G. Ch. Aalders

G. Ch. Aalders in 1931.

Gerhard Charles Aalders (25 March 1880 – 30 January 1961), usually styled as G. Ch. Aalders, was a Dutch Old Testament scholar. He was born in London to an English mother and a Dutch father. He served as a minister of the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands from 1903 to 1920, and as Professor of Old Testament at the Free University of Amsterdam from 1920 to 1950.[1]

Aalders is best known for his books A Short Introduction to the Pentateuch (which I. Howard Marshall says kept him going during his student days[2]) and The Problem of the Book of Jonah. He also wrote a number of commentaries in the Korte Verklaring series: Genesis, Daniel, Esther, Jeremiah, and Lamentations.[3] He was an editor of the series "Commentaar op het Oude Testament" and wrote the commentary "Het Hooglied"."

George Harink suggests that, along with Seakle Greijdanus, F. W. Grosheide, and Jan Ridderbos, Aalders "took the lead in Neo-Calvinist exegetical production."[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Gerhard Charles Aalders," in Tyndale Bulletin 9 (1961), p. 2.
  2. ↑ I. Howard Marshall, Beyond the Bible: Moving from Scripture to Theology, p. 17.
  3. ↑ Korte Verklaring
  4. ↑ George Harink, "Twin Sisters with a Changing Character: How Neo-Calvinists dealt with the Modern Discrepancy between Bible and Natural Science," in Nature and Scripture in the Abrahamic Religions: God, Scripture and the rise of modern science (1200-1700), p. 346.
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