Johannes Waitz, also Hans Waitz, was a German Biblical scholar specializing in the
New Testament Apocrypha
The New Testament apocrypha (singular apocryphon) are a number of writings by early Christians that give accounts of Jesus and his teachings, the nature of God, or the teachings of his apostles and of their lives. Some of these writings were cit ...
and source-critical studies. He was an Evangelical pastor in Darmstadt until 1927, and not to be confused with the Austrian Catholic bishop of the same name.
He was the advocate of a Petrine source text for Acts 8:5-25. and attempted to identify
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 840 as part of the lost
Gospel of the Nazarenes
The Gospel of the Nazarenes (also ''Nazareans'', ''Nazaraeans'', ''Nazoreans'', or ''Nazoraeans'') is the traditional but hypothetical name given by some scholars to distinguish some of the references to, or citations of, non-canonical Jewish-Chri ...
. Waitz was the first to recognize parallel accounts in the two major
pseudo-Clementines and postulated a "basic document" dated to the third century.
[Watson E. Mills, Roger Aubrey Bullard ''Mercer dictionary of the Bible'' p161 1990 "Hans Waitz recognized the parallel accounts in the two major pseudo-Clementines and postulated a "basic document" dated to the third century"]
Works
* ''Das Johannesevangelium'' Darmstadt 1887
* ''Das Pseudotertullianische Gedicht Adversus Marcionem'' 1901
* ''Judenchristliche Evangelien'' in ed. Edgar Hennecke ''Neutestamentliche Apokryphen'' 1904
*
Geschichte des Wingolfsbundes' Darmstadt 1904
* ''Texte Und Untersuchungen Zur Geschichte Der Altchristlichen Literatur: Volume 25''
* ''Das Evangelium der zwolf Apostel'' ZNW 1 3 (1912): 338–48; 14 (1913):
References
Year of birth missing
German biblical scholars
New Testament scholars
Year of death missing
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