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by Rolf A. Jacobson (Editor), Jacqueline E. Lapsley (Editor), Kristin J. Wendland (Editor)
In his forty-plus years of work as a biblical scholar, Dennis Thorald Olson has illumined the meaning of the Bible for his readers and hearers in diverse ways. Among the topics he has taken up in his scholarship and teaching are the nature of leadership, life in community, the relation of science and theology, Jewish-Christian relations, repentance and forgiveness, and many, many more. In this essay collection, a number of Dennis's students, colleagues, and friends respond to the profound values and seminal ideas at the heart of his work and take up the profound question of truth as it pertains to Scripture, a question that Olson himself urged biblical scholars to consider in his inaugural address from over twenty years ago.
Author Biography
Dennis T. Olson is the Charles T. Haley Professor of Old Testament Theology and chair of the biblical studies department at Princeton Theological Seminary. He earned his MDiv from Luther Theological Seminary and his MA, MPhil, and PhD from Yale University. His academic interests are in literary approaches to Old Testament interpretation and Old Testament and biblical theology. He specializes in the Pentateuch and other narrative literature of the Old Testament. An ordained Lutheran minister, he has chaired the Convocation of Teaching Theologians for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Olson has served as a general acquisitions editor for the Society of Biblical Literature, a member of the Society of Biblical Literature Pentateuch steering committee, and he is currently the Pentateuch general editor for a thirty-volume project titled The Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (de Gruyter).
Rolf A. Jacobson is dean of the faculty, professor of Old Testament, and the Alvin N. Rogness Chair of Scripture, Theology, and Ministry at Luther Seminary. He is the coauthor (with Karl N. Jacobson) of Divine Laughter (2022) and author of The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to the Old Testament (2018).
Jacqueline E. Lapsley is president and professor of Old Testament at Union Presbyterian Seminary. She is coeditor (with Neal D. Presa) of Poetic Living (Pickwick, 2023), a coauthor of Bible and Ethics in the Christian Life (2018), and author of Whispering the Word (2005).
Kristin J. Wendland is associate professor of religion at Wartburg College. She holds a PhD in Old Testament from Princeton Theological Seminary.
