Jews, Judaism, and the Reformation in Sixteenth-Century Germany

Dean Philip Bell (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1995) is Dean/CAO of the Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies in Chicago. His research focuses on late medieval and early modern Germany and he is author of Sacred Communities: Jewish and Christian Identities in Fifteenth-Century Germany (Brill, 2001).Stephen G. Burnett (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1990) is Associate Professor of Classics and Religious Studies, and of History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the author of From Christian Hebraism to Jewish Studies: Johannes Buxtorf (1564-1629) and Hebrew Learning in the Seventeenth-Century (Brill, 1996), and numerous articles on Christian Hebraism and Jewish printing in the early modern period.

• List of Illustrations ... viiAcknowledgements ... viiiAbbreviations and Shortened Titles ... ixContributors ... xvIntroduction ... xxiDean Phillip Bell and Stephen G. BurnettPART I: ROAD TO REFORMATIONHumanists, Jews, and Judaism ... 3Erika RummelGerman Theologians and the Jews in the Fifteenth Century ... 33Christopher OckerPART II: REFORMERS AND THE JEWSLuther and the Jews ... 69Thomas KaufmannPhilip Melanchthon and the Jews: A Reappraisal ... 105Timothy J. WengertBucer, the Jews, and Judaism ... 137R. Gerald HobbsUlrich Zwingli, the Jews, and Judaism ... 171Hans-Martin KirnCalvin, the Jews, and Judaism ... 197Achim DetmersAndreas Osiander, the Jews, and Judaism ... 219Joy KammerlingThe Catholic Reform, Jews, and Judaism in Sixteenth-Century Germany ... 249Robert BireleyThe Intensification of Religious Commitment: Jews, Anabaptists, Radical Reform, and Confessionalization ... 269Michael DriedgerPART III: REPRESENTATIONS OF JEWS AND JUDAISMAnthonius Margaritha on the “Whole Jewish Faith:” A Sixteenth-Century Convert from Judaism and his Depiction of the Jewish Religion ... 303Maria DiemlingVon der Juden Ceremonien: Representations of Jews in Sixteenth-Century Germany ... 335Yaacov DeutschVisual Representations of Jews and Judaism in Sixteenth-Century Germany ... 357Petra SchönerThe Representation of Jews and Judaism in Sixteenth-Century German Literature ... 393Edith WenzelPART IV: JEWS, JUDAISM, AND JEWISH RESPONSES TO THE REFORMATIONJewish Settlement, Politics, and the Reformation ... 421Dean Phillip BellJewish Responses to Christianity in Reformation Germany ... 451Elisheva CarlebachJewish Law and Ritual in Early Modern Germany ... 481Jay BerkovitzGerman Jewish Printing in the Reformation Era (1530–1633) ... 503Stephen G. BurnettSelect Bibliography ... 529Index of Subjects ... 547Index of Persons ... 563Index of Biblical Passages Cited ... 572

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