Challenging Colonial Discourse: Jewish Studies And Protestant Theology In Wilhelmine GermanyBRILL, 2005 - 577 pages 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. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Political and Social Situation | 41 |
The Assimilation Crisis and Tendencies toward | 58 |
and Jewish Renaissance | 66 |
Zionist Movement | 72 |
of Late Judaism | 190 |
God and Piety of Judaism | 202 |
The Jewish Perception of Protestant | 217 |
of German Universities | 360 |
364 | 388 |
112 | 394 |
The Discussion about a Jewish Theology Department | 398 |
130 | 401 |
a Chair for Jewish Studies in Prussia 1915 | 410 |
Jewish Studies | 418 |
Reorientation of Jewish Studies in Light of | 420 |
YHVH a Jewish God? The Dispute over | 248 |
Ambivalent Experiences with Protestant Biblical | 278 |
The Legitimacy of Judaisms Continuation | 289 |
Pluralistic Society 1911 | 300 |
Religion of the Future The Claim of Modernity | 307 |
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Abraham Geiger academic anti anti-Jewish anti-Semitism assimilation Baeck belief Berlin Biblical criticism Bousset century Christian theologians claim contemporary context controversy cultural Dalman debate defense Delitzsch demanded dialogue discourse Elbogen emancipation emphasized Eschelbacher especially ethical Fiebig Franz Delitzsch Fritsch Güdemann H. L. Strack Harnack Hebrew Bible Hoffmann image of Judaism integration intellectual interpretation Ismar Elbogen Israel Israelite Jacob Jesus Jewish apologetics Jewish community Jewish history Jewish identity Jewish religion Jewish scholars Jewish Studies Jewish tradition Jews Juden judgment Jüdische Kittel LBIYB lectures Lehranstalt Liberal Jewish Liberal Judaism Liberal Protestantism MGWJ Mission modern monotheism moral non-Jewish non-Jews Old Testament Orthodox Paucker Perles Pharisaic polemic political position prophetic Protestant theology question quotation rabbinic literature relationship religious historical represented scholarly Schorsch self-understanding Seminary Semitic Shulkhan Arukh significance social Talmud tion Torah trends understanding Wiener Wilhelmine period Wissenschaft des Judentums Wohlgemuth YHVH Zionist