pp. 149 and 232. https://books.google.com/books?id=SuG69_N43yYC&q=roth&pg=PA232
    18. W. M. W. Roth, The Historical-Critical Method and Its Function in Biblical Interpretation, Indian Journal of Theology, 12.2 (April–June 1963), pp. 51–58. http://biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/ijt/12-2_051.pdf
    19. W. M. W. Roth, The Anonymity of the Suffering Servant, Journal of Biblical Literature, The Society of Biblical Literature. 83.2, (June 1964) pp. 171–179. Cited in 2011 MMUF Undergraduate Journal. http://www.mmuf.org/.../2011%20MMUF%20Undergraduate%20Journal.pdf
    20. W. M. W. Roth, An Approach to New Testament Christology, Religion and Society, volume 11, 1964, p. 64. https://books.google.com/books?id=RfQpAAAAYAAJ&q=w.m.w.roth+heidelberg
    21. W. M. W. Roth, A Study of the Classical Hebrew Verb SKL, Vetus Testamentum, volume 18 (1968), pp. 69–78. Cited in Johannes Botterweck, Helmer Ringgren, Heinz-Josef Fabry (Edited), Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament, volume 10, p. 255. https://books.google.com/books?id=_eJiX4seBxgC&dq=W.+M.+W.+Roth,+%22A+Study+of+the+Classical+Hebrew&pg=PA255
    22. W. M. W. Roth, The Wooing of Rebekah, Catholic Biblical Quarterly, volume 34, 1972, pp. 177–187. Cited in Biblische Zeitschrift Neue Folge, volumes 17–18, 1973, p. 6. https://books.google.com/books?id=0CYXAAAAIAAJ&q=w.m.w.roth+heidelberg
    23. W. M. W. Roth, Thought Patterns – Fetters or Opportunities? in W. M. W. Roth, H. Burkle, (Edited), Indian Voices in Today's Theological Debate, Lucknow Publishing House/ISPCK/CLS, Lucknow/New Delhi/Madras, 1972. pp. 32–46. Cited in Siga Arles, Theological education for the mission of the church in India, 1947–1987: theological education in relation to the identification of the task of mission and the development of ministries in India, 1947–1987, with special reference to the Church of South India, Peter Lang, Frankfurt, 1990, pp. 539 and 543. https://books.google.com/books?id=7XnYAAAAMAAJ&q=roth
    24. W. M. W. Roth, For Life, He Appeals to Death (Wis 13:18). A Study of Old Testament Idol Parodies, Catholic Biblical Quarterly, volume 37, 1975, pp. 21–47. Cited in Odil Hannes Steck, Reinhard Gregor Kratz, Ingo Kottsieper (Edited), Das Buch Baruch, Der Brief des Jeremia, Zusätze zu Ester und Daniel, Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen, 1998, p. 71. https://books.google.com/books?id=vU4f9S4LyRMC&pg=PA71
    25. W. M. W. Roth, What of Sodom and Gomorrah? Homosexual Acts in the Old Testament, Explor 1, 1975, pp. 7–14. Cited in Walter C. Kaiser, Jr. Toward Old Testament Ethics, Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, 1983, p. 196. https://books.google.com/books?id=BJEdFN-fvIoC&pg=PA196
    26. W. M. W. Roth, The Deuteronomic Rest Theology: A Redaction-Critical Study, BR 21, 1976, pp. 5–14. Cited in Jeremy M. Hutton, The Transjordanian Palimpsest: The Overwritten Texts of Personal Exile and Transformation in the Deuteronomistic History, De Gruyter, Berlin, 2009, p. 409. https://books.google.com/books?id=66auMSBTMsAC&pg=PA409
    27. W. M. W. Roth, You are the Man! Structural Interaction in 2 Samuel 10–12, Semeia 8: Literary Critical Studies of Biblical Texts, 1977. https://www.logos.com/product/14975/semeia-8-literary-critical-studies-of-biblical-texts
    28. W. M. W. Roth, The Language of Peace: Shalom and Eirene, Explor 3, 1977, p. 71. Cited in James Brady, The Role of Miracle-Working as Authentication of Jesus as "The Son of God" in Churchman, date unkknown, p. 38. [biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/churchman/103-01_032.pdf]
    29. W. M. W. Roth, The Text is the Medium: An Interpretation of the Jacob Stories in Genesis, Cited in Bernhard Stade, Karl Marti (Edited), Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, volume 92, W. de Gruyter, 1980, p. 174. https://books.google.com/books?id=A_snAQAAIAAJ&q=w.m.w.roth+heidelberg
    30. W. M. W. Roth, On the Gnomic-Discursive Wisdom of Jesus Ben Sirach, Semeia 17, 1980, pp. 59–79. Cited in James L. Crenshaw, Old Testament Wisdom: An Introduction, Third Edition, Westminster John Knox Press, Louisville, 2010, p. 179. https://books.google.com/books?id=tKpWNrkO8dEC&pg=PA179
    31. W. M. W. Roth, Deuteronomistisches Geschichtswerk/Deuteronomistische Schule, TRE 8, 1981, pp. 543–552. Cited in Jeremy M. Hutton, The Transjordanian Palimpsest: The Overwritten Texts of Personal Exile and Transformation in the Deuteronomistic History, De Gruyter, Berlin, 2009, p. 409. https://books.google.com/books?id=66auMSBTMsAC&pg=PA409
    32. W. M. W. Roth, The Story of the Prophet Micaiah (1 Kings 22) in Historical-Critical Interpretation in R. Polzin and E. Rothman (Edited), The Biblical Mosaic: Changing Perspectives, Fortress/Scholars Press, Philadelphia/Chico, 1982, pp. 105–137. Cited in Burke O. Long, 1 Kings: With an Introduction to Historical Literature, William B. Eerdmans Publishing, Grand Rapids, 1984, p. 240. https://books.google.com/books?id=o3Vxhco6ItcC&pg=PA240
    33. W. M. W. Roth, The Secret of the Kingdom, Christian Century, 2 March 1983. Cited in John Dart, Decoding Mark, Trinity Press International, Harrisburg, 2003, p. 33. https://books.google.com/books?id=RSy6WU9BWnAC&dq=wolfgang+roth+old+testament&pg=PA29
    34. W. M. W. Roth, Mark, John and their Old Testament Codes in Adelbert Denaux (Edited), John and the Synoptics, Leuven University Press, Louvain, 1992, pp. 458–465. Cited in Kelli S. O'Brien, The Use of Scripture in the Markan Passion Narrative, T&T Clark International, London, 2010, p. 15. https://books.google.com/books?id=ahkv1MyQceoC&pg=PA15
    35. W. M. W. Roth, Rhetorical Criticism, Hebrew Bible in J. H. Hayes (Edited), Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation, volume 2, Abingdon, Nashville, 1999, pp. 396–399. Cited in University of Pretoria Bibliography. http://repository.up.ac.za/bitstream/handle/2263/26867/06bibliography.pdf?sequence=7, p. 278.

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