Eningen
Eningen (full name Eningen unter Achalm; Swabian language, Swabian: ''Ẽnenga ondr dr Achl'') is a municipality in the Reutlingen (district), district of Reutlingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated at the foot of the Swabian Alps an ...
,
Württemberg
Württemberg ( ; ) is a historical German territory roughly corresponding to the cultural and linguistic region of Swabia. The main town of the region is Stuttgart.
Together with Baden and Province of Hohenzollern, Hohenzollern, two other histo ...
– 20 October 1929, in
Leipzig
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) was a German
Old Testament
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scholar.
Kittel studied at
University of Tübingen
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The University of Tübingen is one of eleven German Excellenc ...
(1871–76). He was a professor of Old Testament studies at the universities of Breslau (1888–98) and
Leipzig
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(1898–1923). In 1917 he was appointed rector at the University of Leipzig.
He produced commentaries and histories of the
Israelites
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Modern scholarship describes the Israelites as emerging from indigenous Canaanites, Canaanite populations ...
and the Near East, but his most enduring work was his critical edition of the Hebrew scriptures, '' Biblia Hebraica'', which has remained a standard text.
Kittel's son was the theologian and
Nazi
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