John W. Rogerson
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John W. Rogerson | |
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| Born | John William Rogerson 1935 London, England |
| Died | (aged 83) Sheffield, England |
| Spouse | Rosalind |
| Ecclesiastical career | |
| Church | Church of England |
| Ordained | 1964 |
| Academic background | |
Ripon Hall[1] | |
| Influences | |
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| Institutions | |
| Doctoral students | Stanley E. Porter[4] |
John William Rogerson (1935–2018) was an English
Early life
He was born in 1935 in
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.[a] 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).[6]
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".[7]
He was for many years the secretary of the British Society for Old Testament Study and was its president in 1989.[8] He was a keen musician and played the cello, and continued an active ministry at Beauchief Abbey, Sheffield,[9] as well as academic and pastoral writing.
Rogerson died on 4 September 2018 whilst in hospital in Sheffield.[10]
Selected writings
Books
- Rogerson, John W. (1974). Myth in Old Testament Interpretation. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft. Vol. 134. Berlin ; New York: De Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-110-04220-7.
- ——— (1976). The Supernatural in the Old Testament. Interpreting the Bible. Lutterworth. ISBN 978-0-718-82233-0.
- ———; McKay, John W. (1977). Psalms. Cambridge Bible commentary. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-21463-6.
- ——— (1979). Anthropology and the Old Testament. Growing Points in theology. Atlanta: John Knox Press ; Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-804-20083-7.
- ——— (1984). Old Testament Criticism in the Nineteenth Century: England and Germany. Philadelphia: Fortress Press ; SPCK. ISBN 978-0-800-60737-1.
- ——— (1982). Beginning Old Testament Study. Philadelphia, PA: Westminster Press ; SPCK. ISBN 978-0-664-24451-4.
- ———; ISBN 978-0-136-34049-2.
- ——— (1989). Atlas of the Bible. Phaidon Press. ISBN 978-0-714-82632-5.
- ——— (1995). The Bible and Criticism in Victorian Britain: Profiles of F.D. Maurice and William Robertson Smith.
- ———; ISBN 978-1-850-75573-9.
- ——— (1999). Introduction to the Bible. London: Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-140-25261-3.
- ——— (1999). Chronicle of the Old Testament Kings: the reign-by-reign record of the rulers of ancient Israel. New York: Thames and Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-05095-8.
- ———; ISBN 978-0-826-47165-9.
- ——— (2009). A Theology of the Old Testament: Cultural Memory, Communication and Being Human. SPCK. ISBN 978-0281058754.
Articles
- ——— (1970). "The Hebrew Conception of Corporate Personality: A Re-Examination". Journal of Theological Studies. 21: 1–16.
Notes
- ^ An account of the history of the Sheffield University Department of Biblical Studies, including the period of Rogerson's leadership, can be found in Clines 1998, especially pp. 36–39.
References
Footnotes
- ^ Carroll R., Clines & Davies 1995, p. 9.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Gnuse 2010, p. 347.
- ^ Bottoms, Geoffrey (21 September 2018). "Obituary: The Revd Professor John Rogerson". Church Times. London. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
- ^ Porter, Stanley E. (7 September 2018). "Celebrating John W. Rogerson". Domain Thirty-three. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
- ^ "The Department of Biblical Studies – 65th Anniversary Celebrations". 2012. Retrieved 6 September 2018.
- ^ a b "John William Rogerson", in Crockford's Clerical Directory (Church House Publishing), p. 715 [2014–15 edition].
- ^ Clines 1998, p. 37.
- ^ http://sots1917.org/past-presidents/
- ^ "Beauchief Abbey Press".
- ^ "John Rogerson Obituary – Sheffield". The Star. 17 September 2018. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
Bibliography
- Carroll R., M. Daniel; ISBN 978-1-85075-568-5.
- ISBN 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. S2CID 170529803.
