F. W. Grosheide

Frederik Willem Grosheide (25 November 1881 – 5 March 1972) was a Dutch New Testament scholar. He served as Professor of New Testament at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.^[1] He served as rector magnificus of that institution three times.

Frederik Willem Grosheide
Frederik Willem Grosheide (1961)
Born	(1881-11-25)25 November 1881 Amsterdam
Died	5 March 1972(1972-03-05) (aged 90) Amsterdam
Nationality	Dutch
Occupation	New Testament scholar
Title	Professor of New Testament at the Free University
Board member of	chairman of the Bible Society of the Netherlands
Academic work
Discipline	Biblical studies
Sub-discipline	New Testament studies
Institutions	Free University
Doctoral students	Herman Nicolaas Ridderbos
Notable works	1 Corinthians (NICNT)

Grosheide wrote the original commentary on 1 Corinthians in the New International Commentary on the New Testament series. He also wrote a number of commentaries in the Korte Verklaring series: Acts, First and Second Corinthians, Hebrews, and the epistles of James and Jude.^[2] George Harinck suggests that, along with G. Ch. Aalders, Seakle Greijdanus, and Jan Ridderbos, Grosheide "took the lead in Neo-Calvinist exegetical production."^[3]

In 1951, a Festschrift was published in honour of his 70th birthday: Arcana revelata: Een bundel Nieuw-Testamentische studiën aangeboden aan Prof. Dr. F. W. Grosheide ter gelegenheid van zijn zeventigste verjaardag.

Grosheide was also chairman of the Bible Society of the Netherlands.^[1]

Works

• Grosheide, Frederik W. (1922). Het Heilig Evangelie volgens Mattheus.
• ——— (1922). De brief aan de Hebreen; opnieuw uit den grondtekst vertaald en verklaard.
• ——— (1925). Christelijke encyclopaedie voor het nederlandsche volk.
• ——— (1927). De brief aan de Hebreën en de brief van Jakobus.
• ——— (1929). Hermeneutiek; ten dienste van de bestudeering van het Nieuwe Testament.
• ——— (1933). Paulus' eerste Brief aan de Kerk te Korinthe.
• ——— (1935). Algemeene canoniek van het Nieuwe Testament.
• ——— (1935). De brief van Jakobus.
• ——— (1939). Paulus' tweede brief aan de Kerk te Korinthe.
• ——— (1941). De Handelingen der Apostelen.
• ——— (1942). Geschiedenis der kerk.
• ——— (1948). De handelingen der apostelen.
• ——— (1948). Some Early Lists of the Books of the New Testament. Textus Minores. Vol. 1. Leiden: E.J. Brill. OCLC 237628.
• ——— (1951). Bijbel by Nederlands Bijbelgenootschap.
• ——— (1953). Commentary on the First Epistle to the Corinthians. New International Commentary on the New Testament. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans. ISBN 9780802822574. OCLC 386407.
• ——— (1956). Christelijke encyclopedie.
• ——— (1957). De eerste brief aan de kerk te Korinthe.
• ——— (1959). De tweede brief aan de kerk te Korinthe.
• ——— (1960). De brief van Paulus aan de Efeziërs.

References

1. "Grosheide F.W." Geheugenvandevu.nl. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
2. Korte Verklaring
3. George Harinck, "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.

External links

• Works by or about F. W. Grosheide at the Internet Archive