BENZINGER, IMMANUEL. - Protestant exegete and scholar of Palestine, b. in Stuttgart in 1865, d. in March 1935. In 1898 he was a Privatdozent for the Old Testament in Berlin, in 1912 a full professor in Toronto, Canada, in 1915 in Meadville (Pennsylvania) and in 1921 in Riga. He was a supporter of the critical school of Wellhausen, then of the pan-Babylonian school.
His main works: Hebräische Archäologie (Leipzig 1894-1907); Die Bücher der Könige (Freiburg im Br.-Tübingen 1899); Die Bücher der Chronik (ibid. 1901); Geschichte Israels (Leipzig 1904; 3rd ed., Berlin 1924); Bilderatlas zur Bibelkunde (together with L. Frohnmeyer, Stuttgart 1905 and ibid. 1913); Jahvist und Elohist in den Königsbüchern (ibid. 1921). He was editor of the Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästinavereins from 1897 to 1902, and of K. Bädeker, Palästina und Syrien (from the 3rd to the 7th ed., 1890-1910).
BibliographyE. Kiploks, Index scriptorum I. B., Palæstinae anti-quitatum Veterisque Testamenti investigatoris, Riga 1938.
BIBL.: E. Kiploks, Index scriptorum I. B., Palæstinae anti-quitatum Veterisque Testamenti investigatoris, Riga 1938.
Kleinhans, Arduino. “Benzinger, immanuel.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, col. 1365. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/benzinger-immanuel.
MLA
Kleinhans, Arduino. “Benzinger, immanuel.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, col. 1365. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/benzinger-immanuel.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec2_benzinger_immanuel,
author = {Kleinhans, Arduino},
title = {Benzinger, immanuel},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {II},
pages = {1365},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1949},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/benzinger-immanuel}
}
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