Chapter 9. Contra Delitzsch: Revelation, Originality and Ethics

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents ix
3. Introduction 1
4. Part One. The Biblical Revolution in Modern Jewish History and the Struggle over the Bible in the Nineteenth Century
5. Chapter 1. “Back to the Bible”: The Biblical Revolution in the Nineteenth Century 17
6. Chapter 2. Wellhausen and his School: The Jewish Response to Higher Criticism 85
7. Chapter 3. “Truth Shall Spring out of the Earth”: The Initial Jewish Reaction to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East 156
8. Part Two. The War of The Tablets
9. Chapter 4. The Babel-Bibel Controversy as a Typological Event 195
10. Chapter 5. Friedrich Delitzsch and a Second ‘Tower of Babel’ 206
11. Chapter 6. Delitzsch’s Three Lectures on Babel and Bibel 229
12. Chapter 7. The Controversy in the German Arena: Theology vs. Science 256
13. Chapter 8. At War – Within and Without 276
14. Chapter 9. Contra Delitzsch: Revelation, Originality and Ethics 305
15. Chapter 10. From Noah to the Sabbath 331
16. Part Three. In Search of Jewish and Hebrew Bible Study
17. Chapter 11. After Delitzsch: The Bible and Jewish Bible Study in Germany between the Two World Wars 355
18. Chapter 12. Bible Criticism Arrives in Eretz Israel: Struggle and Reception 371
19. Chapter 13. “Extra-academic” Bible Study and Bible Criticism 399
20. Chapter 14. Orthodox Bible Criticism in Eretz Israel 423
21. Chapter 15. The Bible as History and Biblical Archaeology: “Can Two Walk Together?” (Amos 3:3) 434
22. Part Four. The Well of the Bible: The Biblical Culture in the Jewish Society in Eretz Israel (1882–2005)
23. Chapter 16. The National Bible vs. the Cultural Bible 475
24. Chapter 17. The Golden Age of Biblical Culture 490
25. Chapter 18. From “Golden Age” to Decline? 516
26. Afterword 521
27. Backmatter 531