Gustaf Dalman

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Gustaf Dalman
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BornJune 9, 1855
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DiedAugust 19, 1941 (1941-08-20) (aged 86)
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Gustaf Hermann Dalman (9 June 1855 – 19 August 1941) was a German Lutheran theologian and orientalist. He did extensive field work in Palestine before the First World War, collecting inscriptions, poetry, and proverbs. He also collected physical articles illustrative of the life of the indigenous farmers and herders of the country, including rock and plant samples, house and farm tools, small archaeological finds, and ceramics. He pioneered the study of biblical and early post-biblical Aramaic, publishing an authoritative grammar (1894) and dictionary (1901), as well as other works. His collection of 15,000 historic photographs and 5,000 books, including rare 16th century prints, and maps formed the basis of the Gustaf Dalman Institute at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University, Greifswald, which commemorates and continues his work.

Dalman was appointed by Kaiser Wilhelm II as director of the Deutsches Evangelisches Institut für Altertumswissenschaft des heiligen Landes zu Jerusalem (German Evangelical Institute for Ancient Studies of the Holy Land in Jerusalem), where he served from 1902 to 1917.[1] Dalman experienced the outbreak of World War I on a home leave in Germany. Events prevented a return to Jerusalem. From 1917 he was Professor of Old Testament and Palestine Studies in Greifswald , where in 1920 he founded the Institute for Biblical Geography and Antiquity (today: Gustaf Dalman Institute). In 1921 he was acting provost of the Church of the Redeemer in Jerusalem. From 1905 to 1926 he was editor of the journal Palästina-Jahrbuch.

The theologian and translator Franz Delitzsch, who translated the New Testament into Hebrew, entrusted to Dalman the work of "thoroughly revising" the Hebrew text.[2]

Works[]

  • Grammatik des Jüdisch-Palästinischen Aramäisch. 1894. 2nd edition. Leipzig, 1905
  • Aramäische Dialektproben . . . mit Wörterverzeichnis. Leipzig, 1896 (reprint: OCLC 892092418)
  • Dalman, Gustaf; Box, G.H. (1901). Christianity and Judaism: an Essay. Oxford: Williams & Norgate. OCLC 688537829. (translated from the original: Christentum und Judentum, Leipzig 1898, OCLC 903085144)
  • Worte Iesu. Leipzig, 1898. English trans., T. & T. Clark, 1902.
  • Aramäisch-Neuhebräisches Handwörterbuch zu Targum, Talmud und Midrasch. 1901. 2nd revised and expanded edition. Frankfurt am Main, 1922 (OCLC 806982104)
  • Dalman, Gustaf (1912). Neue Petra-Forschungen und der Heilige Felsen von Jerusalem (New Petra explorations and the sacred rock of Jerusalem) (in German). Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. ISBN 978-1385969557. OCLC 583405432.
  • Jesus-Jeschua. Leipzig, 1922. English trans., Jesus-Jeshua. Studies in the Aramaic Gospels. London, 1929.
  • Dalman, Gustaf (1925). Hundert deutsche Fliegerbilder aus Palästina (One Hundred German Aerial Photographs from Palestine). Schriften des Deutschen Palästina-Instituts, Bd. 2 (in German). Gütersloh: Bertelsmann. OCLC 774111.[3]
  • Arbeit und Sitte in Palastina. [Work and Customs in Palestine] 1937. Reprinted 1964. (in 7 volumes)
  • Dalman, Gustaf (2013). Work and Customs in Palestine. 1 (I/1-I/2). Translated by Nadia Abdulhadi Sukhtian. Ramallah: Dar Al Nasher. ISBN 9789950385-00-9. OCLC 1040774903. (ISBN 9789950385-01-6) (two volumes)
  • Dalman, Gustaf (2020). Nadia Abdulhadi-Sukhtian (ed.). Work and Customs in Palestine, volume II. 2 (Agriculture). Translated by Robert Schick. Ramallah: Dar Al Nasher. ISBN 978-9950-385-84-9.
  • Dalman, Gustaf (1930). Jerusalem und sein Gelände (Jerusalem and its Grounds) (in German). Gütersloh: C. Bertelsmann. OCLC 408213.
  • Dalman, Gustaf (1935). Sacred Sites and Ways: Studies in the Topography of the Gospels. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. OCLC 287887. (being a translation of: Orte und Wege Jesu)
  • Dalman, Gustaf (1964). Webstoff, Spinnen, Weben, Kleidung (Woven fabric, spinning, weaving, clothing). Deutsches Evangelisches Institut für Altertumswissenschaft des Heiligen Landes.; Schriften des Deutschen Palästina-Instituts (in German). Hildesheim: Olms. OCLC 180617734. (reprinted from 1937 edition)

Articles[]

  • Dalman, Gustaf (1891). "Ein neues hebräisches Reisehandbuch für Palästina (A New Hebrew Travel Guide to Palestine)". Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins (in German). Deutscher verein zur Erforschung Palästinas. 14: 148–150. JSTOR 27928609.
  • Dalman, Gustaf (1897). "Aramäische Dialektproben (Aramaic dialect samples)". Monatsschrift für Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judentums (in German). 41 (N. F. 5) (7): 326–329. JSTOR 44758678.
  • Dalman, Gustaf (1902). "Grinding in Ancient and Modern Palestine". The Biblical World. The University of Chicago Press. 19 (1): 9–18. JSTOR 3137192.
  • Dalman, Gustaf (1904). "Studien aus dem Deutschen evang. archäolog. Institut zu Jerusalem. 1. Der Paß von Michmas (The pass of Michmas)". Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins (in German). Deutscher verein zur Erforschung Palästinas. 27: 161–173. JSTOR 27928847.
  • Dalman, Gustaf (1905). "Studien aus dem Deutschen evang. archäolog. Institut zu Jerusalem. 4. Pflügelänge, Saatstreifen und Erntestreifen in Bibel und Mischna (Plow length, seed strips and harvest strips in the Bible and Mishnah)". Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins (in German). Deutscher verein zur Erforschung Palästinas. 28 (1): 27–35. JSTOR 27928875.
  • Dalman, Gustaf (1905). "Studien aus dem Deutschen evang. archäolog. Institut zu Jerusalem. 5. Getreidemaß und Feldmaß (Grain measure and field measure)". Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins (in German). Deutscher verein zur Erforschung Palästinas. 28 (1): 36–39. JSTOR 27928876.
  • Dalman, Gustaf (1909). "Der zweite Tempel zu Jerusalem (The second temple in Jerusalem)". Palästina-Jahrbuch (in German). Jerusalem: G. Dalman. 5.
  • Dalman, Gustaf (1922). "Die Ausgrabungen von Raymond Weill in der Davidsstadt (Raymond Weill's excavations in the City of David)". Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins (in German). Deutscher verein zur Erforschung Palästinas. 45 (1/2): 22–31. JSTOR 27929432.
  • Dalman, Gustaf (1923). "Studien aus dem Deutschen evang. Institut für Altertumswissenschaft in Jerusalem. 34. Palästinische Tiernamen (Palestinian animal names)". Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins (in German). Deutscher verein zur Erforschung Palästinas. 46 (1/2): 65–78. JSTOR 27929464.
  • Dalman, Gustaf (1929). "Einige Geschichtliche Stätten Im Norden Jerusalems (Some historical sites in the north of Jerusalem)". Journal of Biblical Literature (in German). The Society of Biblical Literature. 48 (3/4): 354–361. JSTOR 3259735.

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Ben-Arieh, Yehoshua (1999). "Non-Jewish Institutions and the Research of Palestine during the British Mandate Period: Part Two". Cathedra: For the History of Eretz Israel and Its Yishuv (in Hebrew). Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute. 93: 111-142 (Abstract). JSTOR 23404547.
  2. ^ Dalman, G., "The Hebrew New Testament of Franz Delitzsch", The Old and New Testament Student, Vol. 15, No. 3/4 (Sep. - Oct., 1892), pp. 145-150, available at https://www.jstor.org/stable/3158076
  3. ^ For a description of this work, see Directory of the Palestinian Photo Holdings of the Bavarian War Archive.

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