Moses among the Moderns : German Constructions of Biblical Law, 1750-1930 (Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions)

Kurtz, Paul Michael (EDT)

Brill（2024/05発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 266 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004691766
• DDC分類 296.18094309

Full Description

A historic lawgiver and founder of an ancient nation, Moses was powerful and pivotal in the imagination of modern Germany. The late eighteenth to early twentieth century was an intense period of religious controversy, especially on 'the Jewish question', with new models for understanding faith, science, and the past. This volume focuses on the identification of Jewish law, both Pentateuch and Talmud, with the figure of Moses to trace the fascinations and anxieties of the Bible in modern culture. Through diverse perspectives, it examines the representations and appropriations of Moses as a father of Judaism and framer of European civilization.

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

List of Contributors

 Introduction Moses in Modernity

  Paul Michael Kurtz

Part 1

Representations of the Past

1 'The Early Speech of Nations' Biblical Poetry and the Emergence of Germanic Myth

  Ofri Ilany

2 The Rise of Jewish Mythology Biblical Exegesis and the Scientific Study of Myth

  Carlotta Santini

3 Moses or Hammurabi? Law, Morality & Modernity in Ancient Near Eastern Studies

  Felix Wiedemann

Part 2

Transformations in the Present

4 Gesetz als Gegensatz The Modern Halachic Language Game

  Irene Zwiep

5 The Truth Shall Abide Samson Raphael Hirsch and Abraham Geiger on the Binding Nature of Torah

  Judith Frishman

6 'A Law for Jews and Not for Christians'? Mosaic Law and the Deceased Wife's Sister Debate in Victorian Britain

  Michael Ledger-Lomas

7 Moses and the Left Traces of the Torah in Modern Jewish Anarchist Thought

  Carolin Kosuch

  Afterword Moses and the Modern Germans: the Lawgiver in a Philhellenic Age

  Suzanne Marchand

Bibliography

Index of Persons