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This booklet is Heft. 2 of Schriften des Institutum Delitzschianum zu Leipzig. "Die vorstehenden Ausführungen sind die erweiterte Neubearbeitung eines 1905 gehaltenen Vortrags, der s. Zt. in ’Saat auf Hoffnung’ 1905, 4 und 1906, 3 gedruckt worden ist."--p. 64. (What is printed is an extended revision of lectures which appeared in the missionary magazine Saat auf Hofnung in 1905 and 1906.) The author, Dr. Gustav Hölscher (1877-1955) here has written a history of the Jews of Palestine from the year 70 C.E.
Dr. Gustav Hölscher was a German Bible scholar, born in Norden (Ostfriesland). He was professor in Halle (1915), Giessen (1920), Marburg (1921), Bonn (1929), and Heidelberg (1935). Apart from the period of the Second Temple, to which he devoted a series of works, he dealt comprehensively with many subjects in the fields of biblical studies, even with metrics. His work Geschichte der israelitischen und juedischen Religion (1922) is a short critical exposition of the history of the Israelite and Jewish religion. His approach to the method of literary criticism of the school of J. Wellhausen resulted in some radical innovations. He dated Deuteronomy to the sixth century B.C.E. (in ZAW, 40, 1922), and concluded that large parts of the Book of Ezekiel are secondary (Hesekiel, der Dichter und das Buch, 1924). He traced the J and E sources of the Pentateuch up to and including the Books of Kings (Geschichtsschreibung in Israel, 1952). In a comprehensive exposition of the prophetic figures and traditions (Die Propheten, 1914) he located, following W. Wundt, the ecstatic phenomenon within the broader context of the history and psychology of religion.
Franz Delitzsch (1813–1890) was a German Protestant theologian, Bible and Judaica scholar. Inspired by Julius Fuerst to devote himself to the study of Judaism, he was appointed professor of theology at the university of his native Leipzig in 1844. Though Delitzsch was a devoted Protestant, believing in the supremacy of the New Testament over the Old, he maintained a genuine understanding of, and affection for, Judaism. Well versed in Hebrew and in Semitic languages, as well as in the Talmud and in medieval Jewish literature, Delitzsch was in close touch with the leading Jewish scholars of his time. As a devout Christian, he proselytized among the Jews, wrote several pamphlets for that purpose, and made a new translation of the New Testament into Hebrew . In 1863 he founded the missionary magazine, Saat und Hoffnung ("Seed and Hope"), which appeared regularly until 1935. In 1880 he established in Leipzig the Institutum Judaicum (renamed the "Delitzschianum" after his death), for the training of missionary workers among Jews, an institute which was still in existence in Muenster (Germany) in the 1970s. |
