8vo. xxxiv, 526 pp., cloth in d/w, biblio. index, copy clean & in very good condition, German Historical Institute, New York & Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Synopsis

This carefully researched book provides the first synthetic and contextualized study of German Orientalistik, a subject of special interest because German scholars were the pacesetters in oriental studies between about 1830 and 1930, despite entering the colonial race late and exiting it early. The book suggests that we must take seriously German orientalism s origins in Renaissance philology and early modern biblical exegesis and appreciate its modern development in the context of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century debates about religion and the Bible, classical schooling, and Germanic origins.