Carl Friedrich Keil#Old Testament Commentary

{{Short description|German Lutheran Old Testament commentator (1807–1888)}}

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Johann Friedrich Karl Keil or Carl Friedrich Keil (26 February 1807 – 5 May 1888) was a conservative German Lutheran Old Testament commentator. Keil was appointed to the theological faculty of Dorpat in Estonia where he taught Bible, New Testament exegesis, and Oriental languages. In 1859 he was called to serve the Lutheran church in Leipzig. In 1887 he moved to Rödletz, where he died. Keil was a conservative critic who reacted strongly against the scientific biblical criticism of his day. He strongly supported Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch. He maintained the validity of the historico-critical investigation of the Bible only if it proved the existence of New Testament revelation in the Scriptures. To this aim he edited (with Franz Delitzsch) his principal work, a commentary on the Bible, Biblischer Kommentar über das Alte Testament (5 vols., 1866–82; Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament, 5 vols., 1872–77). The work remains his most enduring contribution to biblical studies. He also published commentaries on Maccabees and New Testament literature.Encyclopaedia Judaica.

Biography

Keil was born at Lauterbach near Oelsnitz, Kingdom of Saxony, and died at Rätz, Saxony.

He is best known for his contributions to the Keil and Delitzsch commentaries, a ten-volume set written with Franz Delitzsch.{{cite book |author=Carl Friedrich Keil |author2=Franz Delitzsch |title=Commentary on the Old Testament |location=Grand Rapids, Mich. |publisher=Eerdmans |year=1975 |isbn=978-0-8028-8035-2 |oclc=2363963}}

Keil was a student of Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg.

Works

{{cite book |last1=Keil |first1=Carl Friedrich |author1-link=Carl Friedrich Keil |editor1-last=Douglas |editor1-first=George C. M. |editor1-link=George C. M. Douglas |title=Manual of historico-critical introduction to the canonical scriptures of the Old Testament |date=1869 |publisher=T. & T. Clark |location=Edinburgh |edition=2|volume=1 |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nnc1.cr00252107&view=2up&seq=10&size=125}}
{{cite book |last1=Keil |first1=Carl Friedrich |author1-link=Carl Friedrich Keil |editor1-last=Douglas |editor1-first=George C. M. |editor1-link=George C. M. Douglas |title=Manual of historico-critical introduction to the canonical scriptures of the Old Testament |date=1882 |publisher=T. & T. Clark |location=Edinburgh |edition=2|volume=2 |url=https://archive.org/details/manualhistorico00bleegoog/page/n11/mode/2up}}
{{cite book |last1=Keil |first1=Carl Friedrich |author1-link=Carl Friedrich Keil |editor1-last=Frederick |editor1-first=Crombie |editor1-link=Frederick Crombie |title=Manual of Biblical Archaeology introduction to biblical archaeology |date=1827–1889 |publisher=T. & T. Clark |location=Edinburgh |edition=2|volume=2 |url=https://archive.org/details/manualofbiblical0000keil/page/n5/mode/2up}}

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From the commentary compilations by Keil and Delitzsch:

Volume 1: Pentateuch
Volume 2: Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 & 2 Samuel
Volume 3: 1 & 2 Kings, 1 & 2 Chronicles
Volume 4: Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Job
Volume 5: Psalms
Volume 6: Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs
Volume 7: Isaiah
Volume 8: Jeremiah, Lamentations
Volume 9: Ezekiel, Daniel
Volume 10: Minor Prophets

Carl Friedrich Keil#Old Testament Commentary

Biography

Works

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