Protestant Bible Scholarship: Antisemitism, Philosemitism and Anti-Judaism

Arjen F. Bakker, Ph.D. (2015), is Assistant Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at the University of Groningen. His monograph The Secret of Time: Reconfiguring Wisdom in the Dead Sea Scrolls is forthcoming with Brill in the STDJ series.René Bloch, Dr. phil. (1999), is professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Bern. He is the author of many publications on ancient Judaism and its reception, including Moses und der Mythos (2011) and Jüdische Drehbühnen (2013). Yael Fisch, Ph.D. (2019, TAU), is a postdoctoral-fellow at Tel Aviv University and Oriel College, University of Oxford. She has published on rabbinic literature and Second-Temple literature, including Written for Us: Paul’s Interpretation of Scripture and the History of Midrash (Brill, forthcoming). Paula Fredriksen, Ph.D. (1979), Princeton University, is Aurelio Professor emerita at Boston University. An historian of ancient pagan-Jewish-Christian relations, her books include Augustine and the Jews (Yale, 2010) and Paul. The Pagans’ Apostle (Yale, 2017).Hindy Najman is the Oriel and Laing Professor and director of the Centre for the Study of the Bible at Oriel College, University of Oxford. Her books include Seconding Sinai (2003) and Losing the Temple and Recovering the Future (2014).

• PrefaceList of Contributors1 Karl Georg Kuhn (1906–1976) – Two Academic Careers in GermanyHermann Lichtenberger2 Judaism as Religious Cosmopolitanism: Apologetics and Appropriation in the Jüdisches Lexikon (1927–1930)Irene Zwiep3 Anti-Semitism and Early Scholarship on Ancient Anti-SemitismRené Bloch4 The Rise and Fall of the Notion of “Spätjudentum” in Christian Biblical ScholarshipKonrad Schmid5 “Circumcision is Nothing”: A Non-Reformation Reading of the Letters of PaulPaula Fredriksen6 Anti-Judaism and Philo-Judaism in Pauline Studies, Then and NowMatthew V. Novenson7 The Sibylline Oracles: A Case Study in Ancient and Modern Anti-JudaismOlivia Stewart Lester8 Anti-Judaism, Philo-Semitism, and Protestant New Testament Studies: Perspectives and QuestionsJörg Frey9 American Biblical Scholarship and the Post-War Battle against Anti-SemitismSteven Weitzman10 Jewish and Christian Approaches to Biblical TheologyJohn BartonIndex