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Roots of Theological Anti-Semitism (Paperback): German Biblical Interpretation
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Roots of Theological Anti-Semitism (Paperback): German Biblical Interpretation and the Jews, from Herder and Semler to Kittel and Bultmann Hardcover - 2008

by Anders Gerdmar


From the publisher

Includes bibliographical references and index.

From the rear cover

As Adolf Hitler strategised his way to power, he knew that it was necessary to gain the support of theology and the Church. This study begins two hundred years earlier, however, looking at roots of theological anti-Semitism and how Jews and Judaism were constructed, positively and negatively, in the biblical interpretation of German Protestant theology. Following the two main streams of German theology, the salvation-historical and the Enlightenment-oriented traditions, it examines leading exegetes from the 1750s to the 1950s and explores how theology legitimises or delegitimises oppression of Jews, in part through still-prevailing paradigms. This is the first comprehensive analysis of its kind, and the result of the analysis of the interplay between biblical exegesis and attitudes to Jews and Judaism is a fascinating and often frightening portrait of theology as a servant of power.

Details

  • Title Roots of Theological Anti-Semitism (Paperback): German Biblical Interpretation and the Jews, from Herder and Semler to Kittel and Bultmann
  • Author Anders Gerdmar
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 696
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Brill
  • Date 2008
  • ISBN 9789004168510 / 9004168516
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
  • Dewey Decimal Code 261.260

About the author

Anders Gerdmar, Th. D. (2001) ) and Associate Professor in New Testament Exegesis, Uppsala University is researcher and author. His published works includes Rethinking the Judaism-Hellenism Dichotomy (Almqvist & Wiksell, 2001) and the methodological textbook Paths to the New Testament.