Kaiser, Christ, and Canaan: the religion of Israel in protestant Germany, 1871-1918
Cover -- Titel -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Germany's Present, Israel's Past -- Part One: Julius Wellhausen & The Religion of Ages Past -- Chapter One: Wellhausen Among the Mandarins -- 1.1 The Making of a Professor: Patronage and Politics -- 1.2 A Flee(t)i...
| Résumé: | Cover -- Titel -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Germany's Present, Israel's Past -- Part One: Julius Wellhausen & The Religion of Ages Past -- Chapter One: Wellhausen Among the Mandarins -- 1.1 The Making of a Professor: Patronage and Politics -- 1.2 A Flee(t)ing Theologian -- 1.3 An Ascetic Scholarship -- Chapter Two: The Rise and Fall of a Hebrew Nation -- 2.1 Old Testament as Prologue -- 2.2 Prolegomena to a Prolegomena -- 2.3 History as Nationcraft -- 2.4 Theocracy Unbound -- 2.5 Formative Islam: A Narrative Retold -- Chapter Three: Religion's Past: Semites, Primitives, and Ancients -- 3.1 Philological Positivism -- 3.2 Different Data, Persistent Problem, Same Solution -- 3.3 Philosophy among the Anti-Philosophical -- 3.4 More Than Mere Empiricism -- Part Two: Hermann Gunkel & Religion through History -- Chapter Four: Gunkel Amidst the Furor Orientalis -- 4.1 The Prehistory of an Historian -- 4.2 A Religionsgeschichtliche Schule -- or, Göttingen Inter Alia -- 4.3 Religion in the Kaiserreich, the Kaiserreich in Europe -- 4.4 German Scholarship at the Fin de Siècle -- Chapter Five: The World of Ancient Israel -- 5.1 New Testament by Desire, Old Testament by Demand -- 5.2 The Finish at the Start -- 5.2.1 Binding Ancient Israel to Christianity -- 5.2.2 Embracing Sources Outside the Canon -- 5.2.3 Diffusing the Situation -- Chapter Six: History, Not Past: The Religion of Religionsgeschichte -- 6.1 Form in Text Through Time -- 6.2 A Cause for Comparison -- or, Everything's a Whole -- 6.3 Inspired Persons Past -- Concluding Remarks: Piety Through History -- 7.1 Revelation in/as History -- 7.2 Religion Now and Then, Religion Theirs and Ours -- Bibliography -- Index of Names and Subjects. |
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| ISBN: | 3161554973 |