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He was born at Hameln on the Weser , Westphalia . 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. 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 Documentary Hypothesis of the origin of the Pentateuch , stating that some of the authors of the Torah wrote about the concerns of the later Israelite monarchy, leading to a later date of the text's origins than had previously been assumed. The best known of his works are:
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. EXTERNAL LINKS REFERENCES SEE ALSO |
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