Friedrich Delitzsch

<h2 id="bible-babel-controversy">Bible-Babel Controversy</h2>
<p class="note">See also: <a href="/facts/Panbabylonism/2rHUAdxC">Panbabylonism</a></p>

<p>Friedrich Delitzsch specialized in the study of ancient Middle Eastern languages, and published numerous works on <a href="/facts/Akkadian_language/esQDlrFw">Assyrian</a> language, history and culture. He is remembered today for his scholarly critique of the <a href="/facts/Old_Testament/YFNzQVcK">Old Testament</a>. In a 1902 controversial lecture titled "Babel and Bible", Delitzsch maintained that many Old Testament writings were borrowed from ancient <a href="/facts/Babylonian_religion/HM0REmEr">Babylonian</a> tales, including the <a href="/facts/Genesis_creation_narrative/Fy0E2uD8">Genesis creation narrative</a> and the <a href="/facts/Genesis_flood_narrative/EbjQQLmK">Genesis flood narrative</a>. During the following years there were several translations and modified versions of the "Babel and Bible". In the early 1920s, Delitzsch published the two-part <i>Die große Täuschung</i> (The Great Deception), which was a critical treatise on the book of <a href="/facts/Psalms/QbfaqRCY">Psalms</a>, prophets of the Old Testament, the invasion of <a href="/facts/Canaan/PyX3f92e">Canaan</a>, etc. Delitzsch also stridently questioned the historical accuracy of the <a href="/facts/Hebrew_Bible/04qRIX0c">Hebrew Bible</a> and placed great emphasis on its numerous examples of immorality (see also <a href="/facts/Julius_Wellhausen/eSRh1GUU">Julius Wellhausen</a>).
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<h2 id="influence-and-legacy">Influence and legacy</h2>
<p>Although Delitzsch's proposal to replace the Old Testament with German myths did not extend to this revision, his student <a href="/facts/Paul_Haupt/cwMq6YHh">Paul Haupt</a> was one of the major advocates of the thesis of the Aryan Jesus.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a>
</p><p>In 1904, he was elected as a member of the <a href="/facts/American_Philosophical_Society/auqTbV2C">American Philosophical Society</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a>
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<h2 id="works">Works</h2>
<ul><li>Friedrich Delitzsch (1889). Archibald Robert Stirling Kennedy (ed.). <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=z5Y1AAAAMAAJ"><i>Assyrian grammar with paradigms, exercises, glossary and bibliography</i></a>. Vol. 10 of Porta linguarum orientalium. H. Reuther. p. 446. Retrieved 2011-07-05.</li>
<li>Friedrich Delitzsch (1896). <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=FZ0M0FVI2o0C"><i>Assyrisches Handwörterbuch (ATLA monograph preservation program)</i></a>. J.C. Hinrichs. p. 730. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 9780837089799. Retrieved 2011-07-05. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)</li>
<li>Bruno Meissner, Friedrich Delitzsch (1898). <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=ZZcaAAAAYAAJ"><i>Assyrisches Handwörterbuch. 1896 (ATLA monograph preservation program)</i></a>. E.J. Brill. p. 137. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 9780837085975. Retrieved 2011-07-05. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)</li></ul>

<ul><li><a href="http://www.bookrags.com/Franz_Delitzsch">Book Rags; Friedrich and Franz Delitzsch</a></li></ul>
<h2 id="further-reading">Further reading</h2>
<ul><li>Arnold, Bill T.; Weisberg, David B. (2002). "A Centennial Review of Friedrich Delitzsch's 'Babel und Bibel' Lectures". <i>Journal of Biblical Literature</i>. 121 (3): 441–57. <a href="/facts/Doi_(identifier)/muM9Etpq">doi</a>:<a href="https://doi.org/10.2307%2F3268155">10.2307/3268155</a>. <a href="/facts/JSTOR_(identifier)/YTeVmaJ7">JSTOR</a> <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/3268155">3268155</a>.</li>
<li>Arnold, Bill T.; Weisberg, David B. (2002). "Babel und Bibel und Bias: How Anti-Semitism Distorted Friedrich Delitzsch's Scholarship". <i>Bible Review</i>. 18 (1): 32–40, 47.</li>
<li>Arnold, Bill T.; Weisberg, David B. (2004). <a href="https://www.academia.edu/2701493">"Delitzsch in Context"</a>. In Ellens, J. Harold; Ellens, Deborah L.; Knierim, Rolf P.; Kalimi, Isaac (eds.). <i>God's Word for Our World, Volume II: Theological and Cultural Studies in Honor of Simon John De Vries</i>. 389. London: T & T Clark International. pp. 37–45.</li></ul>
<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
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<li id="fn:1"><p>Susannah Heschel The Aryan Jesus: Christian theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>"APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-06-28. <a href="https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=1904&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced" target="_blank">https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=1904&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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Friedrich Delitzsch