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Article: Jews and Jesus: Abraham Geiger's Polemics.(Review)
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- March 22, 1999
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Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus. By SUSANNAH HESCHEL. Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
In her intellectual biography, Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus, Susannah Heschel sets out to demonstrate that Geiger's life-long interest in New Testament studies should in no way be viewed as a product or reflection of assimilationist tendencies. Rather, it should be viewed as the pioneering and forceful creation of a modern Jewish response to Christian anti-Jewish scholarship. Heschel outlines Geiger's development from his initial conviction that his ideas would gain acceptance within contemporary Christian theological-historical scholarship, to ...