{"id":46,"date":"2019-06-28T00:00:13","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T00:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.luthersem.edu\/faculty\/?page_id=46"},"modified":"2025-01-21T16:23:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T16:23:22","slug":"rjacobso","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.luthersem.edu\/faculty\/rjacobso\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolf A. Jacobson"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Education<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Ph.D. (Princeton Theological Seminary)<\/li>\n<li>M.Div. (Luther Seminary)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Biography<\/h2>\n<p>Rolf Jacobson is Dean of the Faculty, Professor of Old Testament and the Alvin N. Rogness Chair of Scripture, Theology, and Ministry, joined the Luther Seminary faculty in 2003.\u00a0 Prior to that, he served on the faculty of Augsburg University and as Associate Pastor of Como Park Lutheran Church (St. Paul, Minnesota).<\/p>\n<p>Rolf is known for combining humor and faithful biblical interpretation. You can see this in his book <em>The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to the Old Testament: Israel\u2019s In-Your-Face, Holy God <\/em>and <em>Divine Laughter: Preaching and the Serious Business of Humor <\/em>(with Karl Jacobson).<\/p>\n<p>Rolf enjoys collaborating with other leaders. With Craig Koester, he developed and supports the Narrative Lectionary.\u00a0 With Beth Tanner and Nancy deClaiss\u00e9-Walford he wrote <em>The Book of Psalms <\/em>(NICOT). With Karl Jacobson, he wrote <em>Invitation to the Psalms <\/em>(with Karl Jacobson). With several others, he wrote both <em>Crazy Talk: A Not-So-Stuffy Dictionary of Theological Terms <\/em>and <em>Crazy Book: A Not-So-Stuffy Dictionary of Biblical Terms <\/em>(with Hans Wiersma and Karl Jacobon).\u00a0 And with Michael Chan, he is the author of <em>Introducing the Old Testament: A Historical, Literary, and Theological Survey.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For over 15 years, he was a part of \u201cSermon Brainwave,\u201d a weekly preaching podcast. 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