Intro -- Foreword by Susannah Heschel -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART ONE THE CONTEXT OF THE ENCOUNTERS AND CONTROVERSIES -- Chapter One: The Political and Social Situation of the Jewish Community in Wilhelmine Germany, 1890-1914 -- 1. The Collapse of the Jewish Coalition with Liberalism and the Spread of "Modern Anti-Semitism -- 2. The Remaining Limitations of the Emancipation of the Jews and Judaism -- 3. The "Assimilation Crisis" and Tendencies toward Recollecting Jewish Identity -- 3.1. "Assimilation," "Acculturation," and "German-Jewish Subculture -- 3.2. "Defense Work" between "Trotzjudentum" and "Jewish Renaissance -- 3.3. "Self-Emancipation" - the Impulse of the Zionist Movement -- Chapter Two: The Self-Conception and Research Conditions of Jewish Studies -- 1. The Beginnings and Development of Jewish Studies in the Nineteenth Century -- 2. Profile and Scholarly Self-Understanding of the Educational Institutions of Jewish Studies -- 2.1. "Positive-Historical" Judaism - the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau -- 2.2. Liberal Judaism - The "Lehranstalt für die Wissenschaft des Judentums" in Berlin -- 2.3. "Torah and Scholarship" - The Orthodox Rabbinical Seminary of Berlin -- 3. The Conditions of Jewish Studies' Encounter with Protestant Theology -- 3.1. Jewish Research between Discrimination and Claim to Relevance -- 3.2. Jewish Studies and "Defense Work" against Anti-Semitism -- PART TWO THE PERCEPTION OF PROTESTANT THEOLOGY -- Chapter Three: Jewish Studies and the Protestant "Mission to the Jews", 1880-1914 -- 1. The Jewish Perception of Protestant "Allies" in the Debate with Anti-Semitism, 1880-1890 -- 1.1. The Contemporary Context: Demonization of Judaism through Anti-Talmud Propaganda and Accusations of Ritual Murder.

1.2. The Defense of Jewish Morality as Reflected in the Debate between David Hoffmann and Gustaf Dalman, 1886/1894 -- 2. "Love of Israel?" - Jewish Refutation of Franz Delitzsch's Concept of the "Mission to the Jews" and the Limits of Christian Solidarity, 1880-1890 -- 2.1. Delitzsch's Controversy with Abraham Berliner over the "Instituta Judaica," 1884/85 -- 2.2. The Debate of Jewish Scholars with Delitzsch's "Ernste Fragen an die Gebildeten jüdischer Religion," 1888/89 -- 3. An "Honest Friend of Judaism" - The Significance of Hermann L. Strack from the Perspective of Jewish Studies -- 3.1. "Herculean labor" - Strack's Refutation of the Anti-Semitic Disparagement of the Jewish Religion -- 3.2. Appreciation of Strack's Scholarly Activity in the Area of Jewish Studies -- 4. "We May Not Bite the Hand that Feeds Us" - Interpretation of the Relationship between Jewish Studies and the "Mission to the Jews -- Chapter Four: The Controversy over the Representation of Pharisaic-Rabbinic Judaism by Protestant Historiography on the New Testament Era, 1900-1914 -- 1. Adolf von Harnack and the Debate about the "Essence of Judaism -- 2. Jewish Studies and History of Religions School: The Controversy over Wilhelm Bousset's Representation of New Testament History -- 2.1. The Religious History of "Late Judaism" - a New Orientation? -- 2.2. The Methodological Controversy over Bousset's Representation of the History of the New Testament Era -- 2.3. The Controversial Features of Bousset's Image of "Late Judaism -- 2.3.1. Religion of Particularism? Israel's Chosenness and the Universalism of Judaism -- 2.3.2. "Legal" Ethics? - The Torah as a Sign of God's Love -- 2.3.3. "Simhat Torah" - Liberal and Orthodox Defense of Torah Piety -- 2.3.4. Religion of Fear? - Understanding of God and Piety of Judaism -- 2.4. New Accents in Bousset's Image of Rabbinic Judaism, 1915.

3. Refusal of Discourse - The Structure of the Debate about "Late Judaism -- Chapter Five: The Jewish Perception of Protestant Research and Evaluation of the Hebrew Bible, 1900-1914 -- 1. The Position of Biblical Research within Jewish Studies -- 2. God's Torah for Israel - Benno Jacob's Concept of a Jewish Biblical Scholarship -- 3. The Value and Originality of the Hebrew Bible: The "Babel-Bible-Controversy", 1902-1905 -- 4. "Ethical Monotheism" - Max Wiener's Reception of the Protestant Interpretation of Prophecy, 1909/12 -- 5. YHVH - a "Jewish God?" The Dispute over the Understanding of the God of the Hebrew Bible, 1912-1917 -- 5.1. The "Blasphemy" trial against Theodor Fritsch, 1912/13 -- 5.2. Rudolf Kittel's "Supreme Expert Opinion -- 5.3. Jewish Refutations of Kittel's Arguments, 1914-1917 -- 6. Ambivalent Experiences with Protestant "Biblical Criticism" - A Conclusion -- PART THREE THE FUNCTION AND EFFECT OF THE CHALLENGE -- Chapter Six: The Legitimacy of Judaism's Continuation - The Political Dimension of Liberal Judaism's Debate with Liberal Protestantism in the Context of the Internal Jewish Identity Debate, 1900-1914 -- 1. On the Dialectic of the Relationship between Liberal Judaism and Liberal Protestantism -- 2. Debates over the Understanding of "Assimilation -- 2.1. "Assimilation" through Dissolution? The "Case" of Jakob Fromer (1904-1907) -- 2.2. Leo Baeck's Plea for Integration into a Pluralistic Society (1911) -- 2.3. "Conversion from Judaism to Germanness" - Friedrich Niebergall's Plea for a Renunciation of Jewish Identity (1912) -- 3. "Religion of the Future" - The Claim of Modernity by Liberal Judaism and the Delineation from Liberal Protestantism -- 3.1. "Return to Judaism?" - The Controversy between Leo Baeck and Ferdinand Kattenbusch about the Nature of Liberal Protestantism (1909).

3.2. "The Meaning of Judaism for Religious Progress" - Hermann Cohen at the "World Congress for Free Christianity and Religious Progress," Berlin 1910 -- 3.3. "Will to Judaism" - The "Guidelines for a Program for Liberal Judaism," 1912 -- 4. The Internal Jewish Discussion about the Affinity of Liberal Judaism to Protestantism -- 4.1. The Confrontation between Zionist and Liberal Jewish Identity -- 4.2. The "Guidelines" as a Rapprochement to Protestantism - The Controversy with Orthodoxy, 1912/13 -- 4.3. Max Dienemann's Definition of the Relationship between Judaism and Christianity, 1914 -- 5. On the Process of "Dis-encounter" in the Controversy between Liberal Judaism and Liberal Protestantism - Analysis -- Chapter Seven: The Reception of Jewish Studies by Protestant Academic Theology, 1900-1914 -- 1. Introduction - The Conditions of a Dialogic Rapprochement -- 2. Jewish Demands for the Academic Equality of Jewish Studies -- 2.1. "The Ghetto of Judaism will not completely fall until the Ghetto of its Science falls" - the Emancipatory Impulse -- 2.2. Felix Perles's Appeal to the Scientific Ethos of German Universities -- 3. "Christian Talmud Scholarship" - The Jewish Assessment of the New Protestant Research of Rabbinic Literature and the Question of the Participation of Jewish Scholars -- 3.1. Paul Fiebig's Concept for the Reform of New Testament Research and His Assessment of Jewish Studies -- 3.2. Between Ignorance and Anti-Semitic Views - The Beginnings of the Gießener Mischna, 1912 -- 3.3. Attempts to Include Jewish Scholars in Research and Teaching, 1912-1914 -- 4. The Discussion about a Jewish Theology Department in Frankfurt am Main and the Establishment of Academic Chairs for Jewish Studies in Prussia -- 4.1. "First Know, then Judge and Act" - Martin Rade's Vote for the Establishment of a Jewish Theology Department, 1912/13.

4.2. A "Vital Upward-Striving Branch on the Great Tree of German Humanities" - the Vote of Willy Staerk, 1914 -- 4.3. The Failure of the Project of a "Jewish Theology Department -- 4.4. A "Righteous Gentile" - Max Löhr's Plea for a Chair for Jewish Studies in Prussia, 1915 -- 5. Reorientation of Jewish Studies in Light of the Disappointed Hope for Participation - Analysis and Prospects -- Epilogue -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Appendix: List of Scholars -- Index.

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