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the Golden Rule, "Thou Shalt Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself
(Lev. 19:18)" only to Jews and not to Christians as Rabbi
Jonathan Eibeschutz does. 242
To further his deception, Jonathan Eibeschutz meanwhile
was constantly attacking the Sabbatians. When he was Rabbi
in Prague, he went so far as to publicly pronounce a ban of
excommunication against them, and when the yeshiva
violence took place, Eibeschutz "played dumb." He couldn't
understand why good yeshiva students should fight the
students of Rabbi Oppenheim, so the fights continued without
subsiding, until the imperial edict.
Among the more dangerous and famous Biblical critics we
can list Johann David Michaelis (1717-1791). 243 Michaelis was
very active as a writer, a theologian, Orientalist and Biblical
critic. His main publishing activity was that of Editor of the
Biblical exegesis journal of his day. He denigrated Jews. 244
Initially he gave Mendelssohn good reviews, 245 but argued with
him extensively later on. It is possible that his arguments with
Mendelssohn were merely conspiratorial in character, and
were meant to serve as excuses for Mendelssohn to become
famous as a great spokesman for Jewish emancipation,
because while Michaelis made public remarks of an anti-
Semitic nature, Mendelssohn considered Michaelis to be an
ally when it came to Scripture from the aspect of non-dogmatic
exegesis. 246
An interesting example of where Mendelssohn and
Michaelis locked horns was when Michaelis tried to prove
statistically that Jews were twenty-five times as corrupt as
Germans with respect to thievery. Mendelssohn's reply has
been summarized by Altmann as follows: 247
"If a nation's depravity was to be assessed, he declared, it
was necessary to take into account murderers, highwaymen,
traitors, arsonists, adulterers, harlots, infanticides, etc.—not
thieves alone. But even under the erroneous assumption that
only thieves and dealers in stolen goods were an index of a
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