Lange, Armin
[Editor];
Mayerhofer, Kerstin
[Editor];
Porat, Dinah
[Editor];
Schiffman, Lawrence H.
[Editor]
;
An End to Antisemitism! Veranstaltung 2018 Wien
Confronting antisemitism in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism
Description:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Antisemitic Positions in Christian Holy Scriptures: The Idea of Israel’s Election and its Challenge for New Testament Authors and for their Readership -- “Children of the Devil”: John 8:44 and its Early Reception -- Anti-Jewish Polemic and Jewish Bible Interpretation: Two Examples from Origen and Ephrem the Syrian -- Scholarship and the Blood Libel: Past and Present -- Is the Qur’an “Antisemitic”? -- The Position of the Jews in Egypt and Syria in the Late Middle Ages -- The Impact of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Discovery of the “Original” Version of the Ten Commandments upon Biblical Scholarship: The Myth of Jewish Particularism and German Universalism -- The Interpretation of Second Temple Judaism as “Spätjudentum” in Christian Biblical Scholarship -- The National Socialist Bible: “Die Botschaft Gottes”: Theological Legitimation of Antisemitism -- Christian Antisemitism in Biblical Studies: Two Examples -- Against the Mainstream: Muhammad Abduh’s Reading of Q1:7 and its Implications for Current Muslim-Jewish Relations -- The Dead Sea Scrolls and Antisemitism: Past Results and Future Possibilities -- Antisemitism, Christianity, and the Churches in Europe -- Antisemitism and Protestant Churches: A Quest for Reform -- American Christianity, Jews and Israel: Antisemitism and Faith -- Islamic Antisemitism: Jews in the Qur’an, Reflections of European Antisemitism, Political Anti-Zionism: Common Codes and Differences -- Modern Antisemitism in Iran: Old Themes and New Trends -- “If the Scorpion Comes back, We will Wait for it with a Shoe”: Sheikh Yūsuf al-Qaraḍāwī’s Theo-Political Response to Trump’s Jerusalem Declaration -- Editorial Board -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements
This volume engages with antisemitic stereotypes as religious symbols that express and transmit a belief system of Jew-hatred. These religious symbols are stored in Christian, Muslim and even today’s secular cultural and religious memories. This volume explores how antisemitic religious symbol systems can play a key role in the construction of group identities