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Roots of theological anti-Semitism : German biblical interpretation and the Jews, from Herder and Semler to Kittel and Bultmann / by Anders Gerdmar.

Title: Roots of theological anti-Semitism : German biblical interpretation and the Jews, from Herder and Semler to Kittel and Bultmann / by Anders Gerdmar.
Author: Gerdmar, Anders.
Publication: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

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Description

xviii, 675 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

"As Adolf Hitler strategised his way to power, he knew that it was necessary to gain the support of theology and the Church. This study begins two hundred years earlier, however, looking at roots of theological anti-Semitism and how Jews and Judaism were constructed, positively and negatively, in the biblical interpretation of German Protestant theology. Following the two main streams of German theology, the salvation-historical and the Enlightenment-oriented traditions, it examines leading exegetes from the 1750s to the 1950s and explores how theology legitimises or delegitimises oppression of Jews, in part through still-prevailing paradigms. This is the first comprehensive analysis of its kind, and the result of the analysis of the interplay between biblical exegesis and attitudes to Jews and Judaism is a fascinating and often frightening portrait of theology as a servant of power."--book jacket.

Series Statement

Studies in Jewish history and culture, 1568-5004 ; v. 20

Uniform Title

Studies in Jewish history and culture v. 20.

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [619]-651) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

pt. 1. Enlightenment exegesis and the Jews. The Jews in Enlightenment exegesis from desim to de Wette -- Johann Salomo Semler : dejudaising Christianity -- Johann Gottfried Herder : the Volk concept and the Jews -- F.D.E. Schleiermacher : Enlightenment religion and Judaism -- W.M.L. de Wette : Judaism as degenerated Hebraism -- The Jews in Enlightenment exegesis from Baur to Ritschl -- Ferdinand Christian Baur : Judaism as an historical antipode of Christianity -- David Friedrich Strauss : Judaism in continuity and discontinuity with Christianity -- Albrecht Ritschl : Kulturprotestantismus and the Jews -- The history of religions and the Jews -- pt. 2. Salvation-historical exegesis and the Jews : from Tholuck to Schlatter. Introduction -- Friedrich August Tholuck : "salvation comes from the Jews" -- Johann Tobias Beck : organic continuity between Judaism and Christianity -- Franz Delitzsch : pioneering scholarship in Judaism -- Hermann Leberecht Strack : missions to and defence of Jews -- Adolf Schlatter : great erudition and fierce opposition -- Schlatter and the Jews during National Socialism -- pt. 3. The form critics and the Jews. Introduction -- Karl Ludwig Schmidt : a chosen people and a 'Jewish problem' -- Martin Dibelius : ambivalence to Jews and Judaism -- Rudolf Bultmann : liberal and anti-Jewish -- pt. 4. Nazi exegesis and the Jews. Introduction -- Gerhard Kittel : Jewish Unheil theologically founded -- Walter Grundmann : towards a non-Jewish Jesus -- Concluding analysis.

ISBN

9789004168510 (hardback : alk. paper)
9004168516 (hardback : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008043648

OCLC

251205739
SCSB-10853732

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library