Heinrich Hirsch Graetz (1817-1891), scholar

Heinrich Hirsch Graetz (1817-1891) was a Jewish-German scholar.

Biography

Jewish German historian and biblical scholar. Taught at Jewish Theological Seminary of Breslau. Edited the Monatsschrift für die Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judentums. Highly influential in his attempt to write history of Jews as history of living people and from a self-conscious Jewish viewpoint.

Works on Second Temple Judaism

Graetz's History of the Jews includes the Second Temple period and has a chapter on Christian origins, in which Jesus is introduced as a religious leader influenced by the Essenes.

Books

• Gnosticismus und Judenthum (1846 Graetz), book

• Geschichte der Juden: 3. Bis zum Untergang des jüdischen Staates (1856 Graetz), book.
• Geschichte der Juden: 2.2. Bis zum Tode des Juda Makkabi (1876 Graetz), book.
  • Histoire des juifs (1882-1884 Graetz / Wogue), book (French ed.)
  • A History of the Jews (1885-1898 Graetz), book (English ed.)

• Die jüdischen Proselyten im Römerreiche unter den Kaisern Domitian, Nerva, Trajan und Hadrian (1884 Graetz), book

References

• William Baird, in History of New Testament Research: 2. From Jonathan Edwards to Rudolf Bultmann (2003 Baird), book / p. 254

External links

• BBKL.de / JewEn.com
• Wikipedia / Wikipedia.de