Heinrich Ewald - Works

Works

Of Ewald's works the more important are:

  • Die Composition der Genesis kritisch untersucht (1823), an acute and able attempt to account for the use of the two names of God without recourse to the document-hypothesis; he was not himself, however, permanently convinced by it.
  • De metris carminum Arabicorum (1825)
  • Des Hohelied Salomo?s übersetzt u. erklärt (1826; 3rd ed, 1866)
  • Kritische Grammatik der hebr. Sprache (1827)--this afterwards became the Ausführliches Lehrbuch der hebr. Sprache (8th ed., 1870)
  • Hebr. Sprachlehre für Anfänger (4th ed., 1874)
  • Über einige ältere Sanskritmetra. Ein Versuch (1827)
  • Liber Vakedu de Mesopotamiae expugnatae historia (1827)
  • Commentarius in Apocalypsin Johannis (1828)
  • Abhandlungen zur biblischen u. orientalischen Literatur (1832)
  • Grammatica critica linguae Arabicae (1831–1833)
  • Die poetischen Bücher des alten Bundes (1835–1837, 3rd ed, 1866–1867)
  • Plan dieser Zeitschrift. In: Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 1 (1837), pp. 3-13.
  • Die Propheten des alten Bundes (1840-1841, 2nd ed., 1867-1868)
  • Geschichte des Volkes Israel (1843-1859, 3rd ed., 1864-1868)
  • Alterthümer Israels (1848)
  • Die drei ersten Evangelien übersetzt u. erklärt (1850)
  • Über das äthiopische Buch Henoch (1854)
  • Die Sendschreiben des Apostels Paulus übersetzt u. erklärt (1857)
  • Die Johanneischen Schriften übersetzt u. erklärt (1861-1862)
  • Über des vierte Esrabuch (1863)
  • Sieben Sendschreiben des neuen Bundes (1870)
  • Das Sendschreiben an die Hebräer u. Jakobos' Rundschreiben (1870)
  • Die Lehre der Bibel von Gott, oder Theologie des alten u. neuen Bundes (1871-1875).
  • Commentary on the book of Job. (translated from German by J. Frederick Smith) (1882) ISBN 0-8370-3085-4

The Jahrbücher der biblischen Wissenschaft (1849-1865) were edited, and for the most part written, by him. He was the chief promoter of the Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, begun in 1837; and he frequently contributed on various subjects to the Götting. gelehrte Anzeigen. He was also the author of many pamphlets.

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