Born in the battle for equality, integration, and regeneration in nineteenth-century Germany, the Wissenschaft des Judentums is a revolution of the mind that continues unabated wherever Jews live today. The present volume is a contextual study of its perilous origins and rapid development outside the framework of the German university, which forged the tools and perspectives, and dominated the field of historical scholarship at the time. In distinct but related essays Ismar Schorsch traces the lines by which the nascent field of judische Wissenschaft strove to uncover new archival sources, confront the application of critical scholarship on the Hebrew Bible, and expand its horizons to the mutual interaction between Judaism and Islam. Irrespective of these seminal achievements, Wissenschaft des Judentums failed to gain admission into the German university, leaving the political emancipation of German Jewry a plant without roots.
| ISBN: | 9783161592973 |
| Publication date: | 11th June 2021 |
| Author: | Ismar Schorsch |
| Publisher: | Mohr Siebeck |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 318 pages |
| Series: | Schriftenreihe Wissenschaftlicher Abhandlungen Des Leo Baeck Instituts |
| Genres: |
Social groups: religious groups and communities Theology History: theory and methods History of science Judaism |
Born in the battle for equality, integration, and regeneration in nineteenth-century Germany, the Wissenschaft des Judentums is a revolution of the mind that continues unabated wherever Jews live today. The present volume is a contextual study of its perilous origins and rapid development outside the framework of the German university, which forged the tools and perspectives, and dominated the field of historical scholarship at the time. In distinct but related essays Ismar Schorsch traces the lines by which the nascent field of judische Wissenschaft strove to uncover new archival sources, confront the application of critical scholarship on the Hebrew Bible, and expand its horizons to the mutual interaction between Judaism and Islam. Irrespective of these seminal achievements, Wissenschaft des Judentums failed to gain admission into the German university, leaving the political emancipation of German Jewry a plant without roots.
"Better a Scholar Than a Prophet" features in the following genres: Social groups: religious groups and communities, Theology, History: theory and methods, History of science, Judaism
"Better a Scholar Than a Prophet" is available in Hardback
"Better a Scholar Than a Prophet" was written by Ismar Schorsch and published by Mohr Siebeck
"Better a Scholar Than a Prophet" has 318 pages
Yes it is part of Schriftenreihe Wissenschaftlicher Abhandlungen Des Leo Baeck Instituts series
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