Cees Houtman
{{Short description|Dutch emeritus professor of Old Testament}}
{{Notability|Biography|date=August 2022}}
{{Infobox academic|birth_date=April 6, 1945|birth_place=Bodegraven, Netherlands|alma_mater=Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam|thesis_title=De Hemel in het Oude Testament. Een onderzoek naar de voorstellingen van het oude Israel omtrent de kosmos|discipline=Biblical studies|work_institutions=Protestant Theological University
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam|notable_works=Biografisch Lexicon voor de geschiedenis van het Nederlandse protestantisme|main_interests=Book of Exodus}}
Cees Houtman, Cornelis Houtman (born April 6, 1945 in Bodegraven) is a Dutch emeritus professor of Old Testament at the Protestant Theological University in Kampen-1.{{cite web|title=Theologie en vrijdenkerij: een ongemakkelijke verhouding|date=2016-02-11|url=https://www.pthu.nl/bijbelblog/2016/02/theologie-en-vrijdenkerij-een-ongemakkelijke-verhouding/|website=Protestant Theological University|access-date=2022-04-14}}{{cite web|title='De Bijbel als vrij domein. Over Guus Kuijers "Hoe een klein rotgodje God vermoordde"'|url=https://www.lucepedia.nl/dossieritem/theologisch-debat/de-bijbel-als-vrij-domein-over-guus-kuijers-hoe-een-klein-rotgodje-god-vermoordd|website=Lucepedia|language=nl|access-date=2022-04-14}}{{cite book|first=H.G.L.|last=Peels|title=Een spade dieper. Over de worsteling om de Schrift recht te doen|url=https://ugp.rug.nl/TR/article/download/31928/29340/38944|language=nl|access-date=2022-04-14}} He published on the Pentateuch, the interpretation of the Book of Exodus, the history of Dutch Bible translations and the Old Testament study in the Netherlands. After 2006 he focused on topics of book and church history,{{cite web|title=Cees Houtman. De selfmade dominee als auteur. Zesentwintig portretten uit de lange negentiende eeuw|url=https://www.walburgpers.nl/nl/book/9789462498693/de-selfmade-dominee-als-auteur|website=Walburgpers|access-date=2022-04-14}} and the reception of the Bible in Dutch-language literature from the eighteenth century onwards.{{cite web|title=Personalia van de auteurs|url=https://www.digibron.nl/viewer/collectie/Digibron/id/tag:DNK,20160601:newsml_d82628d50be53cea67eb9e5834305fe2|access-date=2022-04-14|website=Digibron}}
Life
= Education =
From 1974, Houtman holds a Ph.D. from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam with the dissertation De Hemel in het Oude Testament. Een onderzoek naar de voorstellingen van het oude Israel omtrent de kosmos under his doctoral advisor Nico H. Ridderbos.{{cite book|title=Book List|publisher=Society for Old Testament Study|date=1968|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A0UXAQAAMAAJ}}
= Academic work =
From 1970 Houtman worked at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and since 1990, at the Theological University in Kampen, where from 1993 to 1997 he was rector (dean).{{cite book|title=The Interpretation of Exodus: Studies in Honour of Cornelis Houtman|volume=44|series=Contributions to biblical exegesis and theology|editor-first1=Riemer|editor-last1=Roukema|editor-first2=Bert Jan|editor-last2=Lietaert Peerbolte|editor-first3=Klaas|editor-last3=Spronk|publisher=Peeters|date=2006|isbn=9789042918061|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wXqZoJrA0kAC}}
From 1990 to 2022 he participated in the work of the editorial team of the Historical Commentary on the Old Testament, until 2006 as its secretary. From 1999 to 2006 he was the president of the editorial team of the Biografisch Lexicon voor de geschiedenis van het Nederlandse protestantisme.
Works
= Thesis =
- {{cite thesis|title=De Hemel in het Oude Testament. Een onderzoek naar de voorstellingen van het oude Israel omtrent de kosmos|type=Diss. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam|date=1974}}
= Books =
- {{cite book|title=Nederlandse vertalingen van het Oude Testament: Hun ontstaan, karakter en ontvangst|first=C.|last=Houtman|publisher=Boekencentrum|date=1980|isbn=978-90-239-0531-8}}
- {{cite book|title=Wereld en tegenwereld: Mens en milieu in de bijbel / mens en milieu en de bijbel|first=C.|last=Houtman|publisher=Ten Have|date=1982|isbn=97890-2594-2205}}
- {{cite book|title=Exodus 1: Een praktische bijbelverklaring. [1:1-15:21]|volume=|series=Tekst en toeliching|first=C.|last=Houtman|publisher=Kok|date=1988|url=|isbn=9789024233946}}
- {{cite book|title=Het altaar als asielplaats: Beschouwingen over en naar aanleiding van Exodus 21:12-14|volume=70|series=Kamper cahiers|first=C.|last=Houtman|publisher=Kok|date=1990|url=|isbn=90-242-3250-3}}
- {{cite book|title=Der Himmel Im Alten Testament: Israels Weltbild und Weltanschauung|volume=30|series=Oudtestamentische studiën|first=C.|last=Houtman|publisher=Brill|date=1993|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nlpDHvHpimEC|isbn=978-90-04-09690-5|doi=10.1163/9789004497474}}
- {{cite book|title=Exodus: Chapters 1:1-7:13|volume=1|series=Historical Commentary on the Old Testament|first=C.|last=Houtman|translator-first1=Sierd|translator-last1=Woudstra|translator-first2=Johan|translator-last2=Rebel|publisher=Peeters|date=1993|isbn=9789042924673}}
- {{cite book|title=Der Pentateuch: Die Geschichte seiner Erforschung neben einer Auswertung|volume=9|series=Contributions to Biblical Exegesis and Theology|issn=0926-6097|first=C.|last=Houtman|publisher=Peeters|date=1994|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YMngBoatee0C|isbn=9789039001141}}
- {{cite book|title=Exodus: Chapters 7:14-19:25|volume=2|series=Historical Commentary on the Old Testament|first=C.|last=Houtman|translator-first=Sierd|translator-last=Woudstra|publisher=Peeters|date=1996|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ysrAYUrHaLUC|isbn=9789024261949}}
- {{cite book|title=Exodus 2: Een praktische bijbelverklaring. [15:22-40:38]|volume=|series=Tekst en toeliching|first=C.|last=Houtman|publisher=Kok|date=1997|url=|isbn=9789024292820}}
- {{cite book|title=Das Bundesbuch: Ein Kommentar|language=de|volume=24|series=Documenta Et Monumenta Orientis Antiqui|first=C.|last=Houtman|publisher=Brill|date=1997|isbn=978-90-04-10859-2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZvidpWd8FyEC}}
- {{cite book|title=Een wellustige en valse vrouw? Over een intrigerende "affaire" in Schrift en uitleg|first=C.|last=Houtman|publisher=Kok|date=1998|isbn=978-90-242-9347-6}}
- {{cite book|title=Exodus: Chapters 20-40|volume=3|series=Historical Commentary on the Old Testament|first=C.|last=Houtman|translator-first=Johan|translator-last=Rebel|publisher=Peeters|date=2000|isbn=9789042908055}}
- {{cite book|title=Exodus: Supplement|volume=4|series=Historical Commentary on the Old Testament|first=C.|last=Houtman|publisher=Peeters|date=2002|isbn=90-429-1126-3}}
- {{cite book|title=Ein Held des Glaubens? Rezeptionsgeschichtliche Studien zu den Simson-Erzählungen|volume=39|series=Contributions to Biblical Exegesis and Theology|first1=C.|last1=Houtman|first2=Klaas|last2=Spronk|publisher=Peeters|date=2004|isbn=90-429-1555-2}}
- {{cite book|title=De Schrift wordt geschreven: Op zoek naar een christelijke hermeneutiek van het Oude Testament|first=C.|last=Houtman|publisher=Meinema|date=2006|isbn=978-90-211-4130-5}}
- {{cite book|title=Jefta und seine Tochter: Rezeptionsgeschichtliche Studien zu Richter 11, 29-40|volume=21|series=Altes Testament und Moderne|first1=C.|last1=Houtman|first2=Klaas|last2=Spronk|publisher=Lit|date=2007|isbn=978-3-8258-0846-4}}
- {{cite book|title=Bijbelse geschiedenis herverteld: Woord en beeld – Vraag en antwoord|first=C.|last=Houtman|publisher=Groen|date=2010|isbn=9789058299932}}
- {{cite book|title=Kinderkerk en kinderpreek: Geloofsopvoeding in het negentiende-eeuwse protestantse Nederland|first=C.|last=Houtman|publisher=Groen|date=2013|isbn=9789088970771}}
- {{cite book|title=Weerloos voor de rechtbank van de rede: De Bijbel en het vrije denken in Nederland 1855-1955|first=C.|last=Houtman|publisher=Verloren|date=2015|isbn=9789087045418}}
- {{cite book|title=Klaas van Belkum, godsdienstonderwijzer te Leeuwarden: Negentiende-eeuws propagandist van de Hervorming en Inwendige Zending|first=C.|last=Houtman|series=Reformatorische Stemmen|volume=2019/1|publisher=Ten Willem de Zwijgerstichting|date=2019|isbn=978-90-72462-65-7}}
- {{cite book|title=Kerst, Pasen en Pinksteren in zondagsschoolboekjes en andere negentiende-eeuwse lectuur voor de jeugd|first=C.|last=Houtman|publisher=EON Pers|date=2022|isbn=9789077246986}}
- {{cite book|title=De selfmade dominee als auteur: Zesentwintig portretten uit de lange negentiende eeuw|first=C.|last=Houtman|publisher=Walburg Pers|date=2022|isbn=9789462498693}}
= Articles =
- {{cite journal|title=What Did Jacob See in His Dream at Bethel?: Some Remarks on Genesis XXVIII 10-22|first=C.|last=Houtman|journal=Vetus Testamentum|volume=27|number=3|date=1977|pages=337–351|publisher=Brill|doi=10.2307/1517497|jstor=1517497}}
- {{cite journal|title=Jacob at Mahanaim: Some Remarks on Genesis XXXII 2-3|first=C.|last=Houtman|journal=Vetus Testamentum|volume=28|number=1|date=1978|pages=37–44|publisher=Brill|doi=10.2307/1517154|jstor=1517154}}
- {{cite journal|title=Another Look at Forbidden Mixtures|first=C.|last=Houtman|journal=Vetus Testamentum|volume=34|number=2|date=1984|pages=226–228|publisher=Brill|doi=10.2307/1518149|jstor=1518149}}
- {{cite journal|title=On the Pomegranates and the Golden Bells of the High Priest's Mantle|first=C.|last=Houtman|journal=Vetus Testamentum|volume=40|number=2|date=1990|pages=223–229|publisher=Brill|doi=10.2307/1518994|jstor=1518994}}
- {{cite journal|title=The Urim and Thummim: A New Suggestion|first=C.|last=Houtman|journal=Vetus Testamentum|volume=40|number=2|date=1990|pages=229–232|publisher=Brill|doi=10.2307/1518995|jstor=1518995}}
- {{cite journal|title=On the Function of the Holy Incense (Exodus XXX 34-8) and the Sacred Anointing Oil (Exodus XXX 22-33)|first=C.|last=Houtman|journal=Vetus Testamentum|volume=42|number=4|date=1992|pages=458–465|publisher=Brill|doi=10.2307/1518958|jstor=1518958}}
- {{cite journal|title=David and the Ark|first1=Karel Van|last1=Der Toorn|first2=Cees|last2=Houtman|journal=Journal of Biblical Literature|volume=113|number=2|date=1994|pages=209–231|publisher=The Society of Biblical Literature|doi=10.2307/3266511|jstor=3266511}}
- {{cite encyclopedia|first=C.|last=Houtman|editor-first1=Antii|editor-last1=Laato|editor-first2=Johannes|editor-last2=De Moor|date=2003|title=Theodicy in the Pentateuch|encyclopedia=Theodicy in the World of the Bible. The Goodness of God and the Problem of Evil|series=|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UNPYAAAAMAAJ|pages=151–182|isbn=978-90-04-13275-7|doi=10.1163/9789047402626_008|s2cid=243949164 |url-access=subscription}}
- {{cite encyclopedia|title=Colenso as Seen by Kuenen, and as Known from Colenso's Letters to Kuenen|editor-first1=Jonathan A.|first=C.|last=Houtman|editor-last1=Draper|encyclopedia=The Eye of the Storm: Bishop William Colenso and the Crisis of Biblical Inspiration|publisher=T & T Clark|date=2003|pages=76–103|isbn=0-8264-7090-4}}
- {{cite encyclopedia|title=Between Stigmatizing and Idolizing the Bible: On the Reception of Genesis 12:10-20; 20; 26:1-11|first=C.|last=Houtman|editor-first1=W.Th.|editor-last1=van Peursen|editor-first2=J.W.|editor-last2=Dyk|date=2011|encyclopedia=Tradition and Innovation in Biblical Interpretation: Studies Presented to Professor Eep Talstra on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday|publisher=Brill|pages=155–170|isbn=978-90-04-21518-4}}
- {{cite encyclopedia|title=Who Cut Samson's Hair? The Interpretation of Judges 16:19a Reconsidered|first=C.|last=Houtman|editor-first1=E.|editor-last1=Eynikel|editor-first2=T.|editor-last2=Niclas|encyclopedia=Samson: Hero or Fool? The Many Faces of Samson|publisher=Brill|series=Themes in Biblical Narrative|volume=17|date=2014|pages=67–85|isbn=978-90-04-26217-1}}
- {{cite encyclopedia|title=The Beheading of Goliath (1 Samuel 17:51) in Dutch Children's and Family Bibles: Evaluating an "Uncomfortable" Text|first=C.|last=Houtman|editor-first1=|editor-last1=|encyclopedia=Reading and Listening: Meeting One God in Many Texts. Festschrift for Eric Peels|publisher=2VM|date=2018|pages=71–78|isbn=978-94-90393-63-2}}
- {{cite encyclopedia|title=Imitating Dutch Protestants: Jewish Educational Literature on the Biblical History from the 19th and the First Half of the 20th Century|first=C.|last=Houtman|editor-first1=K.|editor-last1=Spronk|editor-first2=E.|editor-last2=van Staalduine-Sulman Hebrew|encyclopedia=Texts in Jewish, Christian and Muslim Surroundings. Festschrift A. Houtman|publisher=Brill|date=2018|pages=115–131 |isbn=978-90-04-34330-6}}
References
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Sources
- {{cite book|title=The Interpretation of Exodus: Studies in Honour of Cornelis Houtman|volume=44|series=Contributions to Biblical Exegesis and Theology|editor-first1=Riemer|editor-last1=Roukema|editor-first2=Bert Jan|editor-last2=Lietaert Peerbolte|editor-first3=Klaas|editor-last3=Spronk|publisher=Peeters|date=2006|isbn=9789042918061|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wXqZoJrA0kAC |pages=283–293 (Bibliography)}}
External links
- [https://houtman-onderzoek.blogspot.com/p/bibliografie.html Bibliography from the year 2006]
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