• Media type: Book; Thesis
  • Title: In search of the Hebrew people : Bible and nation in the German enlightenment
  • Contributor: Ilani, ʿOfri [VerfasserIn]; Mishory, Ishai [ÜbersetzerIn]
  • Published: Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, [2018]
  • Published in: German Jewish cultures
  • Other titles: Ḥipus aḥar ha-ʿam ha-ʿIvri , Ilani, ʿOfri
  • Extent: x, 180 Seiten
  • Language: English; Hebrew
  • ISBN: 9780253033512
  • Origination:
  • RVK notation: GI 1622 : Geistes- und Ideengeschichte
  • Keywords: Deutschland > Aufklärung > Nationalismus > Intellektualismus > Auserwähltes Volk > Judenbild
    Deutschland > Bibel > Historische Kritik > Israel > Nationalbewusstsein > Aufklärung
    Deutschland > Aufklärung > Nationalismus > Intellektualismus > Auserwähltes Volk > Judenbild
    Deutschland > Mitteleuropa > Juden > Geschichte 1700-1799
  • Description: "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 story of the surprising role that this model played in discussions of ethnicity, literature, culture, and nationhood among the German-speaking intellectual elite. He reveals the novel portrait they sketched of ancient Israel and how they tried to imitate the Hebrews while forging their own national consciousness. This sophisticated and lucid argument sheds new light on the myths, concepts, and political tools that formed the basis of modern German culture"--

    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
  • Footnote: Includes bibliographical references and index

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