Albert M. Wolters
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| birth_name = Albert Marten Wolters
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| main_interests = Copper Scroll
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Albert Marten "Al" Wolters (born 1942) is an emeritus professor of religion at Redeemer University in Ancaster, Ontario (near Hamilton).{{cite web|url=http://www.redeemer.ca/faculty/al-wolters.aspx |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100205194927/http://www.redeemer.ca/faculty/al-wolters.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-date=5 February 2010 |title=Al Wolters |work=Redeemer University College |accessdate=26 July 2014 }} He has been described as a "towering figure" in the Kuyperian neo-Calvinist pantheon.{{cite journal|last1=McIlhenny|first1=Ryan|title=A Third-Way Reformed Approach to Christ and Culture: Appropriating Kuyperian neocalvinism and the Two Kingdoms Perspective|journal=MAJT|date=2009|volume=20|page=82|url=http://www.midamerica.edu/uploads/files/pdf/journal/mcilhenny20.pdf|accessdate=16 July 2017}}
Early life and education
Born in the Netherlands on March 30, 1942,{{citation needed|date=December 2020}} Wolters studied at Calvin College (BA, 1964), the Free University of Amsterdam (PhD, 1972), and McMaster University (MA, 1987).
Publications
Wolters' best-known book is Creation Regained: Biblical Basics for a Reformational Worldview, originally published in 1985 with a second edition in 2005.{{cite book|last=Wolters|first=Albert M.|title=Creation Regained: Biblical Basics for a Reformational Worldview|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tNSR1_f02PYC&q=Albert+M.+Wolters|edition=2nd|year=2005|publisher=Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company|isbn=978-0802829696}} It has been translated into Spanish{{cite book|last1=Wolters|first1=Albert M.|last2=Morales|first2=Victor|title=La Creacion Recuperada: Bases Biblicas Para Una Cosmovision Reformacional|year=2006|publisher=Dordt College Press|isbn=978-0932914712}} and other languages.{{cite news|url=http://www.artistictheologian.com/albert-m-wolters/|title=Book review: Creation Regained, Albert M. Wolters|last=Aniol|first=Scott|date=April 26, 2012|work=Artistic Theologian|accessdate=11 January 2014}}
Following in the tradition of Reformed writers such as Abraham Kuyper, Herman Bavinck, Herman Dooyeweerd, and D. H. Th. Vollenhoven,Review by Gordon J. Spykman, Calvin Theological Journal 20.2 (1985), p. 331. Wolters outlines a worldview based around the categories of creation, fall, and redemption.
Wolters has made a particular study of the Copper Scroll, one of the Dead Sea Scrolls. He has published multiple papers on the subject{{cite web|url=https://faculty.biu.ac.il/~barilm/bibcoppe.html|title=Bibliography of the Copper Scroll|work=Bar-Ilan University|accessdate=11 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131013101640/https://faculty.biu.ac.il/~barilm/bibcoppe.html|archive-date=13 October 2013|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}} as well as a pamphlet The Copper Scroll: Overview, Text and Translation as a supplement to the Journal for the Study of the Old Testament.{{cite book|last=Wolters|first=Al|title= The Copper Scroll: Overview, Text and Translation (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement)|url=https://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&field-author=Wolters%2C%20Al.&field-title=The%20copper%20scroll%20%3A&page=1&rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AWolters%5Cc%20Al.%2Cp_28%3AThe%20copper%20scroll%20%3A|date=October 1996|publisher=Sheffield Academic Press}}
Wolters has published several articles on the book of Zechariah,Wolters, A., 'Confessional Criticism and the Night Visions of Zechariah', in C. Bartholomew, C. Greene, and K. Möller (eds.), Renewing Biblical Interpretation (The Scripture and Hermeneutics Series; vol. 1; Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2000), 90-117; Wolters, A., 'Zechariah 14 and Biblical Theology', in C. G. Bartholomew (ed.), Out of Egypt: Biblical Theology and Biblical Interpretation (Bletchley: Paternoster Press, 2004), 261-85; Wolters, A., 'Zechariah 14: A Dialogue with the History of Interpretation', Mid-America Journal of Theology 13 (2002), 39-56; Wolters, A., 'Zechariah, Book of', in M. J. Boda and J. G. McConville (eds.), Dictionary of the Old Testament Prophets (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2012), 889-99. and a major commentary which focuses on the way the book of Zechariah has been interpreted through history.Wolters, A., Zechariah (Historical Commentary on the Old Testament; Leuven: Peeters, 2014). Reviewed by Anthony R. Petterson, in Review of Biblical Literature 09 (2016).
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