Dr. Harry Hahne (HarryHahne@ggbts.edu) has been teaching courses in New Testament, Greek and computer-assisted biblical research at several theological seminaries since 1986. He has been Associate Professor of New Testament Studies at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary, Scottsdale, Arizona since 2002.

Dr. Hahne's biblical studies research interests include the New Testament citations of the Old Testament, theology of nature, Pauline theology, the relationship between Second Temple Judaism and early Christianity, and computer-assisted biblical research. He is the author of The Corruption and Redemption of Creation: Nature in Romans 8.19-22 and Jewish Apocalyptic Literature (T & T Clark), a book on the theology of nature in Jewish apocalyptic literature and the epistle to the Romans. He is assistant editor and a contributor to the Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature and has published articles various journals and magazines.

He has written several commercially-published computer programs, including Library Master, a bibliographic database manager used by thousands of professors, students, researchers and libraries in over 50 countries. He has been on the editorial board of several journals of computer-assisted research and a World Wide Web site devoted to Bible-search software for scholarly research. He has published numerous articles and presented numerous scholarly papers about research software and techniques for using Bible-search programs.

Dr. Hahne has degrees in both biblical studies and engineering. His doctorate is in biblical studies from the University of Toronto (Wycliffe College). His doctoral dissertation compares the view of Jewish apocalyptic literature and Romans 8:19-22 concerning the corruption of the natural world due to sin and its eschatological redemption.

New Testament Citations of the Old Testament

• "The Christological Interpretation of the Old Testament in the Apostles’ Sermons in the Book of Acts." Presented at the Golden Gate Seminary Academic Convocation, September 2007. [PDF format, 99 KB]

• "Paul's Use of the Old Testament in Romans 10:16-11:10 to Explain Israel's Unbelief in Jesus." Presented at the annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, November 2000. [PDF format, 130 KB]

• "Theological Assumptions in the New Testament Citations of the Old Testament: Hebrews 1 As a Test Case." Presented at the annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, November 1998. [PDF format, 108 KB]

Theology of Nature

• “Nature and Theodicy in the Book of Job.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, November 2007. [PDF format, 250 KB]

• The Corruption and Redemption of Creation: Nature in Romans 8.19-22 and Jewish Apocalyptic Literature. A book on the theology of nature in Jewish apocalyptic literature as a background to Romans 8:19-22 (T & T Clark, 2006).

• "The Birth Pangs of Creation: The Eschatological Transformation of the Natural World in Romans 8:19-22." Presented at the annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, November 1999. [PDF format, 129 KB]

• Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature. The premier scholarly reference about theology of nature with over 1000 articles covering all major world religions.

Jewish Apocalyptic and the Apostle Paul

• The Corruption and Redemption of Creation: Nature in Romans 8.19-22 and Jewish Apocalyptic Literature. A book on the theology of nature in Jewish apocalyptic literature as a background to Romans 8:19-22 (T & T Clark, 2006).

• "Paul's Apocalyptic Theology in Romans 8:19-22." Presented at the annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, November 2005. [PDF format, 224 KB]

Computer-Assisted Biblical Research

• "Interpretive Implications of Using Bible-Search Software for New Testament Grammatical Analysis." A paper presented at the annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, November 1994 and in revised form at the bienniel meeting of L'Association Internationale Bible et Informatique, August 1994. An abridged version of this essay appeared in Religious Studies News, November 1995.

• Bible Analysis Software for Scholars. Reviews, essays and other information on computer-assisted biblical research, with an emphasis on research in the Greek and Hebrew biblical texts. This is a section of the highly acclaimed Chorus online journal of humanities computing (winner of the Microsoft Higher-Education Site of the Month award ). Although this site is no longer actively updated, much of the information is still valuable.

• Tips For Using Gramcord Bible Software. Step-by-step guidelines for how to do common Bible study tasks in Greek and Hebrew using Gramcord Bible software.

• Tips For Using Logos Libronix Bible Software. Step-by-step guidelines for how to do common Bible study tasks with Logos Bible software, with an emphasis on using Greek and Hebrew.

• Library Master Bibliographic Database Manager. Software to manage bibliographic references and format bibliographies, citations and bibliographic footnotes in any style.

• Selected Internet Resources on Computer-Assisted Biblical Research

• My Student's Favorite Web Links for Biblical and Theological Studies. A list of the favorite Web sites of students who took my course on "Computers in Biblical and Theological Studies" at Tyndale Seminary.

• Course on Computers in Biblical and Theological Studies. I have taught this course at various seminaries, including Wycliffe College (University of Toronto), Tyndale Seminary and Golden Gate Bapist Seminary.