Johann Christian Schöttgen(Wurzen

Wurzen

Wurzen is a town in the Leipzig district, in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the river Mulde, here crossed by two bridges, 25 km east of Leipzig, by rail N.E. of Leipzig on the main line to Dresden...

, 14 March 1687- Dresden

Dresden

Dresden is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe, near the Czech border. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon Triangle metropolitan area....

, 16 December 1751) was a German biblical scholar. He is mainly known for his Horae Ebraicae et Talmudicae in universum Novum Testamentum (1733) which follows on the model of John Lightfoot

John Lightfoot

John Lightfoot was an English churchman, rabbinical scholar, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge and Master of St Catharine's College, Cambridge.-Life:...

's use of Talmudic insights for commentary on the New Testament. Much of Schoettgen's work was expanded by Paul Billerbeck

Paul Billerbeck

Paul Billerbeck was a Lutheran minister and scholar of Judaism, best known for his Commentary on the New Testament from the Talmud and Midrash co-written with Hermann Strack. Billerbeck was born in Prussia to Jewish parents and educated in Greifswald and Leipzig...

 for Strack's Kommentar (1926).

Among English readers influenced by Schöttgen's argument for Messianism in early Judaism outside the Bible was Gladstone.