Ein Jesusbild im Horizont des Nationalsozialismus

One of the dark stains which responsible exegesis has to confront itself with is the role that the Bible played for antisemtic-thinking exegetes with regard to Nazism. Elisabeth Lorenz presents the first study on texts belonging to the »Botschaft Gottes« (God's Message), an excerpted version of the Bible containing heavily edited and partly rearranged New Testament texts that was published in 1940 by the Germanic-Christian »Institute for the Study and Elimination of Jewish Influence on German Church Life«. Its academic director was Walter Grundmann who remained an influential exegete long after the war and was a former Jena Professor of New Testament and Völkisch (Ethnic) Exegesis. The focus of this volume's analysis is the exegetical reworking of the texts, which the author examines for their underlying translation and editorial hermeneutics.