Roots of Theological Anti-Semitism: German Biblical Interpretation and the Jews, from Herder and Semler to Kittel and BultmannBRILL, 31. des. 2008 - 696 síður 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. |
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Roots of Theological AntiSemitism | 1 |
PART I ENLIGHTENMENT EXEGESIS AND THE JEWS | 21 |
Introduction | 23 |
The Jews in Enlightenment Exegesis From Deism to de Wette | 29 |
Dejudaising Christianity | 39 |
The Volk Concept and the Jews | 51 |
Enlightenment Religion and Judaism | 61 |
Judaism as Degenerated Hebraism | 77 |
Great Erudition and Fierce Opposition | 253 |
PART III THE FORM CRITICS AND THE JEWS | 327 |
Introduction | 329 |
A Chosen People and a Jewish Problem | 331 |
Ambivalence to Jews and Judaism | 347 |
Liberal and AntiJewish | 373 |
PART IV NAZI EXEGESIS AND THE JEWS | 413 |
Introduction | 415 |
The Jews in Enlightenment Exegesis from Baur to Ritschl | 95 |
Judaism as an Historical Antipode of Christianity | 97 |
Judaism in Continuity and Discontinuity with Christianity | 121 |
Kulturprotestantismus and the Jews | 133 |
The History of Religions School and the Jews An Historical Turn? | 143 |
FROM THOLUCK TO SCHLATTER | 189 |
Introduction | 191 |
Salvation Comes from the Jews | 195 |
Organic Continuity Between Judaism and Christianity | 203 |
Pioneering Scholarship in Judaism | 213 |
Missions to and Defence of Jews | 239 |
Jewish Unheil Theologically Founded | 417 |
Towards a NonJewish Jesus | 531 |
Concluding Analysis | 577 |
Archive Materials | 615 |
Abbreviations | 617 |
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New Testament Texts | 677 |
Common terms and phrases
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