Julius Wellhausen

Julius Wellhausen (17 May 1844 – 7 January 1918) was a German biblical scholar and orientalist. In the course of his career, his research interest moved from Old Testament research through Islamic studies to New Testament scholarship. Wellhausen contributed to the composition history of the Pentateuch/Torah and studied the formative period of Islam. For the former, he is credited as one of the originators of the documentary hypothesis.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Julius Wellhausen

(1844-05-17)17 May 1844

Hamelin, Hanover, Germany

7 January 1918(1918-01-07) (aged 73)

Göttingen, Hanover, Germany

Göttingen

Lutheran

Professor of Old Testament at Göttingen, Greifswald, Halle and Marburg

Doctor

De gentibus et familiis Judaeis (Göttingen, 1870)

Der Text der Bücher Samuelis untersucht (Göttingen, 1871)

Die Phariseer und Sadducäer, a classic treatise upon this subject (Greifswald, 1874)

(Berlin, 1882; 3rd ed., 1886; Eng. trans., Edinburgh, 1883, 1891; 5th German edition, 1899; first published in 1878 as Geschichte Israels; English translation Prolegomena to the History of Ancient Israel, Forgotten Books, 2008, ISBN 978-1-60620-205-0. Also available on Project Gutenberg [1])

Prolegomena zur Geschichte Israels

Muhammed in Medina, a translation of (Berlin, 1882)

Al-Waqidi

Die Composition des Hexateuchs und der historischen Bücher des Alten Testaments (1876/77, 3rd ed. 1899)

Israelitische und jüdische Geschichte (1894, 4th ed. 1901)

(1897)

Reste arabischen Heidentums

Das arabische Reich und sein Sturz

[11]

Skizzen und Vorarbeiten (1884–1899)

Medina vor dem Islam (1889)

New and revised editions of 's Einleitung in das Alte Testament (4–6, 1878–1893).

Friedrich Bleek

Die kleinen Propheten, a critical brochure (1902)

“The Book of Psalms” in Sacred Books of the Old Testament (Leipzig, 1895; Eng. trans., 1898)

A select list of his works are as follows:

In 1906 Die christliche Religion, mit Einschluss der israelitisch-jüdischen Religion appeared, in collaboration with Adolf Jülicher, Adolf Harnack and others. He also produced less influential work as a New Testament commentator, publishing Das Evangelium Marci, übersetzt und erklärt in 1903, Das Evangelium Matthäi and Das Evangelium Lucae in 1904, and Einleitung in die drei ersten Evangelien in 1905.

; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Wellhausen, Julius" . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.

Gilman, D. C.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the : Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Wellhausen, Julius". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

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Steven Cassedy, "Walter Rauschenbusch, the Social Gospel Movement, and How Julius Wellhausen Unwittingly Helped Create American Progressivism in the Twentieth Century," in Shawna Dolansky (ed.), Sacred History, Sacred Literature: Essays on Ancient Israel, the Bible, and Religion in Honor of R. E. Friedman on His Sixtieth Birthday. Winnona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2008; pp. 315–324.

Paul Michael Kurtz, Kaiser, Christ, and Canaan: The Religion of Israel in Protestant Germany, 1871–1918. Forschungen zum Alten Testament I/122. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2018.

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