"Better a Scholar than a Prophet": Studies on the Creation of Jewish Studies
Cover -- Title -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Part I: Introduction -- Identity-Formations in Conflict: The Emergence of Jewish Studies in Post-Napoleonic Germany -- Part II: Wissenschaft Matters -- 1. Catalogues and Critical Scholarship: The Fate of Jewish Collections in Nineteenth-Century Germa...
| Summary: | Cover -- Title -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Part I: Introduction -- Identity-Formations in Conflict: The Emergence of Jewish Studies in Post-Napoleonic Germany -- Part II: Wissenschaft Matters -- 1. Catalogues and Critical Scholarship: The Fate of Jewish Collections in Nineteenth-Century Germany -- 2. Wives and Wissenschaft: The Domestic Seedbed of Critical Scholarship -- 3. Moritz Steinschneider on the Future of Judaism after Emancipation -- 4. Schechter's Indebtedness to Zunz -- 5. Schechter's Seminary: Polarities in Balance -- 6. Scholem on Zunz: An Egregious Misreading -- 7. Missing in Translation: The Fate of the Talmud in the Struggle for Equality and Integration in Germany -- 8. Unity amid Disunity: The Emergence of the German-Jewish Einheitsgemeinde -- Part III: The Hebrew Bible -- 9. Leopold Zunz on the Hebrew Bible -- 10. In the Shadow of Wellhausen: Heinrich Graetz as a Biblical Critic -- 11. Coming to Terms with Biblical Criticism -- Part IV: Orientalism -- 12. Converging Cognates: The Intersection of Jewish and Islamic Studies in Nineteenth Century Germany -- 13. Moritz Steinschneider: The Vision Beyond the Books -- 14. Beyond the Classroom: The Enduring Relationship between Heinrich L. Fleischer and Ignaz Goldziher -- List of First Publications -- Index of Modern Authors -- Index of Subjects. |
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| ISBN: | 3161592980 |