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060033 SE Forgers of the Bible (2019S)

The History of an Antisemitic Stereotype in Christianity and Islam from Antiquity until Today

Continuous assessment of course work

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Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Thursday 07.03. 12:00 - 13:30 Hörsaal 1 Judaistik UniCampus Hof 7 2L-EG-25
  • Thursday 14.03. 12:00 - 13:30 Hörsaal 1 Judaistik UniCampus Hof 7 2L-EG-25
  • Thursday 28.03. 12:00 - 13:30 Hörsaal 1 Judaistik UniCampus Hof 7 2L-EG-25
  • Thursday 04.04. 12:00 - 13:30 Hörsaal 1 Judaistik UniCampus Hof 7 2L-EG-25
  • Thursday 11.04. 12:00 - 13:30 Hörsaal 1 Judaistik UniCampus Hof 7 2L-EG-25
  • Thursday 02.05. 12:00 - 13:30 Hörsaal 1 Judaistik UniCampus Hof 7 2L-EG-25
  • Thursday 09.05. 12:00 - 13:30 Hörsaal 1 Judaistik UniCampus Hof 7 2L-EG-25
  • Thursday 16.05. 12:00 - 13:30 Hörsaal 1 Judaistik UniCampus Hof 7 2L-EG-25
  • Thursday 23.05. 12:00 - 13:30 Hörsaal 1 Judaistik UniCampus Hof 7 2L-EG-25
  • Thursday 06.06. 12:00 - 13:30 Hörsaal 1 Judaistik UniCampus Hof 7 2L-EG-25
  • Thursday 13.06. 12:00 - 13:30 Hörsaal 1 Judaistik UniCampus Hof 7 2L-EG-25
  • Thursday 27.06. 12:00 - 13:30 Hörsaal 1 Judaistik UniCampus Hof 7 2L-EG-25

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Aims, contents and method of the course

Since antiquity Jews are accused to have forged the text of the Hebrew Bible to suppress its true message. Christians and Muslims employed this stereotype broadly in antisemitic polemics against Jews. This seminar will not only trace the history of this polemic from antiquity until today but wants to also to ask what motivated them and how they can be fought.

Assessment and permitted materials

Regular and active participation, presentation, final term paper

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Examination topics

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)
William Adler, “The Jews as Falsifiers: Charges of Tendentious Emendation in Anti-Jewish Christian Polemic,” in Translation of Scripture: Proceedings of a Conference at the Annenberg Research Institute, May 15–16, 1989, hrsg. D. Goldenberg (Philadelphia: Annenberg Research Institute, 1990), 1–27
Irven M. Resnick, „The Falsification of Scripture and Medieval Christian and Jewish Polemics,“ Medieval Encounters: Jewish, Christian and Muslim Culture in Confluence and Dialogue 2 (1996): 344-380
Gabriel Said Reynolds, “On the Qur'anic Accusation of Scriptural Falsification (tahrîf) and Christian Anti-Jewish Polemic,” Journal of the American Oriental Society 130 (2010): 189–202

Association in the course directory

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

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