“The Immortal Traveler”

How Historiography Changed Judaism

Datos Bibliográficos

ID19476408
AutoresCristiana Facchini (autor de correspondencia)
Año2018
Volumen20
Número1
Páginas111-134
Fecha de publicación2018-03-28
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaArchiv für Religionsgeschichte (BOOK_SERIES)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1436-3038 • E-ISSN: 1868-8888
EditorialWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/arege-2018-0008
OpenAlexW2796500044
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas22

The historiography of Judaism as a scholarly enterprise primarily developed during the nineteenth century as the byproduct of a number of historical conditions that influenced Western culture at large. First and foremost, European society at the time was shaped by the dynamism and social change brought on by industrialization. Moreover, the nineteenth century’s culture held on to a romantic image of the past in its multifarious guises – the ancient or the medieval, and in some cases the age of the Renaissance – to which various currents of European thought had contributed. The past, and therefore history as a cultural practice, was particularly important in the age of nationalism and empires. In this article I analyze how certain religious topics such as the ‘historical Jesus’ and the relevance of the Kabbalah were elaborated in the early modern period and readdressed, with different religious and cultural agendas, in the nineteenth century

Aesthetics · Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Dynamism · Historiography · Judaism · Literature · Middle Ages · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Classics · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Jewish Identity and Society · Law · Philosophy · Religion, Theology, History, Judaism, Christianity