The Jewish reformation bible translation and middle-class German Judaism as spiritual enterprise

In the century and a half beginning with Moses Mendelssohn's pioneering translation and the final one by Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig, German Jews produced 16 different translations of at least the Pentateuch. Exploring translations by Moses Mendelssohn, Leopold Zunz, and Samson Raphael Hi...

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1. Verfasser:
Gottlieb, Michah
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Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
New York, NY Oxford University Press [2021]
Zusammenfassung:
In the century and a half beginning with Moses Mendelssohn's pioneering translation and the final one by Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig, German Jews produced 16 different translations of at least the Pentateuch. Exploring translations by Moses Mendelssohn, Leopold Zunz, and Samson Raphael Hirsch, Michah Gottlieb argues that each articulated a middle-class Judaism that was aligned with bourgeois Protestantism, seeing middle-class values as the best means to serve God and the authentic actualisation of Jewish tradition.
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1 Online Ressource (x, 462 Seiten) Illustrationen
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Also issued in print: 2021. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 16, 2021)
Biblio­graphische Verweise:
10.1093/ oso/ 9780199336388.001.0001
(UK-OxUP)EDZ0002522345
(EBP)064467686
Schriftenreihe:
Oxford scholarship online
ISBN:
9780197527269
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