Language:
German
Year of publication:
1989
Titel der Quelle:
Wort und Dienst
Angaben zur Quelle:
20 (1989) 79-103
Keywords:
Buber, Martin,
;
Hempel, Johannes,
;
Kahle, Paul,
;
Noth, Martin,
;
Weiser, Artur,
;
Wolff, Hans Walter
;
Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc.
;
History
;
Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Abstract:
A lecture held at the Kirchliche Hochschule Bethel, January 1989. Describes the orientation of prominent Old Testament scholars in Nazi Germany. All of them rejected Reinhard Krause's declaration in the Sportspalast assembly of the Deutsche Christen on 13 November 1933, that National Socialists should be ashamed to receive the Bible from the Jews. Although many scholars adhered to Nazi ideology, they were not willing to give up the Old Testament. Some simply continued to engage in historical research (though with the traditional hiatus between ancient Israel, the forerunner of Christianity, and later rabbinic Judaism, whose legalism they condemned). Others were pronouncedly antisemitic - e.g. Johannes Hempel, long-time editor of the "Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft" and the only important Old Testament scholar to participate in Walter Grundmann's Nazi Institut zur Erforschung des jüdischen Einflusses auf das deutsche kirchliche Leben. In a review of Wilhelm Vischer's "Christuszeugnis des Alten Testaments" (1942) he discussed the antagonism between the Old Testament and the German Volk. In the first postwar issue of the ZAW he apologized rather weakly for this article.
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