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This book represents a multi-disciplinary approach to the problem of the Jews and the German Reformation. The contributions come from both senior and emerging scholars, from North America, Israel, and Europe, to ensure a breadth in perspective. The essays in this volume are arranged under four broad headings: 1. The Road to the Reformation (late medieval theology and the humanists and the Jews), 2. The Reformers and the Jews (essays on Luther, Melanchthon, Bucer, Zwingli, Calvin, Osiander, the Catholic Reformers, and the Radical Reformers), 3. Representations of Jews and Judaism (the portrayal of Judaism as a religion, images of the Jews in the visual arts, and in sixteenth-century German literature), and 4. Jewish Responses to the Reformation.
Contributors include: Dean Phillip Bell, Jay Berkovitz, Robert Bireley, Stephen G. Burnett, Elisheva Carlebach, Achim Detmers, Yaacov Deutsch, Maria Diemling, Michael Driedger, R. Gerald Hobbs, Joy Kammerling, Thomas Kaufmann, Hans-Martin Kirn, Christopher Ocker, Erika Rummel, Petra Schöner, Timothy J. Wengert, and Edith Wenzel.
Contributors include: Dean Phillip Bell, Jay Berkovitz, Robert Bireley, Stephen G. Burnett, Elisheva Carlebach, Achim Detmers, Yaacov Deutsch, Maria Diemling, Michael Driedger, R. Gerald Hobbs, Joy Kammerling, Thomas Kaufmann, Hans-Martin Kirn, Christopher Ocker, Erika Rummel, Petra Schöner, Timothy J. Wengert, and Edith Wenzel.
Price: $174.00
Pages: 576
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Studies in Central European Histories
Publication Date:
26 January 2006
ISBN: 9789004149472
Format: Hardcover
"[...] [T]he essays are [...] of high quality. [...] [T]he useful surveys and the new insights in this book will help to ensure that sixteenth-century German Jews are part of the story of early modern Jewish society and culture."
Adam Shear, Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, Vol. 26, No. 4 (Summer 2008), pp. 187-190
'The book presents the familiar and much-studied topic of the Reformation in sixteenth-century Germany in a new way, by interweaving Jews into the narratives of the various 'Reformations'. [...] It will be a standard work for anyone engaged in these fields for many decades to come."
Magda Teter, H-HRE, H-Net Reviews, April, 2008
“The volume encapsulates the field’s current state, bringing much material into English for the first time. […] [T]his volume [is] desirable for libraries.”
Susan R. Boettcher, Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 60, No. 2 (Summer 2007), pp. 615-616
"It is a collaborative effort under the valiant leadership of two outstanding Reformation historians who have indeed assembled an impressive cohort of scholars as contributors to this vast enterprise. [...] [F]irst-rate scholarship."
Albrecht Classen, Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 38, No. 4 (Winter 2007), pp. 1094-1095
Adam Shear, Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, Vol. 26, No. 4 (Summer 2008), pp. 187-190
'The book presents the familiar and much-studied topic of the Reformation in sixteenth-century Germany in a new way, by interweaving Jews into the narratives of the various 'Reformations'. [...] It will be a standard work for anyone engaged in these fields for many decades to come."
Magda Teter, H-HRE, H-Net Reviews, April, 2008
“The volume encapsulates the field’s current state, bringing much material into English for the first time. […] [T]his volume [is] desirable for libraries.”
Susan R. Boettcher, Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 60, No. 2 (Summer 2007), pp. 615-616
"It is a collaborative effort under the valiant leadership of two outstanding Reformation historians who have indeed assembled an impressive cohort of scholars as contributors to this vast enterprise. [...] [F]irst-rate scholarship."
Albrecht Classen, Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 38, No. 4 (Winter 2007), pp. 1094-1095
Dean Philip Bell, Ph.D. (1995), University of California, Berkeley, 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. (1990), University of Wisconsin-Madison, 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.
Stephen G. Burnett, Ph.D. (1990), University of Wisconsin-Madison, 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.