Salvation is from the Jews : The Image of Jews and Judaism in Biblical Interpretation, from Anti-Jewish Exegesis to Eliminationist Antisemitism /

Salvation is from the Jews : The Image of Jews and Judaism in Biblical Interpretation, from Anti-Jewish Exegesis to Eliminationist Antisemitism /

"Unheil," curse, disaster: according to German scholar Gerhard Kittel, this is the Jewish destiny attested to in scripture. Such interpretaions of biblical texts provided Adolf Hitler with the theological legitimatization necessary to realizing his "final solution." But theologic...

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Main Author: Gerdmar, Anders (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2024.

Series: Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
Studies in Theology and Religion ; 32.

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Christianity and politics > Germany > History > 20th century.
Christianity > Germany > History > 19th century.
Judaism (Christian theology) > History of doctrines.

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Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • List of Illustration
  • 1 Introduction: Exegesis as Legitimation of Elimination
  •  On Theology, the Holocaust, and the Ethics of Interpretation
  •  1 Exegetical Legitimation of Replacement Theology
  •  2 Methodological Remarks and My Vantage Point
  •  3 Overview of the Chapters
  •  4 Concluding Remarks
  • 2 "Salvation Comes from the Jews"
  •  Ideology and Exegesis in the Interpretation of John 4.22b
  •  1 The Ideological Tendency in the Exegetes' Reception
  •  2 The Verse in the Overall Theology of the Fourth Gospel
  •  3 Summary
  • 3 Baur and the Creation of the Judaism-Hellenism Dichotomy
  •  1 Baur and the Creation of the Judaism-Hellenism Dichotomy
  •  2 Revisiting the Textual Base
  •  3 The Jerusalem Church through Tübingen Spectacles
  •  4 Baurian Hermeneutics and the Emergence of the Judaism-Hellenism Dichotomy
  • 4 Beyond Jewish and Hellenistic
  •  The Historical Background of Early Christianity
  •  1 The Judaism-Hellenism Dichotomy: A Background
  •  2 Some Areas in New Testament Exegesis Which Have Been Affected by the Judaism-Hellenism Dichotomy
  •  3 Beyond Two ‘Church Theologies'
  •  4 Conclusion: Early Christianity beyond the Judaism-Hellenism Dichotomy or "When Christians Were Jews"
  • 5 Christology beyond the Judaism/Hellenism Dichotomy
  •  A Few Remarks on the History of Christological Scholarship
  •  1 From the Liberal Picture of Jesus to the School of the History of Religions
  •  2 Post-Holocaust Development
  •  3 Conclusions
  • 6 Adolf Schlatter and die Ordnungen
  •  Schlatter between Christian and völkisch Ideology during 1933-1934
  •  1 Adolf Schlatter: A Background
  •  2 Schlatter's Dialogue with völkisch Ideology
  •  3 Conclusion
  • 7 A Germanic Jesus on Swedish Soil
  •  Swedish-German Research in a Racist Key, 1941-1945
  •  1 Germanic and Nordic in German Ideology
  •  2 Arbeitsgemeinschaft Germanentum und Christentum: A Germanic-Nordic Cooperation
  •  3 A Germanic Jesus on Swedish Theological Soil
  •  4 Conclusion: Germanic Inroads into Swedish Theology
  • 8 Germanentum as Overarching Ideology
  •  Cooperation between German and Nordic Exegetes during the Third Reich
  •  1 Old Norse Culture, National Socialism, and Theology in Swedish Academic Salons
  •  2 The Bridge to Thuringia, the Brown Heartland of Deutsche Christen
  • 9 "Luther's Struggle against the Jews"
  •  A völkisch Reception of Luther's View of the Jews
  •  1 Religious Legitimation of Antisemitism
  •  2 Luther and Race
  • 10 The Abused Paul and the Jews
  •  1 Reception Analysis and Reception Ethics
  •  2 Conclusion
  • 11 The Nazi Bible. "Another Jesus"
  •  The Gospels in the National Socialist Bible, "Die Botschaft Gottes": Theological Legitimation of Antisemitism
  •  1 The Making of Die Botschaft Gottes
  •  2 Some Observations on Die Botschaft Gottes and Its Overall Message
  •  3 The Gospel of John in Die Botschaft Gottes
  •  4 Concluding Reflections: Theological Legitimation of Antisemitism
  • 12 Concluding Remarks
  •  Exegesis and Legitimizing the Elimination of Jews and Judaism
  •  1 Exegetes Unaware of Anti-Jewish and Antisemitic Attitudes
  •  2 Historiography as Legitimator
  •  3 A Jewish Jesusâ€"before and after the Holocaust
  •  4 A Dark Ecumenism Legitimating Antisemitism
  •  5 Final Reflection: Elimination of "Dangerous" Texts
  •  6 Has Modern Christianity Been De-Judaized?
  •  7 The Final Question
  • Index.