Beschreibung
This is a study of what and why Luther wrote about the Jews
and the religion of Judaism, as part of his theological
concept viewed as a whole.
Luther: `God wanted to point out that the Messiah would be a
brother and a cousin of both the Jews and the Gentiles, if
not according to their paternal genealogy, at least
according to their maternal nature [Tamar, Ruth, Rahab, and
Bathsheba]. Consequently, there is no difference between
Jews and Gentiles, except that Moses later separated this
people from the Gentiles by a different form of worship and
political regime. Moreover, these things were written to
make it known to all that the Messiah would gather the
Gentiles and the Jews into one and the same Church, just as
they are joined by nature and consanguinity.’
Lecture in 1544 on Genesis 38:1-5, LW 7, p.15; WA
44, p. 312.
Dr. Steven Paas (1942) published on European and African
Church History, the phenomenon of Israelism in the
interpretation of Biblical prophecy, and the lexicography of
Chichewa, a language widely spoken in Central Africa.
