Language:
English
Year of publication:
2003
Titel der Quelle:
Jews, Antiquity, and the Nineteenth-Century Imagination
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2003) 65-84
Keywords:
Jesus Jewishness
;
Antisemitism Philosophy
;
National socialism Philosophy
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Christianity and antisemitism History
Abstract:
Notes that the Aryanization of Jesus began in the 19th century with German theologians rejecting the depiction of a Jewish Jesus in the works of some Jewish and German historians. Pre-Nazi 20th-century scholars, like Ritschl, viewed the emergence of early Christianity as a process of elimination of any Jewish influence. Under the Nazis, German Protestantism both institutionally and ideologically legitimized Nazi antisemitism by stressing the Aryan Jesus. A major figure in this process was Walter Grundmann, but he was merely one of many theologians associated with the Institute for the Study and Eradication of Jewish Influence on German Church Life. His career did not suffer after the war. Furthermore, German Protestant biblical scholarship continues to be influenced by the dissociation of Christianity from Judaism, and of Jesus from the Jews.
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