060026 SE The Children of the Devil (John 8:44) (2024S)
Antisemitism in Holy Scriptures and Their Reception History
Continuous assessment of course work
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- Registration is open from Th 01.02.2024 08:00 to We 28.02.2024 23:59
- Deregistration possible until Su 31.03.2024 23:59
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max. 92 participants
Language: German
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Thursday
07.03.
18:15 - 20:00
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Thursday
14.03.
18:15 - 20:00
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21.03.
18:15 - 20:00
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Thursday
11.04.
18:15 - 20:00
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18.04.
18:15 - 20:00
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02.05.
18:15 - 20:00
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16.05.
18:15 - 20:00
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23.05.
18:15 - 20:00
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06.06.
18:15 - 20:00
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Thursday
20.06.
18:15 - 20:00
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27.06.
18:15 - 20:00
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Aims, contents and method of the course
Holy scriptures such as the Bibles of the various Christian denominations or the Quran, the Hadith and the Sira in Islam play a central role in past and present Jew-hatred. On the one hand, they contain antisemitic ideas. On the other hand, even passages that are free of Jew-hatred have been and continue to be interpreted in an antisemitic way in the history of their interpretation. Even today, the persecution of Jews is justified with references to holy scriptures: Robert Bowers, the Pittsburgh shooter, referred to John 8:44 on his Gab page. Immediately after the terrorist attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, with the battle cry Khaybar Khaybar ya yahud (Chaibar, Chaibar, O you Jews), demonstrators in Vienna and elsewhere compared the fate of the victims of this terrorist attack to the genocide of the Jewish tribe of Banu Nadir in the oasis of Chaibar, as described in the Sira. Holy scriptures have thus played and continue to play a central role in the history of Jew-hatred. This seminar aims to investigate antisemitism in the holy scriptures of Christianity and Islam themselves, as well as in their antisemitic reception history.To achieve this goal students will form teams which will work on various aspects of this overall topics.
Assessment and permitted materials
Written and oral presentation of a research project
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
Regular and active participation, a presentation and a final term research project.
Examination topics
Students should demonstrate their ability to analyze antisemitic passages in holy scriptures as well as the antisemitic reception history of holy scriptures in their ideological and historical contexts.
Reading list
Camilla Adang, Muslim Writers on Judaism and the Hebrew Bible: From Ibn Rabban to Ibn Hazm (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science: Texts and Studies 23; Leiden: Brill, 1996).
Reimund Bieringer, Frederique Vandecasteele-Vanneuville, and Didier Pollefeyt (eds.), Anti-Judaism and the Fourth Gospel: Papers of the Leuven of the Leuven Colloquim, 2000 (Jewish and Christian Heritage Series 1; Leiden: Brill, 2001).
Terence L. Donaldson, Jews and Anti-Judaism in the New Testament: Decisions and Divergent Interpretations (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 2010).
Paula Frederiksen and Adele Reinhartz (eds.), Jesus, Judaism, and Christian Anti-Judaism: Reading the New Testament after the Holocaust (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2002).
John G. Gager, The Origins of Anti-Semitism: Attitudes Toward Judaism in Pagan and Christian Antiquity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985).
Neil J. Kressel, "The Sons of Pigs and Apes": Muslim Antisemitism and the Conspiracy of Silence (Washington: Potomac Books, 2012).
Armin Lange, Kerstin Mayerhofer, Dina Porat and Lawrence H. Schiffman (eds.), An End to Antisemitism!, Vol. 2: Confronting Antisemitism from the Perspectives of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020).
Hava Lazarus-Yafeh, Intertwined Worlds: Medieval Islam and Bible Criticism (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992).
Abdel-Hakim Ourghi, Die Juden im Koran: Ein Zerrbild mit fatalen Folgen (München: Claudius Verlag, 2023).
Adele Reinhartz, Cast Out of the Covenant: Jews and Anti-Judaism in the Gospel of John (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2018).
Adele Reinhartz, The Gospel of John and Jewish-Christian Relations (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2018).
Rosemary Radford Ruether, Faith and Fratricide: The Theological Roots of Anti-Semitism (New York: Seabury Press, 1974).
Samuel Sandmel, Anti-Semitism in the New Testament? (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1978).
Sam Solomon and Elias Al-Maqsidi, Al-Yahud: Eternal Islamic Enmity & the Jews (Charlottesville: Advancing Native Missions, 2010).
Carsten Peter Thiede and Urs Stingelin, Die Wurzeln des Antisemitismus: Judenfeindschaft in der Antike, im frühen Christentum und im Koran (Basel: Brunnen Verlag, 2002).
Reimund Bieringer, Frederique Vandecasteele-Vanneuville, and Didier Pollefeyt (eds.), Anti-Judaism and the Fourth Gospel: Papers of the Leuven of the Leuven Colloquim, 2000 (Jewish and Christian Heritage Series 1; Leiden: Brill, 2001).
Terence L. Donaldson, Jews and Anti-Judaism in the New Testament: Decisions and Divergent Interpretations (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 2010).
Paula Frederiksen and Adele Reinhartz (eds.), Jesus, Judaism, and Christian Anti-Judaism: Reading the New Testament after the Holocaust (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2002).
John G. Gager, The Origins of Anti-Semitism: Attitudes Toward Judaism in Pagan and Christian Antiquity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985).
Neil J. Kressel, "The Sons of Pigs and Apes": Muslim Antisemitism and the Conspiracy of Silence (Washington: Potomac Books, 2012).
Armin Lange, Kerstin Mayerhofer, Dina Porat and Lawrence H. Schiffman (eds.), An End to Antisemitism!, Vol. 2: Confronting Antisemitism from the Perspectives of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020).
Hava Lazarus-Yafeh, Intertwined Worlds: Medieval Islam and Bible Criticism (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992).
Abdel-Hakim Ourghi, Die Juden im Koran: Ein Zerrbild mit fatalen Folgen (München: Claudius Verlag, 2023).
Adele Reinhartz, Cast Out of the Covenant: Jews and Anti-Judaism in the Gospel of John (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2018).
Adele Reinhartz, The Gospel of John and Jewish-Christian Relations (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2018).
Rosemary Radford Ruether, Faith and Fratricide: The Theological Roots of Anti-Semitism (New York: Seabury Press, 1974).
Samuel Sandmel, Anti-Semitism in the New Testament? (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1978).
Sam Solomon and Elias Al-Maqsidi, Al-Yahud: Eternal Islamic Enmity & the Jews (Charlottesville: Advancing Native Missions, 2010).
Carsten Peter Thiede and Urs Stingelin, Die Wurzeln des Antisemitismus: Judenfeindschaft in der Antike, im frühen Christentum und im Koran (Basel: Brunnen Verlag, 2002).
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