The Emergence of Jewish Historical Jesus Research in the 19th Century - Why Jewish Scholars took an Interest in the Founding Figure of Christianity - Single View

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Berlin, George, L., Defending the Faith: Nineteenth-Century American Jewish Writings on Christianity and Jesus. Albany: State University of New York Press 1989.

Frankel, Jonathan, Zipperstein, Stephen J., Assimilation and Community: The Jews in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1992

Garber, Zev, ed. The Jewish Jesus: Revelation, Reflection, Reclamation.Lafayette: Purdue University Press 2011.

Homolka, Walter, Jesus Reclaimed: Jewish Perspectives on the Nazarene. New York: Berghahn 2015.

Homolka, Walter, Jewish Jesus Research and its Challenge to Christology Today. Leiden: Brill, 2016/2017

Heschel, Susannah, Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus. Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1998.

Levine Amy-Jill, Brettler, Marc eds. The Jewish Annotated New Testament. New York: Oxford University Press, 2^nd ed. 2017

Meyer, Michael A. Response to Modernity: A History of the Reform Movement in Judaism.New York: Oxford University Press 1988.

Stahl, Neta ed., Jesus Among the Jews: Representation and Thought. London: Routledge 2012.

Wiese, Christian, Challenging Colonial Discourse: Jewish Studies and Protestantism in Wilhelmine Germany. Leiden: Brill 2005.

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Preparation and summary presentation of one of the weekly readings, including discussion at one of the seminar sessions