ISBN:
9789047404071
,
9789004119628
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Year of publication:
2005
Series Statement:
Studies in Jewish History and Culture 10
Series Statement:
Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Challenging Colonial Discourse : Jewish Studies and Protestant Theology in Wilhelmine Germany
Keywords:
Jewish learning and scholarship
;
Judaism (Christian theology) History
;
Judaism Controversial literature
;
History and criticism
;
Judaism History To 70 A.D
;
Historiography
;
Judaism History 19th century
;
Judaism History 20th century
Abstract:
On the basis of postcolonial theory, this study shows how Jewish scholars, in the controversies about the "essence" of Judaism and Christianity at the beginning of the 20th century, challenged the intellectual hegemony of Liberal Protestantism in Germany. By carefully examining the impact of the political circumstances-the loss of relevance of political liberalism, the spreading of antisemitism, and the crisis of Jewish identity in an age of contested emancipation and assimilation-on the theological discourse, it provides a critical analysis of anti-Jewish implications of Protestant theology in the 19th and 20th centuries and discusses the function of Jewish polemics against Protestant distortions of Jewish history, religion and culture. Furthermore, it develops important guidelines for a contemporary interdisciplinary relationship between Jewish Studies and Christian theology
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.1163/9789047404071
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