Rudolf Kittel


Rudolf Kittel was a German Old Testament scholar.
Kittel studied at University of Tübingen. He was a professor of Old Testament studies at the universities of Breslau and Leipzig. In 1917 he was appointed rector at the University of Leipzig.
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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, Biblia Hebraica, which has remained a standard text.
Kittel's son was the theologian and Nazi apologist Gerhard Kittel.

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