German Presents, Jewish Pasts

Works of ancient history

Thanks to tremendous efforts at digitalization across the globe, an ever increasing number of especially 19th-century writings on antiquity are now readily available. Here you can follow links to German-speaking classical, biblical, and orientalist scholarship.

Authors of ancient Judaism

Alongside the Old Testament, Flavius Josephus provided modern writers of ancient history with a major source for antique Judaism. You can find resources here for biography and prosopography on such authors.

On the researcher

Paul Michael Kurtz is an intellectual and cultural historian who focuses on the importance of the Bible and the ancient world for modern Europe. His research centers on the history of biblical, orientalist, and classical scholarship and of interpretation, on representations of antiquity, and on the history of religion in...

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This project examines the contested integration of an ancient Middle Eastern religion into the cultural imagination of modern Europe. The threefold investigation scrutinizes political representations of early Judaism in the context of 19th-century thinking on the nation.

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