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JOHANN KARL WILHELM VATKE (1806-IS82)

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 951 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHANN KARL WILHELM See also:

VATKE (1806-IS82)  , See also:German See also:Protestant theologian, was See also:born at Behndorf, near See also:Magdeburg, on the r4th of See also:March 1806 . After acting as Privatdozent in See also:Berlin, he was appointed in 1837 See also:professor extraordinarius . See also:Vatke was one of the f3unders of the newer See also:Hexateuch See also:criticism . In the same See also:year in which See also:David See also:Strauss published his See also:Life of Jesus, Vatke issued his See also:book, See also:Die See also:Religion See also:des See also:Allen Testaments Hack den kanonischen Ditcher's entwickelt, which containedthe seeds of a revolution in the ideas held about the Old Testament . Since, however, his book was too philosophical to be popular, the author's theories were practically unnoticed for a See also:generation, and the new ideas are now associated especially with the names of A . See also:Kuenen and J . See also:Wellhausen (qq.v.) . He died on the 18th of See also:April 188e . His other See also:works include: Die menschliche Freiheit in ihrem Verheiltniss zur Siinde and zur gottlichen Gnade (1841), Historischkritische Einleitung in das Alte Testament (1886), and Religionsphilosophie (1888) . See O . See also:Pfleiderer, Development of See also:Theology (189o), and T . K .

See also:

Cheyne, Founders of Old Testament Criticism (1893) .

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