Bousset, Johann Franz Wilhelm

BOUSSET, bū´´set´, JOHANN FRANZ WILHELM: German Protestant; b. at Lübeck Sept. 3, 1865. He was educated at Erlangen, Leipsic, and Göttingen (Th.Lic., 1890) and became privat-docent at the latter university in 1890, being made associate professor of New Testament exegesis six years later. Theologically he belongs to the liberal historical school. In addition to minor contributions, he has written Evangeliencitate Justins des Märtyrers (Göttingen,1891); Jesu Predigt im Gegensatz zum Judentum (1892); Textkritische Studien (Leipsic, 1894); Antichrist (Göttingen,1895; 242Eng. transl. by A. H. Keane, London, 1896); Kommentar zur Offenbarung des Johannes (in the Kritisch-exegetischer Kommentar zum Neuen Testament, 1896); Religion des Judentums im neutestamentlichen Zeitalter (Berlin, 1903; 2d ed., 1906); Das Wesen der Religion (Halle, 1903); Was wissen wir von Jesus? (1904); Jesus (Halle, 1904; Eng. transl., London, 1906); and Erklärung des Galater-und ersten und zweiten Korintherbriefes, in J. Weiss's Schriften des Neuen Testaments neu übersetzt (Göttingen,1905). Since 1897 he has edited the Theologische Rundschau in collaboration with W. Heitmüller, and the Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments in collaboration with H. Gunkel since 1903.