A Day in Capernaum
Digital Verbum Edition
Overview
In A Day in Capernaum, Franz Delitzsch uses the earliest Jewish accounts of Jesus and the Gospel to imagine what it would have been like to experience his ministry. The intent was to provide a picture of intimacy with Jesus that reflects the character of Christ seen in the Gospels. The text recreates the journey to Capernaum from Jerusalem, Jesus’ healing of the paralytic let down through a house roof, a conversation with Mary, and ends with Jesus speaking to the multitudes on the Sea of Galilee. The text also includes a sketch of Franz Delitzsch’s life and work provided by the translator.
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Key Features
- Presents an imaginative re-creation of a day in Jesus’ ministry
- Recreates the journey to Capernaum from Jerusalem
- Includes a sketch of Franz Delitzsch’s life and work
Praise for the Print Edition
Delitzsch is a Christian, a scholar, and a poet. These three leading features of the almost myriad-minded Leipzig professor are most harmoniously blended in the volume here translated . . . it is reverently imaginative, historically informing, geographically illuminative.
—The Missionary Review
Every page is marked by grace and beauty. . .
—The Central Christian Advocate
Readers who have been charmed by descriptions of persons and holy places in Ben Hur will find in this book something vastly more entertaining and certainly more instructive.
—Public Opinion
About Franz Delitzsch
Franz Julius Delitzsch (1813–1890) was a German Lutheran theologian and Hebraist. He was a professor of theology at the University of Rostock from 1846 to 1850, at the University of Erlangen until 1867, and then at the University of Leipzig until his death. He is most known for translating the New Testament into Hebrew. To this day, the translation remains the standard Hebrew New Testament and a mark of Delitzsh’s compassion for the Jewish people. Throughout his life, Delitzsch defended and advocated for the Jewish community, and in 1880, he established the Institutum Judaicum in Leipzig to train missionaries to work among Jews. He also wrote a number of commentaries.