“They are ours!” Reclaiming the Apocrypha as Jewish Texts

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Acknowledgements VII
4. Introduction
5. Philology of the Jewish Spirit: Wissenschaft des Judentums and Jewish Scholarship on the Sacred Texts of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam 3
6. Part 1: Hebrew Bible
7. Re-writing the Hebrew Bible for Jewish Children? Isaak Markus Jost’s “Neue Jugend-Bibel” in Context 25
8. Orthodoxy and the Orient. Samson Raphael Hirsch on the Location of Judaism 53
9. Part 2: Apocrypha and New Testament
10. “They are ours!” Reclaiming the Apocrypha as Jewish Texts 75
11. Isaac Mayer Wise’s “The Origin of Christianity” (1868) in the Context of 19^th Century Research on the New Testament 99
12. Part 3: The Qurʾān
13. The Qurʾān and Arabic Literary History in Ignaz Goldziher’s Scholarship 129
14. Between Sacred and Profane. Three Modern Hebrew Translators of the Qurʾān 149
15. Part 4: The Talmud
16. Missing in Translation. The Fate of the Talmud in the Struggle for Equality and Integration in Germany 167
17. List of Contributors 185
18. Index of Persons 187