- August Wünsche
Karl August Wünsche (born at
Hainewalde ,July 22 1839 ; died 1913) was a GermanChristian Hebraist .He devoted his attention almost exclusively to
rabbinic literature. After completing his commentaries on the "Book of Hosea " (1868) and "Book of Joel " (1872), he wrote "Neue Beiträge zur Erläuterung der Evangelien aus Talmud und Midrasch" (1878), the most complete collection of the parallel passages of theTalmud and theNew Testament since the works ofJohn Lightfoot andChristian Schöttgen .In his "Bibliotheca Rabbinica" (Leipzig, 1880-85) he made a German translation of the whole of the "
Midrash Rabbah " and the "Midrash to the Five Megillot ", and he also translatedhaggadic portions of theJerusalem Talmud (1880) and of theBabylonian Talmud (1886-89), as well as the "Pesiḳta " (1885) and the "Midrash to the Psalms " (1891).Smaller works of his are:
*"Die Rätselweisheit bei den Hebräern" (1883)
*"Die Freude im Alten Testament" (1896); "Naturbildersprache des Alten Testaments" (1897)
*"Die Schönheit der Bibel" (Leipzig, 1905)Together with
Jakob Winter he compiled the "Geschichte der Jüdischen Litteratur" (3 vols., Leipzig, 1892-95).References
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Joseph Kürschner , "Deutscher Litteratur-Kalender"External links
* [http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=293&letter=W Source]
*JewishEncyclopedia
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