Bernhard Stade (May 1848, Arnstadt, Thuringia – 6 December 1906) was a German Protestant theologian and historian.
[1] He studied at Leipzig and Berlin, and in course of time became (1875) professor ordinarius at Giessen.
Once a member of Franz Delitzsch's class, he became a convinced adherent of the newest critical school.
In 1881 he founded the Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, which he continued to edit; and his critical history of Israel (Geschichte des Volks Israel, 2 vols., 1887–1888; vol.
[2] With Carl Siegfried,[3] he revised and edited the Hebrew lexicon, Hebräisches Wörterbuch zum Alten Testament (1892–1893).