Stuttgart Jubilee Bible
The Stuttgart Jubilee Bible is a Luther Bible with explanations.
Jubilee Bible 1912
On the occasion of its 100th anniversary in 1912, the Privileged Württemberg Bible Society in Stuttgart published a Luther Bible with explanations that were easy to understand. Additions to the Bible text, such as the Biblia Deudsch had offered in abundance, had become unusual in the Protestant area in the 19th century. Instead, so that the Bible could explain itself ( Sola Scriptura principle ), many Bible verses were related to one another by means of cross-references. The explanatory text in the jubilee Bible was therefore a risk, which the Bible Society was aware of. The declarations came from a group of Wuerttemberg clergymen under the direction of Paul Langbein ( Old Pietist Community Association ). The target group was, on the one hand, the lonely Bible reader and, on the other hand, the “householder” who wants to have a Bible discussion with his family or another “inner circle” and is preparing for it.
Revised pocket Bible 1937
In 1937 a revised pocket edition appeared which was widely distributed.
In the introduction to the Old Testament it now said: “The most violent attacks are directed against the Old Testment as against a book that breathes the Jewish spirit in the worst way and proclaims a God ... who stands in complete opposition to what is new Testament convey to us as knowledge of God. Therefore, the Old Testament can no longer be a textbook and edification book in the Christian Church, but must disappear from worship and religious instruction. […] If you were right with your assertions, how could Jesus have been so completely rooted in the Old Testament as it was actually the case! "
Dietrich Bonhoeffer recommended this edition of the Bible, which he also used personally. In 1940 he wrote in the 6th circular to the alumni of the Finkenwalde seminary : “I would also like to draw your attention once again to the small edition of the Stuttgart Jubilee Bible, which occasionally makes reading the OT very much easier for a note of text and subject matter , especially when there is no other aids to hand. "
Stuttgart Biblical Reference Work
In 1931 the Württembergische Bibelgesellschaft published an “Appendix to the Stuttgart Jubilee Bible” as a book. It contains additional resources for Bible study:
- Introduction to the Scriptures;
- Luther's prefaces;
- Prayers from Johann Albrecht Bengel's New Testament;
- Description of the Holy Land;
- History of the people of Israel;
- Nature and popular life in the land of the Bible;
- Explanation of single words;
- Concordances ;
- Gospel synopsis ;
- "Scriptures and scriptures with key words for special times and cases in life";
- Bible reading board;
- Maps (plus 16 photographs of places in the Bible).
Text output
- Stuttgart Jubilee Bible with explanatory notes . Privilege. Württemb. Biblical Institute Stuttgart 1937, reprint 1951.
- Stuttgart Biblical Reference Work. Appendix to the Stuttgart Jubilee Bible with explanatory notes. Privilege. Württemb. Biblical Institute Stuttgart 1937, reprint 1955.
- Jubilee Bible with explanatory notes (new edition in Latin script). German Bible Society , Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-438-01118-3 .