The First World War and the Mobilization of Biblical Scholarship by Mein, Andrew -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Series Information Title Page Contents Acknowledgements Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Part I Introduction

Part II Individuals and Institutions

Introduction Context Rupture The War of Manifestos The Development of the Cultural War Conclusion

Chapter 3 For Christ and Kaiser: Caspar René Gregory and the First World War

Introduction Education and Enlistment Intermittent Service and Teaching The Prospect of War with the United States Final Days and Death Conclusion

Introduction: Rudolf Kittel as a Scholar Kittel’s Speeches and Writings on the Great War

Analysis

Preconditions National Truce Holy War The Inferiority of the Old Testament The God of Justice

Chapter 5 William Sanday, Modernism and the First World War

German Liberalism and Truth William Sanday and German Theology Sanday through the Course of the War Sanday’s Writings during the War Post-War Relations

Chapter 6 SOTS, SBL and WWI: Anglo-American Scholarly Societies and the Great War

Introduction SOTS and the First World War (1917–1930) SBL and the First World War (1914–1930) SOTS, SBL and the Second World War (1938–1950) Conclusions

Part III Biblical Texts and Themes

Introduction The Ten Commandments and the Kaiserreich To Kill or Not to Kill Compatriot Combatants Conclusion

Introduction The Holy Call of German Old Testament Scholarship

The Holy War of German Old Testament Scholarship Conclusion

Introduction The Psalms and the Nation The Rediscovery of the Enemy A Curse Too Far? A Psalm Too Jewish? Concluding Reflections

Introduction The Outbreak of War The Prophets as Ecstatics Was the Prophetic Message National or Universal? Troeltsch versus Cohen After the War Conclusion

Chapter 11 Martyr: Title and First World War Context

Introduction The Debate Concerning the Title ‘Martyr’

Karl Holl Peter Corssen Gustav Krüger

Contextualizing the Debate Conclusion

Introduction Social-Historical and Social-Scientific Scholarship of the New Testament Why did Social-Scientific Criticism Wither after the First World War? The Spectre of Communism Atheism and Christianity Concluding Remarks and Thinking Forward

Introduction C. J. Cadoux (1883–1947) Adolf von Harnack (1851–1930) Harnack and Cadoux

Part IV Response

Bibliography Name Index References Index Copyright Page