Problem: According to Confino, why did some protestant theologians in Nazi Germany attempt to eliminate the Old Testament from their religious canon? Group of answer choices Protestant theologians claimed to be returning to an earlier, original Christianity that was practiced before the Catholic Church took over the movement. In their reading of this earlier tradition, the Old Testament was not part of the canon of sacred texts. A group of Protestant theologians sought to integrate their church with the Nazi project. Because the Nazis emphasized modernity and a prophetic future, these theologians emphasized the new over the old and so got rid of the Old Testament. The Old Testament was perceived as a Jewish text and therefore needed to be purged to free German Christianity from its Jewish origins.