Jews, Judaism, and the Reformation in Sixteenth-Century Germany

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-90-04-14947-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 37, 576 Seiten, Format (B × H): 169 mm x 253 mm, Gewicht: 1020 g

Reihe: Studies in Central European Histories

This book represents a multi-disciplinary approach to the problem of the Jews and the German Reformation. The contributions come from both senior and emerging scholars, from North America, Israel, and Europe, to ensure a breadth in perspective. The essays in this volume are arranged under four broad headings: 1. The Road to the Reformation (late medieval theology and the humanists and the Jews), 2. The Reformers and the Jews (essays on Luther, Melanchthon, Bucer, Zwingli, Calvin, Osiander, the Catholic Reformers, and the Radical Reformers), 3. Representations of Jews and Judaism (the portrayal of Judaism as a religion, images of the Jews in the visual arts, and in sixteenth-century German literature), and 4. Jewish Responses to the Reformation.

Contributors include: Dean Phillip Bell, Jay Berkovitz, Robert Bireley, Stephen G. Burnett, Elisheva Carlebach, Achim Detmers, Yaacov Deutsch, Maria Diemling, Michael Driedger, R. Gerald Hobbs, Joy Kammerling, Thomas Kaufmann, Hans-Martin Kirn, Christopher Ocker, Erika Rummel, Petra Schöner, Timothy J. Wengert, and Edith Wenzel.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bell, Dean Phillip

Burnett, Stephen G.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums: Moderne & Gegenwart
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums außerhalb Israels/Palästinas
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte des Judentums (Diaspora)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and Shortened Titles
Contributors

Introduction, Dean Phillip Bell & Stephen G. Burnett

PART I. ROAD TO REFORMATION
1. Humanists, Jews, and Judaism, Erika Rummel
2. German Theologians and the Jews in the Fifteenth Century, Christopher Ocker

PART II. REFORMERS AND THE JEWS
3. Luther and the Jews, Thomas Kaufmann
4. Philip Melanchthon and the Jews: A Reappraisal, Timothy J. Wengert
5. Bucer, the Jews, and Judaism, R. Gerald Hobbs
6. Ulrich Zwingli, the Jews, and Judaism, Hans-Martin Kirn
7. Calvin, the Jews, and Judaism, Achim Detmers
8. Andreas Osiander, the Jews, and Judaism, Joy Kammerling
9. The Catholic Reform, Jews, and Judaism in Sixteenth-Century Germany, Robert Bireley
10. The Intensification of Religious Commitment: Jews, Anabaptists, Radical Reform, and Confessionalization, Michael Driedger

PART III. REPRESENTATIONS OF JEWS AND JUDAISM
11. Anthonius Margaritha on the “Whole Jewish Faith:” A Sixteenth-Century Convert from Judaism and his Depiction of the Jewish Religion, Maria Diemling
12. Von der Juden Ceremonien: Representations of Jews in Sixteenth-Century Germany, Yaacov Deutsch
13. Visual Representations of Jews and Judaism in Sixteenth-Century Germany, Petra Schöner
14. The Representation of Jews and Judaism in Sixteenth-Century German Literature, Edith Wenzel

PART IV. JEWS, JUDAISM, AND JEWISH RESPONSES TO THE REFORMATION
15. Jewish Settlement, Politics, and the Reformation, Dean Phillip Bell
16. Jewish Responses to Christianity in Reformation Germany, Elisheva Carlebach
17. Jewish Law and Ritual in Early Modern Germany, Jay Berkovitz
18. German Jewish Printing in the Reformation Era (1530–1633), Stephen G. Burnett

Select Bibliography
Index of Subjects
Index of Persons
Index of Biblical Passages Cited

Über Autor(innen)

Dean Philip Bell, Ph.D. (1995), University of California, Berkeley, is Dean/CAO of the Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies in Chicago. His research focuses on late medieval and early modern Germany and he is author of Sacred Communities: Jewish and Christian Identities in Fifteenth-Century Germany (Brill, 2001).

Stephen G. Burnett, Ph.D. (1990), University of Wisconsin-Madison, is Associate Professor of Classics and Religious Studies, and of History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the author of From Christian Hebraism to Jewish Studies: Johannes Buxtorf (1564-1629) and Hebrew Learning in the Seventeenth-Century (Brill, 1996), and numerous articles on Christian Hebraism and Jewish printing in the early modern period.