Roots of theological anti-Semitism German biblical interpretation and the Jews, from Herder and Semler to Kittel and Bultmann

CONTENTSIntroduction: Roots of Theological Anti-Semitism PART I: ENLIGHTENMENT EXEGESIS AND THE JEWSIntroduction The Jews in Enlightenment Exegesis From Deism 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 HebraismThe Jews in Enlightenment Exegesis from Baur to Ritschl Ferdinand Christian Baur: Judaism as an Historical Antipode of ChristianityDavid Friedrich Strauss: Judaism in Continuity and Discontinuity with Christianity Albrecht Ritschl: Kulturprotestantismus and the Jews The History of Religions School and the Jews—An Historical Turn? PART II: SALVATION-HISTORICAL EXEGESIS AND THE JEWS: FROM THOLUCK TO SCHLATTERIntroduction Philo-Semitism Friedrich August Tholuck: “Salvation Comes from the Jews” Johann Tobias Beck: Organic Continuity Between Judaism and ChristianityFranz Delitzsch: Pioneering Scholarship in JudaismHermann Leberecht Strack: Missions to and Defence of Jews Adolf Schlatter and Judaism: Great Erudition and Fierce Opposition PART III: THE FORM CRITICS AND THE JEWSIntroduction Karl Ludwig Schmidt: A Chosen People and a ‘Jewish Problem’Martin Dibelius: Ambivalence to Jews and Judaism Rudolf Bultmann: Liberal and Anti-Jewish PART IV: NAZI EXEGESIS AND THE JEWSIntroduction Gerhard Kittel: Jewish Unheil Theologically FoundedWalter Grundmann: Towards a Non-Jewish Jesus Concluding Analysis