Professor Claus Westermann of the University of Heidelberg is well known to Old Testament scholars and students in the English-speaking world. A number of his important books have already been translated. He has visited the United States of America several times and was made an honorary member of the Society of Biblical Literature. In 1977 he was honored by the British Academy with the Burkitt Medal for Biblical Studies. For almost twenty-five years Professor Westermann was engaged in a commentary on the book of Genesis. Under his direction a Genesis-Research Institute was set up within the Theological Faculty of the University of Heidelberg in which a comprehensive bibliography was.
