Language:
English
Year of publication:
1999
Titel der Quelle:
European Legacy
Angaben zur Quelle:
4,4 (1999) 24-48
Keywords:
Weber, Max,
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Bible Influence
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Antisemitism Economic aspects
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Jews Economic conditions
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Historiography
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Economics Philosophy
Abstract:
Criticizes Weber's theory of the Jews as a "pariah people", developed in his "Das Antike Judentum". He saw the ancient Jews as half-nomads or pastoral nomads, classed between sedentary peoples and genuine nomads. In the Middle Ages, these half-nomads with their specific (and perverted, in Weber's view) ethics became a landless "pariah people", existing in the framework of other sedentary peoples only in order to satisfy their economic needs. The half-nomadic way of life and the popular association of the Jews with "fraudulent wanderers" were factors in the emergence of antisemitism. States that Weber's concept does not refer to any historical reality and is motivated partly by intellectual anti-Jewish prejudices of his time. Derks proposes his own, more traditional concept of the ancient Jews' way of life and its impact on the Jewish religion.
DOI:
10.1080/10848779908579979
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