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]

Works

• Das Johannesevangelium Darmstadt 1887
• Das Pseudotertullianische Gedicht Adversus Marcionem 1901
• Judenchristliche Evangelien in ed. Edgar Hennecke Neutestamentliche Apokryphen 1904
• Geschichte des Wingolfsbundes Darmstadt 1904
• Texte Und Untersuchungen Zur Geschichte Der Altchristlichen Literatur: Volume 25
• Das Evangelium der zwolf Apostel ZNW 1 3 (1912): 338-48; 14 (1913):

References

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"