The Limits of Enlightenment

Jews, Germans, and the Eighteenth-Century Study of Scripture

Bibliographic Data

ID4405510
AuthorsAllan Arkush (corresponding author), Edward Breuer (0000-0003-4752-3733)
Year1999
Volume89
Issue3/4
Pages393
Publication date1999-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Jewish Quarterly Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-6682 • E-ISSN: 1553-0604
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/1455033
OpenAlexW589483225
LanguageEN
Citations received18

This text explores the early Jewish confrontations with modernity and burgeoning 18th-century interest in the study of Scripture, Edward Breuer examines the complex relationship between the Jewish and the German Aufklarung. revival of a textual and linguistic approach to Bible study among Jews, exemplified by the new translation and commentary published by Moses Mendelssohn, was largely reflective of the aesthetic and literary concerns of contemporary Europeans. The Limits of Enlightenment demonstrates that this revival was also informed by an acute awareness of critical European scholarship and an attempt to respond to its modern challenges. Alongside its openness to European society and culture, the German-Jewish was thus also shaped by a newly perceived need to defend centuries of Jewish learning and tradition

Ancient history · Art · Enlightenment · Literature · Theology · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Philosophy · Religion, Theology, History, Judaism, Christianity · Religious studies

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