Die Judenbuche and the “Judens‐buch”
Hermeneutic Hindrance and Scriptural Reading in Droste‐Hülshoff's Crime Novella
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20654620 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yael Almog (0000-0002-4290-9779, Zentrum für Literatur‐ und Kulturforschung Berlin, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 89 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 328-343 |
| Publication date | 2016-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The German Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-8831 • E-ISSN: 1756-1183 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/gequ.12004 |
| OpenAlex | W2517332137 |
| Language | DE |
| References cited | 16 |
The article presents Annette von Droste‐Hülshoff's Die Judenbuche as a reaction to the disjunction between textual interpretation and confessional belonging in modernity. I argue that the epicenter of this critique is the insertion of a Hebrew sentence that embodies both in its language and in its content—talion law—the word of the Bible as a legal authority. Appearing in the midst of the novella, the biblical language creates a “hermeneutical hindrance,” and signals the reliance of interpretation on religious training of scriptural reading. Die Judenbuche thus alerts to the codependence of hermeneutical practices and moral codes. The article concludes that in the novella, the adherence of the village's Jews to the language of the Bible hints that confessional difference may subtend diverging cultures of interpretation and perpetuate the distinct moral codes that they convey
Art · Confession (law) · Confessional · Epistemology · Hebrew · Hermeneutics · Interpretation (philosophy) · Linguistics · Literature · Modernity · Narrative · Narrativity · Novella · Politics · Reading (process) · Sociology · Theology · German legal, social, and political studies · German Literature and Culture Studies · History · Law · Linguistic research and analysis · Philosophy
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Vorlesungen zur Hermeneutik und Kritik
The Enlightenment Bible
"The Specter of Anti-Semitism in and around Annette von Droste-Hulshoff's "Judenbuche
Red Herrings and Blue Smocks
Indeterminacy as Provocation
The Dead Speak
Imagined communities
Lessing's Laocoon
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |