Critical note on Friedrich Delitzsch
The evangelical German professor F(ranz) Delitzsch
should be distinguished from his son (1850–1922), the liberal Assyriologist
F(riedrich) Delitzsch.
a)
This scholar promoted the scholarly climate that encouraged Adolf Hitler's
racist and unbiblical version of Christianity.
b) Friedrich
Delitzsch rejected the verbal inspiration of the Hebrew Scriptures.
c) He
also attacked the concept of revelation and denied that the Hebrew Bible was
authoritative for modern German Christians.
d) He
also denigrated the ethical value of the Hebrew prophets.
e)
Delitzsch thought that it was more beneficial for German Christians to learn to
appreciate God's revelation to the German people throughout their own history.
In
his last publication, DieGrosse Tauschung (The Great Deception) he
stated that the Hebrew Bible was an untruthful historical record. It should be
replaced by German Christians with Schwaner's Germanen-Bibel, which
collects the thoughts of
See also: Bill T.
Arnold; David B. Weisberg. A Centennial Review of Friedrich Delitzsch's "