# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rolf-rendtorff
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:04:38.564Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rolf-rendtorff"
name: "Rolf Rendtorff"
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description: "Rolf Rendtorff was Professor of Old Testament at the University of Heidelberg from 1963 to 1990. He was one of the more significant German Old Testament scholars from the latter half of the twentieth-century and published extensively on various topics related to the Hebrew Bible. \nRendtorff was especially notable for his contributions to the question of the origins of the Pentateuch, his adoption of a \"canonical approach\" to Old Testament theology, and his concerns over the relationship between Jews and Christians."
tagline: "German biblical scholar (1925-2014)"
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birthDate: "1925-05-10"
deathDate: "2014-04-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump