Abstract

In this article, the author presents modern Jewish Bible research in Europe, the US and Israel/Palestine. Although Wissenschaft des Judentums rather reluctantly included historico-critical research of the Hebrew bible, we find the beginnings of the so called higher criticism among its early masters: Zunz, Geiger and Graetz. The trend toward radical criticism gained strength through scholars like Kohler, Bernstein and Maybaum in the second half of the 19th century. Meanwhile Jewish biblical scholarship had gained foothold in England through Montefiore and, by means of emigration, in the United States and Palestine.