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Article: Gerhard von Rad as a Theologian of the Church
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- Interpretation
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- July 1, 2008
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Gerhard von Rad was both a professor and a preacher. He understood and taught the Old Testament as a text to be preached and closely connected with the New Testament to form a theological basis for Christian faith.
Without doubt Gerhard von Rad is one of the most important and most influential OT scholars of the twentieth century. "His lectures in Göttingen and Heidelberg were pilgrimage sites-there was something magical about his spoken and written word that was able to touch many."1 This is how Rudolf Smend describes von Rad's impact on his contemporaries. I would like to expand this picture by adding one element: Gerhard von Rad's remarkable charisma was also based on the fact that he ...