Geschmackvolle Kenner der Bibel

Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, the most influential theologian in German-speaking academia around 1800, favourably reviewed the work of Jewish translators and exegetes of the Bible such as David Friedländer, Aaron Wolfssohn, and Joel Löwe in his Allgemeine Bibliothek der biblischen Litteratur and opened this periodical to their contributions. This article retraces this intellectual exchange and places it in the historical context of the emancipation debates.

Religionskritik in Gottfried Kellers Erzählwerk

Gottfried Keller’s reservations about the church and religion, which remarkably did not stand in the way of his installation as a national writer or at least were partly overlooked in the course of a self-congratulatory reception, can be studied in the prime example of the famous novella interlude of Meretlein, as it is found in both versions of Green Henry. The investigation of the interlude here is based on the various media and sources which shaped the novel character. The conglomerate in which they come together in this character is unraveled by recourse to the earlier and earliest literature on Keller.