5 From Bismarck to Antiochus: On the Chaotic and “Worthless” Prehistory of Elias Bickermann’s Gott der Makkabäer

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Foreword IX
3. Contents XV
4. Abbreviations XIX
5. 1 The Modern Study of Ancient Jewish History: Two Centuries and Three Stages 1
6. 2 Graetz on Josephus: On Jewish Traitors and Cowards in the 1870s 31
7. 3 A Changing Tale of Two Cities: Graetz on Jews and Greeks in Roman Judea 53
8. 4 From Feuding Medievalists to the Berlin Antisemitismusstreit of 1879–1881 71
9. 5 From Bismarck to Antiochus: On the Chaotic and “Worthless” Prehistory of Elias Bickermann’s Gott der Makkabäer 109
10. 6 Hitler and Antiochus, Hellenists and Rabbinerdoktoren: On Isaak Heinemann’s Response to Elias Bickermann, 1938 129
11. 7 Abraham Schalit on Herod and Josephus, before and after the Holocaust 149
12. 8 Summary and Final Reflections 169
13. Original Publications 171
14. Illustrations 173
15. Index of Authors Cited 175
16. Index of Names and Subjects 179