Gerhard Kittel
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| - | '''Gerhard Kittel''' (September 23, 1888, Breslau - July 11, 1948) was a German Protestant theologian and an ardent anti-Semite.<sup>[1]</sup> | + | '''Gerhard Kittel''' (September 23, 1888, Breslau - July 11, 1948) was a German Protestant theologian and an ardent anti-Semite.<sup>[1]</sup> He wrote Nazi-influenced articles about Christianity and until his disclosure of or conversion to anti-Semitism, he had been a well respected scholar. He was so well-respected that secular and Christian Liberals within the academy denied or obscured his Third Reich work until Robert P. Ericksen's published work on Kittel in 1985 made such liberal denialism no longer possible. |
He was a son of Rudolf Kittel. | He was a son of Rudolf Kittel. | ||
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Gerhard Kittel (September 23, 1888, Breslau - July 11, 1948) was a German Protestant theologian and an ardent anti-Semite.[1] He wrote Nazi-influenced articles about Christianity and until his disclosure of or conversion to anti-Semitism, he had been a well respected scholar. He was so well-respected that secular and Christian Liberals within the academy denied or obscured his Third Reich work until Robert P. Ericksen's published work on Kittel in 1985 made such liberal denialism no longer possible.
He was a son of Rudolf Kittel.
Literary works
- Die Oden Salomos überarbeitet oder einheitlich, 1914
- Jesus und die Rabbinen, 1914
- Die Probleme des palästinensischen Spätjudentums und das Urchristentum, 1926
- Urchristentum, Spätjudentum, Hellenismus, 1926
- Die Religionsgeschichte und das Urchristentum, 1932
- An editor of the "Theologisches Wörterbuch zum Neuen Testament", 5 vols., after 1933
- Ein theologischer Briefwechsel mit Karl Barth, 1934
- Christus und Imperator, 1939
References
- 1. Ericksen, Robert P. 1987. Theologians Under Hitler. Yale University Press.
