The impact of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's discovery of the "original" version of the Ten Commandments upon biblical scholarship: the myth of Jewish particularism and German universalism - In memoriam, Hans and Sophie Scholl, founders of the White Rose movement, executed February 22, 1943, for their opposition to National Socialism
In 1773, the twenty-four year old Johann Wolfgang von Goethe anonymously published an essay entitled “Zwo wichtige bisher unerörterte biblische Fragen: Zum erstenmal gründlich beantwortet, von einem Landgeistlichen in Schwaben” [Two Important but as yet Unaddressed Biblical Questions: Fully Answered...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2020
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An end to antisemitism! ; volume 2: Confronting antisemitism in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism
Year: 2020, Pages: 121-138 |
| Further subjects: | B
Biblical Scholarship, History of
B Supercessionism B Deut 27 B Universal B Exod 34 B Particular B Decalog B Exod 20 B Decalogue B Antisemitism B Goethe, Johannes Wolfgang von B Source Criticism B Wellhausen B Jews B Judaism B Pentateuch B Rom 11:17– 24 |
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| Summary: | In 1773, the twenty-four year old Johann Wolfgang von Goethe anonymously published an essay entitled “Zwo wichtige bisher unerörterte biblische Fragen: Zum erstenmal gründlich beantwortet, von einem Landgeistlichen in Schwaben” [Two Important but as yet Unaddressed Biblical Questions: Fully Answered for the First Time by a Country Clergyman in Swabia]. In this text, the young Goethe experiments with many of the literary devices that will mark his mature work. Goethe’s essay is the first work of literature in which the newly emergent discipline of academic biblical scholarship, just then being introduced into the curriculum of the European university, is directly thematized and given literary treatment. The intellectual significance of Goethe’s essay has not been fully recognized. It has fallen “between the cracks” of Germanists on the one hand and biblical scholars on the other. The essay had a major impact upon one of the most important German scholars of the Old Testament, Julius Wellhausen, and contributed to his analysis of the sequence and dating of the sources of the Pentateuch. The cultural biases that govern Goethe’s essay and the way it constructs a double myth of Jewish identity (as particularistic and ritual bound) and of German identity as universal and ethical—while nonetheless excluding Judaism as binary “other”—have not previously been addressed. The present article fills in that gap. |
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| ISBN: | 3110582422 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: An End to Antisemitism! (Veranstaltung : 2018 : Wien), An end to antisemitism! ; volume 2: Confronting antisemitism in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism
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