Roots of Theological Anti-Semitism: German Biblical Interpretation and the Jews, from Herder and Semler to Kittel and Bultmann

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BRILL, 2009 - 675 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.This book is also available in paperback.
 

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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
Bibliography
619
Name Index
653
Subject Index
661
New Testament Texts
677
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Anders Gerdmar, Th. D. (2001) ) and Associate Professor in New Testament Exegesis, Uppsala University is researcher and author. His published works includes Rethinking the Judaism-Hellenism Dichotomy (Almqvist & Wiksell, 2001) and the methodological textbook Paths to the New Testament.

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