DÖLLER, JOHANNES. - Exegete and historian of religions, b. at Thuma (Lower Austria) on 27 Apr. 1868, d. at Raabs (ibid.) on 31 Oct. 1928. A priest in 1891, he was professor of Sacred Scripture at the seminary of St. Pölten (1896), and at the University of Vienna (1905) and from 1918 also co-editor of the Theologische Studien der österreichischen Leogesellschaft. His particular merit is that he studied various concepts and institutions of the Old Testament in the light of the religions of the ancient East (in religionsgeschichtlicher Beleuchtung).

The major productions of his literary activity are: Compendium hermeneuticae biblicae (Paderborn 1898; 3rd ed. 1914); Rhythmus, Metrik und Strophik in der biblisch-hebräischen Poesie (ibid. 1899); in Theologische Studien he published Geographische und ethnographische Studien zum III. und IV. Buche der Könige (Vienna 1904); Das Gebet im Alten Testament in religionsgeschichtlicher Beleuchtung (ibid. 1914); in Alttestamentliche Abhandlungen he studied Die Reinheitsund Speisegesetze des Alten Testaments in religionsgeschichtlicher Beleuchtung (Münster 1917); in Biblische Zeitfragen he treated Abraham und seine Zeit (ibid. 1909); Die Messiaserwartung im Alten Testament (ibid. 1911); Das Weib im Alten Testament (ibid. 1920); Die Wahrsagerei im Alten Testament (ibid. 1923). He edited the 7th ed. of H. Zschokke's Historia sacra Veteris Testamenti (Vienna-Leipzig 1920).

Adalberto Metzinger

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