Wolfgang Roth

Professorship

Leonard Theological College, Jabalpur, India From 1959 to 1967 Roth taught Old Testament at the Leonard Theological College, Jabalpur, which is affiliated with the Senate of Serampore College (University).

Garrett–Evangelical Theological Seminary, Evanston, Illinois In 1967, Roth moved to the Garrett–Evangelical Theological Seminary, Evanston, Illinois where he began teaching Old Testament. He was the Frederick Carl Eiselen Professor of Old Testament Interpretation from 1981 until his retirement in 1996. The Seminary continued to keep Roth under its teaching faculty and designated him as Professor Emeritus from 1996 onwards. Roth continued to teach at the Seminary until his death in 2013.

Writings

Books authored 1965, Numerical Sayings in the Old Testament: A Form-Critical Study 1968, Old Testament Theology. 1988, Hebrew Gospel: Cracking the Code of Mark 1988, Isaiah

Books co-authored/edited 1966 (with H. Burkle), Indian Voices in Today's Theological Debate (republished in 1972) 1967 (with George Johnston), The Church in the Modern World 1974 (with George W. Hoyer), Pentecost 2 1978 (with Rosemary Radford Ruether), The Liberating Bond: Covenants-Biblical and Contemporary

Articles written 1960, NBL, 1962, The Numerical Sequence x/x+l in the Old Testament 1963, Love in the New Testament, 1963 (in German), Hinterhalt und Scheinflucht 1963, The Historical-Critical Method and Its Function in Biblical Interpretation 1964, The Anonymity of the Suffering Servant 1964, An Approach to New Testament Christology 1968, A Study of the Classical Hebrew Verb SKL 1972, The Wooing of Rebekah: a tradition-critical study of Genesis 24 1972, Thought Patterns – Fetters or Opportunities? 1974, What of Sodom and Gomorrah? Homosexual Acts in the Old Testament

1975, For Life, He Appeals to Death (Wis 13:18). A Study of Old Testament Idol Parodies 1975, What of Sodom and Gomorrah? Homosexual Acts in the Old Testament 1976, The Deuteronomic Rest Theology: A Redaction-Critical Study, 1977, You are the Man! Structural Interaction in 2 Samuel 10–12 1977, The Language of Peace: Shalom and Eirene 1979, The Text is the Medium: An Interpretation of the Jacob Stories in Genesis 1980, On the Gnomic-Discursive Wisdom of Jesus Ben Sirach, 1981 (in German), Deuteronomistisches Geschichtswerk/Deuteronomistische Schule 1982, The Story of the Prophet Micaiah (1 Kings 22) in Historical-Critical Interpretation 1983, The Secret of the Kingdom 1992, Mark, John and their Old Testament Codes 1999, Rhetorical Criticism, Hebrew Bible