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Andrew Steinmann is Distinguished Professor of Theology and Hebrew at Concordia University Chicago. He has authored a dozen books and numerous articles relating to Old Testament/Hebrew Bible, Biblical Hebrew, and Biblical Aramaic. His publications include books on the Old Testament canon, biblical chronology, Hebrew and Aramaic grammar, and commentaries on several Old Testament books.
Biography
Steinmann attended the University of Cincinnati, graduating with a B. S. in Chemical Engineering. He pursued studies to enter the ministry of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod, receiving a M. Div. from Concordia Theological Seminary in Ft. Wayne, IN. Subsequently he served as Associate Pastor of St. John Lutheran Church, Fraser, MI, and later assistant professor at Concordia University in Ann Arbor, MI. During this time he received a PhD in Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan. Steinmann was translation coordinator for the God’s Word Translation of the Bible. He also served as staff pastor at Lutheran Home in Westlake, OH before he accepted his present position at Concordia University Chicago.
Steinmann serves as a regular guest on the radio programs “Issues, Etc.” on KSIV in St. Louis and “The Bible Study” on KFUO in St. Louis, and has also been a guest on "Our World, His View" on WLQV-FM in Detroit and "Studio A" on KFUO in St. Louis.
Major publications
In The Oracles of God: The Old Testament Canon Steinmann reviewed the evidence for the history of the compilation and organization of the Hebrew Bible. Among his major conclusions were that the canon existed as a collection from before the time of Christ, that it was originally considered to be a collection of authoritative and divinely inspired books kept in the temple in Jerusalem, and that the later Jewish and Christian organizations of the canon were developments from a more simple two-part organization of Law (Pentateuch) and Prophets.
Steinmann has also published several works relating to chronology of the Bible, especially From Abraham to Paul: A Biblical Chronology. He has challenged the consensus on the date of the death of Herod the Great, arguing that Herod died in 1 BC (Steinmann, Andrew. "When Did Herod the Great Reign?", Novum Testamentum, Volume 51, Number 1, 2009, pp. 1–29). With Rodger Young he has also argued that the source of the information on the Parian Chronicle was most likely the city records of Athens
Publications
| Year | Title | Publisher | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | "Prepare the Way of The Lord: An Introduction to the Old Testament" | Concordia Publishing House | R. Reed Lessing and Andrew E. Steinmann |
| 1999 | The Oracles of God: The Old Testament Canon | Concordia Publishing House | |
| 2011 | "From Abraham to Paul: A Biblical Chronology" | Concordia Publishing House | |
| 2010 | "Ezra and Nehemiah" | Concordia Publishing House | Concordia Commentary |
| 2010 | "Intermediate Biblical Hebrew: A Reference Grammar with Charts and Exercises" | Concordia Publishing House | |
| 2009 | "Proverbs" | Concordia Publishing House | Concordia Commentary |
| 2008 | "Daniel" | Concordia Publishing House | Concordia Commentary |
| 2006 | Workbook and Supplementary Exercises for Fundamental Biblical Hebrew and Fundamental Biblical Aramaic | Concordia Academic Press | Bartelt, Andrew H. and A. E. Steinmann |
| 2006 | "Called to Be God’s People: An Introduction to the Old Testament. Called by the Gospel 1" | Wipf and Stock | Editor and Contributor |
| 2004 | "Is God Listening" | Concordia Publishing House | |
| 2004 | "Fundamental Biblical Hebrew" | Concordia Academic Press | with Andrew Bartelt’s Fundamental Biblical Hebrew, 2004 |
| 2013 | “Gazelles, Does, and Flames: (De)Limiting Love in Song of Songs, Journal for the Evangelical Study of the Old Testament 2.1 | Journal for the Evangelical Study of the Old Testament | Pages 25-39 |
| 2011 | “Night and Day, Evening and Morning,” | The Bible Translator | Issue 62, Pages 154-160 |
| 2009 | "When did the Great Herod Reign" | Novum Testamentum | Volume 51, Number 1, 2009, pp. 1–29 |
| 2008 | "Letters of Kings About Votive Offerings, The God of Israel and The Aramaic Document" | Journal of Hebrew Scriptures | |
| 2008 | “A Chronological Note: The Return of the Exiles under Sheshbazzar and Zerubbabel (Ezra 1—2),” | Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society | Issue 51, Pages 513-522 |
| 2005 | “The Mysterious Numbers of the Book of Judges” | Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society | Issue 48 Pages 491-500 |
| 2005 | "Is the Anti-Christ in Daniel 11?" | Bibliotheca Sacra | Issue 162, Pages 195-209 |
| 2002 | “The Chicken and the Egg: A New Proposal for the Relationship Between the Prayer of Nabonidus and the Book of Daniel” | Revue de Qumran | Issue 20, Pages 557-570 |
| 2002 | " AS AN ORDINAL NUMBER AND THE MEANING OF GENESIS 1:5" | Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society | Issue 45, Pages 577-584 |
| 2001 | “Three Things...Four Things... Seven Things: The Coherence of Proverbs 30:11–33 and the Unity of Proverbs 30” | Hebrew Studies | Issue 42, Pages59-66 |
| 2000 | “Proverbs 1—9 As a Solomonic Composition” | Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society | Issue 43, Pages 659-674 |
| 1997 | “Jacob’s Family Goes to Egypt: Varying Portraits of Unity and Disunity in the Textual Traditions of Exodus 1:1–5” | A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism | |
| 1996 | “The Structure and Message of the Book of Job” | Vetus Testamentum | Issue 46, Pages 85–100 |
| 1992 | “The Order of Amos’ Oracles Against the Nations: Amos 1:3—2: 16" | Journal of Biblical Literature | Issue 11, Pages 671–677 |
| 1992 | “The Tripartite Structure of the Sixth Seal, Trumpet and Bowl of St. John’s Apocalypse” | Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society | Issue 35, Pages 69–79 |