TY - JOUR
AU - Walton, Michael T.
AB - 440 Book Reviews Jews, Judaism and the Reformation in Sixteenth-Century Germany. Edited by Dean Phillip Bell and Stephen G. Burnett . Studies in Central European Histories, 37. Leiden : Brill . 2006 xxi + 572 pp. $196.00 (hardback). The editors have assembled essays from eighteen established and rising scholars of the German Reformation and of the Jews and Judaism in Germany in the same period. The unifying theme is that in spite of their small numbers, Jews were very much part of Germany and Hebrew and Jewish learning were very much part of the Reformation. While the theses may seem unremarkable, many studies tend to take a less integrated approach to both Judaism and the Reformation. Bell and Burnett succeed in directing scholars to essay topics that could provide important insights and maintain thematic unity. The book is divided into four parts. Part 1, ‘ The Road to Reformation ’ , contains two essays. Erika Rummel’s ‘ Humanists, Jews, and Judaism ’ treats the rise of Hebrew and Jewish learning among humanists. She looks at Heinrich Agrippa and Johannes Reuchlin as proponents of Jewish knowledge and how their studies led to charges of Judaizing. Christopher Ocker’s ‘ German Theologians 
TI - Jews, Judaism and the Reformation in Sixteenth-Century Germany
JF - German History
DO - 10.1093/gerhis/ghn033
DA - 2008-07-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/jews-judaism-and-the-reformation-in-sixteenth-century-germany-CpgYCFjOJc
SP - 440
EP - 441
VL - 26
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