"Better a scholar than a prophet" : studies on the creation of Jewish studies
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"Better a scholar than a prophet" : studies on the creation of Jewish studies
(Schriftenreihe wissenschaftlicher Abhandlungen des Leo Baeck Instituts, 81)
Mohr Siebeck, c2021
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Better a scholar than a prophet : studies on the creation of Jewish studies
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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.
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