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Lot #    16085
Auction End Date    10/24/2006 12:20:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Die Psalmen
Author    [Psalms] Bernhard Duhm
City    Tuebingen
Publisher    Mohr
Publication Date    1907
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition? XXVIII, 222, [1] pp., 204:130 mm., light age staining, many uncut margins, stamps. A very good copy bound in the original title wrappers.
          
Detailed
Description		    Bernhard Duhm (1847–1928), German Protestant biblical scholar. Born in Bingum on the Ems, East Friesland, Duhm studied at Goettingen (chiefly under H. Ewald). In 1877 he was appointed Professor at Goettingen University and in 1899, at Basle University. His activities in Basle, which included teaching in secondary schools and lecturing (Das Geheimnis in der Religion, 1896; Das kommende Reich Gottes, 1912; Eng. trans. The Evercoming Kingdom of God, 1914), extended beyond the academic sphere. His main works were devoted to the study of the Prophets. His early work Die Theologie der Propheten... (1875) reflects a somewhat dogmatic understanding of the prophets, whom Duhm regarded as analogous to the writers and orators of other ancient peoples, in particular the Greeks. In this work Duhm (simultaneously with Wellhausen) rejects the presupposition of an older "Mosaic" law. His last work on the prophets, Israels Propheten (1918), is an overall exposition of the Israelite religion, based on his previous exegetical studies in his commentaries on Isaiah (1892), Jeremiah (1901), and Minor Prophets (1911), all of which contain impressive translations. His outstanding capacity for understanding the prophets, especially the irrational aspects of prophetic vision and audition and their subsequent expression, enabled him to set forth a frequently violent (e.g., in conjectural criticism of texts), but profound and imposing, portrayal of the prophetic personalities. He proposed the separation of Isaiah 56–66 (as "Trito-Isaiah") from Isaiah 40–55 and the rejection of the authenticity of Jeremiah's prose orations. Of less importance are his commentaries on Job (1897) and Psalms (1899). The latter work contains exaggerated historical criticism (e.g., he dates most of the psalms to the Hasmonean period).
          
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Language:    German
  
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