Foreword; 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
Summary
As Adolf Hitler strategised his way to power, he knew that it was necessary to gain the support of theology and the Church. This study looks at roots of theological anti-Semitism and how Jews and Judaism were constructed, positively and negatively, in the biblical interpretation of German Protestant theology
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 619-651) and indexes
