TY  - JOUR
A1  - Musch, Sebastian
T1  - Linking the Jewish People to India
T2  - PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien [23 (2017)] = JewBus, Jewish Hindus & other Jewish Encounters with East Asian Religions
T2  - PaRDeS : Journal of the Association of Jewish Studies [23 (2017)] = JewBus, Jewish Hindus & other Jewish Encounters with East Asian Religions
N2  - This article explores the little-known author Friedrich Korn (1803–1850). Korn developed a theory of universal revelation which, among other things, claimed that the Jewish people descended from India. His theory is an amalgamation of the Romantic ideas about India, the historical criticisms as expounded by David Friedrich Strauß, and the desire to see his own conversion from Judaism to Protestantism as congruent with the historical progress of religion. Situating Korn in the intellectual context and theological debates of his time allows us to take a closer look at how he tried to reconcile many opposing stances, namely arguing for a genealogical lineage between India and the Jewish people, while calling for the conversion of the Jewish people to Christianity, and steadfastly believing in universal revelation, while holding on to the tools of historical criticism. These different positions made Korn an untimely author, out of sync with his peers and the scholarly attitude towards Judaism, India, and religion in general.
Y1  - 2018
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/40889
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-408892
SN  - 978-3-86956-418-0
SN  - 1614-6492
SN  - 1862-7684
IS  - 23
SP  - 41
EP  - 54
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  -