Paul Billerbeck (4 April 1853 – 23 December 1932) was a Lutheran minister and scholar of Judaism, best known for his ''Commentary on the New Testament from the Talmud and Midrash'' (German, 1926) co-written with
Hermann Strack
Hermann Leberecht Strack (6 May 1848 – 5 October 1922) was a German Protestant theologian and orientalist; born in Berlin.
Biography
From 1877, Strack was assistant professor of Old Testament exegesis and Semitic languages at the University ...
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Billerbeck was born in
Bad Schönfließ,
Neumark
The Neumark (), also known as the New March ( pl, Nowa Marchia) or as East Brandenburg (), was a region of the Margraviate of Brandenburg and its successors located east of the Oder River in territory which became part of Poland in 1945.
Call ...
,
Prussia
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and educated in
Greifswald
Greifswald (), officially the University and Hanseatic City of Greifswald (german: Universitäts- und Hansestadt Greifswald, Low German: ''Griepswoold'') is the fourth-largest city in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania after Rostoc ...
and
Leipzig
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. Billerbeck's participation in Strack's ''Commentary on the New Testament from the Talmud and Midrash'' commenced in 1906 when Strack encouraged Billerbeck to compile and expand the material of
John Lightfoot
John Lightfoot (29 March 1602 – 6 December 1675) was an English churchman, rabbinical scholar, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge and Master of St Catharine's College, Cambridge.
Life
He was born in Stoke-on-Trent, the son of ...
,
Christian Schoettgen (1733) and
Johann Jacob Wetstein for a new German commentary on the New Testament using rabbinical literature.
[The New Testament and rabbinic literature - 2010 "On Strack's initiative Paul Billerbeck (1853–1932) sifted the material of Lightfoot and Schoettgen, vastly amplified it, put it into German, and aligned it ..."]
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References
Translations
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The Passover Meal', translated by Nathaniel J. Biebert
Red Brick Parsonage 2013).
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Luke 18 and Fasting: Commentary on Luke 18:11b,12a', translated by Nathaniel J. Biebert
Red Brick Parsonage 2013).
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John 10 and Hanukkah: Commentary on John 10:22-30', translated by Nathaniel J. Biebert
Red Brick Parsonage 2013).
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Commentary on Luke 7:36-50', translated by Nathaniel J. Biebert
Red Brick Parsonage 2013).
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Commentary on Matthew 5:13-14', translated by Nathaniel J. Biebert
Red Brick Parsonage 2014).
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German biblical scholars
1853 births
1932 deaths
New Testament scholars
19th-century German Lutheran clergy
People from Gryfino County
People from the Province of Brandenburg
Lutheran biblical scholars
20th-century German Lutheran clergy