Richard Landes

Richard Allen Landes (born June 24, 1949 ) is an American historian and author, his specialty is millenarianism . He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Boston University . Landes was also director of the now defunct Center for Millennial Studies .

Life

Landes sees religion as a socially important force that shapes the relationships between elites and ordinary people in many countries and times. By “demotic religiosity” he understands an attitude that considers equality before the law to be important, gives physical work a high priority, grants holy texts and a share in God to all believers and honors moral integrity through honor. He originally did medieval studies and initially focused on the period AD 1000.

From 1995 to 2004 he headed the Center for Millennial Studies at Boston University. He organized annual meetings and published an online journal, the Journal of Millennial Studies . Results include an encyclopedia of Millennialism and Movements, and a retrospective on the apocalyptic aspects of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion .

Due to the turn of the year 2000, Landes sees similar apocalyptic currents in the present. He describes global Islamist jihad as a millennialist movement. The Internet plays a similar role for jihad as the printer does for Protestantism.

In 2011 he worked at the International Consortium on Research in the Humanities of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg . Then he returned to his medieval studies. He dealt with the year 6000 of the Jewish calendar, which in medieval Europe was regarded as the end of time for 500 and 801 AD. In both cases, according to the country, the clerical elite used this, first to warn of the end of times, and then to correct the chronology accordingly. In the year 500 the biblical calendar was corrected from 6000 to 5700. In 801 the AD date was introduced, which provided a date of the Apocalypse at 1000 or 1033 after the birth or crucifixion of Christ. 801 could no longer be avoided, so to speak. As a result, Christianity received some demotic thrusts , pilgrims, heretics, geisslers and barefooters received a boost.

On the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Landes is an outspoken defender of Israel and criticizes anti-Israeli propaganda in news and commentary. He accuses the mainstream press of taking unauthorized and falsified news from Palestinian sources without verification. He in no way denies that Israeli military operations also resulted in deaths and injuries, but sees clear exaggerations in favor of propaganda from interested parties.

The term Pallywood comes from him, he uses it to refer to reports on the Middle East conflict that have been prepared and presented to European and American media representatives .

Landes blogs for "blogs at the Daily Telegraph" and operates two personal websites, The Augean Stables and The Second Draft (see links). The Augean Stables (dt. The stables Augean ' ) concerns anti-Israel media topics and issues. The Second Draft is entirely devoted to anti-Israel propaganda. Landes dealt in particular with the question of whether the Palestinian boy Muhammad al-Durrah was shot by Israeli troops and the related reporting by French media. Another case is the portrayal of the American student Tuvia Grossman, who is protected from an Arab mob by an Israeli police officer, as an allegedly abused Palestinian. He has made significant contributions to the Goldstone Report , a multi-author website on inconsistencies in the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict , as well as reporting on the Gaza Strip .

Books

• Essays on the Peace of God: the church and the people in eleventh-century France . With Thomas J. Head. Waterloo University, Waterloo, Ontario 1987, OCLC 18039359 .
• Naissance d'Apôtre: Les origines de la Vita prolixior de Saint Martial de Limoges au XIe siècle . Translation: Catherine Paupert. Brepols, Turnhout, Belgium 1991, ISBN 978-2-503-50045-4 .
• The Peace of God: social violence and religious response in France around the year 1000 . With Thomas J. Head. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY 1992, ISBN 0-8014-2741-X .
• Relics, apocalypse, and the deceits of history: Ademar of Chabannes, 989-1034 . Harvard University Press, Cambridge 1995, ISBN 0-674-75530-8 .
• Encyclopedia of millennialism and millennial movements . Routledge, New York 2000, ISBN 0-415-92246-1 .
• The apocalyptic year 1000: religious expectation and social change, 950-1050 . With Van Meter, David C .; Gow, Andrew Sydenham Farrar. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2003, ISBN 0-19-511191-5 .
• Heaven on Earth: The Varieties of the Millennial Experience . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2011.
• The Paranoid Apocalypse: A Hundred Year Retrospective on The Protocols of the Elders of Zion . With Stephen Katz. New York University Press, New York, 2011.

items

• Jews as Contested Ground in Post-Modern Conspiracy Theory . In: Jewish Political Studies Review. Vol. 19, Nos. 3-4 (2007): 9-34.
• Edward Said and the Culture of Honor and Shame: Orientalism and Our Misperceptions of the Arab-Israeli Conflict . In: Israel Affairs. Special issue, 13: 4 (2007), 84-58, and in Donna Divine, Philip Salzman (Eds.): Postcolonial Theory and the Arab-Israeli Conflict . Routledge, London 2007, ISBN 978-0-415-44325-8 .
• Goldstone's Gaza Report, Part I: A Failure of Intelligence . In: Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA). January 2010.
• Goldstone's Gaza Report, Part II: A Miscarriage of Human Rights . In: Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA). January 2010.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Encyclopedia of Millennialism and Millennial Movements, by Richard Landes, Taylor & Francis, July 27, 2000
2. ^ Heaven on Earth: The Varieties of the Millennial Experience, by Richard Landes, Oxford University Press, 2001
3. ^ A Hundred-Year Retrospective on The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, edited by Richard Landes and Steven T. Katz, 2011, ISBN 978-0-8147-4892-3
4. ↑ Millennialism from Jesus to the Peace of God (33-1033) International Consortium for Research in the Humanities "Fate, Freedom and Prognostication", University of Erlangen Nuremberg, Käte Hamburger Kollegs
5. ↑ Controversial Gaza video: Israel rejects guilty of twelve-year-old death. In: SpiegelOnline. May 20, 2013.

Web links

• Richard Landes' website
• Professor Landes' CV
• Center for Millennial Studies
• The Second Draft
• The Augean Stables
• Understanding the Goldstone report
• Landes' Daily Telegraph blog
• honestreporting.com Article about land at honestreporting.com