Ben Ollenburger

Ben

Professor of Biblical Theology
Director, MA Programs

  • B.A., California State University, Long Beach, 1973
  • M.A., Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary, 1975
  • Ph.D., Princeton Theological Seminary, 1982

Email: bco@ambs.edu
Phone: 574 296-6205

Curriculum Vitae

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He's a storyteller. This gift often inspires both laughter and new insight. Ben Ollenburger also pursues the work of theology with passion and discipline. Ben served in lay leadership in the Princeton House Church, 1980-86. He has had various publishing roles, including work as an editor and writer, contributing to popular and scholarly publications. He was an instructor at Tabor College, 1975-77, and at Princeton Theological Seminary, 1980-82, and assistant professor of Old Testament at Princeton, 1982-87. He joined AMBS in 1987.

"It is the constructive task of biblical theology to help the church discern what it must say and do today on the basis of what God has done for the church and the world.

It is the critical task of biblical theology to engage with the church in testing the faithfulness of its confession, its reflection, and its witness.

It is in preaching that these tasks are joined and carried out publicly, and it is in rigorous study of the Hebrew and Greek Bible that preaching has its foundation, and hence its credibility and integrity."

Scholarship

  • Old Testament Theology: Flowering and Future (Eisenbrauns, 2004), editor
  • "The Pastor as Prophet" in The Heart of the Matter: Pastoral Ministry in Anabaptist Perspective (Cascadia, 2004)
  • A Mind Patient and Untamed: Assessing John Howard Yoder's Contributions to Theology, Ethics, and Peacemaking (Cascadia and Herald, 2004), co-editor
  • Zechariah. New Interpreter's Bible (Abingdon, 1996)
  • Biblical Theology: Problems and Prospects, To Honor J. Christiaan Beker (Abingdon, 1995), co-editor
  • So Wide a Sea: Essays on Biblical and Systematic Theology (Institute of Mennonite Studies, 1991), editor
  • Zion, the City of the Great King: A Theological Symbol of the Jerusalem Cult (Sheffield Academic, 1987)
  • Understanding the Word: Essays in Honor of Bernhard W. Anderson (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, 1985), co-editor

Speakers Bureau Presentations

  • Old Testament theology
  • Creation in the Old Testament and in the Bible
  • Isaiah
  • The Prophets
  • Genesis