[UntoHim]

Originally Posted by zeek

Kittel's alleged actions against Jews make him a despicable character. Do you have evidence that his Nazism or antisemitism tainted his exposition of Greek words used in the New Testament?

This from the same lurker:

The answer is Yes, some scholars who have examined this issue claim Kittel's racist views influences his publications, incl. TDNT

Some quotes from scholars on this question
“Very few users of [G. Kittel’s TDNT] are aware of ...the fundamentally anti-Jewish structure of TDNT itself” [Wayne A. Meeks, “A Nazi NT Professor Reads His Bible: the Strange Case of Gerhard Kittel” in James L. Kugel, Judith H. Newman, Judith Hood Newman (eds.) The Idea of Biblical Interpretation: Essays in Honor of James L. Kugel, pp. 513-4]
“Kittel and his colleagues in the TDNT project put [their] confused theory of language to work...to support the negative role of Jews...” [Wayne A. Meeks, “A Nazi NT Professor Reads His Bible: the Strange Case of Gerhard Kittel” in James L. Kugel, Judith H. Newman, Judith Hood Newman (eds.) The Idea of Biblical Interpretation: Essays in Honor of James L. Kugel, p. 537]
Maurice Casey “argues that the TDNT [edited by Kittel]...is a very dangerous book...Since the editor-in-chief Gerhard Kittel and a number of major contributors were Nazis, users of the TDNT should be aware of their prejudices and assumptions. For example, K. G. Kuhn projected the ‘Jewish Problem’ back to the ancient world where he portrayed Judaism as being responsible for Jew-hatred. ...Walter Gundermann attempted to claim that Jesus was ‘Aryan’ (‘a Galilean’). Even non-Nazi contributors to the TDND are shown to have suffered from traditional German Christian anti-semitism.” [Maurice Casey, “Some Anti-Semitic Assumptions in the TDNT” Novum Testamentum, Vol. 41, No. 3, (July 1999) pp. 286-291, Abstract in Susan Sarah Cohen (ed.) Anti-Semitism Annotated Bibliography, Vol. 16, #0461, p. 157]