RT Article
T1 Leopold Zunz on the Hebrew Bible
JF The Jewish quarterly review
VO 102
IS 3
SP 431
OP 454
A1 Schorsch, Ismar
LA English
PB Penn Press
YR 2012
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/180209699X
AB Leopold Zunz brought his scholarly career to a close in the early 1870s with an unapologetic, wide-ranging excursion into the minefield of higher biblical criticism entitled “Bibelkritisches.” By steadfastly ignoring this final testament, the scholarship on Zunz promoted the erroneous perception that Zunz was not a biblical scholar. It is the contention of this essay that contextualizing “Bibelkritisches” properly yields two important revisions: First, that the study of the Hebrew Bible runs as a leitmotif throughout Zunz’s oeuvre and second, that he alone among his cohort of Jewish scholars dared to consider without constraints the full weight of Protestant biblical scholarship. In sum, Zunz proved to be as much of a pioneer in biblical studies at the end of his life as he had been in the turn to history at the beginning.
K1 Popper
K1 Hoffmann
K1 Goldziher
K1 Graetz
K1 Geiger
K1 Wellhausen
K1 Luzzatto
K1 Steinschneider
K1 Jost
K1 Deuteronomy
K1 Leviticus
K1 Psalms
K1 Ezekiel
K1 Chronicles
K1 Piyyut
K1 Temple
K1 Development
K1 Midrash
K1 Synagogue
K1 Biblical Criticism
DO 10.1353/jqr.2012.0027