Bernhard Duhm

Bernhard Lauardus Duhm (October 10, 1847 – November 1, 1928) was a German

Duhm originated the concept of the Servant songs in the Book of Isaiah, identifying four of them in Isaiah's text; Isaiah 42:1-4; Isaiah 49:1-6; Isaiah 50:4-7; and Isaiah 52:13-53:12.^[1] Joseph Blenkinsopp summarizes Duhm's theories of the servant songs and their reception in modern academia;

His conclusions may be summarized as follows: the "Servant songs" were composed by a member of a Jewish community, but not of the diaspora, during the first half of the fifth century, between the composition of Job and Malachi; the author drew on Jeremiah, Deutero-Isaiah, and Job and in his turn influenced Trito-Isaiah and Malachi; the protagonist of the "songs" was a historical figure, a teacher of the law who suffered abuse, first of all from his own people; the "songs" are distinguished from their Deutero-Isaian context by a more deliberate and sober style, more regular prosody, and especially by the contrast with Deutero-Isaiah's description of Israel as ebed they originally formed one composition, together with editorial additions (42:5-7; 50:10-11); they were inserted into Deutero-Isaiah by a later hand wherever there was space on the papyrus copy. It would be safe to say that none of these conclusions would pass unchallenged today.^[2]

Personal life

He was the father of three sons,

• Die Theologie der Propheten als Grundlage für die innere Entwicklungsgeschichte der israelitischen Religion (The theology of the prophets as the basis for internal development of the
  Israelite
  religion), 1875.
• Das Buch Jesaia übersetzt und erklärt (The Book of Isaiah translated and explained), 1892.
• Das Buch Jeremia, (The Book of Jeremiah), 1901.
• Israels Propheten (Israel's prophets), 1922.

References

External links

• Berhard Duhm Biographisches Lexikon für Ostfriesland
• "This article includes translated text from an equivalent article at the
  ISBN 3-428-00185-0
  , S. 179 f