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Index

Contents Foreword Introduction: Roots of Theological Anti-Semitism

Defining Anti-Semitism The Analysis Who are the Exegetes? On the Choice and Delimitation of Materials Research Traditions versus the Scholars' Own Contextual Theology What This Study Does and Does Not Do

PART I ENLIGHTENMENT EXEGESIS AND THE JEWS Introduction The Jews in Enlightenment Exegesis From Deism to de Wette

An English Prelude: Enlightened Prejudice against the Jews The Moral Philosopher: Judaism as an 'Egyptianiz'd' Degeneration Christian is Good, Jewish is Evil Conclusion

Johann Salomo Semler: Dejudaising Christianity

Semler's View on the Jews and Judaism Idealistic Historiography The Moral Element Universalism and Particularism View of the Old Testament Semler on Tolerance Conclusion

Johann Gottfried Herder: The Volk Concept and the Jews

Herder on the Jews Degeneration Hypothesis Herder and the Emancipation of the Jews The Volk Concept and the Jews Conclusion

F. D. E. Schleiermacher: Enlightenment Religion and Judaism

Schleiermacher and Judaism Schleiermacher and the Old Testament Schleiermacher on the Concrete Situation of the Jews The Influence of Schleiermacher Conclusion

W. M. L. de Wette: Judaism as Degenerated Hebraism

The Picture of the Jews: Hebraismus, Judenthum and Christianity View of the Old Testament Early Christianity and Jesus de Wette and Contemporary Judaism Conclusion

The Jews in Enlightenment Exegesis from Baur to Ritschl Ferdinand Christian Baur: Judaism as an Historical Antipode of Christianity

A Dialectical Movement from Paganism and Judaism to Early Christianity From the Jerusalem Church to World Religion Paul, the Apostle of Jesus Christ Dialectical Opposition in Corinth The Letter to the Romans: Written to "Cut Jewish Particularism at its Root" Jesus and Judaism Judaism: A Pawn in the Game Contextualising Baur's Philosophical Theology Conclusion

David Friedrich Strauss: Judaism in Continuity and Discontinuity with Christianity

Reconstructing Jewish Past Continuity and Discontinuity Dialectics and the Emergence of Christianity Strauss on the Jews Jewish-Christian Past and German Present Conclusion

Albrecht Ritschl: Kulturprotestantismus and the Jews

Ritschl on the Jews and Judaism Jewish Christianity Conclusion

The History of Religions School and the Jews— An Historical Turn?

Bousset and Weiss on the Jews

The Preaching of Jesus: Two Opposing Views

Wilhelm Bousset: The Religion of Judaism in the New Testament Age

Bousset's Overarching Historiography of Religions Late Jewish Degeneration Palestinian versus Diaspora Judaism Controversial Use of Intertestamental Sources Hugo Gressmann, Die Religion des Judentums, and the Berlin Institutum Judaicum Gressmann's Revision of Bousset's Religion der Judentum

Johannes Weiss: The Jews in Das Urchristentum Contextualising the History of Religions School and the Jews

Bousset's Philosophical Background

Conclusion

PART II SALVATION-HISTORICAL EXEGESIS AND THE JEWS: FROM THOLUCK TO SCHLATTER Introduction

Philo-Semitism

Friedrich August Tholuck: "Salvation Comes from the Jews"

Conclusion

Johann Tobias Beck: Organic Continuity Between Judaism and Christianity

An Organic View Romans and Judaism Abraham the Common Root Romans 9–11 Conclusion

Franz Delitzsch: Pioneering Scholarship in Judaism

Organic Salvation History and the Jews Hebrew Philology and Literary Criticism Describing the Jewish Background of Jesus Opposing Anti-Semitism Confronting Jews and Judaism Conclusion

Hermann Leberecht Strack: Missions to and Defence of Jews

Conclusion Excursus: Defenders and Detractors? Alan Levenson on Strack and Delitzsch

Adolf Schlatter and Judaism: Great Erudition and Fierce Opposition

The Jews in Schlatter's Main Works

Faith in the New Testament A Commentary on Romans Schlatter's Works on Jewish History and Topography Schlatter on Jews and Judaism in Contemporary Germany

Schlatter and the Jews during National Socialism

Schlatter's General View on National Socialism Schlatter and the "Bethel Confession" Schlatter's Dialogue with Völkisch Ideology The Righteousness of God: Commentary on Romans Will the Jew Prevail over Us?

Conclusion

PART III THE FORM CRITICS AND THE JEWS Introduction Karl Ludwig Schmidt: A Chosen People and a 'Jewish Problem'

Schmidt on New Testament Judaism Dialogue with Martin Buber on the Church, State, People and Judaism, 1933 The Jewish Problem in the Light of Romans 9–11 Conclusion

Martin Dibelius: Ambivalence to Jews and Judaism

The Jews in Dibelius's Exegetical Production Jesus—Dibelius's Bestseller Wozu Theologie? (Why Theology?) Dibelius on Judaism and Christianity after National Socialism Selbstbesinnung des Deutschen (Self-Refl ection of the German) Conclusion

Rudolf Bultmann: Liberal and Anti-Jewish

Bultmann's Scholarly Background Bultmann and the Judaism of Antiquity

The Jesus Book Bultmann on the Law in Judaism The Commentary on John's Gospel and the Jews

Bultmann, Politics and the Jews Bultmann and Heidegger Conclusion

PART IV NAZI EXEGESIS AND THE JEWS Introduction Gerhard Kittel: Jewish Unheil Theologically Founded

From the Lutheran Professor's Home to Service under National Socialism Kittel, New Testament Studies and Judaism 1913–1932

Jesus and the Rabbis Kittels Main Monograph: Die Probleme des Palästinischen Spätjudentums Was Jesus an Aryan? Positive Evaluation of Judaism at its Peak: Die Religionsgeschichte und das Urchristentum Kittel and the Jews during National Socialism Kittel and the National Socialist Party Kittel's Production During National Socialism Conservative Standpoints and Criticism of Popular Anti-Semitic Legends Kittel's Work on Judaism in TDNT Kittel's Race-Historical Works at Forschungsabteilung Judenfrage

The Emergence of Judaism as the Emergence of the 'Jewish Problem'

Kittel's Last Speeches Kittel's Defence Evaluated The Scholarly Evaluation of Kittel

Conclusion

Walter Grundmann: Towards a Non-Jewish Jesus

The Eisenach Institute Grundmann's Overall Theology and Ideology Grundmann 1933–1934: Völkisch Renewal of Lutheran Theology Grundmann 1938: Germanentum and Christianity against the Jewish Myth Dejudaisation as a Task of German Theology and Church Grundmann's Exegetical Work and the Jews, 1938–1945

On the Jews in John: "The Struggle Against the Jews is Everywhere" The Jews and the Sermon on the Mount Dichotomising Judaism and Hellenism as Ideological Strategy Grundmann's Magnum Opus: Jesus der Galiläer und das Judentum

Conclusion

Concluding Analysis

The Description of Jews and Judaism in New Testament Exegesis

The Characterisation of Jews and Judaism Constructing Jewish Past Christianity and Judaism: Connected or Disconnected?

The 'Jew' in the Symbolic World Exegesis and Legitimation of Anti-Semitism

Anti-Judaism as Praeparatio Antisemitica Legitimation and Delegitimation of the Social Oppression of Jews

Exegesis in Cultural-Political Context Exegesis after Auschwitz

Archive Materials Abbreviations Bibliography Name Index Subject Index New Testament Texts

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