
Respect for the Jews
Collected Works, Volume 4
Franz Posset(Author)
Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published on 30. September 2019
310 pages
978-1-5326-7092-3 (ISBN)
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Eight different historical-theological studies are assembled here under the title Respect for the Jews. They focus primarily on positive Catholic attitudes toward Jews during the turbulent years of the first half of the sixteenth century. The number of authors and texts are relatively small, but need to be brought out into the open. For the first time, a speech in praise of the language of the Jews by the early ecumenist, Georg Witzel (1501-1573), is made available in English. Other Catholic Hebraists who are featured include Johann Reuchlin (1455-1522), Matthaeus Adrianus (ca. 1470-1521), Robert Wakefield (died 1537), and Nicolaus Winmann (ca. 1500-1550). Their brilliant works are presented in front of the sinister backdrop of the vicious attacks against the Jews by the well-educated Catholic convert of Jewish descent, Johann Pfefferkorn (ca. 1469-1521), a self-appointed Catholic missionary to the Jews, and also against the background of the scandalous outbursts of the Grobian Reformer, Martin Luther (1483-1546).
Volume 4 of the author's Collected Works fosters the idea that Jews and Christians are "study partners," rather than antagonists--as visualized in the new statue "Synagogue and Church in Our Time" (as shown on the cover).
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Eugene
United States
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978-1-5326-7092-3 (9781532670923)
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Franz Posset is a German-American independent church historian and lay theologian in the Catholic Church. He is an internationally recognized ecumenist, specializing in the history and theology of the Renaissance and early Lutheran Reformation.
Franz was born in 1945 in Glöckelberg in the Bohemian Forest (Sudetenland), and between 1965 and 1970, he was a student of Hans Küng, Josef Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI emeritus), and Walter Kasper (Cardinal). He earned a diploma in Catholic theology at the University of Tübingen, and received a PhD in religious studies, with his dissertation directed by the late Kenneth Hagen at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Franz was born in 1945 in Glöckelberg in the Bohemian Forest (Sudetenland), and between 1965 and 1970, he was a student of Hans Küng, Josef Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI emeritus), and Walter Kasper (Cardinal). He earned a diploma in Catholic theology at the University of Tübingen, and received a PhD in religious studies, with his dissertation directed by the late Kenneth Hagen at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Foreword
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: A Fifteenth-Century Bible Codex in Hebrew with a Picture of the Crucifixion and with Two Monastic Figures, Saint Dominic and Saint Bernard
- Chapter 2: Who Is "the Strongest and Most Skilled Protector of This Oppressed Language"?
- Chapter 3: "Search the Scriptures/scriptures" ?(John 5:39) according to Johann Reuchlin
- Chapter 4: God's Language, Catholic Praise of the Sacred Language of the Jews during the Early Reformation, with Georg Witzel's Speech in Praise of the Hebrew Language
- Chapter 5: "The Hebrews Drink from the Source, ?the Greeks from the Rills, ?and the Latin People from the Puddle"
- Chapter 6: Hebrew Translations of Christian Prayers on the Eve of the Reformation
- Chapter 7: In Search of an Explanation ?for the Suffering of the Jews
- Chapter 8: In Search of the Historical Pfefferkorn
- Chapter 9: We Love This People
- Bibliography
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