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Ancient Jewish Historians and the German Reich: Seven Studies

by Daniel R. Schwartz
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9783110764833
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: de Gruyter Oldenbourg
  • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Oldenbourg
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  • Pages: 197
  • Original Price: GBP 71.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 490 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Europe / Germany

Apart from an opening survey of modern study of ancient Jewish history, which emphasizes the foundational role of German-Jewish scholars, the studies united in this volume apply philological methods to the writings of four of them: Heinrich Graetz, Isaak Heinemann, Elias Bickerman(n), and Abraham Schalit. In each case, it is argued that some seemingly trivial anomaly or infelicity, in a publication about such ancient characters as Antiochus Epiphanes, Herod, and Josephus, points to the way in which the historian constructed, and revised, his understanding of the Jews' situation under Greeks or Romans in light of his perception of the Jews' situation under the Second or Third Reich. The collection also includes a study that focuses on a Jewish medievalist, Philipp Jaffé, and unravels the indirect but inexorable process that led from a scholarly feud about the editing of medieval Latin texts, in the 1860s, to the "Berlin Antisemitism Dispute" (Berliner Antisemitismusstreit) of 1879-1881, which is commonly viewed as the opening act of modern German antisemitism.

Daniel R. Schwartz is the Herbst Family Professor emeritus of Judaic Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he specializes in Jewish history and historiography of the Greco-Roman period. Among his books: Agrippa I (1990), Studies in the Jewish Background of Christianity (1992), Reading the First Century (2013), Judeans and Jews (2014), and commentaries on 1 and 2 Maccabees and on some of Josephus's works. Frequently, however, his work on antiquity has led him to grapple with issues in modern historiography on antiquity. Among the results of such work are his monograph on Philiipp Jaffé (De Gruyter 2017) and the studies collected in this volume.

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