Personalities · 15 · Jeremiah and Baruch

Martin Noth, writing at the front

Noth wrote his most important work on the 'Deuteronomist' while serving as a German soldier on the eastern front in World War II.

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He and Gerhard von Rad minimized later editors' contributions to recover a 'genius' original.

Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 244

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