Biblical Interpretation and anti-Semitism

buckle Gott mit unsAs Adolf Hitler strategised his way to power, he knew that his anti-
Semitic agenda needed to gain the support of theology and the Church.

The role of the exegetes is the theme of my book Roots of Theological anti-Semitism. Due to its publication I will give papers this fall in Uppsala and Hannah-Arendt-Institut in Dresden.

Picture: The buckle with ‘God with us’ was on belts of Nazi soldiers.

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The Hermeneutics of Reception

What occupies my research is the two poles of text and reception: – the New Testament, interpreted as closely as possible to the original, being aware of the risk of reading my own thoughts into the text – the reception of the text by new readers, resulting in a ‘new text’ coloured by the new readers horizon. No serious exegesis can disregard the fundamental laws of interpretation, exemplified in the scholarly reception of the texts.