Bernhard Stade Explained

Bernhard Stade (May 1848, Arnstadt, Thuringia6 December 1906) was a German Protestant theologian and historian.^[1]

Biography

He studied at Leipzig and Berlin, and in course of time became (1875) professor ordinarius at Giessen. Once a member of Franz Delitzsch's class, he became a convinced adherent of the newest critical school. In 1881 he founded the Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, which he continued to edit; and his critical history of Israel (Geschichte des Volks Israel, 2 vols., 1887–1888; vol. ii in conjunction with Oskar Holtzmann) made him very widely known.^[2]

With Carl Siegfried,^[3] he revised and edited the Hebrew lexicon, Hebräisches Wörterbuch zum Alten Testament (1892–1893). Stade's other works included:

• Über die alttestamentlichen Vorstellungen vom Zustand nach dem Tode (1877).
• Lehrbuch der hebräischen Grammatik (vol. i, 1879).
• Ausgewählte akademische Reden und Abhandlungen (1899).
• Biblische Theologie des Alten Testaments (1905, etc.).^[2]

Further reading

• Hans-Joachim Kraus: Geschichte der historisch-kritischen Erforschung des Alten Testaments von der Reformation bis zur Gegenwart. (1956) 3. erw. Aufl. Neukirchener Verl., Neukirchen-Vluyn 1982, S. 283-288.

Notes and References

1. "The historians' history of the world", 1907 p. 237, Google e-book
2. This cites:
   Otto Pfleiderer, Development of Theology (1890).
3. History and Guide to Judaic Dictionaries and Concordances, Shimeon Brisman, 2000