Universität Wien

060024 SE Now and Then: Gerhard Kittel and Scientific Antisemitism (2018W)

6.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 6 - Ägyptologie, Judaistik, Urgeschichte und Historische Archäologie
Continuous assessment of course work
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Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Thursday 11.10. 10:00 - 11:30 Hörsaal 1 Judaistik UniCampus Hof 7 2L-EG-25
  • Thursday 18.10. 10:00 - 11:30 Hörsaal 1 Judaistik UniCampus Hof 7 2L-EG-25
  • Thursday 25.10. 10:00 - 11:30 Hörsaal 1 Judaistik UniCampus Hof 7 2L-EG-25
  • Thursday 08.11. 10:00 - 11:30 Hörsaal 1 Judaistik UniCampus Hof 7 2L-EG-25
  • Thursday 15.11. 10:00 - 11:30 Hörsaal 1 Judaistik UniCampus Hof 7 2L-EG-25
  • Thursday 22.11. 10:00 - 11:30 Hörsaal 1 Judaistik UniCampus Hof 7 2L-EG-25
  • Thursday 29.11. 10:00 - 11:30 Hörsaal 1 Judaistik UniCampus Hof 7 2L-EG-25
  • Thursday 06.12. 10:00 - 11:30 Hörsaal 1 Judaistik UniCampus Hof 7 2L-EG-25
  • Thursday 13.12. 10:00 - 11:30 Hörsaal 1 Judaistik UniCampus Hof 7 2L-EG-25
  • Thursday 10.01. 10:00 - 11:30 Hörsaal 1 Judaistik UniCampus Hof 7 2L-EG-25
  • Thursday 17.01. 10:00 - 11:30 Hörsaal 1 Judaistik UniCampus Hof 7 2L-EG-25
  • Thursday 24.01. 10:00 - 11:30 Hörsaal 1 Judaistik UniCampus Hof 7 2L-EG-25
  • Thursday 31.01. 10:00 - 11:30 Hörsaal 1 Judaistik UniCampus Hof 7 2L-EG-25

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

The Antisemitism of the Nazis had many facets. One of these aspects is the attempt to ground racist and religious Jew-hatred both scholarly and scientifically. The Tübingen and Vienna theologian Gerhard Kittel was a key person in the pseudo-scholarly research of the Nazi for the purpose of fighting and destroying Judaism. Kittel was essentially involved in the Institut zur Erforschung der Judenfrage. Further Nazi-Institutes dedicated to the Andere Nazi-Institute for scholarly and scientifc Antisemitism were the Institut zum Studium der Judenfrage and the Institut zur Erforschung und Beseitigung des jüdischen Einflusses auf das deutsche kirchliche Leben. Scholary and scientific antisemitism were and is not restricted to the Nazi-Period but had predessors both in Christianity and Islam which reach back into and antiquity and medieval times and impacts the humanities and sciences until today. Based on the example of Gerhard Kittel, this class wants to research the history of scholarly antisemitism and wants to ask how to fight its influence today.

Assessment and permitted materials

Regular and active participation in class, presentation and final term paper

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Examination topics

Reading list

Susannah Heschel, The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008)
Wayne Meeks, “A Nazi New Testament Professor reads his Bible: The Strange Case of Gerhard Kittel,” in The Idea of Biblical Interpretation: Essays in Honor of James L. Kugel (eds. H. Najman und J.H. Newman; JSJSup 83; Brill: Leiden 2004), 513–544
Leonore Siegele-Wenschkewitz, Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft vor der Judenfrage: G. Kittels theologische Arbeit im Wandel deutscher Geschichte (Münschen: Kaiser, 1980)
Alan E. Steinweis, Studying the Jew: Scholarly Antisemitism in Nazi Germany (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006).
Gerd Theissen, Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft vor und nach 1945: Karl Georg Kuhn und Günther Bornkamm (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 2009)

Association in the course directory

BA: U1-403, als BA-Seminar: U1-403-BA
MA: U2-403

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