August Dillmann (1823-1894), German scholar
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August Dillmann (1823-1894) was a German Old Tetstament scholar and orientalist at the Universities of Tübingen (1851-54), Kiel (1854-1864), Giessen (1864-1869), and finally since 1869 in Berlin.
Works on Second Temple Judaism
After Hiob Ludolf he was the first to revive the study of Ethiopic, cataloging manuscripts in Paris, London and Oxford, making a crucial contributions to the rediscovery of OT Jewish pseudepigrapha.
Books
- Liber Henoch aethiopice (1851 Dillmann), book
- Das Buch Henoch übersetzt und erklärt (1853 Dillmann), book
- Mashafa kufale sive Liber Jubilaeorum... aethiopice (1859 Dillmann), book
- Das Buch der Jubiläen; oder, Die kleine Genesis (1874 Dillmann, Rönsch), book