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Markus Krah, Rachel Albeck-Gidron
The new issue of PaRDeS, the journal of the German Association for Jewish Studies, assembles articles on Jewish encounters with East Asian religious traditions over time, as well as reviews of important works published in the field of Jewish studies.
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Markus Krah
Preface to vol. 23 of PaRDeS, the journal of the German Association for Jewish Studies, devoted to Jewish encounters with East Asian religious traditions.
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René Buchholz
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Theology as a Discipline of the Wissenschaft des Judentums (1830-1910) – An Overview
2019 •
George Y. Kohler
This paper calls for the inclusion of Jewish theology as a discipline with the study of the movement on Wissenschaft des Judentums. The sources speak a clear language: considering that many of the important protagonists of the Wissenschaft movement were at the same time community rabbis, theology might be seen as the connecting link between the two occupations – a scientific, critical approach to Jewish theology made it possible for those rabbis to transfer the modern ideal of scientificity (Wissenschaftlichkeit) from their research on to their daily professional practice. But also for an all-embracing understanding and evaluation of today’s scholarship on the Wissenschaft-movement itself, the inclusion of theology seems to be reasonable: On the one hand it helps to clear up the persistent misunderstanding according to which during the nineteenth century history became “the religion of the fallen Jews”, meaning that turning to Wissenschaft was in itself a secularization process. The study of the pursuit of a historical-critical theology would demonstrate that this view is based on the confusion of the theological notion of ‘religion’ with myth and supernaturalism. On the other hand, the inclusion of theology in the study of Wissenschaft des Judentums seems to prove convincingly that this movement was not taking living Judaism down to its grave – but was in fact very interested in providing Judaism with a stable intellectual basis for a glorious future for conquering the whole spiritual world.
Jewish Historiography between Past and Future. 200 Years of Wissenschaft des Judentums, ed. Paul Mendes-Flohr, Rachel Livneh-Freudenthal, and Guy Miron, de Gruyter, Studia Judaica 102
Ludwig Philippson on Biblical Monotheism: Jewish Religious Philosophy between Mendelssohn and Hermann Cohen
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George Y. Kohler
Ludwig Philippson’s (1811–1889) views on the philosophical impact of monotheism are stuck somewhere between medieval metaphysics and modern idealism. Nevertheless, Philippson must be regarded as one of the pioneers of modern Jewish thought given his critical and non-polemical analysis of Christian theology—and it is certainly here that he makes the most profound contributions to the discussion of monotheism as a theoretical-theological concept and its impact on philosophical ethics in general. Motivated by the urgent need of demarcation from Protestantism, his liberal Judaism found in radical monotheism the ultimate criteria for measuring dogma and doctrine in light of eternal universal ethical principles.
Michael A. Meyer, “Recent Historiography on the Jewish Religion,” Leo Baeck Institute Year Book, no. 35 (1990): 3-16
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Volk oder Religion? Die Entstehung moderner jüdischer Ethnizität in Frankreich und Deutschland 1782–1848. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht: Göttingen 2014.
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Die Messiasvorstellungen im Judentum der Neuzeit
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Sind der „Messias“ und die Erwartung seiner Ankunft noch zentrale Vorstellungen im gegenwärtigen Judentum? Der Beitrag geht der Frage nach, in welchen Zusammenhängen die Messiasvorstellung in der Neuzeit eine Rolle spielt und was sie heute noch leistet, um das Verhältnis zwischen Gott und Mensch im Judentum zu beschreiben. Are the "Messiah" and the expectation of his arrival yet central ideas in contemporary Judaism? The article deals with the question of the contexts in which the messianic concept has a role in modern times and what it still contributes to describe the relationship between God and man in Judaism.
Samuel Hirsch: Philosopher of Religion, Advocate of Emancipation and Radical Reformer
“Humankind is Advancing” Samuel Hirsch’s Rediscovery of Messianism and its Consequences for Modern Jewish Religious Philosophy
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George Y. Kohler
