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Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus / Susannah Heschel.
Library at the Katz Center - Stacks BM755.G4 H47 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heschel, Susannah.
- Series:
- Chicago studies in the history of Judaism
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Geiger, Abraham, 1810-1874.
- Geiger, Abraham.
- Jesus Christ--Jewish interpretations.
- Jesus Christ.
- Jewish interpretations.
- Jewish interpretations of Jesus Christ.
- Rabbis--Germany--Biography.
- Rabbis.
- Germany.
- Jewish scholars--Germany--Biography.
- Jewish scholars.
- Geiger Abraham--Neues Testament--Exegese.
- Multi-faith.
- Local Subjects:
- Multi-faith.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1998.
- Language Note:
- English.
- Summary:
- Discusses the career and works of the 19th-century German Jewish reformer and scholar of religion. His treatment of the relationship between the Jesus of the New Testament and early Judaism challenged many antisemitic assumptions and conclusions of contemporary and subsequent Christian scholars, including liberal Protestant theologians. Geiger saw Jesus as a Pharisaic Jew, but this view totally destabilized Christian perspectives. Geiger was the first Jew to be thoroughly versed in Christian scholarship and to be armed with an array of rabbinic textual evidence unknown to his Christian counterparts. Yet as much as Geiger railed against Christian anti-Judaism, his own anti-Christian attitudes remined equally tenacious. Christian reactions to his writings frequently intensified the negative depiction of Judaism, particularly of the Pharisees, and insisted upon the opposition between Jesus and Judaism. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism).
- Contents:
- Introduction : reversing the gaze
- The creation of a historical theologian
- Judaism, Christianity, and Islam : prelude of revisionist configurations
- Reconceiving early Judaism
- D.F. Strauss, the Tübingen school, and Albrecht Ritschl
- The Jewish Jesus and the Protestant flight from the historical Jesus
- From Jesus to Christianity : Geiger on the postapostolic era
- Fixing the theological gaze : the reception of Geiger's work.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-299) and index.
- National Jewish Book Awards - Jewish-Christian Relations, Winner, 1998
- ISBN:
- 0226329585
- 9780226329581
- 0226329593
- 9780226329598
- OCLC:
- 37282282
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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