Welcome to Biblical Scholarship

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Prof. Dr. Walter L. Michel

Ph.D., Hebrew and Semitic Studies

Department of Hebrew and Semitic Studies

University of Wisconsin-Madison, Prof. Dr. M. Mansoor, advisor, 1970

 

Professor Emeritus of Old Testament

Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, 1972-2001

Last Revision: November 14, 2002

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Lectures

1980 What is Expected from a Lutheran Exegete of the Bible? Hermeneutics and Christology

1988  Job 19:20, 25-29 - A New Translation and Notes in the Light of Northwest Semitic Studies

1992  Human Sexuality: The ELCA Document and the Hebrew Bible, our Christian Old Testament

1994  How the Holocaust has influenced my Understanding of the Bible and the Expression of my Christian Faith

1995  A Christian in Crisis and the Declaration of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America to the Jewish Community

1995  Sing a New Song: A Meditation on Psalm 96

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Hebrew Text, Transliteration and Translation

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Summary of the lecture

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Text of the Lecture

1996  Did Job or G-D Repent?  An Outline of a Presentation during Yom Kippur services

1998  A Brief Guide to "Jubilee, Year of"

1998  Sin and Repentance (See also "2000 Christian Views of Repentance")

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What is "sin"?

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What is "metanoia"?

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A basic bibliography

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A discussion of the article in the IDB

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Texts that use "sin" from the Psalms

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Texts that use "sin" from the New Testament

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Texts that use "sin" from the prophets

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Texts that use "sin" from the Apocrypha

1999  Arguing with God: Examples from the Psalms and a very brief look at the Book of Job

1999  Aging in the Bible

2000  Christian Views of Repentance

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Outline of the discussion

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What is "repentance" to a Christian?

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Texts that use "repentance"

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Texts that use "to die" and "to die for"

2001  How the Christian Church Must Change

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Title and Abstract of the Three Lectures

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1) Christians and the Hebrew Bible: A Meditation on Psalm 96

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2) Christians and Jews
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Christians and Jews - a brief bibliography

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3) Christianity and the Law-Court Pattern of Prayer
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Christianity and the Law-Court Pattern of Prayer - a brief bibliography

2002  The Word of/from G-D in Genesis 1:1-2:4a and Genesis 2:4b-25

2002  The Open Door: Who Has Access to the Divine?: