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Heschel traces in meticulous detail the origin and history of the Institute as well as Grundmann's own career
The test can only be passed if it demonstrates that the candidate clearly recognizes the fundamental, unbridgeable antagonism between the Jewish religion and Christian faith and can substantiate that the recognition of this antagonism decisively influences his scholarly and practical work” (p. 80)
Hymns written by non-Aryans or implying weakness or passivity were omitted, as were Hebrew terms such as "Hallelujah." The Institute published a de-Judaized version of the New Testament and a de-Judaized catechism
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Susannah Heschel The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2008), hardcover, xvii + 339 pp. Susannah Heschel, professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College, gives us in this volume the fruits of her decade-long research in German ecclesiastical and university archives, tracking down the story of one of the leading expressions of the "German Christian" movement. Based at the University of Jena ( not officially a part of it), the Institute was founded in May 1939, and dissolved in late 1945.
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