by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: German Protestant and later Basel university theology. Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette was a German biblical scholar whose work on Deuteronomy, the Pentateuch, Psalms, and critical introduction influenced nineteenth-century accounts of Israel’s...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: Italian Roman Catholic oriental scholarship. Giovanni Bernardo De Rossi was an Italian Hebraist and bibliographer whose collections and collations enlarged knowledge of Hebrew manuscripts and rare printed editions. His Variae lectiones supplemented and...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: Old School Southern Presbyterian and Westminster confessional. Robert Lewis Dabney was a Presbyterian pastor, Confederate chaplain and staff officer, professor at Union Theological Seminary in Virginia and later at the University of Texas, and a wide-ranging...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: English Reformation with Lutheran and Reformed exile connections. Miles Coverdale produced the first complete printed English Bible in 1535 and later supervised the Great Bible. He drew on Tyndale and several German and Latin sources, then continued a long...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: German Protestant university theology during the early Enlightenment. Johann David Michaelis was a Göttingen orientalist and biblical scholar whose Introduction to the New Testament became a major vehicle for historical-critical questions in German and...
