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The Berleburg Bible (''Berleburger Bibel'') is a German translation of the Bible with copious commentary in eight volumes, compiled in
Bad Berleburg Bad Berleburg (, earlier also Berleburg) is a town, in the district of Siegen-Wittgenstein, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is one of Germany's largest towns by land area. It is located approximately northeast of Siegen and northwest of ...
during 1726–1742. It is an original translation from the Hebrew and Greek, along with the Piscator-Bibel (1602–1604) among the first German translations independent of
Luther's Bible The Luther Bible (german: Lutherbibel) is a German language Bible translation from Latin sources by Martin Luther. The New Testament was first published in September 1522, and the complete Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments with Apocryp ...
. It was the project of pietistic theologian Johann Friedrich Haug (1680–1753), his brother Johann Jacob Haug (1690–1756) and Berleburg pastor Ludwig Christof Schefer (1669–1731). The brothers Haug had moved to
Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg was one of several imperial counties and later principalities ruled by the House of Sayn-Wittgenstein. Most of the former county is located in the present district of Siegen-Wittgenstein (in the modern state of Nort ...
in 1720, at the time a center of radical pietism. The biblical commentary has the aim of explaining "the inner state of spiritual life, or the ways and actions of God inside the souls towards their purification, enlightenment and unification with Him" influenced by earlier (17th-century)
German mysticism The Friends of God (German: Gottesfreunde; or gotesvriunde) was a medieval mystical group of both ecclesiastical and lay persons within the Catholic Church (though it nearly became a separate sect) and a center of German mysticism. It was founde ...
and by the
Philadelphians The Philadelphians, or the Philadelphian Society, were a 17th-century English dissenter group. They were organized around John Pordage (1607–1681), an Anglican priest from Bradfield, Berkshire, who had been ejected from his parish in 1655 bec ...
. The Berleburg Bible was well received in 18th-century pietism, but its long-term influence remained comparatively minor due to its bulk, which imposed "natural limits" on its distribution. A reprint was published in Stuttgart in 1856. A second edition was planned but never completed.Ulf Lückel: "Und noch einmal zur Berleburger Bibel: Eine bisher unbekannte geplante zweite Auflage im 19. Jahrhundert". In: ''Wittgenstein. Blätter des Wittgensteiner Heimatvereins e.V.'' 97 (2009), 73.2, 55–61.


References

* Friedrich Wilhelm Winckel: "Die Berleburger Bibel" in: ''Monatsschrift für die evangelische Kirche der Rheinprovinz und Westphalens'' (1851), 18.1, 1–33; 18.2, 59–68. * Martin Hofmann: ''Theologie und Exegese der Berleburger Bibel'' (Beiträge zur Förderung Christlicher Theologie, Bd. 39, 2). Gütersloh 1937. * Josef Urlinger: ''Die geistes- und sprachgeschichtliche Bedeutung der Berleburger Bibel. Ein Beitrag zur Wirkungsgeschichte des Quietismus in Deutschland.'' Diss. Saarbrücken 1969. * Martin Brecht: "Die Berleburger Bibel. Hinweise zu ihrem Verständnis". In: ''Pietismus und Neuzeit'' 8 (1982), 162–200. * Daniela Deborah Kreher: ''La Biblia de Berleburg y el contexto que le dio origen en Alemania en el siglo XVIII.'' Istituto Universitario ISEDET, Buenos Aires 2007. * Ulf Lückel: „Die Berleburger Bibel – von Wittgenstein nach Afrika“. In: ''Wittgenstein. Blätter des Wittgensteiner Heimatvereins e.V.'' 96 (2008), 72.2, 34–43. {{authoritycontrol Radical Pietism Bible translations into German Siegen-Wittgenstein 1742 books