Franz Delic ( German: Franz Delitzsch ; February 23, 1813 , Leipzig - March 4, 1890 , ibid.) - German Hebraist , Lutheran theologian , translator of the New Testament in Hebrew .
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Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Research activities
- 3 Selected Publications
- 4 notes
- 5 Links
Biography
Franz Delich was not Jewish by birth, although he was educated as a rabbi . He devoted himself to the study of the Semitic sciences, in 1844 he became an assistant professor in Leipzig , then a professor at universities in Rostock in 1846, Erlangen in 1850 and in 1867 in Leipzig, where he taught until the end of his life.
In 1880, Franz Delich founded the Institutum Judaicum in Leipzig to train missionaries to preach Christianity among Jews. Most famous for his translation of the New Testament (1877) into ancient Hebrew.
Son - Friedrich Delich - German Assyrologist, supporter of Pan - Babylonism .
Research Activities
Franz Delich made a significant contribution to the study of Jewish philology and the history of literature, as well as the interpretation of biblical texts. As a progressive Old Testament critic, he began as an ardent supporter of a conservative point of view, gradually shifted to modern positions (regarding the documents of the Pentateuch and the dates of Deuteronomy , Isaiah 40-66, Daniel). In addition, he studied biblical psychology.
In 1837, he compiled a catalog of Jewish and Syrian manuscripts .
Selected Publications
His main work was The History of Jewish Poetry ( Zur Geschichte der Jüdischen Poesie , 1836), as well as:
- Jesus und Hillel (1879),
- "Jüd. Handwerkerleben zur Zeit Jesu "(1879)
- edition of Weber’s book System der Altsynag. Theologie ”(Leipzig, 1880).
- Pentateuch-Kritische Studien at Zeitschr. für Kirchliche Wissenschaft ”(1880, 1882), and comments: on
- " Being " (1852, 1853, ed. 1887),
- Job (1864)
- Isaiah (1866, 1889),
- The Psalms (1867),
- The Book of the Parables of the Solomon (1873),
- Song of Songs
- Ecclesiastes (1875).
- “Handschriftliche Funde: Die Erasmischen Entstellungen des Textes der Apokalypse” (Leipzig 1861)
- ברית חדשה (Berit Khadasha ), (Hebrew New Testament, Leipzig 1877)
- Rohling's Talmudjude beleuchtet, Leipzig 1881
- Neuer Kommentar über die Genesis, mit einem Geleitwort von Prof.Dr. Siegfried Wagner, Gießen / Basel (Brunnen), 1999 (Nachdruck der Ausgabe Leipzig [Dörffling und Franke] 1887).
- Messianische Weissagungen in geschichtlicher Folge, mit einem Geleitwort von Dr. Gerhard Maier, Gießen / Basel (Brunnen), 1992. (Nachdruck der ersten Auflage Leipzig [Faber] 1890).
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.
Links
- Franz Delitzsch , Jewish Encyclopedia.com