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Book SynopsisPublished in Open Access with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation Historical criticism of the Bible emerged in the context of protestant theology and is confronted in every aspect of its study with otherness: the Jewish people and their writings. However, despite some important exceptions, there has been little sustained reflection on the ways in which scholarship has engaged, and continues to engage, its most significant Other. This volume offers reflections on anti-Semitism, philo-Semitism and anti-Judaism in biblical scholarship from the 19th century to the present. The essays in this volume reflect on the past and prepare a pathway for future scholarship that is mindful of its susceptibility to violence and hatred.
Table of ContentsPreface List of Contributors 1 Karl Georg Kuhn (1906–1976) – Two Academic Careers in Germany Hermann Lichtenberger 2 Judaism as Religious Cosmopolitanism: Apologetics and Appropriation in the Jüdisches Lexikon (1927–1930) Irene Zwiep 3 Anti-Semitism and Early Scholarship on Ancient Anti-Semitism René Bloch 4 The Rise and Fall of the Notion of “Spätjudentum” in Christian Biblical Scholarship Konrad Schmid 5 “Circumcision is Nothing”: A Non-Reformation Reading of the Letters of Paul Paula Fredriksen 6 Anti-Judaism and Philo-Judaism in Pauline Studies, Then and Now Matthew V. Novenson 7 The Sibylline Oracles: A Case Study in Ancient and Modern Anti-Judaism Olivia Stewart Lester 8 Anti-Judaism, Philo-Semitism, and Protestant New Testament Studies: Perspectives and Questions Jörg Frey 9 American Biblical Scholarship and the Post-War Battle against Anti-Semitism Steven Weitzman 10 Jewish and Christian Approaches to Biblical Theology John Barton Index
