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Lutheran preacher and theologian Andreas Osiander played a critical role in spreading the Lutheran Reformation in sixteenth-century Nuremberg. This is the first book to concentrate on his attitudes toward both Jews and Turks, and it does so within the dynamic interplay between his apocalyptic thought and lived reality in shaping Lutheran identity.

Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Illustrations
  • Chronology
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One. Kabbalistic Encounters: Osiander as a Christian Hebraist
  • Chapter Two. Jewish Mirrors I: Osiander and Lutheran Identity
  • Chapter Three. Jewish Mirrors II: Osiander and Lutheran Resistance
  • Chapter Four. Turkish Mirrors I: Osiander and Imperial Dreams
  • Chapter Five. Turkish Mirrors II: Osiander and Lutheran Reform
  • Chapter Six. Blood Libel: Osiander’s Defense of Jewish Toleration in Context
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix: English Translation of Andreas Osiander’s Blood Libel Treatise
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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      Publisher: LUP - University of Michigan Press
      Publication Date: 10/3/2022 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780472133208, 978-0472133208
      ISBN10: 0472133209
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Lutheran preacher and theologian Andreas Osiander played a critical role in spreading the Lutheran Reformation in sixteenth-century Nuremberg. This is the first book to concentrate on his attitudes toward both Jews and Turks, and it does so within the dynamic interplay between his apocalyptic thought and lived reality in shaping Lutheran identity.

      Table of Contents
      • Acknowledgments
      • List of Illustrations
      • Chronology
      • Introduction
      • Chapter One. Kabbalistic Encounters: Osiander as a Christian Hebraist
      • Chapter Two. Jewish Mirrors I: Osiander and Lutheran Identity
      • Chapter Three. Jewish Mirrors II: Osiander and Lutheran Resistance
      • Chapter Four. Turkish Mirrors I: Osiander and Imperial Dreams
      • Chapter Five. Turkish Mirrors II: Osiander and Lutheran Reform
      • Chapter Six. Blood Libel: Osiander’s Defense of Jewish Toleration in Context
      • Conclusion
      • Appendix: English Translation of Andreas Osiander’s Blood Libel Treatise
      • Bibliography
      • Index

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