Bowden John Herrmann Siegfried (2 results)
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. xiii, [1], 364, [4] pages. Abbreviations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index of Names. Index of Biblical References. Previous owner's mailing label on fep. Yellow highlighting noted. DJ has wear and soiling. Siegfried Herrmann (born May 15, 1926 in Dresden , â January 30, 19…99 in Bochum ) was a German Protestant theologian, Old Testament scholar and Egyptologist. Herrmann was drafted into the flak in 1943, wounded as a soldier and taken prisoner by the French. After his release, Siegfried Herrmann studied Protestant theology and ancient oriental studies at the University of Leipzig in 1947 . He was a student and later assistant to Albrecht Alt . He also studied Egyptology with Siegfried Morenz . In 1955 he received his doctorate in Egyptology, in 1957 in Protestant theology, which was followed by his habilitation in 1959. Siegfried Herrmann had been a lecturer since 1960, and from 1964 to 1966 professor of the Old Testament at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In 1964 he was offered a position at the newly founded Ruhr University Bochum . In 1966 he was able to leave the German Democratic Republic and held a professorship for the Old Testament in Bochum from 1966 until his retirement in 1991. Siegfried Herrmann was a member of the Rhenish-Westphalian Academy of Sciences from 1973 . From 1980 to 1994 he was President of the Canstein Bible Institute. Among his publications, the history of Israel in the Old Testament period (1973) is particularly widespread as a standard work. It has been translated into English, Italian, Spanish and Hungarian. Part One: The birth of the people of Israel -- The patriarchs -- Semitic elements in Egypt and the tradition of the 'Exodus' -- Tribal operations in the Sinai Peninsula. The mountain of God and Kadesh -- The penetration of the tribes into the land east and west of the Jordan -- The life of the tribes before the formation of the state: The 'Judges' -- Part Two: The kingdoms of Israel and Judah -- The kingdom of Saul -- The kingdom of David -- David's kingdom under Solomon -- The division of the kingdom and its immediate consequences -- Omri and his dynasty in Israel -- Two revolutions -- Jehu in Israel and Athaliah in Jerusalem -- Israel and Judah under the shadow of the struggle for power in Syria -- Assyrian expansion down to the fall of Samaria -- Judah down to the accession of Josiah -- Josiah's reform and the end of the Assyrians -- The Babylonians and the end of the state of Judah -- Part Three: Israel in the hands of the great powers -- The period of the Babylonian exile -- The first decades of Persian supremacy. The post-exilic temple -- The reconstruction of post-exilic Jerusalem. Ezra and Nehemiah -- The second half of the Persian period and the emergence of the Greeks in the Near East. First American Edition [stated], Presumed First printing.
