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JEWS, JUDAISM, AND THE REFORMATION IN SIXTEENTH-CENTURY GERMANY
STUDIES IN CENTRAL EUROPEAN HISTORIES EDITED BY
THOMAS A. BRADY AND
ROGER CHICKERING
VOLUME XXXVII
DEAN PHILLIP BELL AND STEPHEN G. BURNETT JEWS, JUDAISM, AND THE REFORMATION IN SIXTEENTH-CENTURY GERMANY
JEWS, JUDAISM, AND THE REFORMATION IN SIXTEENTH-CENTURY GERMANY EDITED BY
DEAN PHILLIP BELL AND STEPHEN G. BURNETT
BRILL LEIDEN • BOSTON 2006
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements ...................................................................... Abbreviations and Shortened Titles .......................................... Contributors ................................................................................ Introduction .................................................................................... Dean Phillip Bell and Stephen G. Burnett
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PART I: ROAD TO REFORMATION Humanists, Jews, and Judaism ...................................................... Erika Rummel German Theologians and the Jews in the Fifteenth Century .............. Christopher Ocker
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PART II: REFORMERS AND THE JEWS Luther and the Jews ...................................................................... Thomas Kaufmann Philip Melanchthon and the Jews: A Reappraisal ............................ Timothy J. Wengert Bucer, the Jews, and Judaism ........................................................ R. Gerald Hobbs Ulrich Zwingli, the Jews, and Judaism .......................................... Hans-Martin Kirn Calvin, the Jews, and Judaism ........................................................ Achim Detmers Andreas Osiander, the Jews, and Judaism ........................................ Joy Kammerling The Catholic Reform, Jews, and Judaism in Sixteenth-Century Germany .................................................................................... Robert Bireley The Intensification of Religious Commitment: Jews, Anabaptists, Radical Reform, and Confessionalization ...................................... Michael Driedger
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contents PART III: REPRESENTATIONS OF JEWS AND JUDAISM
Anthonius Margaritha on the “Whole Jewish Faith:” A Sixteenth-Century Convert from Judaism and his Depiction of the Jewish Religion .................................................................... Maria Diemling Von der Juden Ceremonien: Representations of Jews in Sixteenth-Century Germany .......................................................... Yaacov Deutsch Visual Representations of Jews and Judaism in Sixteenth-Century Germany .................................................................................... Petra Schöner The Representation of Jews and Judaism in Sixteenth-Century German Literature ...................................................................... Edith Wenzel