Julius Wellhausen (May 17, 1844 - January 17, 1918), was a German biblical scholar and Orientalist. May 17 is the 137th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (138th in leap years). ... 1844 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... January 17 is the 17th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... The Bible (sometimes The Book, Good Book, Word of God, The Word, or Scripture), from Greek (τα) βιβλια, (ta) biblia, (the) books, plural of βιβλιον, biblion, book, originally a diminutive of βιβλος, biblos, which in turn is derived from βυβλος—byblos, meaning papyrus, from the ancient Phoenician city of Byblos which exported this writing material...

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Having studied theology at the University of Göttingen under Georg Heinrich August Ewald, he established himself there in 1870 as Privatdozent for Old Testament history. In 1872 he was appointed professor ordinarius of theology at Greifswald. Resigning in 1882 for reasons of conscience, he became professor extraordinarius of oriental languages in the faculty of philology at Halle, was elected professor ordinarius at Marburg in 1885, and was transferred to Göttingen in 1892 where he stayed until his death. Theology is reasoned discourse concerning God (Greek θεος, theos, God, + λογος, logos, word or reason). It also refers to the study of other religious topics. ... The Georg-August University of Göttingen (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, often called the Georgia Augusta) was founded in 1734 by George II, King of Great Britain and Elector of Hanover, and opened in 1737. ... Georg Heinrich August von Ewald (November 16, 1803 - May 4, 1875) was a German orientalist and theologian. ... 1870 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Judaism uses the term Tanakh instead of Old Testament, because it does not recognize the New Testament as being part of the Biblical canon The Old Testament or the Hebrew Scriptures (also called the Hebrew Bible) constitutes the first major part of the Bible according to Christianity. ... 1872 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Greifswald (German Greif=griffin, Wald=forest) is a city in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. ... 1882 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Philology is the study of ancient texts and languages. ... The Martin-Luther-University of Halle-Wittenberg is located in the German cities of Halle, Saxony-Anhalt and Wittenberg. ...

Wellhausen was famous for his critical investigations into Old Testament history and the composition of the Hexateuch, the uncompromising scientific attitude he adopted in testing its problems bringing him into antagonism with the older school of biblical interpreters. He is perhaps most well-known for the redactivist theory for the origin of the Pentateuch. The best known of his works are: Judaism uses the term Tanakh instead of Old Testament, because it does not recognize the New Testament as being part of the Biblical canon The Old Testament or the Hebrew Scriptures (also called the Hebrew Bible) constitutes the first major part of the Bible according to Christianity. ... Hexateuch is a term used by historians and theologians to refer to the first six books of the Bible (the Torah or Pentateuch, and the book of Joshua). ... Torah, (תורה) is a Hebrew word meaning teaching, instruction, or especially Law. ...

• De gentibus et familiis Judaeis (Göttingen, 1870)
• Der Text der Bücher Samuelis untersucht (Göttingen, 1871)
• Die Phariseer und Sadducäer (Greifswald, 1874)
• Prolegomena zur Geschichte Israels (Berlin, 1882; Eng. trans., 1885; 5th German edition, 1899; first published in 1878 as Geschichte Israels)
• Muhammed in Medina (Berlin, 1882)
• Die Komposition des Hexateuchs und der historischen Bücher des Alten Testaments (1889, 3rd ed. 1899)
• Israelitische und jüdische Geschichte (1894, 4th ed. 1901)
• Reste arabischen Heidentums (1897)
• Das arabische Reich und sein Sturz (1902)
• Skizzen und Vorarbeiten (1884-1899)
• new and revised editions of Friedrich Bleek's Einleitung in das Alte Testament (4-6, 1878-1893).

In 1906 appeared Die christliche Religion, mit Einschluss der israelitisch-jüdischen Religion, in collaboration with A Jülicher, Adolf Harnack and others. He also did useful and interesting work as a New Testament commentator. He published 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. Friedrich Bleek (July 4, 1793 - February 27, 1859), German Biblical scholar, was at Ahrensbök, in Holstein, a village near Lübeck. ... 1906 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Adolf von Harnack, German theologian Adolf von Harnack (May 7, 1851 - June 10, 1930), was a German theologian and science administrator. ... The New Testament, sometimes called the Greek Testament or Greek Scriptures, is the name given to the part of the Christian Bible that was written after the birth of Jesus. ...

External links

• Works by Julius Wellhausen at Project Gutenberg
• Free eBook of Prolegomena at Project Gutenberg

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References

• This article incorporates text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, which is in the public domain.