The Jewish reformation : Bible translation and middle-class German Judaism as spiritual enterprise
In the century and a half beginning with Moses Mendelssohn's pioneering translation and the final one by Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig, German Jews produced 16 different translations of at least the Pentateuch. Exploring translations by Moses Mendelssohn, Leopold Zunz, and Samson Raphael Hi...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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New York, NY : Oxford University Press,
2021
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Oxford scholarship online
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| Schlagworte: | Jews Judaism |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (474 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | In the century and a half beginning with Moses Mendelssohn's pioneering translation and the final one by Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig, German Jews produced 16 different translations of at least the Pentateuch. Exploring translations by Moses Mendelssohn, Leopold Zunz, and Samson Raphael Hirsch, Michah Gottlieb argues that each articulated a middle-class Judaism that was aligned with bourgeois Protestantism, seeing middle-class values as the best means to serve God and the authentic actualisation of Jewish tradition. |
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| Beschreibung: | Also issued in print: 2021. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 16, 2021) |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (474 pages) illustrations (black and white). |
| ISBN: | 9780197527269 0197527264 9780199336388 0199336385 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/oso/9780199336388.001.0001 |