Community and Controversy:Jews, Anglicans and theBible in Victorian England
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Talk by Dr Edward Breuer in conjunction with the British Friends of the Hebrew University. In the 1860’s, the new critical study of the Bible became the subject of a public and voluble controversy among Anglicans. Anglo-Jews were well aware of the controversy and even spoke out. The question this lecture will explore is how these same Jews reacted when one of their own went down the same critical path. Edward Breuer is a native of Montreal and taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Loyola University before moving to Israel with his family in 2001. Dr Breuer currently teaches in the Department of Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at the Rothberg International School. His research and publications have centred upon the Jewish Enlightenment and the writings of Moses Mendelssohn. He is currently working on Jews and their various responses to biblical criticism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.