Theodor Zahn

Theodor Zahn.

Theodor Zahn or Theodor von Zahn (Moers, 10 October 1838 - Erlangen, 5 March 1933) was a biblical scholar born in Rhineland, Prussia (now Germany). He was professor of Theology at Erlangen, and distinguished for his eminent scholarship in connection with the matter especially of the New Testament canon. He stood at the head of the conservative New Testament scholarship of his time. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1902, 1904 and 1908. Theologically, Zahn was conservative and approached New Testament theology from the perspective of Heilsgeschichte.

Some of his more important writings are:

• Der Hirt des Hermas untersucht (1868)
• Ignatius von Antiochien (1873)
• Patrum Apostolicorum Opera (1875–78; fifth edition, 1905)
• Forschungen zur Geschichte des neutestamentlichen Kanons und der altkirchlichen Litteratur (eight volumes, 1881–1908)
• Geschichte des neutestamentlichen Kanons (two volumes, 1889–92)
• Das apostolische Symbolum (1892; English translation, The Apostles' Creed, 1899)
• Einleitung in das neue Testament (two volumes, 1897–1900; third edition, 1906–07; English translation, Introduction to the New Testament, three volumes, 1909)
• Brot und Salz aus Gottes Wort, 20 sermons, (1901); English translation, Bread and Salt from the Word of God, (1905)
• Grundriss der Geschichte des neutestamentlichen Kanons (1901; second edition, 1904)
• Das Evangelium des Lucas (1912)

External links

• Kommentar zum Neuen Testament Zahn's New Testament Commentary series in Dr. B.A. Zuiddam's Tasmanian study.
• (in German) Theodor Zahn. Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). http://www.bautz.de/bbkl/z/zahn_t.shtml. 

This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopædia.