Quote of the day
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Julius Wellhausen
Born: May 17, 1844
Died: January 7, 1918 (aged 73)
Bio: Julius Wellhausen, was a German biblical scholar and orientalist. In the course of his career, he moved from Old Testament research through Islamic studies to New Testament scholarship.
Known for:
- Prolegomena to the History of Ancient Israel
- Prolegomena zur Geschichte Israels (1878)
- Arab Kingdom and its fall
- The Pharisees and the Sadducees
- Das Evangelium Lucae (1904)