Works
Hug's earliest publication was the first installment of his Einleitung; in it he argued against Johann Gottfried Eichhorn in favour of the borrowing hypothesis of the origin of the synoptical gospels, maintaining the priority of Matthew, the present Greek text having been the original.
His subsequent works were dissertations on the origin of alphabetical writing (Die Erfindung der Buch stabenschrift, 1801), on the antiquity of the Codex Vaticanus (1810), and on ancient mythology (Uber den Mythos der alien Volker, 1812); a new interpretation of the Song of Solomon (Des hohe Lied in einer noch unversuchten Deutung, 1813), to the effect that the lover represents King Hezekiah, while by his beloved is intended the remnant left in Israel after the deportation of the ten tribes; and treatises on the indissoluble character of the matrimonial bond (De conjugii cheistiani vinculo indissolubili commentatio exegetica, 1816) and on the Alexandrian version of the Pentateuch (1818).
His Einleitung in die Schriften des Neuen Testaments, his major work, was completed in 1808 (fourth German edition, 1847; English translations by Daniel Guilford Wait, London, 1827, and by David Fosdick and Moses Stuart, New York, 1836; French partial translation by J. E. Cellerier, Geneva, 1823). In the portion relating to the history of the text he holds it to have been current up to the middle of the 3rd century only in a common edition, of which recensions were afterwards made by Hesychius, an Egyptian bishop, by Lucian of Antioch, and by Origen).
From 1839 to his death Hug was a regular contributor to the Freiburger Zeitschrift fur kathol. Theologie.
- Hug's introduction to the New Testament, transl. by D. Fosdick, Andover 1836
- Die mosaische Geschichte des Menschen, Frankfurt 1793;
- Die Ursprünge der menschlichen Erkenntnis, Basel 1796;
- Einleitung in die Schriften des Neuen Testaments, 2 Te., 1808 (18472);
- De antiquitate Codicis Vaticani commentatio, Freiburg: Herder 1810;
- Untersuchungen über den Mythos der berühmtern völker der alten welt Vorzüglich der Griechen; dessen entstehen, veränderungen und innhalt, Freiburg 1812 (18232);
- Das hohe Lied einer noch unversuchten Deutung, 1813;
- J. L. M., Schutzschr. f. seine Deutung des Hhld. u. dessen weitere Erl., Freiburg 1815;
- De conjugii christiani vinculo indissolubili commentatio exegetica, 1816;
- De Pentateuchi versione Alexandrina commentatio, 1818;
- Gutachten über das Leben Jesu v. David Friedrich Strauß (1835), 2 Te., 1840-44 (l8542)
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