ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE BIBLE AND ITS RECEPTION
Edited by
Hans-Josef Klauck, Bernard McGinn, Choon-Leong Seow, Hermann Spieckermann, Barry Dov Walfish, Eric Ziolkowski
in cooperation with
Dale Allison, Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, Donna Bowman, Brian Britt, Michael Cameron, Ran HaCohen, Jamey Deming, Martin Forward, Peter Gemeinhardt, Haim Goldfus, Menachem Kellner, Ann E. Killebrew, David W. Kling, Volker Leppin, Paul Mendes-Flohr, Martti Nissinen, Dennis T. Olson, Nils Holger Petersen, S. Brent Plate, Christine Roy Yoder, Thomas Römer, Günter Stemberger, Marvin A. Sweeney, Johan C. Thom, David R. Thomas, Samuel Vollenweider, Jan G. van der Watt, Sidnie White Crawford
Name
Prof. Dr. Dennis T. Olson
Function
Professor of Old Testament Theology
Address
Princeton Theological Seminary
64 Mercer St.
Princeton, NJ 08542
USA
Telephone +1-(011) 1-609-924-2973
E-Mail dennis.olson@ptsem.edu
Homepage at University http://www.ptsem.edu/PTS_People/Faculty/olson.php
Biography
Dennis Olson is the Charles T. Haley Professor of Old Testament Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey. His academic focus is on the historical-critical and literary analysis of Old Testament narrative and theology with particular emphasis on the Pentateuch (Genesis-Deuteronomy). He earned a M.Div. at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota (1980) and a Ph.D. in Religious Studies-Old Testament at Yale University (1984). An ordained minister in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, he served as a parish pastor for four years before coming to Princeton Seminary where he has taught for 19 years. He is the author of several books, including theological commentaries on the Old Testament book of Numbers (Interpretation series) and the book of Deuteronomy (with the title Deuteronomy and the Death of Moses, A Theological Reading), and the book of Judges in The New Interpreter’s Bible, Volume 2. He served for six years as the General Acquisitions Editor in Hebrew Bible for the Society of Biblical Literature (1998-2004). He has also been a member of the steering committee for the Pentateuch section of the Society of Biblical Literature for twelve years.