Editing Martin Noth (section)

{{Short description|German scholar (1902–1968)}}
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| birth_date         = {{Birth date|1902|08|03|df=y}}
| birth_place        = [[Dresden]]
| death_date         = {{Death date and age|1968|05|30|1902|08|03|df=y}}
| death_place        = [[Negev]], [[Israel]]
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| nationality        = German
| education          = [[University of Erlangen-Nuremberg|Erlangen]], [[University of Rostock|Rostock]], [[Leipzig University|Leipzig]]
| occupation         = Taught at [[University of Bonn|Bonn]], [[University of Göttingen|Göttingen]], [[University of Tübingen|Tübingen]], [[University of Hamburg|Hamburg]], and [[University of Basel]]
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| notable_works      = ''The Deuteronomistic History''
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| main_interests     = Pre-Exilic history of the Hebrews
| notable_ideas      = Traditional-historical approach to biblical studies
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'''Martin Noth''' (3 August 1902 – 30 May 1968) was a German scholar of the [[Hebrew Bible]] who specialized in the pre-Exilic history of the Hebrews and promoted the hypothesis that the Israelite tribes in the immediate period after the settlement in [[Canaan]] were organised as a group of twelve tribes  arranged around a central sanctuary on the lines of the later Greek and Italian [[Amphictyonic league|amphictyonies]].<ref>Mayes, A. D. H. (1973), [https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/23040468.pdf The question of the Israelite amphictyony], ''Hermathena'', No. 116 (Winter 1973), pp. 53-65, accessed 15 May 2021</ref> With [[Gerhard von Rad]] he pioneered the traditional-historical approach to [[biblical studies]], emphasising the role of [[oral tradition]]s in the formation of the biblical texts.