Lienhard Delekat

Lienhard Delekat (born January 9, 1928 in Berlin ; † June 14, 2004 ) was Professor of Protestant Theology for the Old Testament Department in Bonn . He was particularly prominent as an Aramaist .

Life

Lienhard Delekat was the son of the theology professor Friedrich Delekat. He received his doctorate in 1956 in Heidelberg with a legal history thesis on "Katoche, Hierodulie and Adoptionfreetgabe". The habilitation took place in 1964 at the Evangelical Theological Faculty of the University of Bonn on “Asylie and protective oracle at the Zion shrine. An investigation into the private enemy psalms ”. He then received the Venia Legendi for the Old Testament. In 1965 he was appointed lecturer and in 1969 extraordinary professor at the Bonn faculty. In 1970 he was appointed university professor for the Old Testament. In 1993 he retired. He died on June 14, 2004 at the age of 76.

meaning

In the 1950s, Lienhard Delekat emerged as an Aramaist through studies on Peschitta and the Syropalestinian Bible translations. His exegesis of the Psalms was considered a landmark in research.

In his work on the problem of the " Phoenicians in America" ​​in 1969, which dealt with the Canaanite (old Sidonian) origin of the Parahyba inscription, which became known in 1873 , he advocated the thesis of the possible authenticity of the inscription. In 1979 he made a proposal to decipher the Phaistos Disc . In recent years he has dealt with the deciphering of the ancient Hebrew metric and the early history of Israeli religion.

Works

• Phoenicians in America . The authenticity of the Canaanite (Old Sidonian) inscription from Paraiba in Brazil, which became known in 1873, ISBN 3775610316
• Early Israelite Religious History: The Emergence of Monotheism ISBN 3928312170
• Asylie and Guardian Oracle at the Shrine of Zion Brill (1967)

Web links

• Works in the German National Library
• Obituary from the University of Bonn
• THE PHOENICIAN THEORY