Abraham Master

Abraham Meister (born December 21, 1901 in Ronsdorf ; † November 16, 1990 in Wuppertal ) was a German Protestant theologian with an evangelical character, lecturer at Bible seminars and Bible translator. His translation of the New Testament was published in a 1989 Hexapla .

Life

Meister was born in Ronsdorf, which today belongs to Wuppertal, as the son of a Jewish father and a Christian mother. He attended elementary school until 1916, after which he had to work as a grinder under dangerous working conditions, in great poverty and in desolate surroundings. In his spare time, he read and studied the Bible thoroughly over a hundred times . He learned the biblical basic languages Hebrew and Greek self-taught . During the time of National Socialism , Meister lived in constant uncertainty because, although he came from a so-called privileged mixed marriage , his status as a “ Jewish mixed race ” did not offer reliable protection against discrimination and persecution. The Wehrmacht granted him “protective asylum” for 20 months. In the last year of the Second World War he served as a preacher in the Confessing Church . In 1948 he caught up with the Abitur at the Ministry of Culture in Düsseldorf, after which he studied Protestant theology at the University of Münster for four years .

Act

Master worked on the Gospel of Luke in the Wuppertal Study Bible and wrote the commentary on Exodus in the Luther Bible . He was co-author of Fritz Rienecker's Lexicon on the Bible . He lectured on exegesis of the Old and New Testaments at the Wuppertal Bible seminar and also worked as a lecturer at the Bible School in Breckerfeld . He was an employee of the magazine Bible and municipality of the Bible Federal ; his subjects were Judaism , essay questions, the history of dogma and dogmatics . He translated the entire Bible into German, but only the New Testament came out in a hexapla . He wrote over 40,000 biblical studies, exegetical commentaries on almost all biblical books, a complete systematics, numerous drafts of sermons and some ecclesiastical biographies, such as on Ignatius of Antioch , Augustine , John Chrysostomos , Theodor of Mopsuestia , Thomas von Aquin , Savonarola , Martin Bucer and Johann von Staupitz .

Works

• Biblical names. R. Brockhaus , Wuppertal 1958.
• Biblical dictionary of names. Mitternachtsruf , Pfäffikon ZH 1970 (new edition 1984. ISBN 3-85810-086-2 ; further new edition 2004. ISBN 978-3-85810-086-3 ).
• Name of the Eternal. Mitternachtsruf, Pfäffikon ZH 1973 (new edition 2007. ISBN 978-3-85810-092-4 ).
• Biblical names. In a nutshell. Volume 10, in: Bible, Church, Congregation (bkg) . Christian publishing house, Constance 1975. ISBN 3-7673-7610-5 . (New edition: Aussaat , Neukirchen 1995. ISBN 978-3-7615-5002-1 ).
• Names and Characteristics of the Lord's Redeemed. A lexicon with 8 digressions. Publishing house and writing mission of the Evangelical Society , Wuppertal-Elberfeld 1977. ISBN 3-87857-144-3 .
• Hexapla. The new Testament. Six Bible translations in one overview: Abraham Meister - Martin Luther (text from 1912) - Franz Eugen Schlachter - Revised Elberfeld translation - Hermann Menge - Ludwig Albrecht . Midnight Call, Pfäffikon ZH 1989. ISBN 978-3-85810-152-5 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The History of the Bible Covenant (1894-1994)
2. ↑ Vegelahn Biblical Archive: Master Abraham
3. ↑ Biblical Media: Master Abraham
4. ^ Sermon-online: Master Abraham