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Martin Dibelius

German biblical scholar
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Sept. 14, 1883, Dresden, Ger.
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Nov. 11, 1947, Heidelberg, W.Ger. (aged 64)
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Martin Dibelius (born Sept. 14, 1883, Dresden, Ger.—died Nov. 11, 1947, Heidelberg, W.Ger.) was a German biblical scholar and pioneer of New Testament form criticism (the analysis of the Bible’s literary forms). Dibelius was educated at several German universities and taught from 1910 to 1915 at the University of Berlin before becoming professor of New Testament exegesis and criticism at Heidelberg, a post he held until his death. His major work, Die Formgeschichte des Evangeliums (1919; “Form Criticism of the Gospels”; Eng. trans., From Tradition to Gospel), presented an analysis of the Gospels in terms of oral traditions. The earliest ...(100 of 178 words)

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