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W.M.L. de Wette's Contributions to Biblical Theology*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2009

B. Reicke
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Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette lived in Germany and Switzerland from 1780 to 1849. He belonged to a family that had emigrated from the Netherlands to Germany in 1559, and several of his ancestors including his father had been Lutheran ministers in the Duchy of Weimar. After six years of study in Jena, he taught theology in Jena, Heidelberg, Berlin, and eventually in Basel from 1822 to his death in 1849.

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New Testament Studies , Volume 29 , Issue 3 , July 1983, pp. 293 - 305
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1983

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[1] de Wette, W. M. L., Lehrbuch der christlichen Dogmatik, 1. Biblische Dogmatik Alten und Neuen Testaments (1813; 2nd ed. dedicated to F. Schleiermacher, 1818), p. 1.Google Scholar

[2] ibid., p. XV.

[3] ibid., p. 9.

[4] ibid., pp. 17 f.

[5] ibid., p. XI.

[6] ibid., pp. 9 f.

[7] ibid., pp. IX f.

[8] Frank, G. & Kettenbusch, F., ‘Wilhelm M. L. de Wette’ in Realencyklopädie für protestantische Theologie und Kirche, 3rd ed., 21 (1908), pp. 189–98, 197 f.Google Scholar

[9] Reicke, B., ‘Griesbach's Answer to the Synoptic Question’ in Orchard, B. & Th., Longstaff (ed.), J. J. Griesbach (1978), pp. 50–67.Google Scholar

[10] Staehelin, E., Dewettiana (1956), pp. 11 f., 64 f.Google Scholar

[11] On de Wette's years in Heidelberg: Staehelin (n. 10), pp. 14–16, 65–8.

[12] Letter of J. Burckhardt senior quoted by Staehelin (n. 10), pp. 65 f.

[13] Appreciation of de Wette's monumental translation in Risch, A., Die Deutsche Bibel in ihrer geschichtlichen Entwicklung (1907), pp. 64, 76 f.Google Scholar

[14] Letter to Schleiermacher quoted by Staehelin (n. 10), p. 68.

[15] On de Wette's years in Berlin: Staehelin (n. 10), pp. 16–23, 68–90.

[16] Letter to Mrs. Sand quoted by Staehelin (n. 10), pp. 85–7.

[17] Martin Luthers Briefe, Sendschreiben und Bedenken … gesammelt von W. M. L. de Wette, 1–5 (1825–1828)Google Scholar; 6, hrsg. von J. K. Seidenmann (1856). Volume 1 begins with a dedication to Grossherzog Carl August of Sachsen-Weimar.

[18] First edition without de Wette's name: Theodor oder des Zweiflers Weihe, 1–2 (1822)Google Scholar; volume 2 with the subtitle Bildungsgeschichte eines evangelischen Geistlichen. Second edition under de Wette's name (1828).

[19] On de Wette's years in Basel: Staehelin (n. 10), pp. 29–63, 101–207.

[20] Bonjour, E., Die Universität Basel von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart, 1460–1960 (2nd ed. 1971), pp. 369–72.Google Scholar

[21] de Wette, W. M. L., Lehrbuch der historisch-kritischen Einleitung in die kanonischen Bücher des Neuen Testaments (1826; revised editions in 1830, 1834, 1842, 1848; 6th edition with some additions by Messner, H. & Lünemann, G. in 1860).Google Scholar

[22] Staehelin (n. 10), pp. 43–54.

[23] de Wette, W. M. L., Kurzgefasstes exegetisches Handbuch zum Neuen Testament, 1, 1–4 (1836–1838)Google Scholar; 2, 1–5 (1835–44); 3, 1–2 (1847–8).

[24] idem, Kurze Erklärung des Evangeliums Matthäi (1836), pp. V–VII.

[25] ibid., p. VII.

[26] idem, Die biblische Geschichte als Geschichte der Offenbarungen Gottes (1846).

[27] De Wette's letter of protest quoted by Staehelin (n. 10), pp. 75 f.

[28] ibid., p. 76.

[29] De Wette's obituary on J. F. Fries (1843) quoted by Staehelin (n. 10), pp. 179 f.

[30] On de Wette's contributions to biblical theology in general: Smend, R., Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wettes Arbeit am Alten und Neuen Testament (1958), pp. 72–129 (O.T.)Google Scholar; 133–8 (O.T. + N.T.); 141–8, 166–87 (N.T.); Handschin, P., Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette als Prediger und Schriftsteller (1958), pp. 31–62.Google Scholar

[31] de Wette, W. M. L., Lehrbuch der historisch-kritischen Einleitung in die kanonischen und apokryphischen Bücher des Alten Testaments (1817; 4th ed. 1833), p. 177.Google Scholar

[32] ibid., pp. VIII, 252, 255–7.

[33] De, Wette, Biblische Dogmatik Alten und Neuen Testaments (1813; 2nd ed. 1818), pp. 112, 163.Google Scholar

[34] idem (n. 31), p. 328.

[35] idem (n. 33), pp. 17 f.; cf. above, p. 294 and n. 4.

[36] idem (n. 31), pp. 328 f.

[37] idem, Die biblische Geschichte als Geschichte der Offenbarung Gottes (1846), p. 19.

[38] idem (n. 33), p. 190.

[39] Handschin (n. 30), pp. 323 f.

[40] De Wette (n. 33), p. 213.

[41] ibid., p. 232.

[42] ibid., pp. 232 f.

[43] ibid., p. 209.

[44] W. M. L. de Wette, Introduction to the Canonical Books of the New Testament, transl. by F. Frothingham (1858).

[45] Wette, De, Theodor, 2 (1822), pp. 254–7.Google Scholar

[46] idem, Kurze Erklärung der Offenbarung Johannis (1848), pp. VI–VIII.

[47] Puknat, S. B., ‘De Wette in New England’, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 102, 4 (1958), pp. 376–95.Google Scholar

[48] Weiss, J., Life and Correspondence of Theodore Parker, 1 (1864), pp. 244 f., quoted by Puknat (n. 47), p. 388.Google Scholar