Matthias Morgenstern

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Matthias Morgenstern (* 1959 in Kassel ) is Professor of Jewish Studies and Religious Studies at the Department of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies (Institutum Judaicum) at the University of Tübingen . He is the winner of the Gutenberg Prize of the City and University of Strasbourg and a member of the "Church and Judaism" committee of the Evangelical Church in Germany.

Life

After studying Protestant theology in Tübingen, Zurich and Bern and a two-year stay in Israel as a volunteer for Aktion Sühnezeichen (1985–1987), Morgenstern studied Jewish studies in Heidelberg and Berlin (Free University). He then worked as a research assistant for the Old Testament at the Evangelical Theological Faculty in Tübingen and as a Protestant pastor in Vaihingen (Enz). Since 1999 he has been teaching and researching at the Institutum Judaicum of the University of Tübingen.

job

He specialized in research into German-Jewish Orthodoxy and wrote his dissertation on the Jewish-Orthodox philosopher Isaac Breuer . In addition, there were works on modern Israeli literature, especially on the playwright Moshe Shamir and contemporary Israeli theater. In the 2001/2002 season, the Stadttheater Heilbronn , directed by Johannes Kätzler, staged a play Shamirs translated from Hebrew by Morgenstern - The Heir (“The Heir”), which deals with the problem against the background of the Eichmann trial in Israel the German "reparation payments" to Israel. Since the beginning of his teaching and research activities at the Institutum Judaicum of the University of Tübingen (1999) Morgenstern has been concerned with the rabbinical literature of late antiquity, especially with the Jerusalem Talmud and with exegetical Midrash texts. From 2004 to 2008 he was a member of the international Ramses 2 network (Aix-en-Provence, France) with a research project on gender concepts in the Mediterranean religions. In 2016 Morgenstern published a translation of Martin Luther's anti-Jewish work “ Von den Juden und their Lügen ” in modern German with a Judaistic commentary and a foreword by Heinrich Bedford-Strohm . This publication was criticized by the Berlin church historian Johannes Wallmann in the journal Confessio Augustana as "ecclesiastical edition" and an expression of misunderstood self-infliction.

Research areas (selection)

German-Jewish Orthodoxy, Rabbinical Judaism, Jerusalem Talmud, Martin Luther and Judaism as well as modern Israeli literature.

Isaac Breuer work edition

In 2015–2017 he worked in cooperation with the Samson Raphael Hirsch chair at Bar Ilan University (Ramat-Gan, Israel) on a scholarly edition of the writings of the German-Jewish philosopher Isaac Breuer (1883–1946), from the In 2017 the first volume was presented at an international conference in Ramat-Gan. In this edition, a scientific text was established for the first time by comparing the different editions of the texts and the translations into Hebrew, Yiddish and English that were published during his lifetime. The first volume of the work edition brings together texts that in part show a certain closeness to the philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig ("Messiasspuren"). The second volume contains writings that are shaped by the criticism of secularist Zionism and that propagate “agudism” as a Jewish-Orthodox alternative; it contains an orthodox constitution that shows how Breuer envisioned a Jewish state based on the Torah.

Otto Michel controversy

After the wooden disc of a Torah scroll from the estate of Otto Michel , the founder of the Tübingen Institutum Judaicum, was found in the summer of 2010 , there was a debate about the genesis of the Institutum Judaicum, since Michel was a member of the NSDAP and also the SA, but had concealed this membership after the war. Morgenstern commented on this in a newspaper interview in the Schwäbisches Tagblatt and a lecture on the 75th anniversary of the death of the Tübingen theologian Adolf Schlatter , with whom Otto Michel had studied. An essay volume, which he edited together with the Tübingen church historian Reinhold Rieger , contains contributions by the Tübingen contemporary historian and journalist Hans-Joachim Lang and the New Testament scholar Gudrun Holtz . The historical reconstruction of the friendship between Otto Michel and the Jewish philosopher Martin Buber received special attention . During the Otto Michel controversy, Morgenstern was accused of dirtying the nest, and the Schwäbisches Tagblatt reported on controversies within the Evangelical Theological Faculty of the University of Tübingen , which led to the post of director of the institute remaining unfilled for over four years.

Publications (selection)

  • From Frankfurt to Jerusalem. Isaac Breuer and the History of the Exit Dispute in German-Jewish Orthodoxy, Tübingen 1994 (English: From Frankfurt to Jerusalem. Isaac Breuer and the History of the Secession Dispute in Modern Jewish Orthodoxy, Leiden / Boston / Cologne 2002).
  • Translation of the Talmud Yerushalmi: Nidda. The menstruating. Translation of the Talmud Yerushalmi Volume VI / 1, ed. by Martin Hengel, Peter Schäfer, Friedrich Avemarie, Hans-Jürgen Becker and Frowald Gil Hüttenmeister, Tübingen 2006.
  • Translation of the Talmud Yerushalmi: Ketubbot. Marriage contracts. Translation of the Talmud Yerushalmi Volume III / 3, ed. by Martin Hengel, Peter Schäfer, Friedrich Avemarie, Hans-Jürgen Becker and Frowald Gil Hüttenmeister, Tübingen (Mohr) 2009.
  • Judaism and Gender (Red Guide), Münster 2014.
  • Gershom Scholem in Germany. Kinship and speechlessness (with Gerold Necker and Elke Morlok), Tübingen 2014.
  • The Israeli theater. Notes and notes, Berlin 2016
  • Martin Luther. About the Jews and their lies. Re-edited and commented. With a foreword by Heinrich Bedford-Strohm , Berlin 2016.
  • Martin Luther and the Kabbalah. From the Schem Hamephorasch and the Family of Christ, Berlin 2017.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Morgenstern Matthias, Prof. Dr. | Religious Studies and Judaic Studies | University of Tübingen. Retrieved July 25, 2017 .
  2. ↑ newsletter of faculté de théologie protestante the University of Strasbourg. Retrieved July 23, 2017 (French).
  3. ^ Carsten Splitt: Joint Committee Church and Judaism. Evangelical Church in Germany, accessed January 18, 2018 .
  4. ^ Matthias Morgenstern: Theater and Zionist Myth . Niemeyer-Verlag, Tübingen 2002.
  5. ^ Matthias Morgenstern: The Israeli theater. Notes and notes . Lit-Verlag, Münster 2016, p. 67 .
  6. ↑ Male and Female He Created Them. (PDF) Retrieved on July 23, 2017 (English).
  7. ↑ Albrecht Beutel: An anniversary casts its shadow. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, November 20, 2016, accessed on July 23, 2017 .
  8. ^ Johannes Wallmann: The Protestant Church denies its history . Ed .: Confessio Augustana. No. 3/2017 . Freimund Verlag, Neuendettelsau, p. 70-76 .
  9. ^ Meir Hildesheimer: International Isaac Breuer Symposium. (PDF) (No longer available online.) June 6, 2017, archived from the original on January 18, 2018 ; Retrieved January 18, 2018 (English, Hebrew).
  10. ↑ Isaac Breuer: Early writings on the philosophy of religion, work edition . Ed .: Matthias Morgenstern, Meir Hildesheimer. tape 1 . LIT-Verlag, Münster-Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-643-13391-5 , pp. 341-437 .
  11. ↑ Isaac Breuer: Writings on Zionism and Agudism . In: Matthias Morgenstern, Meir Hildesheimer (Ed.): Isaac Breuer-Werkausgabe . tape 2 . LIT-Verlag, Münster-Berlin 2017.
  12. ↑ Hans-Joachim Lang: It is strange that it is not concrete. In: tagblatt.de. Schwäbisches Tagblatt, February 2, 2012, accessed on January 18, 2018 .
  13. ^ Dorothee Herrmann: Talmud experts among Nazis . In: Schwäbisches Tagblatt . Tübingen January 13, 2016.
  14. ^ Klaus Haacker: Otto Michel and the Tübinger Institutum Judaicum - historically illuminated . In: Pfarrergebetsbruderschaft (Ed.): Theological contributions . tape 48 , no. 6 . SCM R. Brockhaus, Witten December 2017.
  15. ↑ Matthias Morgenstern: The Tübingen Institutum Judaicum . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015.
  16. ^ Matthias Morgenstern: A Jewish theologian for non-Jews. Schwäbisches Tagblatt, Tübingen, August 6, 2015, accessed on December 12, 2017 .
  17. ↑ Hans-Joachim Lang: The Protestant theological faculty has a problem with Jewish Studies. Schwäbisches Tagblatt, April 23, 2016, accessed on January 18, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Morgenstern, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Judaist, religious scholar and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel