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, and not to be confused with the Austrian Catholic bishop of the same name.

He was the advocate of a Petrine source text for Acts 8:5-25. and attempted to identify Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 840 as part of the lost Gospel of the Nazarenes. Waitz was the first to recognize parallel accounts in the two major pseudo-Clementines and postulated a "basic document" dated to the third century.

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):