Rudolf Kittel [SEP] place of death
Rudolf Kittel
Rudolf Kittel (28 March 1853, in Eningen, Württemberg – 20 October 1929, in Leipzig) was a German Old Testament scholar.
Kittel studied at Tübingen University (1871–76). He was a professor of Old Testament studies at the universities of Breslau (1888–98) and Leipzig (1898–1923). In 1917 he was appointed rector at the University of Leipzig.
He produced commentaries and histories of the Israelites and the Near East, but his most enduring work was his critical edition of the Hebrew scriptures
, 1963), as well as the third edition of "Biblia Hebraica" (1929–37) with Albrecht Alt after the death of Rudolf Kittel.
Philosophy.
Eissfeldt's scholarship was influenced particularly by Gabler and Søren Kierkegaard to see an uncrossable chasm between history and faith, with "Religionsgeschichte" or the history of religions being the prerogative of the former and biblical theology being the prerogative of the later. He defined the faith displayed by the Old Testament (and New Testament) as well as necessary of the Christian or