Hermann Guthe

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Hermann Guthe (1849-1936) was a German Semitic scholar. He was educated at Göttingen, Erlangen, and (after several years as a private tutor) at Leipzig, where in 1884 he became professor of Old Testament exegesis. In 1881 and 1894 he traveled in Palestine; from 1877 to 1896 he edited the Zeitschrift, and from 1897 to 1906 the Mitteilungen and Nachrichten, of the German Palästina-Verein. He wrote on some of the minor prophets in Kautzsch's translation of the Old Testament and a metrical version of Amos (1907), with Eduard Sievers. and his published work was in the fields of philology and religion and of archæology and topography, the more important titles being:

• Ausgrabungen bei Jerusalem (1883)
• Palæstina in Bild und Wort (1883-84), with George Ebers
• Das Zukunftsbild Jesaias (1885)
• Palæstina (1908)
• Bibel-Atlas (1911)
• Geschichte des Volkes Israel (third edition, 1912)

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