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 jüdische 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: | JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 328 pages |
| Series: | Schriftenreihe wissenschaftlicher Abhandlungen des Leo Baeck Instituts |
| Genres: |
Social groups: religious groups and communities Social groups: religious groups and communities History: theory and methods History of science Judaism Theology |