Sprache:
Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr:
1998
Titel der Quelle:
Comparative Studies in Society and History
Angaben zur Quelle:
40,3 (1998) 437-474
Schlagwort(e):
Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Christianity and other religions Judaism 1800-2000
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History
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Antisemitism History 1800-2000
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Islam Theology
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Islam Relations
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Judaism
Kurzfassung:
Quotes from the introduction to Edward Said's book "Orientalism" (1978), in which he states that he found himself "writing the history of a strange secret sharer of Western anti-Semitism." Objects, however, to this comparison, viewing the representation of Judaism in the West as part of a broader Orientalist discourse. Focuses on German Protestant Bible scholarship in the 19th century, which saw the Jewish past as "the Judaism of contradictory combinations" (a term coined by W.M.L. De Wette) - e.g. rationality/ irrationality, universalism/ particularism, exclusion/inclusion, and modernity/tradition. The German Bible scholars viewed Judaism negatively, as a degeneration of Hebraism, or ancient Israel. This view influenced political writers in the 19th century, who felt that the resolution of Jewish contradictions would be accomplished through the dissolution of an allochronic Jewish identity through its assimilation into the Protestant nation-state. To understand the relationship between politics, power, and Orientalism, suggests to view the Jews in Germany as a colonized population. It is possible to read antisemitism and Orientalism as two post-colonial discourses that emerged as a response to European Christian colonialism, and to understand Judaism and the "Jewish question" as Islam's strange secret sharers of Orientalism in the West.
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