ISBN:
9780197697665
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0197697666
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 462 Seiten
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Illustrationen
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24 cm
Year of publication:
2023
Parallel Title:
Äquivalent
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Keywords:
Mendelssohn, Moses
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Zunz, Leopold
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Hirsch, Samson Raphael
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Bibel
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Judentum
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Übersetzung
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Mendelssohn, Moses / 1729-1786 / https://isni.org/isni/0000000120957051
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Zunz, Leopold / 1794-1886 / https://isni.org/isni/0000000081087603
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Hirsch, Samson Raphael / 1808-1888 / https://isni.org/isni/0000000108847319
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Bible / Old Testament / German / Versions
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Bible / Old Testament / Versions, Jewish
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Bible / Old Testament / Translating / Germany
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Jews / Germany / History / 18th century
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Jews / Germany / History / 19th century
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Judaism / Germany / History / 18th century
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Judaism / Germany / History / 19th century
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Hirsch, Samson Raphael / 1808-1888
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Mendelssohn, Moses / 1729-1786
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Zunz, Leopold / 1794-1886
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Bible / Old Testament
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Jews
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Judaism
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Germany
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1700-1899
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History
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Mendelssohn, Moses 1729-1786
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Zunz, Leopold 1794-1886
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Hirsch, Samson Raphael 1808-1888
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Bibel Altes Testament
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Übersetzung
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Judentum
Abstract:
"Jewish texts and traditions. An expression of this was the remarkable turn to Bible translation. In the century and a half between Moses Mendelssohn's pioneering translation and the final one by Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig, German Jews produced sixteen different translations of at least the Pentateuch. Buber and Rosenzweig famously critiqued bourgeois German Judaism as a craven attempt to establish social respectability to facilitate Jews' entry into the middle class through a vapid, domesticated account of Judaism. Exploring Bible translations by Moses Mendelssohn, Leopold Zunz, and Samson Raphael Hirsch, I argue that each sought to ground a "reformation" of Judaism along bourgeois lines, which involved aligning Judaism with a Protestant concept of religion. They did so because they saw in bourgeois values the best means to serve God and the authentic actualization of Jewish tradition. Through their learned, creative Bible translations, Mendelssohn, Zunz, and Hirsch presented distinct visions of middle-class Judaism that affirmed Jewish nationhood while lighting the path to a purposeful, emotionally rich, spiritual life grounded in ethical responsibility"--
