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Moses Mendelssohn sage of modernity / by Feiner, Shmuel

Table of Contents: “…A stroll down Unter den Linden -- From Dessau to Berlin: an unpredicted career -- Cultural conversion: the three formative years -- War and peace, love and family, fame and frustration -- Affront and sickness: the Lavater Affair -- Dreams, nightmares, and struggles for religious tolerance -- Jerusalem: the road to civic happiness -- Specters: the last two years.…”
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The Hebrew Bible reborn from Holy Scripture to the Book of Books : a history of biblical culture and the battles over the Bible in modern Judaism / by Shavit, Jacob

Table of Contents: “…"Back to the Bible" : the biblical revolution in the nineteenth century -- Wellhausen and his school : the Jewish response to higher criticism -- "Truth shall spring out of the earth : the initial Jewish reaction to the archaeology of the ancient Near East -- The Babel-Bibel controversy as a typological event -- Friedrich Delitzsch and a second "Tower of Babel" -- Delitzsch's three lectures on Babel and Bibel -- The controversy in the German arena : theology vs. science -- At war : within and without -- Contra Delitzsch : revelation, originality and ethics -- From Noah to the Sabbath -- After Delitzsch : the Bible and Jewish Bible study in Germany between the two world wars -- Bible criticism arrives in Eretz Israel : struggle and reception -- "Extra-academic" Bible study and Bible criticism -- Orthodox Bible criticism in Eretz Israel -- The Bible as history and biblical archaeology: "can two walk together? …”
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