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Otto Kaiser 90 - laudatio | M & T
Otto Kaiser was born on November 30, 1924, Prenzlau, Germany. He began to study in Berlin during the Second World War Medical Academy, but was sent to the eastern front, where he has been a battle so close to the Polish Velikiye Luki areas. After the wounded and the Kaiser's own words and the deep existential experience of religious war, he went to study theology at the University htt of Tübingen. His teachers included the old testament let Artur Weiser, and Karl Ernst Würthwein Elliger, Egyptologist Hellmut Brunner, Adolf Köberl practical theologian, philosopher Wilhelm Weischedel and semitist Otto Rössler. Vikaariaastad Balingenis studies followed (1952-1954) and assistant in Tübingen years (1954-1958).
Although the Kaiser was offered promoveerumise possibility in systematic theology, he chose the Old Testament science and promoveerus and habilitated at high speed: doctoral thesis was "Sea mythic significance in Egypt, Ugarit and Israel" (Die mythische Bedeutung des Meeres in Ägypten, Ugarit und Israel, in 1956, published 1959, second edition 1962) and habilitation "servant of the king: traditsiooniloolis-exegetical study Deuterojesaja Ebed-Yahweh-songs" (Der Knecht königliche: Eine Studie über die traditionsgeschichtlich-exegetische Ebed Jahwe-bei-Lieder Deuterojesaja, 1958, published 1959) .
In 1960 Kaiser took an extraordinary professor at the University htt of Marburg to work and was a professor of Old Testament at the same time there thirty years (1963-1993), where he interacted htt closely with one another and in their very important theological teacher Rudolf Bultmanniga. Repeatedly, he has been the Dean of the Faculty of Theology, even after a difficult year in 1968, when the University of Marburg, as in other European universities began large changes.
Otto Kaiser has been a very prolific author of hundreds htt of articles and dozens of books in a row is not finished yet. Two generations of German theologians have been indispensable Kaiser "in the Old Testament in the board" five editions (Einleitung htt in das Alte Testament the last in 1984), known for being the three-volume htt "Old Testament God" or Old Testament Theology (Der Gott des Alten Testaments, 1993, 1998 , 2003), whose second volume is being written in Tartus. Kaiser has been extremely influential book of Isaiah chapters 1-39 in two volumes in the series Das Alte Testament Deutsch comment. Kaiser laid the foundations for two important throughout the work Die Umwelt des Alten Testaments, and jüdische Schriften aus hellenistisch Römischer-Zeit, which he is one of those pioneers, who have raised the Ancient Near East and the importance of early Jewish literature, science, and theology of the Old Testament, for they deserve on height. He has made a decisive impulse Apocrypha, especially the wisdom literature, researching, since the last twenty years, engaged in the book Jesus Sirach and the Wisdom of Solomon, and the book of Job, as well as books Collector. Creative fertility testifies again in 2013 published "Israeli troops in the one God and the World. htt In the Old Testament, God's way of your Lord of the whole people htt of the lord of the world "(Der eine der Gott Israels und die Welt Mächte. htt Gottes im Alten Testament Der Weg vom Herrn seines Volkes zum Herrn der Welt ganzen) and completely newly published (although the title page already in the year 2015) Philo of Alexandria to the board of directors (Philo von Alexandriei. Denkender Glaube - Eine Einführung).
Otto Kaiser htt represents the best of the old school in terms of scientists who have benefited from his time in the world for exemplary German school education and studied under the guidance of the leading German theologians. It has a spacious open-minded, he is very actively involved in public life, he has written and lectured both in the Old Testament, Semitic, as well as systematic theology, practical theology, philosophy, ancient history, classical philology, music, etc. in the field.
In Estonia, the Otto Kaiser had many teachers since the 1990s, he was a total of two semesters of the Faculty of Theology of the University of Tartu and is visiting professor at several presentations held here later. His lectures are part of theologians, philosophers, htt philologists and others classics. In 1996 he was elected an honorary doctorate from the University of Tartu. He had defended a doctoral thesis under the guidance include the University of Tartu Urmas associate professor of Old Testament and Semitic Nõmmik (University of Marburg in 2008).
The magazine is published by Church & Theology Otto Kaiser presentation "of the Old Testament meaning of the Christian faith" (No. 6 / 20.01.2012 and 7 / 27.1.2012) and the two preachers: "We accept mortality - walk in the light (1 John 1: 5-10)" (No 27 / 06.15.2012) and "Usupuhastuspühajutlus (Ps 31: 15-16)" htt No 46 / 26.10.2012).
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