- Emil Schürer
Emil Schürer (
May 2 ,1844 –April 30 ,1910 ) was a GermanProtestant theologian.Biography
Schürer was born at
Augsburg .After studying at Erlangen, Berlin and Heidelberg from 1862 to 1866, he became in 1873 professor extraordinarius at Leipzig and eventually (1895) professor "ordinarius" at Göttingen. In 1876 he founded and edited the "Theologische Literaturzeitung", which he edited with
Adolf Harnack from 1881 to 1910."Geschichte des judischen Volks im Zeitalter Jesu Christi" (1886–1890; 4th edition 1901-1909), his elaborate work on the history of the
Jew s in the time ofChrist , made him one of the best known of modern German scholars inGreat Britain and theUnited States . The second edition was translated into English under the title "A History of the Jewish People in the Time of Jesus Christ" (1885-1891). Later, a revised English version of the work was created under the editorship ofGeza Vermes ,Fergus Millar andMatthew Black , with the slightly different title of "The History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ" (1973-1987).His other works include:
*"Schleiermachers Religionsbegriff" (1868)
*"Lehrbuch der neutestamentlichen Zeitgeschichte" (1874); an earlier form of "Gesch. des jud. Volks"
*"Die Gemeindeverfassung der Juden in Rom" (1879)He died after a long illness in 1910 at age 65.
External links
*cite book
title=A History of the Jewish People in the Time of Jesus Christ
author=Emil Schürer
year=1890
publisher=T. & T. Clark
isbn=
url=http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=BRynO3W9FPcC&dq=A+History+of+the+Jewish+People+in+the+Time+of+Jesus+Christ----
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