Jews, antiquity, and the nineteenth-century imagination / edited by Hayim Lapin and Dale B. Martin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lapin, Hayim.

Martin, Dale B., 1954-

Series:

Studies and texts in Jewish history and culture ; 12.

Studies and texts in Jewish history and culture ; 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jesus Christ.

Judaism--Historiography--Congresses.

Judaism.

Learning and scholarship--History--19th century--Congresses.

Learning and scholarship.

Jesus Christ--Biography--History and criticism--Congresses.

Biography.

History.

Judaism--Historiography.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

vii, 157 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bethesda, MD : University Press of Maryland, 2003.

Contents:

Antiquitates Judaicae: Some Precursors of the Modern Study of Israelite Religion / Guy G. Stroumsa 17

W. M. L. De Wette and the Invention of Post-Exilic Judaism: Political Historiography and Christian Allegory in Nineteenth-Century German Biblical Scholarship / James Pasto 33

Fitting in or Sticking Out: Constructs of the Relationship of Jewish and Roman Law in the Nineteenth Century / Jay M. Harris 53

Quest for the Aryan Jesus: The Archaeology of Nazi Orientalist Theology / Susannah Heschel 65

Renan's Vie De Jesus: As Representation Of The Orient / Halvor Moxnes 85

Ancient Judaism Imagined Through the Lens of Early Christianity: The Work of James Rendel Harris, 1852-1941 / Kim Haines-Eitzen 109

Schechter's Zadokites: Ancient Jewish Authority in Nineteenth-Century Perspective / Maxine Grossman 123

Reading an "Oriental Book" American Protestants, the Bible, and the Jews 1883-1910 / Lawrence G. Charap 141.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1883053781

OCLC:

51818669