The First World War and the Mobilization of Biblical Scholarship

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Part I
INTRODUCTION

BIBLICAL SCHOLARSHIP AT WAR, 1914–1918 Andrew Mein

Part II
INDIVIDUALS AND INSTITUTIONS

MAINTAINING THE LIGHT OF TRUTH? THE MOBILIZATION OF UNIVERSITY ACADEMICS, 1914–1915 Tomás Irish

FOR CHRIST AND KAISER: CASPAR RENÉ GREGORY AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR Timothy J. Demy

BETWEEN PROPHETIC CRITIQUE AND RAISON D’ÉTAT: RUDOLF KITTEL ON GERMAN JEWS DURING THE GREAT WAR AND ON OLD TESTAMENT HEBREWS IN BIBLICAL WARS Lukas Bormann

WILLIAM SANDAY, MODERNISM AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR Mark D. Chapman

SOTS, SBL AND WWI: ANGLO-AMERICAN SCHOLARLY SOCIETIES AND THE GREAT WAR Matthew A. Collins

Part III
BIBLICAL TEXTS AND THEMES

THOU SHALT NOT KILL, UNLESS . . . : THE DECALOGUE IN A KAISERREICH AT WAR Paul Michael Kurtz

HOLY WAR AND THE GREAT WAR IN GERMAN PROTESTANT SCHOLARSHIP ON THE OLD TESTAMENT Nathan MacDonald

PSALMS, PATRIOTISM AND PROPAGANDA: A FAVOURITE BOOK IN WARTIME BIBLICAL SCHOLARSHIP Andrew Mein

ECSTASY VERSUS ETHICS: THE IMPACT OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR ON GERMAN BIBLICAL SCHOLARSHIP ON THE HEBREW PROPHETS Susannah Heschel

MARTYR: TITLE AND FIRST WORLD WAR CONTEXT Jan Willem van Henten

THE FIRST WORLD WAR, THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION AND THE FATE OF SOCIAL-SCIENTIFIC APPROACHES TO THE NEW TESTAMENT AND CHRISTIAN ORIGINS James Crossley

A DISCONNECTED DIALOGUE: ADOLF VON HARNACK, C. J. CADOUX AND THE BIBLICAL CASE FOR PEACE AT THE OUTBREAK OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR Hugh S. Pyper

Part IV
RESPONSE

THE GREAT WAR AND THE BIBLE: SOME REFLECTIONS Suzanne L. Marchand

References Index