Hans Waitz

Johannes Waitz, also Hans Waitz, was a German Biblical scholar specializing in the New Testament Apocrypha and source-critical studies. He was an Evangelical pastor in Darmstadt until 1927,[1] and not to be confused with the Austrian Catholic bishop of the same name.[2][3]

He was the advocate of a Petrine source text for Acts 8:5-25.[4] and attempted to identify Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 840 as part of the lost Gospel of the Nazarenes.[5] Waitz was the first to recognize parallel accounts in the two major pseudo-Clementines and postulated a "basic document" dated to the third century.[6]

  1. ^ Handbuch der deutschen evangelischen Kirchen 1918 Bis 1949: "HANS WAITZ, Th.D., Pastor in Darmstadt."
  2. ^ Hans Jablonka, [Hans] Waitz, Bischof unter Kaiser und Hitler, Vienna 1971
  3. ^ Stefan Moritz Grüss Gott und Heil Hitler 2002 p318 "Fürsterzbischof Waitz unterstützte die Heimwehr und, nachdem die Christlichsoziale Partei mit Hilfe der Bischöfe eliminiert worden war, die Vaterländische Front"
  4. ^ Christopher R. Matthews Philip, Apostle and Evangelist: configurations of a tradition 2002 "Hans Waitz, in a classic example of older source-critical studies, expends a great deal of effort seeking to demonstrate the existence of a "Petrine Grundschrift" underlying Luke's account in 8:5-25"
  5. ^ New Testament and Christian apocrypha: collected studies II ed. François Bovon, Glenn E. Snyder p178
  6. ^ Watson E. Mills, Roger Aubrey Bullard Mercer dictionary of the Bible p161 1990 "Hans Waitz recognized the parallel accounts in the two major pseudo-Clementines and postulated a "basic document" dated to the third century"