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[[File:Aalders1931.jpg|thumb|160px|G. Ch. Aalders in 1931.]]
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'''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 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.<ref>"[http://www.tyndalehouse.com/TynBul/Library/TynBull_1961_09_01_Aalders.pdf Gerhard Charles Aalders]," in ''[[Tyndale Bulletin]]'' 9 (1961), p. 2.</ref>
'''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.<ref>"[http://www.tyndalehouse.com/TynBul/Library/TynBull_1961_09_01_Aalders.pdf Gerhard Charles Aalders]," in ''[[Tyndale Bulletin]]'' 9 (1961), p. 2.</ref>


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<ref>[[I. Howard Marshall]], [https://books.google.com/books?id=KVAB1EMxSBAC&pg=PA17 Beyond the Bible: Moving from Scripture to Theology], p. 17.</ref>) and ''The Problem of the Book of Jonah''. He also wrote a number of commentaries in the ''Korte Verklaring'' series: [[Book of Genesis|Genesis]], [[Book of Daniel|Daniel]], [[Book of Esther|Esther]], [[Book of Jeremiah|Jeremiah]], and [[Book of Lamentations|Lamentations]].<ref>[http://www.mullerbook.nl/catagorie.php?catagorieId=171 Korte Verklaring]</ref>
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<ref>[[I. Howard Marshall]], [https://books.google.com/books?id=KVAB1EMxSBAC&pg=PA17 Beyond the Bible: Moving from Scripture to Theology], p. 17.</ref>) and ''The Problem of the Book of Jonah''. He also wrote a number of commentaries in the ''Korte Verklaring'' series: [[Book of Genesis|Genesis]], [[Book of Daniel|Daniel]], [[Book of Esther|Esther]], [[Book of Jeremiah|Jeremiah]], and [[Book of Lamentations|Lamentations]].<ref>[http://www.mullerbook.nl/catagorie.php?catagorieId=171 Korte Verklaring]</ref>

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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]

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.