Hermann Guthe

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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