Abstract
����� ��� According to Pietists, Jews had “gone astray ,” but were nonetheless a good people, and more importantly, they had a key role to play in God’s universal plan. In their many publications, and in particular in the periodical Sammlung Auserlesener Materien zum Bau des Reichs Gottes (hereafter: Bau des Reichs Gottes), Pietists thus tried to rehabilitate Jews in the public’s eye. Pietism’s opponents, representatives of the orthodox Lutheran church, were just as concerned with influencing public opinion. In their own publications, especially the journal Unschuldige Nachrichten von Alten und Neuen Theologischen Sachen (hereafter: Unschuldige Nachrichten), orthodox Lutherans used negative stereotypes about Jews to condemn both Jews and Pietists as pollutants of church and society. In their respective periodicals, orthodox Lutherans and Pietist reformers carried on a public debate about the proper role of Jews in society, about which rights they should have, and about the appropriate kind and scope of contact between Christians and Jews.2
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