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Al WoltersAlbert Wolters(born 1942 in the Netherlands) is a professor of Religion and Theology/Classical Languages. He immigrated with his parents to Canada in 1948. (During the Second World War, when he was a baby, his parents hid a Jewish family of four in his home for two-and-a-half years, and were later honored as "righteous gentiles" by the Israeli government.) In 1961 he applied for the preseminary program at Calvin College - but with a letter explaining that he was at that time an agnostic! During his three years at Calvin he came to faith, partly through the teaching of the charismatic philosophy professor H. Evan Runner. Under his influence he felt God was calling him to philosophy rather than to the ministry, and he went to the Free University in Amsterdam to study the history of philosophy (1964-1972). He completed his studies with a dissertation on Plotinus, and returned to Canada. After some non-academic odd jobs he taught philosophy for ten years at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto (1974-1984). During those years he taught a year-long introductory course in Christian philosophy, which began with an intense two-week "boot camp" in August, in which I he laid out "the biblical basics for a reformational worldview." These introductory lectures subsequently became his book Creation Regained. However, during all this time he continued to cultivate an interest in professional biblical studies (he is self-taught in biblical Hebrew), and began publishing in this area. He was then hired as a professor of Bible and Greek at Redeemer College (now RedeemerUniversity College) in Ancaster, Ontario (just south of Toronto). This move was facilitated by the fact that he was a founding member of the association that established Redeemer; he served on its board both before and after it opened its doors in 1982 Since 1984 he has been at Redeemer, and in 2005 is working on a commentary on the book of Zechariah. He has also done work on the Dead Sea Scrolls, in particular the Copper Scroll, which is a list of buried treasure (probably taken from the temple in Jerusalem in New Testament times). Publications Plotinus: On Eros. A Detailed Exegetical Study of Enneads III, 5 (Toronto: Wedge, 1984). Creation Regained: Biblical Basics for a Reformational Worldview (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1985). The Copper Scroll: Overview, Text and Translation (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press,1996). The Song of the Valiant Woman: Studies in the Interpretation of Proverbs 31:10-31 (Carlisle UK: Paternoster Press). external links Wolters pages Wolters, Al
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