In search of the Hebrew people : Bible and nation in the German Enlightenment /

"As German scholars, poets, and theologians searched for the origins of the ancient Israelites, Ofri Ilany believes they created a model for nationalism that drew legitimacy from the Biblical idea of the Chosen People. In this broad exploration of eighteenth-century Hebraism, Ilany tells the st...

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Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awdur: Ilany, Ofri (Awdur)
Awduron Eraill: Mishory, Ishai (Cyfieithydd)
Fformat: Licensed eBooks
Iaith:Saesneg
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Cyhoeddwyd: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press [2018]
Cyfres:German Jewish cultures.
Mynediad Ar-lein:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv175t2
Tabl Cynhwysion:
  • 1. Troglodytes, Hottentots, and Hebrews: the Bible and the genesis of German ethnography
  • 2. The law and the people: Mosaic Law and the German Enlightenment
  • 3. The eighteenth-century polemic on the extermination of the Canaanites
  • 4. "Is Judah indeed the Teutonic fatherland?" the Hebrew model and the birth of German national culture
  • 5. "Lovers of Hebrew poetry": the battle over the Bible's relevance at the turn of the nineteenth century.