Abstract

Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, the most influential theologian in German-speaking academia around 1800, favourably reviewed the work of Jewish translators and exegetes of the Bible such as David Friedländer, Aaron Wolfssohn, and Joel Löwe in his Allgemeine Bibliothek der biblischen Litteratur and opened this periodical to their contributions. This article retraces this intellectual exchange and places it in the historical context of the emancipation debates.