Bernhard Stade was a German

Germany

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 Protestant

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 theologian

Theology

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, born at Arnstadt

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, in Thuringia

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.

He studied at Leipzig

University of Leipzig

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 and Berlin

Humboldt University of Berlin

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, and in course of time became (1875) professor ordinarius at Giessen

University of Giessen

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. Once a member of Franz Delitzsch

Franz Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch

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's class, he became a convinced adherent of the newest critical school.

In 1881 he founded the Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft

Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft

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, which he continued to edit; and his critical history of Israel

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 (Geschichte des Volks Israel, 2 vols, 1887–1888; vol. ii in conjunction with Oscar Holtzmann) made him very widely known.

With Carl Siegfried he revised and edited the Hebrew

Hebrew language

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 lexicon, Hebräisches Wörterbuch zum Allen Testament (1892-1893). Stade's other works included:

• Über die alttestamentlichen Vorstellungen vom Zustand nach dem Tode (1877)
• Lehrbuch der hebräischen Grammatik (vol. i, 1879)
• Ausgewählte akademische Reden und Abhandlungen (1899)
• Biblische Theologie des Alten Testaments (1905, etc.)

Further reading

• Hans-Joachim Kraus: Geschichte der historisch-kritischen Erforschung des Alten Testaments von der Reformation bis zur Gegenwart. (1956) 3. erw. Aufl. Neukirchener Verl., Neukirchen-Vluyn 1982, S. 283-288. ISBN 3-7887-0701-1