Table of Contents

CONTENTS
Introduction: Roots of Theological Anti-Semitism
PART I: ENLIGHTENMENT EXEGESIS AND THE JEWS
Introduction
The Jews in Enlightenment Exegesis From Deism to de Wette
Johann Salomo Semler: Dejudaising Christianity
Johann Gottfried Herder: The Volk Concept and the Jews
F. D. E. Schleiermacher: Enlightenment Religion and Judaism
W. M. L. de Wette: Judaism as Degenerated Hebraism
The Jews in Enlightenment Exegesis from Baur to Ritschl
Ferdinand Christian Baur: Judaism as an Historical Antipode of Christianity
David Friedrich Strauss: Judaism in Continuity and Discontinuity with Christianity
Albrecht Ritschl: Kulturprotestantismus and the Jews
The History of Religions School and the Jews—An Historical Turn?
PART II: SALVATION-HISTORICAL EXEGESIS AND THE JEWS: FROM THOLUCK TO SCHLATTER
Introduction
Philo-Semitism
Friedrich August Tholuck: “Salvation Comes from the Jews”
Johann Tobias Beck: Organic Continuity Between Judaism and Christianity
Franz Delitzsch: Pioneering Scholarship in Judaism
Hermann Leberecht Strack: Missions to and Defence of Jews
Adolf Schlatter and Judaism: Great Erudition and Fierce Opposition
PART III: THE FORM CRITICS AND THE JEWS
Introduction
Karl Ludwig Schmidt: A Chosen People and a ‘Jewish Problem’
Martin Dibelius: Ambivalence to Jews and Judaism
Rudolf Bultmann: Liberal and Anti-Jewish
PART IV: NAZI EXEGESIS AND THE JEWS
Introduction
Gerhard Kittel: Jewish Unheil Theologically Founded
Walter Grundmann: Towards a Non-Jewish Jesus
Concluding Analysis

About the Author

Anders Gerdmar, Th. D. (2001) in New Testament Exegesis, Uppsala University is researcher, senior lecturer and author. His publishing includes Rethinking the Judaism-Hellenism Dichotomy (Almqvist & Wiksell, 2001) and the methodological textbook Paths to the New Testament.