Andrew E. Steinmann was Distinguished Professor of Theology and Hebrew at Concordia University Chicago. He has authored a dozen books and numerous articles relating to Old Testament/Hebrew Bible, Biblical Hebrew, and Biblical Aramaic. His publications include books on the Old Testament canon, biblical chronology, Hebrew and Aramaic grammar, and commentaries on several Old Testament books. He retired from teaching in 2023.[1]
Steinmann serves as a regular guest on the radio programs "Issues, Etc." and "The Bible Study" on KFUO in St. Louis,[7][8] and has also been a guest on "Our World, His View" on WLQV in Detroit and "Studio A" on KFUO.
Major publicationsedit
In The Oracles of God: The Old Testament Canon,[9] Steinmann reviewed the evidence for the history of the compilation and organization of the Hebrew Bible.[10] Among his major conclusions were that the canon existed as a collection from before the time of Christ, that it was originally considered to be a collection of authoritative and divinely inspired books kept in the temple in Jerusalem, and that the later Jewish and Christian organizations of the canon were developments from a more simple two-part organization of Law (Pentateuch) and Prophets.
Steinmann has also published several works relating to chronology of the Bible, especially From Abraham to Paul: A Biblical Chronology.[11] He has challenged the consensus on the date of the death of Herod the Great, arguing that Herod died in 1 BC (Steinmann, Andrew. "When Did Herod the Great Reign?", Novum Testamentum, Volume 51, Number 1, 2009, pp. 1–29). With Rodger Young he has also argued that the source of the information on the Parian Chronicle was most likely the city records of Athens.[12]
Publicationsedit
Booksedit
Steinmann, Andrew E. (1999). The Oracles of God: The Old Testament Canon. St. Louis, MO: Concordia Publishing House. ISBN 9780570042822. OCLC 41311302.[9]
———; Bartelt, Andrew H. (2004). Fundamental Biblical Hebrew. St. Louis, MO: Concordia Publishing House. ISBN 9780758605283. OCLC 464194417.[13]
——— (2004). Is God Listening: making prayer a part of your life. St. Louis, MO: Concordia Publishing House. ISBN 9780758606129. OCLC 54857571.[14]
———; Bartelt, Andrew H. (2006). Workbook and Supplementary Exercises for Fundamental Biblical Hebrew and Fundamental Biblical Aramaic. St. Louis, MO: Concordia Academic Press. ISBN 9780758606907. OCLC 649705857.[15]
——— (2008). Daniel. Concordia Commentary. St. Louis, MO: Concordia Publishing House. ISBN 9780758606952. OCLC 183609801.[16]
——— (2009). Proverbs. Concordia Commentary. St. Louis, MO: Concordia Publishing House. ISBN 9780758603203. OCLC 298670833.[17]
——— (2010). Intermediate Biblical Hebrew: A Reference Grammar with Charts and Exercises. St. Louis, MO: Concordia Publishing House. ISBN 9780758625168. OCLC 720027375.[18]
——— (2010). Ezra and Nehemiah. Concordia Commentary. St. Louis, MO: Concordia Publishing House. ISBN 9780758615961. OCLC 434613451.[19]
——— (2011). From Abraham to Paul: A Biblical Chronology. St. Louis, MO: Concordia Publishing House. ISBN 9780758627995. OCLC 701330696.[11]
———; Lessing, R. Reed (2013). Prepare the Way of The Lord: An Introduction to the Old Testament. St. Louis, MO: Concordia Publishing House.
Edited byedit
———, ed. (2006). Called to Be God's People: An Introduction to the Old Testament. Called by the Gospel. Vol. 1. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock. ISBN 9781597525534. OCLC 76693889.[20]
——— (1996). "The Structure and Message of the Book of Job". Vetus Testamentum. 46: 85–100. doi:10.1163/1568533962581035.[23]
——— (1997). "Jacob's Family Goes to Egypt: Varying Portraits of Unity and Disunity in the Textual Traditions of Exodus 1:1–5". TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism.[24]
——— (2001). "Three Things...Four Things... Seven Things: The Coherence of Proverbs 30:11–33 and the Unity of Proverbs 30". Hebrew Studies. 42: 59–66. doi:10.1353/hbr.2001.0025. S2CID 170717196.[26]
——— (2002). "The Chicken and the Egg: A New Proposal for the Relationship Between the Prayer of Nabonidus and the Book of Daniel". Revue de Qumran. 20: 557–570.[28]
——— (2013). "Gazelles, Does, and Flames: (De)Limiting Love in Song of Songs". Journal for the Evangelical Study of the Old Testament. 2 (1): 25–39.[35]
^ ab"From Abraham to Paul". Retrieved October 9, 2013.
^"Correlation of Select Classical Sources Related to the Trojan War with Assyrian and Biblical Chronologies" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on June 19, 2013. Retrieved October 9, 2013.
^"Fundamental Biblical Hebrew". Retrieved October 9, 2013.