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  • A History of German Jewish Bible Translation

    by Abigail Gillman ...
    Between 1780 and 1937, Jews in Germany produced numerous new translations of the Hebrew Bible into German. Intended for Jews who were trilingual, reading Yiddish, Hebrew, and German, they were meant less for religious use than to promote educational and cultural goals. Not only did translations give Jews vernacular access to their scripture without Christian intervention, but they also helped ... Read more

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  • Exodus in the Jewish Experience

    Echoes and Reverberations

    by Pamela Barmash, W. David Nelson, Kalman P. Bland, Abigail E. Gillman, Reuven Hammer, Vivian B. Mann, Richard S. Sarason, Arieh Saposnik ...
    Exodus in the Jewish Experience: Echoes and Reverberations investigates how the Exodus has been, and continues to be, a crucial source of identity for both Jews and Judaism. It explores how the Exodus has functioned as the primary model from which Jews have created theological meaning and historical self-understanding. It probes how and why the Exodus has continued to be vital to Jews throughout ... Read more

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  • Demonizing the Jews

    Luther and the Protestant Church in Nazi Germany

    by Christopher J. Probst ...
    "An insightful analysis of the ways in which Protestant reformer Martin Luther's anti-Jewish writings were used by German Protestants during the Third Reich." — Contemporary Church History QuarterlyThe acquiescence of the German Protestant churches in Nazi oppression and murder of Jews is well documented. In this book, Christopher J. Probst demonstrates that a significant number of German ... Read more

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  • The Letters of Martin Buber

    by Martin Buber ...
    Edited by Profesor Nahum N. Glatzer and Paul Mendes-Flohr“No matter how brilliant it may be, the human intellect that wishes to keep to a plane above the events of the day is not really alive,” wrote Martin Buber in 1932. The correspondence of Martin Buber reveals a personality passionately involved in all the cultural and political events of his day.Drawn from the three-volume German edition of ... Read more

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  • The Aryan Jesus

    Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany

    by Professor Susannah Heschel ...
    Was Jesus a Nazi? During the Third Reich, German Protestant theologians, motivated by racism and tapping into traditional Christian anti-Semitism, redefined Jesus as an Aryan and Christianity as a religion at war with Judaism. In 1939, these theologians established the Institute for the Study and Eradication of Jewish Influence on German Religious Life. In The Aryan Jesus, Susannah Heschel shows ... Read more

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  • Moses Mendelssohn and the Religious Enlightenment

    by David Sorkin ...
    Series Book 8 - Jewish Thinkers
    Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) was the premier Jewish thinker of his day and one of the best-known figures of the German Enlightenment, earning the sobriquet 'the Socrates of Berlin'. He was thoroughly involved in the central issue of Enlightenment religious thinking: the inevitable conflict between reason and revelation in an age contending with individual rights and religious toleration. He did ... Read more

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  • How the Wise Men Got to Chelm

    The Life and Times of a Yiddish Folk Tradition

    by Ruth von Bernuth ...
    Series Book 12 - Families, Law, and Society
    How the Wise Men Got to Chelm is the first in-depth study of Chelm literature and its relationship to its literary precursors.When God created the world, so it is said, he sent out an angel with a bag of foolish souls with instructions to distribute them equally all over the world—one fool per town. But the angel's bag broke and all the souls spilled out onto the same spot. They built a settlement ... Read more

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  • The First Modern Jew

    Spinoza and the History of an Image

    by Daniel B. Schwartz ...
    Pioneering biblical critic, theorist of democracy, and legendary conflater of God and nature, Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) was excommunicated by the Sephardic Jews of Amsterdam in 1656 for his "horrible heresies" and "monstrous deeds." Yet, over the past three centuries, Spinoza's rupture with traditional Jewish beliefs and practices has elevated him to a prominent place in ... Read more

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  • Karl Barth

    A Life in Conflict

    by Christiane Tietz ...
    Translated by Dr Victoria J. Barnett ...
    From the beginning of his career, Swiss theologian Karl Barth (1886-1969) was often in conflict with the spirit of his times. While during the First World War German poets and philosophers became intoxicated by the experience of community and transcendence, Barth fought against all attempts to locate the divine in culture or individual sentiment. This freed him for a deep worldly engagement: he ... Read more

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  • Preaching in Hitler's Shadow

    Sermons of Resistance in the Third Reich

    Edited by Dean G. Stroud ...
    What did German preachers opposed to Hitler say in their Sunday sermons? When the truth of Christ could cost a pastor his life, what words encouraged and challenged him and his congregation? This book answers those questions.Preaching in Hitler's Shadow begins with a fascinating look at Christian life inside the Third Reich, giving readers a real sense of the danger that pastors faced every time ... Read more

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  • A Brief History of Old Testament Criticism

    From Benedict Spinoza to Brevard Childs

    by Mark S. Gignilliat ...
    Mark Gignilliat discusses critical theologians and their theories of Old Testament interpretation in this concise overview, providing a working knowledge of the historical foundation of contemporary discussions on Old Testament interpretation.Old Testament interpretation developed as theologians and scholars proposed critical theories over time. These figures contributed to a large, developing ... Read more

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  • Haskalah and Beyond

    The Reception of the Hebrew Enlightenment and the Emergence of Haskalah Judaism

    by Moshe Pelli ...
    Haskalah and Beyond deals with the Hebrew Haskalah (Enlightenment) - the literary, cultural, and social movement in the 18th and 19th centuries in Europe.It represents the emergence of modernism and perhaps the budding of some aspects of secularism in Jewish society, following the efforts of the Hebrew and Jewish enlighteners to introduce changes into Jewish culture and Jewish life, and to ... Read more

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