Hermann Guthe was a German

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 Semitic

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 scholar. He was educated at Göttingen

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, Erlangen

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, and (after several years as a private tutor) at Leipzig University, where in 1884 he became professor

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 of Old Testament

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 exegesis

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. In 1881 and 1894 he traveled in Palestine

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; from 1877 to 1896 he edited the Zeitschrift, and from 1897 to 1906 the Mitteilungen and Nachrichten, of the German Palästina-Verein. He wrote on some of the minor prophet

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s in Kautzsch

Emil Friedrich Kautzsch

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's translation of the Old Testament and a metrical version of Amos

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 (1907), with Eduard Sievers

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. and his published work was in the fields of philology

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 and religion

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 and of archæology

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 and topography

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, the more important titles being:

• Ausgrabungen bei Jerusalem (1883)
• Palæstina in Bild und Wort (1883-84), with George Ebers
  Georg Ebers
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• Das Zukunftsbild Jesaias (1885)
• Palæstina (1908)
• Bibel-Atlas (1911)
• Geschichte des Volkes Israel (third edition, 1912)

He was also a contributor to the 1903 Encyclopaedia Biblica

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