Baentsch, Bruno Johannes Leopold

BAENTSCH, bêntsh, BRUNO JOHANNES LEOPOLD: German Lutheran; b. at Halle Mar. 25, 1859. He was educated at the gymnasium and university of his native city, and held successive pastorates at Rothenburg on the Saale (1886-88) and Erfurt (1888-93). In 1893 he became privat-docent of Old Testament science at the University of Jena, where he was appointed associate professor in 1899 and full professor two years later. In theology he is an adherent of the historico-critical school. He has been a member of the Königliche Akademie gemeinnütziger Wissenschaften since 1891, and has written Das Bundesbuch, Ex. xx, 22-xxiii, 33 (Halle, 1892); Die moderne Bibelkritik und die Autorität des Gotteswortes (Erfurt, 1892); Das Heiligkeitsgesetz, Lev. xvii-xxvi, eine historischkritische Untersuchung (1893); Geschichtsconstruction oder Wissenschaft? (Halle, 1896); Die Bücher Exodus, Leviticus, Numeri übersetzt und erklärt (2 vols., Göttingen, 1900-03); H. St. Chamberlains Vorstellungen über die Religion der Semiten (Langensalza, 1905); and Altorientalischer und israelitischer Monotheismus (Tübingen, 1906).