The Bible Orient

Der Bibel'sche Orient, a magazine in informal booklets is a cabbalistic magazine published anonymously in 1821 in two booklets, which has been attributed to Isaak Bernays (1792–1849) since Hans Bach's research work . It sees itself as an introduction to Herder's "Spirit of (H) Hebrew Poetry".

construction

The text consists of a five-page introduction called "Advertisement", dated May 20, 1820, "Excerpts from some letters to a German prince on revelation and worship," and 55 pages with interpretations of Genesis 1, 1-15.

Individual lines of Hebrew text with “verbal translations” by Mendelssohn , Luther and Piskator are juxtaposed with an “Organon” that is supposed to represent a “real translation”. What is meant is a kabbalistic exegesis .

interpretation

The cabalistic thoughts are influenced by the romantic philosophy of religion Schelling and Johann Jakob Wagner , whose thoughts Bernays got to know in Munich and Würzburg. The terminology Boehmes or Louis-Claude de Saint-Martins suggests the author's acquaintance with these authors. Bernays was a pupil of the pietistic mystic Herz Scheuer .

The font achieved a wide impact, aroused sharp controversy, but was quickly forgotten.

text

literature

Moritz Steinschneider , Cat. Bodl. col. 1031;
Julius Fürst : Bibliothek des Judentums, 1st volume, p. 359;
Leopold Löwenstein , in Ludwig Geiger : Jüdische Zeitgeschichte, 2nd volume. P. 88;
Jakob Winter / August Wünsche (ed.): The Jewish literature since the end of the canon. A prosaic and poetic anthology with biographical and literary-historical introductions. Trier 1894–1896 (digitized version); Reprint: Olms, Hildesheim 1965., 3, volume. 728, 762;
Samuel Joseph Fuenn : Keneset Yisrael, p. 304;
Allgemeine Zeitschrift des Judentums, 1850, pp. 320, 359.
Leopold Zunz : Der Bibel'sche Orient, in: Zeitschrift für die Wissenschaft des Judenthums, pp. 177–196
Grätz , Gesch. der Juden, Volume 2, p. 428.

Individual evidence

↑ Hans Huebner: A new textus receptus and its problem. Synchrony as a devaluation of history? In: Jesus Christ as the Center of Scripture . De Gruyter, Berlin, New York, ISBN 978-3-11-081180-3 , doi : 10.1515 / 9783110811803.235 .
↑ Hans Bach, Der Bibel'sche Orient and its author, special print from the magazine for the history of the Jews in Germany, Volume VII (1937
↑ A lost Jewish mystic of the Age of Enlightenment: EJ Hirschfeld. Retrieved September 17, 2019 .
↑ motto verses at the beginning of Babylonian and ancient epics, Motto sentences in the Bible . In: Bible and Ancient Orient . De Gruyter, Berlin, Boston 1985, ISBN 978-3-11-086715-2 , pp. 206-212 , doi : 10.1515 / 9783110867152-029 .

[1] Hans Huebner: A new textus receptus and its problem. Synchrony as a devaluation of history? In: Jesus Christ as the Center of Scripture . De Gruyter, Berlin, New York, ISBN 978-3-11-081180-3 , doi : 10.1515 / 9783110811803.235 .

[2] Hans Bach, Der Bibel'sche Orient and its author, special print from the magazine for the history of the Jews in Germany, Volume VII (1937

[3] A lost Jewish mystic of the Age of Enlightenment: EJ Hirschfeld. Retrieved September 17, 2019 .

[4] tto verses at the beginning of Babylonian and ancient epics, Motto sentences in the Bible . In: Bible and Ancient Orient . De Gruyter, Berlin, Boston 1985, ISBN 978-3-11-086715-2 , pp. 206-212 , doi : 10.1515 / 9783110867152-029 .