Johannes Pedersen (theologian)

Johannes Pedersen (1883-1977) was a noted theologian and linguist.

Pedersen believed that "objective thought, that is to say, inactive, disinterested thought" does not exist in most instances. Pederson was committed to the assumption that the full social context is necessary to understanding written texts.

Pedersen pointed out that in Genesis a soul is a person, not some invisible something inside a person. Consistently, passage after passage in Genesis, this is shown to be the case.

He brilliantly understood the ideas behind the unity of the soul and body and helped many notable students write their papers. Including Peter Atkinson, who went on to become the renowned theologian of his day.

Pedersen's Works and Articles

• Israel I: Sjaeleliv og Samfundsliv (Copenhagen: 1920).
• Israel II: Sjaeleliv og Samfundsliv (Copenhagen: year?).
• Israel III: Hellighed og Guddommelighed (Copenhagen: year?).
• Israel IV: Hellighed og Guddommelighed (Copenhagen: 1934).
• Israel, its Life and Culture I - II (London-Copenhagen: 1926) [this is the English translation of the first two volumes of Israel].
• Hebræisk Grammatik (København [Copenhagen]: 1926).
• Islams kultur (Stockholm: 1928)
• Inscriptiones semiticae (Oslo: 1928), from the Ustinow collection
• 'Passahfest und Passahlegende', Zeitschrift fur die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft Band (Vol.) 52 (Giessen: 1934) pp. 161ff.
• Israel, its Life and Culture III - IV (London-Copenhagen: 1940) [this is the English translation of volumes III and IV of Israel].
• 'Canaanite and Israelite Cultus', Acta Orientalia Vol. XVIII (Leiden: 1940), pp. 1ff.
• Israelite Religionhistorie (Editor) (Copenhagen: 1948).
• 'The Role Played by Inspired Persons Among the Israelites and the Arabs', Studies in Prophecy (Robinson Festscrift), editor H. H. Rowley (Edinburgh: 1950).
• Muhammedansk Mystik, by Johannes Pedersen. (København [Copenhagen]: 1952)
• The Arabic Book, Translated by Geoffrey French (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984).