Andrew E. Steinmann was Distinguished Professor of Theology and Hebrew at Concordia University Chicago.
[3] He also served as staff pastor at Lutheran Home[4] in Westlake, Ohio, before he accepted a position at Concordia University Chicago.
In The Oracles of God: The Old Testament Canon,[8] Steinmann reviewed the evidence for the history of the compilation and organization of the Hebrew Bible.
[9] Among his major conclusions were that the canon existed as a collection from before the time of Christ, that it was originally considered to be a collection of authoritative and divinely inspired books kept in the temple in Jerusalem, and that the later Jewish and Christian organizations of the canon were developments from a more simple two-part organization of Law (Pentateuch) and Prophets.
With Rodger Young he has also argued that the source of the information on the Parian Chronicle was most likely the city records of Athens.