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

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-90-04-31628-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 574 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 503 g

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations. vii
Acknowledgements. viii
Abbreviations and Shortened Titles. ix
Contributors. xv

Introduction. xxi
Dean Phillip Bell and Stephen G. Burnett

PART I: ROAD TO REFORMATION

Humanists, Jews, and Judaism. 3
Erika Rummel
German Theologians and the Jews in the Fifteenth Century. 33
Christopher Ocker

PART II: REFORMERS AND THE JEWS

Luther and the Jews. 69
Thomas Kaufmann
Philip Melanchthon and the Jews: A Reappraisal. 105
Timothy J. Wengert
Bucer, the Jews, and Judaism. 137
R. Gerald Hobbs
Ulrich Zwingli, the Jews, and Judaism. 171
Hans-Martin Kirn
Calvin, the Jews, and Judaism. 197
Achim Detmers
Andreas Osiander, the Jews, and Judaism. 219
Joy Kammerling
The Catholic Reform, Jews, and Judaism in Sixteenth-Century Germany. 249
Robert Bireley
The Intensification of Religious Commitment: Jews, Anabaptists, Radical Reform, and Confessionalization. 269
Michael Driedger

PART III: REPRESENTATIONS OF JEWS AND JUDAISM

Anthonius Margaritha on the “Whole Jewish Faith:” A Sixteenth-Century Convert from Judaism and his Depiction of the Jewish Religion. 303
Maria Diemling
Von der Juden Ceremonien: Representations of Jews in Sixteenth-Century Germany. 335
Yaacov Deutsch
Visual Representations of Jews and Judaism in Sixteenth-Century Germany. 357
Petra Schöner
The Representation of Jews and Judaism in Sixteenth-Century German Literature. 393
Edith Wenzel

PART IV: JEWS, JUDAISM, AND JEWISH RESPONSES TO THE REFORMATION

Jewish Settlement, Politics, and the Reformation. 421
Dean Phillip Bell
Jewish Responses to Christianity in Reformation Germany. 451
Elisheva Carlebach
Jewish Law and Ritual in Early Modern Germany. 481
Jay Berkovitz
German Jewish Printing in the Reformation Era (1530–1633). 503
Stephen G. Burnett

Select Bibliography. 529
Index of Subjects. 547
Index of Persons. 563
Index of Biblical Passages Cited. 572

Über Autor(innen)

Dean Philip Bell (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1995) 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., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1990) 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.