Moses Buttenweiser
Moses Buttenweiser (1862–1939) was an American Bible scholar, born at Beerfelden, Germany and educated at the universities of University of Würzburg, Leipzig, and Heidelberg.
Being Jewish, he concentrated on the Old Testament. In 1897 he became professor of Biblical exegesis in the Hebrew Union College of Cincinnati, Ohio. His works include The Hebrew Elias-Apocalypse, in German (1897); An Outline of Neo-Hebraic Apocalyptic Literature (1901); The Prophets of Israel (1914); The Book of Job (1922); and numerous articles in learned publications.
References
- Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. "Buttenweiser, Moses"
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. {{cite encyclopedia}}
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- 1862 births
- 1939 deaths
- People from Beerfelden
- German Jews
- American religious writers
- Jews and Judaism in Cincinnati
- German emigrants to the United States
- Hebrew Union College faculty
- American people of German-Jewish descent
- Heidelberg University alumni
- Leipzig University alumni
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