Editing August Dillmann (section)

==Works==
In 1851, he had published the "[[Book of Enoch]]" in Ethiopian (German, 1853; English, [https://archive.org/details/bookenochtransl00dillgoog 1893]), and at Kiel, he completed the first part of the Ethiopic bible, ''Octateuchus Aethiopicus'' (1853–55). In 1857 appeared his ''Grammatik der äthiopischen Sprache'' (2nd edition by [[Carl Bezold]], 1899); in 1859 the "[[Book of Jubilees]]"; in 1861 and 1871 another part of the Ethiopic bible, ''Libri Regum''; in 1865 his great ''Lexicon linguæ aethiopicæ''; in 1866 his ''Chrestomathia aethiopica''.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=273}} In 1853, Dillmann published an article comparing [[Regnal lists of Ethiopia|Ethiopian king lists]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Dillmann|first=August|title=Zur Geschichte des abyssinischen Reichs|journal=Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft|volume=7|pages=338–364|year=1853|language=German|url=https://menadoc.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/dmg/periodical/titleinfo/20825}}</ref>

Always a theologian at heart, he returned to theology in 1864. His Giessen lectures were published under the titles, ''Ursprung der alttestamentlichen Religion'' (1865) and ''Die Propheten des alten Bundes nach ihrer politischen Wirksamkeit'' (1868). In 1869 appeared his commentary on ''Hiob'', ([https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005764407 4th edition 1891]) which stamped him as one of the foremost [[Old Testament]] exegetes.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=273}}

His renown as a theologian was mainly founded on the series of commentaries, based on those of [[August Wilhelm Knobel]]'s [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100349616 ''Die Genesis''] (Leipzig, 1875); ''Die Bücher Exodus und Leviticus'', 1880; ''Die Bücher Numeri, Deuteronomium und Josua'', with a dissertation on the origin of the [[Hexateuch]], 1886; [https://archive.org/details/derprophetjesaj00knobgoog ''Der Prophet Jesaja''], 1890. In 1877 he published the "[[Ascension of Isaiah]]" in Ethiopian and Latin. He was also a contributor to [[Daniel Schenkel]]'s ''Bibellexikon'', [[Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus|Brockhaus's]] ''[[Conversations-Lexikon mit vorzüglicher Rücksicht auf die gegenwärtigen Zeiten|Conversationslexikon]]'', and [[Johann Jakob Herzog]]'s ''[[Schaff–Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge|Realencyklopädie]]''. His book on Old Testament theology, ''Handbuch der alttestamentlichen Theologie'', was published by [[Rudolf Kittel]] in 1895.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=273}}<ref>[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1526434 Handbuch der alttestamentlichen Theologie] OCLC WorldCat.</ref>