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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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés Hebrew |
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Bloomington, Indiana :
Indiana University Press,
[2018]
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.