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.^[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.

Herbert Lowewe, a Cambridge University professor, wrote this to Kittel in August 1933:

“ It gives me great pain to find that so great an authority and leader of thought should give expression to such views. I have read your previous books with pleasure and profit, and I have learned much from them. ... your present pronouncement is quite incompatible with your previous teaching, and it is as unjust to Christianity as it is to Judaism. ... It is a grievous disillusionment to find that one's idol has feet of clay.

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.

External links

• Wikipedia Article on Gerhard Kittel
• Biography in German

Online works

• Der "historische Jesus" (1932)
• Greek language, Biblical -- Dictionaries German (no date)
• Greek language, Biblical -- Dictionaries German (1960)