Kinderbibeln als Mittel jüdischer Bibelauslegung
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Dorothea M. Salzer
Abstract
Jewish Children’s Bibles are storybooks containing biblical stories especially designed for a young Jewish readership. The genre was invented by the Jewish proponents of Enlightenment (Maskilim) in the course of their attempts to modernize the Jewish education system. During the 19th century, it developed into one of the most popular means of Jewish religious education, especially in the realm of the Jewish Reform movement. Hence, beginning with the Haskalah, the Jewish Children’s Bibles accompanied Jewish children, their parents and their teachers throughout the era of Jewish modernization taking place in the 18th and 19th century. These collections provide an ‒ often extensively ‒ revised version of the holy text, following a pedagogical, philosophical and religious agenda and aiming at a distinct readership. Children’s Bibles are therefore an important source which helps to understand a time of considerable changes within German Jewry and the protagonists of these changes. In the article some of the main means of reworking and interpreting the biblical text for these storybooks are analyzed and finally interpreted within the context of the religious and cultural changes taking place in the course of Jewish modernization.
Abstract
Jewish Children’s Bibles are storybooks containing biblical stories especially designed for a young Jewish readership. The genre was invented by the Jewish proponents of Enlightenment (Maskilim) in the course of their attempts to modernize the Jewish education system. During the 19th century, it developed into one of the most popular means of Jewish religious education, especially in the realm of the Jewish Reform movement. Hence, beginning with the Haskalah, the Jewish Children’s Bibles accompanied Jewish children, their parents and their teachers throughout the era of Jewish modernization taking place in the 18th and 19th century. These collections provide an ‒ often extensively ‒ revised version of the holy text, following a pedagogical, philosophical and religious agenda and aiming at a distinct readership. Children’s Bibles are therefore an important source which helps to understand a time of considerable changes within German Jewry and the protagonists of these changes. In the article some of the main means of reworking and interpreting the biblical text for these storybooks are analyzed and finally interpreted within the context of the religious and cultural changes taking place in the course of Jewish modernization.
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Preface V
- Inhalt VII
- Einleitung 1
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Dialog und Emanzipation
- Orientalische Poesie als schönes Ganzes? 11
- Hermeneutik des Konkreten 25
- Re-Forming Professions 41
- Scripture and Separatism 57
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Bildung und Erziehung
- Wissensspeicher, Lehrbuch, Erkenntnisquelle 77
- Ordnungen religiösen Wissens 93
- Kinderbibeln als Mittel jüdischer Bibelauslegung 113
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Hermeneutik und Wissenschaft
- „Die niedere Kritik“ 139
- Samuel David Luzzatto and Abraham Geiger on the Textual Criticism of the Bible: Continuity or Conflict? 161
- Die Anfänge moderner Bibelwissenschaft in der Wiener Haskala 171
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Kommentare und Übersetzungen
- Bibelübersetzung und Kommentarwerk des liberalen Rabbiners Ludwig Philippson 197
- Zur Werkbiografie Benno Jacobs aus der Zeit vor seinen großen Kommentaren 215
- Der Ewige 233
- Herxheimers Bibelwerk 247
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Anhang
- Literaturverzeichnis 273
- Über die Autorinnen und Autoren 297
- Abbildungsverzeichnis 301
- Personenregister 303
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Preface V
- Inhalt VII
- Einleitung 1
-
Dialog und Emanzipation
- Orientalische Poesie als schönes Ganzes? 11
- Hermeneutik des Konkreten 25
- Re-Forming Professions 41
- Scripture and Separatism 57
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Bildung und Erziehung
- Wissensspeicher, Lehrbuch, Erkenntnisquelle 77
- Ordnungen religiösen Wissens 93
- Kinderbibeln als Mittel jüdischer Bibelauslegung 113
-
Hermeneutik und Wissenschaft
- „Die niedere Kritik“ 139
- Samuel David Luzzatto and Abraham Geiger on the Textual Criticism of the Bible: Continuity or Conflict? 161
- Die Anfänge moderner Bibelwissenschaft in der Wiener Haskala 171
-
Kommentare und Übersetzungen
- Bibelübersetzung und Kommentarwerk des liberalen Rabbiners Ludwig Philippson 197
- Zur Werkbiografie Benno Jacobs aus der Zeit vor seinen großen Kommentaren 215
- Der Ewige 233
- Herxheimers Bibelwerk 247
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Anhang
- Literaturverzeichnis 273
- Über die Autorinnen und Autoren 297
- Abbildungsverzeichnis 301
- Personenregister 303
