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Genre/Form: | Conference papers and proceedings History Congresses |
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Additional Physical Format: | Ebook version : |
Material Type: | Conference publication |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Andrew Mein; Nathan MacDonald; Matthew A Collins; Arts & Humanities Research Council (Great Britain), |
ISBN: | 9780567680785 0567680789 |
OCLC Number: | 1077571473 |
Notes: | The majority of the papers in the present volume were initially written for a meeting in April 2016 at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat in Munich on the topic of the war and the mobilization of biblical scholarship. This was the first meeting of a Cambridge-based AHRC Research Networking project, which ran from 2015 to 2017 under the title "'The Book and the Sword': The Bible in the Experience and Memory of the First World War"--Page vii. |
Description: | ix, 307 pages ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Biblical scholarship at war, 1914-1918 / Andrew Mein -- Maintaining the light of truth? The mobilization of university academics, 1914-1915 / Tomás Irish -- For Christ and Kaiser: Caspar Rene Gregory and the first World War / Timothy J. Demy -- Between prophetic critique and Raison D'etat: Rudolf Kittel on German Jews during the Great War and on Old Testament Hebrews in biblical wars / Lukas Bormann -- William Sanday, modernism and the first World War / Mark D. Chapman -- SOTS, SBL and WWI: Anglo-American scholarly societies and the Great War / Matthew A. Collins -- Thou shalt not kill, unless. The Decalogue in a Kaiserreich at war / Paul Michael Kurtz -- Holy War and the Great War in German Protestant scholarship on the Old Testament / Nathan MacDonald -- Psalms, patriotism and propaganda: a favourite book in wartime biblical scholarship / Andrew Mein -- Ecstasy versus ethics: the impact of the first World War on German biblical scholarship on the Hebrew prophets / Susannah Heschel -- Martyr: title and first World War context / Jan Willem van Henten -- The first World War, the Russian Revolution and the fate of social-scientific approaches to the New Testament and Christian origins / James Crossley -- A disconnected dialogue: Adolf Von Harnack, C.J. Cadoux and the biblical case for peace at the outbreak of the first World War / Hugh S. Pyper -- The Great War and the Bible: some reflections / Suzanne L. Marchand. |
Series Title: | Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies, 676.; Scriptural traces, 15.; T & T Clark library of biblical studies. |
Responsibility: | edited by Andrew Mein, Nathan MacDonald and Matthew A. Collins. |
Abstract:
This fascinating collection of essays charts, for the first time, the range of responses by scholars on both sides of the conflict to the outbreak of war in August 1914. The volume examines how biblical scholars, like their compatriots from every walk of life, responded to the great crisis they faced, and, with relatively few exceptions, were keen to contribute to the war effort. Some joined up as soldiers. More commonly, however, biblical scholars and theologians put pen to paper as part of the torrent of patriotic publication that arose both in the United Kingdom and in Germany. The contributors reveal that, in many cases, scholars were repeating or refining common arguments about the responsibility for the war. In Germany and Britain, where the Bible was still central to a Protestant national culture, we also find numerous more specialized works, where biblical scholars brought their own disciplinary expertise to bear on the matter of war in general, and this war in particular. The volume's contributors thus offer new insights into the place of both the Bible and biblical scholarship in early 20th-century culture.
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