Roots of Theological Anti-Semitism: German Biblical Interpretation and the Jews, from Herder and Semler to Kittel and Bultmann

Exploring the link between German biblical interpretation and anti-Semitism, this book is a fresh, comprehensive study of leading German exegetes, concluding that although Nazism brought anti-Semitic exegesis to a head, age-old thought structures provided powerful legitimation for oppression.

Anders Gerdmar, Th. D. (2001) ) and Associate Professor in New Testament Exegesis, Uppsala University is researcher and author. His published works includes Rethinking the Judaism-Hellenism Dichotomy (Almqvist & Wiksell, 2001) and the methodological textbook Paths to the New Testament.