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- W2993107503 abstract "While there are a number of recent works by Jewish thinkers aimed at debunking the negative and misleading myths about Christianity that have prevailed in Jewish scholarship since the 19th century, these misunderstandings are still all too prevalent. The central ideas of this erroneous view of Christianity have their roots in 19th century Germany. Just as the German Christian scholarship of the period utilized the Hegelian thesis, antithesis, synthesis to prove that German Christian thought was the apex of human reasoning and evolution, so did its Jewish counterpart prove that Jewish thought, especially Jewish ethical reasoning, was the goal toward which human evolution and history had been striving. Each saw the other as an aberrant offspring of the true course of human advancement and achievement. For Jewish thought to do this, however, it had to reduce the complexities of Christian thinking into simplicities, often ascribing to Christianity as a whole polemics which Protestants aimed at Catholics and Catholics at Protestants, resulting in a view of Christianity unrecognizable by either Catholics or Protestants. Introduction The Jewish Jesus, I have discovered over the years, is not only often misunderstood by Christians, but the Christian Jesus, and Christianity itself, are rather systematically misunderstood by educated Jews. This is not to suggest a parallel in any sense to the polemical anti-Judaic and anti-Jewish diatribes within Christian history that begin with the very Fathers of the Church as early as the second century of the Common Era. Nor were they the product of the medieval apologetics with which Jewish teachers sought to protect their students from over-zealous Christian missionaries. This article reprises and updates an article that came out of my doctoral studies at New York University in the late 1960s. Sadly, it is still pertinent today.1 The aim of this paper is neither rebuttal nor exhaustive analysis. Rather, it is a position paper, offering examples of these misunderstandings and a possible explanation for their continuing popularity. The Making of a Myth The categories which I shall offer as those underlying much of modern Jewish scholarship in its attitude toward Christianity have their roots in nineteenth-century Germany. For it was the German academic community that fused Hegelian Idealism and social Darwinism into a philosophical language tool for the analysis of scripture, religion, and history. It was German-Jewish scholarship that reacted with the Science of Judaism (Wissenschaft des Judentums), utilizing that same tool for its own apologetic. Both groups saw history in terms of the Hegelian stages of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. The former posited Christianity as the ultimate stage in world history. With some, like Hegel himself, it was specifically Christian Germany that was the pinnacle of human evolution.2 Since this approach not so implicitly denigrated Judaism to the level of a vestigial anachronism, the lattet reacted by placing prophetic ethics at the pinnacle of human achievement.3 This view, however, logically reduced Christianity and implicidy Western civilization to the level of an aberrant offshoot from normative Judaism. The symbol of the Christian branch of this polemic has become Julius Wellhausen,4 who saw the Temple priesthood and later Talmudic legislation as corruptive of the original, nobly primitive, prophetic ethical monotheism, in need of purification and renewal, which came in the form of Christianity. The main target of such romantic, pseudo-scientific theorizing, of course, was not Judaism but Roman Catholicism, with its hierarchical priesthood, dogmas, and volumes of canon law. Indeed, the dim view of Set ipture studies by the Catholic Church lasted until Pius XII's groundbreaking encyclical, Divino Afflante Spiritu (1943), opened up modern biblical methodologies to Catholic scholars.5 The reaction of the freshly emancipated Jews of Germany was even more dramatic. …" @default.
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- W2993107503 title "Typical Jewish Misunderstandings of Christianity" @default.
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