Kaiser, Christ, and Canaan: The Religion of Israel in Protestant Germany, 1871-1918
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In this work, Paul Michael Kurtz examines the historiography of ancient Israel in the German Empire through the prism of religion, as a structuring framework not only for writings on the past but also for the writers of that past themselves. The author investigates what biblical scholars, theologians, orientalists, philologists, and ancient historians considered "religion" and "history" to be, how they understood these conceptual categories, and why they studied them in the manner they did. Focusing on Julius Wellhausen and Hermann Gunkel, his inquiry scrutinizes to what extent, in an age of allegedly neutral historical science, the very enterprise of reconstructing the ancient past was shaped by liberal Protestant structures shared by dominant historians from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:3161554965
ISBN13:9783161554964
Release Date:October 2018
Publisher:Mohr Siebeck
Length:370 Pages
Weight:1.96 lbs.
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