Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus
Title | Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus PDF eBook |
Author | Susannah Heschel |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 332 |
Release | 1998-04-11 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0226329593 |
Was Jesus the founder of Christianity or a teacher of Judaism? When 19th-century German religious reformer Abraham Geiger argued the latter, he began a debate that continues to this day. Here Susannah Heschel traces the genesis of Geiger's contention and examines the reaction to it within Christian theology. 3 photos.
Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus [book Review] by Susannah Heschel
Title | Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus [book Review] by Susannah Heschel PDF eBook |
Author | Björn Krondorfer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 3 |
Release | 2000 |
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Abraham Geiger's Liberal Judaism
Title | Abraham Geiger's Liberal Judaism PDF eBook |
Author | Ken Koltun-Fromm |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 2006-07-13 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780253111852 |
German rabbi, scholar, and theologian Abraham Geiger (1810--1874) is recognized as the principal leader of the Reform movement in German Judaism. In his new work, Ken Koltun-Fromm argues that for Geiger personal meaning in religion -- rather than rote ritual practice or acceptance of dogma -- was the key to religion's moral authority. In five chapters, the book explores issues central to Geiger's work that speak to contemporary Jewish practice -- historical memory, biblical interpretation, ritual and gender practices, rabbinic authority, and Jewish education. This is essential reading for scholars, rabbis, rabbinical students, and informed Jewish readers interested in Conservative and Reform Judaism. Published with the generous support of the Lucius N. Littauer Foundation.
Jewish Jesus Research and its Challenge to Christology Today
Title | Jewish Jesus Research and its Challenge to Christology Today PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Homolka |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2016-10-05 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9004331743 |
Historical Jesus research, Jewish or Christian, is marked by the search for origins and authenticity. The various Quests for the Historical Jesus contributed to a crisis of identity within Western Christianity. The result was a move “back to the Jewish roots!” For Jewish scholars it was a means to position Jewry within a dominantly Christian culture. As a consequence, Jews now feel more at ease to relate to Jesus as a Jew. For Walter Homolka the Christian challenge now is to formulate a new Christology: between a Christian exclusivism that denies the universality of God, and a pluralism that endangers the specificity of the Christian understanding of God and the uniqueness of religious traditions, including that of Christianity.
Judaism & Its History
Title | Judaism & Its History PDF eBook |
Author | Abraham Geiger |
Publisher | |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 1865 |
Genre | Judaism |
ISBN |
The Aryan Jesus
Title | The Aryan Jesus PDF eBook |
Author | Susannah Heschel |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 2010-10-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0691148058 |
Was Jesus a Nazi? During the Third Reich, German Protestant theologians, motivated by racism and tapping into traditional Christian anti-Semitism, redefined Jesus as an Aryan and Christianity as a religion at war with Judaism. In 1939, these theologians established the Institute for the Study and Eradication of Jewish Influence on German Religious Life. In The Aryan Jesus, Susannah Heschel shows that during the Third Reich, the Institute became the most important propaganda organ of German Protestantism, exerting a widespread influence and producing a nazified Christianity that placed anti-Semitism at its theological center. Based on years of archival research, The Aryan Jesus examines the membership and activities of this controversial theological organization. With headquarters in Eisenach, the Institute sponsored propaganda conferences throughout the Nazi Reich and published books defaming Judaism, including a dejudaized version of the New Testament and a catechism proclaiming Jesus as the savior of the Aryans. Institute members--professors of theology, bishops, and pastors--viewed their efforts as a vital support for Hitler's war against the Jews. Heschel looks in particular at Walter Grundmann, the Institute's director and a professor of the New Testament at the University of Jena. Grundmann and his colleagues formed a community of like-minded Nazi Christians who remained active and continued to support each other in Germany's postwar years. The Aryan Jesus raises vital questions about Christianity's recent past and the ambivalent place of Judaism in Christian thought.
From Rebel to Rabbi
Title | From Rebel to Rabbi PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew B. Hoffman |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780804753715 |
This book examines the ways modern Jewish thinkers, writers, and artists appropriated the figure of Jesus as part of the process of creating modern Jewish culture.