Confronting Antisemitism from the Perspectives of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism.

• Author: Lange, Armin.
• TeilnehmendeR: Mayerhofer, Kerstin.; Porat, Dina.; Schiffman, Lawrence H.
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin/Boston : : Walter de Gruyter GmbH,, 2020.; ©2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- I. Confronting Ancient and Medieval Religious Traditions of Antisemitism -- Antisemitic Positions in Christian Holy Scriptures: The Idea of Israel's Election and its Challenge for New Testament Authors and for their Readership -- "Children of the Devil": John 8:44 and its Early Reception -- Anti-Jewish Polemic and Jewish Bible Interpretation: Two Examples from Origen and Ephrem the Syrian -- Scholarship and the Blood Libel: Past and Present -- Is the Qur'an "Antisemitic"? -- The Position of the Jews in Egypt and Syria in the Late Middle Ages -- II. Confronting Antisemitism in the Study of Holy Scriptures and Related Writings in the Modern Period -- The Impact of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Discovery of the "Original" Version of the Ten Commandments upon Biblical Scholarship: The Myth of Jewish Particularism and German Universalism -- The Interpretation of Second Temple Judaism as "Spätjudentum" in Christian Biblical Scholarship -- The National Socialist Bible: "Die Botschaft Gottes": Theological Legitimation of Antisemitism -- Christian Antisemitism in Biblical Studies: Two Examples -- Against the Mainstream: Muhammad Abduh's Reading of Q1:7 and its Implications for Current Muslim-Jewish Relations -- The Dead Sea Scrolls and Antisemitism: Past Results and Future Possibilities -- III. Confronting Antisemitic Traditions in Contemporary Christianity and Islam -- Antisemitism, Christianity, and the Churches in Europe -- Antisemitism and Protestant Churches: A Quest for Reform -- American Christianity, Jews and Israel: Antisemitism and Faith -- Islamic Antisemitism: Jews in the Qur'an, Reflections of European Antisemitism, Political Anti-Zionism: Common Codes and Differences -- Modern Antisemitism in Iran: Old Themes and New Trends.

"If the Scorpion Comes back, We will Wait for it with a Shoe": Sheikh Yūsuf al-Qaraḍāwī's Theo-Political Response to Trump's Jerusalem Declaration -- Editorial Board -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements.