Jüdische Zeitschrift für Wissenschaft und Leben - Funfter Jahrgang

Geiger, Abraham, Editor

Verlag: Schletter'sche Buchhandlung (H. Skutsch)., Breslau, 1867

Beschreibung

In German. 208 x 131 mm. (2), 318, (2) pages. Ex library. Minor water stains in margins. Geiger (1810 Frankfurt am Main -1874) was one of the most important exponents of Reform Judaism; as author, historian, and critic, one of the pathfinders of the science of Judaism ("Wissenschaft des Judentums"). He was editor of Jewish scientific reviews, and teacher at the Berlin Hochschule (now Lehranstalt) für die Wissenschaft des Judentums. In his theories he was consistently the exponent of the principles underlying the most radical Reform. Judaism for him was not a given quantity, not a national law. It was a process still in flux; tradition itself was the result of this continuous process of growth. He was less inclined than Einhorn and others to emphasize the "election of Israel." The Torah as well as the Talmud, he demanded, should be studied critically and from the point of view of the historian, that of evolution, development. These views he took occasion often to emphasize in his later "Jüdische Zeitschrift für Wissenschaft und Leben," the editorials in which are for the most part dedicated to the exposition of Reform principles. He was a "pioneer of the Wissenschaft des Judentums and founder of Reform Judaism. Geiger was born to an Orthodox family and received a traditional religious education. Already in his childhood, he began studying classical history, which gave rise to doubts concerning biblical claims to divine authority. At the age of 17, Geiger began writing a study of the Mishnah, differentiating its legal style from biblical and talmudic law, and a dictionary of Mishnaic Hebrew. The two journals he edited contain numerous articles of scholarly and theological significance: Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift fuer juedische Theologie (1835-39) and Juedische Zeitschrift fuer Wissenschaft und Leben (1862-75)" one of the most influential German Jewish periodicals, edited by the eminent leader and one of the founders of Reform Judaism, Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 013676

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Jüdische Zeitschrift für Wissenschaft und ...

Verlag: Schletter'sche Buchhandlung (H. Skutsch)., Breslau

Erscheinungsdatum: 1867

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Fair

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket