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embedded in German legal science of the nineteenth century. The leaders of German Jewish reform were not operating in a vacuum but were extending intellectual debates from their university training directly into their Jewish communities. A fuller understanding of the forming forces of German Reform a century and a half ago depends on our looking not only at the Jewish thinkers themselves but also at the intellectual culture in which they were formed.

Notes

I. Ismar Schorsch ,“The Emergence of the Modern Rabbinate” in Werner Mosse , Arnold Paucker and Reinhard Riirup(eds.), Revolution and Evolution: 1848 in German -Jewish History(Tubingen : J.C.B.Mobhr, Paul Siebeck , 1981), pp. 205-7.

2. Ibid. p. 207

3. Ibid. p. 229

4. J. M. Kelly, 4 Short History of Western Legal Theory(Oxford: Clarendon, 1994), p. 312.

5. See for example, Stig Stromholm 's discussion in his A Short History of Legal Thinking in the West(Stockholm and Littleton, Conn: Norstedts , 1985), pp. 266f.

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7. Ibid. 266.

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8. Geschichte des romischen Rechts in Mittelalter , 7 volumes, 1815-1831 and System des heutigen rémischen Rechts, 8 volumes, 1840-1849. See Stromholm, Short History. p. 266.

9. My analysis here revolves primarily around de Wette 's Einleitung in das Alte Testament (Halle,: 1806-7).

10. George Christie(ed.), Jurisprudence: Text and Readings in the Philosophy of Law (St. Paul: West, 1973) pp. 605-6.

11. A major influence on de Wette 's theory of religion as described here was J. F. Fries, a professor of de Wette 's at Jena and subsequently a life-long friend.