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A translation and commentary on the Book of Amos by Dr. Gustav Baur. It includes both a German and a Hebrew index, and the text is in German, with frequent use of Hebrew, occasional Arabic and Greek.
Gustav Baur (1816-1889) Lutheran theologian. He was born at Hammelbach (17 m. n.e. of Heidelberg), in the Odenwald, June 14, 1816; died at Leipsic May 22, 1889. He studied at Giessen, where he became docent in 1841, professor extraordinary, 1847, ordinary, 1849; he became pastor at Hamburg, 1861, and professor of practical theology at Leipsig, 1870. He was a member of the commission for revising Luther's translation of the Bible. Besides numerous sermons he issued Erklung des Propheten Amos (Giessen, 1847); Grundzr Homiletik (1848); Geschichte der alttestamentlichen Weissagung (first part, 1861); Bous und Dante (Leipsic, 1874); Grundzr Erziehungslehre (4th ed., Giessen, 1887); he wrote the greater part of the first volume of Schmid's Geschichte der Erziehung (Stuttgart, 1884), and Die christliche Erziehung in ihrem Verhunisse zum Judenthum und zur antiken Welt (2 vols., 1892).
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