G. Ch. Aalders

Gerhard Charles Aalders (25 March 1880 – 30 January 1961), usually styled as G. Ch. Aalders, was a Dutch Old Testament scholar. He was born in London to an English mother and a Dutch father. He studied from 1897 to 1903 at the Free University of Amsterdam.[1] He served as a minister of the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands from 1903 to 1920, and as Professor of Old Testament at the Free University of Amsterdam from 1920 to 1950.[2]

G. Ch. Aalders in 1931.

Aalders is best known for his books A Short Introduction to the Pentateuch (which I. Howard Marshall says kept him going during his student days[3]) and The Problem of the Book of Jonah. He also wrote a number of commentaries in the Korte Verklaring series: Genesis, Daniel, Esther, Jeremiah, and Lamentations.[4] He was an editor of the series "Commentaar op het Oude Testament" and wrote the commentary "Het Hooglied".[5] He played a mayor role in creating the Dutch translation of the Bible of the Dutch Bible Society.[1]

Historian George Harink suggests that, along with Seakle Greijdanus, F. W. Grosheide, and Jan Ridderbos, Aalders "took the lead in Neo-Calvinist exegetical production."[6] According to historian of science Abraham Flipse, Aalders introduced American-style Young Earth creationism into the Netherlands in the 1930s.[7]

References
  1. owner, No (2013-11-12). "bwn1". resources.huygens.knaw.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 2020-01-07.
  2. "Gerhard Charles Aalders," in Tyndale Bulletin 9 (1961), p. 2.
  3. I. Howard Marshall, Beyond the Bible: Moving from Scripture to Theology, p. 17.
  4. Korte Verklaring
  5. Het Hooglied
  6. George Harink, "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.
  7. Flipse, Abraham C. (2012). "The Origins of Creationism in the Netherlands: The Evolution Debate among Twentieth-Century Dutch Neo-Calvinists". Church History. 81: 126. doi:10.1017/S000964071100179X. S2CID 145383231.
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