Salvation is from the Jews

Anders Gerdmar, Th.D. (2001) in New Testament Exegesis from Uppsala University, was a researcher, senior lecturer, and author. His published works include Rethinking the Judaism-Hellenism Dichotomy (Almqvist & Wiksell, 2001) and Roots of Theological Anti-Semitism (Brill, 2009).

• ContentsForewordList of Illustration1 Introduction: Exegesis as Legitimation of EliminationOn Theology, the Holocaust, and the Ethics of Interpretation1 Exegetical Legitimation of Replacement Theology2 Methodological Remarks and My Vantage Point3 Overview of the Chapters4 Concluding Remarks2 “Salvation Comes from the Jews”Ideology and Exegesis in the Interpretation of John 4.22b1 The Ideological Tendency in the Exegetes’ Reception2 The Verse in the Overall Theology of the Fourth Gospel3 Summary3 Baur and the Creation of the Judaism-Hellenism Dichotomy1 Baur and the Creation of the Judaism-Hellenism Dichotomy2 Revisiting the Textual Base3 The Jerusalem Church through Tübingen Spectacles4 Baurian Hermeneutics and the Emergence of the Judaism-Hellenism Dichotomy4 Beyond Jewish and HellenisticThe Historical Background of Early Christianity1 The Judaism-Hellenism Dichotomy: A Background2 Some Areas in New Testament Exegesis Which Have Been Affected by the Judaism-Hellenism Dichotomy3 Beyond Two ‘Church Theologies’4 Conclusion: Early Christianity beyond the Judaism-Hellenism Dichotomy or “When Christians Were Jews”5 Christology beyond the Judaism/Hellenism DichotomyA Few Remarks on the History of Christological Scholarship1 From the Liberal Picture of Jesus to the School of the History of Religions2 Post-Holocaust Development3 Conclusions6 Adolf Schlatter and die OrdnungenSchlatter between Christian and völkisch Ideology during 1933–19341 Adolf Schlatter: A Background2 Schlatter’s Dialogue with völkisch Ideology3 Conclusion7 A Germanic Jesus on Swedish SoilSwedish-German Research in a Racist Key, 1941–19451 Germanic and Nordic in German Ideology2 Arbeitsgemeinschaft Germanentum und Christentum: A Germanic-Nordic Cooperation3 A Germanic Jesus on Swedish Theological Soil4 Conclusion: Germanic Inroads into Swedish Theology8 Germanentum as Overarching IdeologyCooperation between German and Nordic Exegetes during the Third Reich1 Old Norse Culture, National Socialism, and Theology in Swedish Academic Salons2 The Bridge to Thuringia, the Brown Heartland of Deutsche Christen9 “Luther’s Struggle against the Jews”A völkisch Reception of Luther’s View of the Jews1 Religious Legitimation of Antisemitism2 Luther and Race10 The Abused Paul and the Jews1 Reception Analysis and Reception Ethics2 Conclusion11 The Nazi Bible. “Another Jesus”The Gospels in the National Socialist Bible, “Die Botschaft Gottes”: Theological Legitimation of Antisemitism1 The Making of Die Botschaft Gottes2 Some Observations on Die Botschaft Gottes and Its Overall Message3 The Gospel of John in Die Botschaft Gottes4 Concluding Reflections: Theological Legitimation of Antisemitism12 Concluding RemarksExegesis and Legitimizing the Elimination of Jews and Judaism1 Exegetes Unaware of Anti-Jewish and Antisemitic Attitudes2 Historiography as Legitimator3 A Jewish Jesus—before and after the Holocaust4 A Dark Ecumenism Legitimating Antisemitism5 Final Reflection: Elimination of “Dangerous” Texts6 Has Modern Christianity Been De-Judaized?7 The Final QuestionIndex