item: #1 of 511 id: scjr-10032 author: De Andrado, Paba Nidhani title: “A Model of Christ”: Melito’s Re-Vision of Jewish Akedah Exegeses date: 2017-06-19 words: 10142 flesch: 56 summary: 1 SCJR 12, no. 1 (2017): 1-18 “A Model of Christ”: Melito’s Re-Vision of Jewish Akedah Exegeses PABA NIDHANI DE ANDRADO pdeandrado@yahoo.com Curry College, Milton, MA 02186 63 This connection is made explicit in Fragment 12 which, however, is not an authentic Melito text (See Hall Melito, xxxiii). keywords: akedah; biblical; christ; christian; exegeses; fragment; genesis; isaac; jewish; kessler; melito; model; ram; sacrifice; sardis; tradition; wilken cache: scjr-10032.pdf plain text: scjr-10032.txt item: #2 of 511 id: scjr-10056 author: Carenen, Caitlin title: Gerald R. McDermott, Ed. The New Christian Zionism: Fresh Perspectives on Israel and the Land date: 2017-07-12 words: 1196 flesch: 45 summary: While his argument is largely based on his own personal experiences and could not be judged objective, as a minority he does offer a unique perspective on life in modern Israel. The New Christian Zionism: Fresh Perspectives on Israel and the Land, a collection of essays edited by Gerald R. McDermott of Beeson Divinity School, seeks to challenge the longstanding association of Christian Zionism and premil- lennial dispensationalism. keywords: christian; israel; zionism cache: scjr-10056.pdf plain text: scjr-10056.txt item: #3 of 511 id: scjr-10065 author: Johnson, Joshua title: Morris M. Faierstein, Trans. and Ed. Yudisher Theriak: An Early Modern Yiddish Defense of Judaism date: 2017-07-24 words: 742 flesch: 68 summary: Zvi, perhaps because he personally knew Brenz, who was a Jewish convert to Christianity, presents a vigorous, line-by-line rebuttal of Brenz’s views. Zvi considers Brenz’s vitriol so caustic that he never even calls him by his name “Samuel,” but rather repeatedly refers to him as “Samael,” a Midrashic name for the satan, and as “the apostate.” keywords: brenz; zvi cache: scjr-10065.pdf plain text: scjr-10065.txt item: #4 of 511 id: scjr-10101 author: Jensen, Robin M. title: Shira L. Lander. Ritual Sites and Religious Rivalries in Late Roman North Africa date: 2017-08-09 words: 1053 flesch: 45 summary: The final two Jensen: Shira L. Lander’s Ritual Sites and Religious Rivalries 2 chapters look beyond the internecine battles among Christian groups to examine the ways that Christians regarded both the sanctuaries of the traditional Roman cults and Jewish synagogues. Furthermore, by concentrating on the ways that actual buildings came to symbolize ascendant power or political status, Lander provides concrete examples of both “architectural dispossession and spatial supersession” (p. 33). keywords: evidence; lander; north cache: scjr-10101.pdf plain text: scjr-10101.txt item: #5 of 511 id: scjr-10110 author: Urbano, Arthur P. title: Michael G. Azar. Exegeting the Jews: The Early Reception of the Johannine “Jews” date: 2017-08-14 words: 1076 flesch: 43 summary: Jewish and Catholic commentators have noted that the pope often deploys these tropes not against contemporary Jews but against his critics within the Catholic Church. These works, according to Azar, read John’s “Jews” not as referents to contemporary Jews, but as typologies of other Christians. keywords: azar; jews; john cache: scjr-10110.pdf plain text: scjr-10110.txt item: #6 of 511 id: scjr-10114 author: Setzer, Claudia title: Sonya Shetty Cronin. Raymond Brown, “The Jews,” and the Gospel of John: From Apologia to Apology date: 2017-08-18 words: 1232 flesch: 57 summary: Brown was part of the drafting committee, but the final work, published after his death, muted his concern for anti-Judaism and mangled his sympathetic portrayal of non-Christian Jews. 1 SCJR 12, no. 1 (2017): 1-3 Sonya Shetty Cronin Raymond Brown, “The Jews,” and the Gospel of John: From Apologia to Apology (London: Bloomsbury, 2015), hardcover, xiii + keywords: brown; cronin; jews cache: scjr-10114.pdf plain text: scjr-10114.txt item: #7 of 511 id: scjr-10144 author: Pramuk, Christopher title: Making Sanctuary for the Divine: Exploring Melissa Raphael’s Holocaust Theology date: 2017-09-05 words: 8876 flesch: 54 summary: ” 33 But most striking, and perhaps what most defies rational or tradi- tional theological explanation, Hillesum’s compassion extends not only to her fellow Jews—and, at times, their German persecutors—but “even to the defense- less God whose survival depends on the work of human beings to defend the world from destruction.” 34 “There must be someone to live through it all,” Hil- lesum writes in 1942, “and bear witness to the fact that God lived, even in these times. The first time I learned of Melissa Raphael’s book, The Female Face of God in Auschwitz, 1 was six or seven years ago when a reviewer of my book on Wis- dom-Sophia and the divine feminine in the writings of Thomas Merton drew some parallels between what I was attempting theologically in that book, from a Christian perspective, and Raphael’s work, from a Jewish. keywords: auschwitz; book; divine; face; god; hillesum; holocaust; jewish; new; presence; raphael; theology; women; world cache: scjr-10144.pdf plain text: scjr-10144.txt item: #8 of 511 id: scjr-10156 author: Pettit, Peter A. title: Adam Gregerman. Building on the Ruins of the Temple. Tests and Studies in Ancient Judaism 165 date: 2017-09-28 words: 1404 flesch: 46 summary: To the first point, he sets the midrashic material alongside early Christian texts from Justin Martyr, Origen, and Eusebius of Caesarea, in which the destruc- tion “has a prominence practically unequalled in other early Christian texts” (226). * Adam Gregerman, Reviews Editor for the Journal, did not serve as the editor for this review. keywords: destruction; gregerman; texts cache: scjr-10156.pdf plain text: scjr-10156.txt item: #9 of 511 id: scjr-10175 author: Krondorfer, Björn title: Will Stadler. Palestinian Christians and the Old Testament: History, Hermeneutics, and Ideology date: 2017-10-18 words: 1245 flesch: 42 summary: Bringing to the attention of American and European Christians the plight of Palestinian Christians and evaluating the writings of Palestinian theologians and church leaders are important tasks. Stadler seeks to answer this central question: “How [do] Palestinian Christians read the Old Testament in a context in which biblical texts are routinely read as an en- dorsement of their suffering?” keywords: christians; palestinian cache: scjr-10175.pdf plain text: scjr-10175.txt item: #10 of 511 id: scjr-10178 author: Levy, Richard S. title: David J. Wertheim, Ed. The Jew as Legitimation: Jewish-Gentile Relations Beyond Antisemitism and Philosemitism date: 2017-10-20 words: 1455 flesch: 47 summary: The writings of Menasseh ben Israel and other Jews involved in Christian Hebraism were valued by Christian theologians, but often Christians used them to show other Jews the error of their ways (p. 76). Perhaps even more shameful was the failed attempt, described by Jaap Cohen, a researcher at the NIOD in Amsterdam, of long-settled and es- tablished Sephardic Jews in the Netherlands to escape being classified as Jews during the Nazi occupation. keywords: christians; dutch; jews; legitimation cache: scjr-10178.pdf plain text: scjr-10178.txt item: #11 of 511 id: scjr-10189 author: Pattison, George title: Robert E. Meditz. The Dialectic of the Holy: Paul Tillich’s Idea of Judaism within the History of Religion date: 2017-11-08 words: 1083 flesch: 57 summary: Meditz’s work, while bearing traces of its origins in a Ph.D. thesis, does the job it sets out to do and, as such, is a welcome addition to Tillich commentary. SCJR 12, no. 1 (2017): 1-3 Robert E. Meditz The Dialectic of the Holy: Paul Tillich’s Idea of Judaism within the History of Religion (Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2016), hardcover, pp. keywords: judaism; tillich cache: scjr-10189.pdf plain text: scjr-10189.txt item: #12 of 511 id: scjr-10206 author: Leighton, Christopher M. title: Nicholas R. Brown. For the Nation: Jesus, the Restoration of Israel and Articulating a Christian Ethic of Territorial Governance date: 2017-11-16 words: 1801 flesch: 46 summary: SCJR 12, no. 1 (2017): 1-4 Nicholas R. Brown For the Nation: Jesus, the Restoration of Israel and Articulating a Christian Ethic of Territorial Governance (Eugene, OR: CHRISTOPHER M. LEIGHTON cleighton@icjs.org Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies, Baltimore, MD 21204 Nicholas Brown has provided a thoroughly researched and elegantly con- structed volume that upends long-standing assumptions and opens up vexing questions about the land of Israel within the life of Jesus and the early Church. keywords: brown; israel; jesus; land cache: scjr-10206.pdf plain text: scjr-10206.txt item: #13 of 511 id: scjr-10236 author: Braybrooke, Marcus title: Silvina Chemen and Franciso Canzani. A Dialogue of Life: Towards the Encounter of Jews and Christians date: 2017-12-20 words: 917 flesch: 58 summary: Francisco begins by emphasizing the importance of interreligious dialogue, which involves a “dual allegiance” (p. 28) of loyalty to the gifts that God has giv- en us in our respective traditions and “faithfulness to the project of universal brotherhood that God harbors for humanity” (p. 30). Indeed, as one woman said after she had heard talks by Silvina and Francisco, their insights are “useful not only for interreligious dialogue, but also for all other dialogues, in our homes, in our jobs. keywords: dialogue; silvina cache: scjr-10236.pdf plain text: scjr-10236.txt item: #14 of 511 id: scjr-10259 author: Morgan, Fred title: Pim Valkenberg and Anthony Cirelli, Eds. Nostra Aetate: Celebrating 50 Years of the Catholic Church’s Dialogue with Jews and Muslims date: 2018-01-02 words: 1198 flesch: 50 summary: Marans, drawing on the Jewish notion of “Oral Torah,” argues that NA de- pended on the emergence of an “Oral Torah” of its own. The two sections on Catholic relations with Hinduism and Buddhism and with Islam include essays by practitioners of these faiths as well as Catholic scholars (James Fredericks, Francis Clooney, and Sidney Griffith) and Church au- thorities (Jean-Louis Cardinal Tauran, Bishop Denis Madden, Archbishop Michael Fitzgerald) who are widely recognised as leaders in this field. keywords: catholic; dialogue; essays cache: scjr-10259.pdf plain text: scjr-10259.txt item: #15 of 511 id: scjr-10301 author: Cooper-White, Pamela title: Freud’s Vienna Circle, Psychoanalysis, and Antisemitism date: 2018-01-16 words: 8296 flesch: 48 summary: 3 Letter of Freud to Wilhelm Fliess, August 1, 1889, in Jeffrey Moussaief Masson, The Complete Let- ters of Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess, 1887-1904 (Cambridge, MA: Belknap/Harvard University Press, 1985), p. 363, as translated by J. Titherige in Lisa Marinelli, “My ‘Old and Dirty Gods’: An Exhibition on Freud’s Archaeological Collection,” American Imago, 66/2 (2009): 149-159 (notes online at http://www.freudmuseum.at/online/e/inhalt/museumausstellungenGoetter.htm) publ. 1939), Vol. 23:3-138. 12 E.g., Freud, “Address to the Society of B’nai B’Rrith,” in The Standard Edition of the Complete Works of Sigmund Freud, ed. keywords: antisemitism; care; circle; freud; holocaust; journal; new; pastoral; press; psychoanalysis; religion; sigmund; society; theology; vienna; white; york cache: scjr-10301.pdf plain text: scjr-10301.txt item: #16 of 511 id: scjr-10397 author: Thiessen, Matthew title: Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler, Eds. The Jewish Annotated New Testament, Second Edition date: 2018-03-22 words: 816 flesch: 49 summary: Further, as someone who has been exposed to New Testament introductory courses in vari- ous roles (as a student, as a teaching assistant, and as a professor), I know how easy it is for students to read the textbook summary of a NT text instead of read- ing the actual text itself. The JANT makes the New Testament accessible to Jewish readers while simultaneously making ancient Jewish texts accessible to Christian readers and providing them with a new lens through which to read their own scriptures. keywords: new; testament cache: scjr-10397.pdf plain text: scjr-10397.txt item: #17 of 511 id: scjr-10398 author: Kraus, Matthew title: William L. Krewson. Jerome and the Jews: Innovative Supersessionism date: 2018-03-22 words: 1806 flesch: 42 summary: Even so, us- ing Jerome as a paradigm is somewhat of a stretch, since as the author himself argues, Jerome believes that the covenant with the Jews has been abrogated, “a version…of ‘strong supersessionism’” which is still found among some contem- porary Christians and which “has changed little since Jerome’s time” (p. 151). His claim, however, that these ambiguities represent an innovative supersessionism is not convincing largely because Krewson gives insufficient attention to the ways classical thought influenced Jerome. keywords: christian; jerome; jews; krewson cache: scjr-10398.pdf plain text: scjr-10398.txt item: #18 of 511 id: scjr-10399 author: Schwartz, Joshua title: Eric C. Smith. Jewish Glass and Christian Stone: A Materialist Mapping of the “Parting of the Ways” date: 2018-03-22 words: 1307 flesch: 55 summary: When it comes to ancient Judaism and Christianity, there is much that commends this view of the author. Thus, Smith has provided us with prolegomena, an important stepping stone to a materialist mapping of the “parting of the ways,” and as such this book should be required reading for all who study ancient Judaism and Christianity. keywords: chapter; christianity; judaism cache: scjr-10399.pdf plain text: scjr-10399.txt item: #19 of 511 id: scjr-10400 author: Moses, Jay title: Gerald R. McDermott. Israel Matters: Why Christians Must Think Differently about the People and the Land date: 2018-03-22 words: 1259 flesch: 46 summary: Gerald R. McDermott’s Israel Matters 2 recognizes the cogency of various critiques of Israel, and also recognizes a lack of evangelical support for Israel on traditional dispensationalist grounds. To paraphrase McDermott, Israel does matter, and such dialogue offers promise for a fuller ecumenicism. keywords: christian; israel; mcdermott; zionism cache: scjr-10400.pdf plain text: scjr-10400.txt item: #20 of 511 id: scjr-10402 author: Meyer, Barbara U. title: Structures of Violence and the Denigration of Law in Christian Thought date: 2018-03-22 words: 10249 flesch: 42 summary: Clearly, the history of Christian anti-Jewish violence is primarily a history of the West. Violence in Theory and Praxis While there is no clear-cut correlation between violent thought and violent action, nevertheless the apologetic concept of “harmless” thought has invariably been proven wrong in the history of Christian anti-Jewish traditions. keywords: aggression; anti; boyarin; christian; christianity; difference; eschatology; jews; judaism; law; new; paul; relations; supersessionism; theological; thought; violence cache: scjr-10402.pdf plain text: scjr-10402.txt item: #21 of 511 id: scjr-10403 author: Faggioli, Massimo title: Norman C. Tobias. Jewish Conscience of the Church: Jules Isaac and the Second Vatican Council date: 2018-03-22 words: 957 flesch: 62 summary: Isaac aimed to rectify Christian teaching of the Old Testament, of Jews, and of relations between Jesus and other Jews. The most remarkable fact about Isaac, in light of his key contribution to the development of Catholic teaching on the Jews, is that Isaac’s spirituality “is shrouded in mystery. keywords: book; isaac; jews cache: scjr-10403.pdf plain text: scjr-10403.txt item: #22 of 511 id: scjr-10404 author: Klaus, Aaron title: Ernest Bloch, Richard Wagner, and the Myth of Racial Essentialism date: 2018-03-22 words: 6626 flesch: 49 summary: All in all, the active participation of Jews in the musical traditions of the surrounding societies poses a challenging scholarly question: where exactly are the limits between the music “made by Jews, for Jews, as Jews” (to quote the legendary defini- tion of Jewish music proposed by Curt Sachs in his address to the First World Congress of Jewish Music in Paris, 1957) and the music “made by Jews, as musicians, for all listeners.” 19 The music of Sulzer, Naumbourg, and Lewandowski easily passes Sachs’s apho- ristic litmus test. To Bloch, Jewish music had the capacity to reach the deepest strata of the human experience, much as German music did, but Jews had to find their own voice. keywords: art; bloch; composers; ernest; godet; identity; jews; music; móricz; new; racial; richard; wagner cache: scjr-10404.pdf plain text: scjr-10404.txt item: #23 of 511 id: scjr-10475 author: Hummel, Daniel G. title: Azar Ajaj, Duane Alexander Miller, and Philip Sumpter. Arab Evangelicals in Israel date: 2018-05-15 words: 1274 flesch: 41 summary: As the authors of this concise introduction remind the reader more than once, Arab evangelicals are a minority of a minority of a minority in Israel. These two institutions and the challenges they face are a microcosm of the broader concerns of Arab evangelicals in Israel. keywords: arab; evangelicals; israel cache: scjr-10475.pdf plain text: scjr-10475.txt item: #24 of 511 id: scjr-10533 author: Sandberg, Ruth title: Anthony Le Donne and Larry Behrendt. Sacred Dissonance: The Blessing of Difference in Jewish-Christian Dialogue date: 2018-06-05 words: 986 flesch: 49 summary: RUTH SANDBERG rsandberg@gratz.edu Gratz College, Elkins Park, PA 19027 Anthony Le Donne, a Protestant professor of New Testament at United Theo- logical Seminary in Dayton, Ohio, and Larry Behrendt, a Jewish (and Jewishly- knowledgeable) software engineer and attorney, chose to engage in an honest and sustained interfaith dialogue with each other. Nevertheless, what is revealed in their book is the reality that Jews and Christians have not yet come to terms with the Holocaust and centuries of Christian anti-Jewish teaching and contempt. keywords: christian; dialogue cache: scjr-10533.pdf plain text: scjr-10533.txt item: #25 of 511 id: scjr-10569 author: Pettit, Peter A. title: Luther, Lutherans, and Jews: Looking to the Second Five Hundred Years date: 2018-06-12 words: 6291 flesch: 48 summary: 8 The Declaration has taken its place among a wide range of Chris- tian statements addressing not only Luther’s vitriol but also the longer history of Christian anti-Jewish hermeneutics and theology. Among Jewish communities, it was Luther’s anti-Jewish recommendations that were best known, prompting Fr. keywords: christian; church; community; god; israel; jewish; jews; luther; lutheran; new; people; theological; theology cache: scjr-10569.pdf plain text: scjr-10569.txt item: #26 of 511 id: scjr-10576 author: Runesson, Anders title: Joshua Ezra Burns. The Christian Schism in Jewish History and Jewish Memory date: 2018-06-20 words: 2280 flesch: 47 summary: In chapter 3 Burns turns to the question of how different types of Christianity related to (his reconstruction of) the above-mentioned “minimum requirements” of Jewish identity, enabling him to judge whether or not any or all of these cultur- al expressions should be understood as Jewish (“Early Christian Negotiations with Jewish Identity,” pp. 100-58). It was this specific form of Jewish Christianity that the Tannaim encountered, the implications of which Burns discusses in chapter 4, “Reading Christianity as a Jewish Heresy in Early Rabbinic Texts” (pp. 159–208; cf. esp. keywords: burns; christian; christianity cache: scjr-10576.pdf plain text: scjr-10576.txt item: #27 of 511 id: scjr-10669 author: Tartakoff, Paola title: Nina Caputo and Illustrated by Liz Clarke. Debating Truth: The Barcelona Disputation of 1263, A Graphic History date: 2018-08-16 words: 796 flesch: 45 summary: Lucid, erudite, and imaginative, Debating Truth is a valuable resource for teaching undergraduates and graduate students about medieval history, Jewish- Christian relations, and historical methods. It discusses the place of Iberia in medieval Christendom, the life of King James I, the history of the Jews who lived in Spain, and the role of disputation in medieval culture. keywords: disputation; truth cache: scjr-10669.pdf plain text: scjr-10669.txt item: #28 of 511 id: scjr-10710 author: Azar, Michael G. title: R. Alan Culpepper and Paul N. Anderson, Eds. John and Judaism: A Contested Relationship in Context date: 2018-09-04 words: 1153 flesch: 44 summary: The next two essays— William R. G. Loader (“Tensions in Matthean and Johannine Soteriology Viewed in Their Jewish Context”) and R. Alan Culpeper (“Matthew and John: Reflections of Early Christianity in Relation to Judaism”)—compare John’s and Matthew’s varied relationships with Jewish tradition. John and Judaism: A Contested Relationship in Context (Atlanta: SBL Press, 2017), softcover, xix + 442 pp. keywords: gospel; john; judaism cache: scjr-10710.pdf plain text: scjr-10710.txt item: #29 of 511 id: scjr-10784 author: Frizzell, Lawrence E. title: Franz Posset. Johann Reuchlin (1455-1533): A Theological Biography date: 2018-10-23 words: 1112 flesch: 60 summary: Typical of his time, young Reuchlin journeyed far for his studies. Posset demonstrates that Reuchlin’s theological interests shaped his views of Jews and Judaism. keywords: jews; reuchlin cache: scjr-10784.pdf plain text: scjr-10784.txt item: #30 of 511 id: scjr-10855 author: Repschinski, Boris title: Anders Runesson. Divine Wrath and Salvation in Matthew: The Narrative World of the First Gospel date: 2018-12-18 words: 1144 flesch: 59 summary: Runesson dispenses with labels current in more recent scholarship such as “Jewish-Christian” or “Christian-Jewish.” The reason for this is that Runesson attempts a paradigm shift for the in- terpretation of Matthew. keywords: judgment; matthew; runesson cache: scjr-10855.pdf plain text: scjr-10855.txt item: #31 of 511 id: scjr-10858 author: Ellison, Robert H. title: “To Defend the Citadel of its Faith from All Assaults”: Hermann Adler and the London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews date: 2018-12-20 words: 11092 flesch: 49 summary: The reviewer was evidently a Christian, writing that “we do not, and cannot, take our stand side by side with Dr. Adler—for to do so would be apostacy from our Lord.” As he puts it at the very beginning of his reply, “If Dr. Adler is right, the ancient fathers of that Church [i.e. Judaism] erred grievously; if they were right, Dr. Adler is greatly in the wrong.” 72 People not associated with the Society reviewed Adler’s book as well. keywords: adler; christian; christianity; chronicle; church; course; faith; god; hebrew; isaiah; jews; london; london society; new; people; review; sermons; society cache: scjr-10858.pdf plain text: scjr-10858.txt item: #32 of 511 id: scjr-10862 author: Berger, Alan title: Eugene J. Fisher's "A Life in Dialogue" and Debbie Weissman's "Memoirs of a Hopeful Pessimist" date: 2018-12-28 words: 1603 flesch: 52 summary: A committed educator and activist, Weissman held positions as a teacher of Jewish Education and Women’s Studies at the He- brew University and also directed the Kerem Institute which trains Israeli high school teachers. Building Bridges Between Catholics and Jews, A Memoir (St. Petersburg, FL: Mr. Media Books, 2017), paperback, x + 127 pp. and Debbie Weissman Memoirs of a Hopeful Pessimist: keywords: catholic; dialogue; fisher; university; weissman cache: scjr-10862.pdf plain text: scjr-10862.txt item: #33 of 511 id: scjr-10999 author: Turner, Paul title: Considering the Baptism of Edgardo Mortara in the Context of Catholic Teachings and Rituals Then and Now date: 2019-04-09 words: 4110 flesch: 63 summary: Infant baptism in the Catholic Church evolved partly from a high infant mortality rate generating a re- alistic fear that every newborn was in danger of death. The question resembles the question Peter asked Cornelius in the Acts of the Apostles 10:29, “May I ask, then, why have you summoned me?” 2 The thirteenth-century Pontifical of the Roman Curia had the bishop pose this question to those wishing to enter the catechumenate, 3 and it remained in the nineteenth-century Catholic baptismal ceremonies for adults and for children. keywords: baptism; child; christian; church; edgardo; priest; ritual cache: scjr-10999.pdf plain text: scjr-10999.txt item: #34 of 511 id: scjr-11000 author: Kertzer, David title: The Enduring Controversy over the Mortara Case (CCJR Annual Meeting Proceeding) date: 2019-04-09 words: 5552 flesch: 57 summary: A few days later, the same paper published a lengthy response to Messori in the form of an interview with Elèna Mortara, a descendant of the Mortara family and author of Writing for Justice: Victor Séjour, the Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, and the Age of Transatlantic Emancipations (Hanover: Dartmouth College Press, 2015). In writing to Cardinal Mieczysław Ledóchowski, prefect of the Congregation of Propaganda Fide, shortly after Mortara’s visit, he ex- plained: “as Rev. Mortara is in the hands of these three or four priests, whose sympathies I do not enjoy, I have reason to suspect that some report will be sent either to the Vatican or to the S[acred] Congregation keywords: account; book; case; catholic; church; edgardo; kertzer; mortara; parents; pope; rome cache: scjr-11000.pdf plain text: scjr-11000.txt item: #35 of 511 id: scjr-11001 author: McGarry, Michael B. title: Ronald Kronish. The Other Peace Process: Interreligious Dialogue, a View from Jerusalem date: 2019-04-09 words: 904 flesch: 50 summary: The Paulist Center, Boston, MA 02108 Following his Coexistence and Reconciliation in Israel (2015), in The Other Peace Process: Interreligious Dialogue, a View from Jerusalem Rabbi Dr. Ronald Kronish has brought together the distillation and summation of his life’s commitment to interreligious dialogue in service of peace in Israel / Palestine. These caveats aside, in his work Kronish models the kind of humble and self- critical self-understanding so crucial to interreligious dialogue. keywords: dialogue; israel; kronish cache: scjr-11001.pdf plain text: scjr-11001.txt item: #36 of 511 id: scjr-11002 author: Rist, Rebecca title: Jeremy Cohen. A Historian in Exile: Solomon ibn Verga, Shevet Yehudah, and the Jewish-Christian Encounter date: 2019-04-09 words: 1304 flesch: 49 summary: but fifteenth-century Jewish writ- 3 Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations 14, no. 1 (2019) ers; its aim “to entertain, edify, and delight” (p. 39); its message of hope over ca- tastrophe; its view that Judaism depends not on theological instruction “but resides in Jews’ conditioned nature as Jews” (p. 140); and its desire to understand Jewish history rationally and empirically. Three overriding elements give the work “programmatic unity” (p. 161): how to understand and react to Christian ha- tred of Jews, how to explain Jewish suffering, and how to determine religious boundaries between these two communities. keywords: author; cohen cache: scjr-11002.pdf plain text: scjr-11002.txt item: #37 of 511 id: scjr-11003 author: Nisse, Ruth title: Kati Ihnat. Mother of Mercy, Bane of the Jews: Devotion to the Virgin Mary in Anglo-Norman England date: 2019-04-09 words: 1079 flesch: 52 summary: In these tales (many closely connected to monastic liturgical practices), Mary intercedes, for example, to save a clerical devotee from marriage or to protect monks who promote the controversial Feast of the Conception. The dichotomy in the title of Kati Ihnat’s Mother of Mercy, Bane of the Jews perfectly captures the problem she seeks to address: where does the anti-Judaism that appears in different genres of writing about Mary originate, and why and how do Anglo-Norman authors rework and refine this material? keywords: ihnat; jews; mary cache: scjr-11003.pdf plain text: scjr-11003.txt item: #38 of 511 id: scjr-11004 author: Walatka, Todd title: Naim Stifan Ateek. A Palestinian Theology of Liberation: The Bible, Justice, and the Palestinian Conflict date: 2019-04-09 words: 1113 flesch: 52 summary: SCJR 14, no. 1 (2019): 1-3 Naim Stifan Ateek A Palestinian Theology of Liberation: The Bible, Justice, and the Palestinian Conflict (Maryknoll: Orbis Press, 2017), paperback, xix + 172 pages TODD WALATKA twalatka@nd.edu University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556 Naim Ateek is founder of the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center and an influential figure in the field of Palestinian liberation theology. Ateek’s first chapter articulates the fundamentally anti-colonialist and anti- Zionist perspective of Palestinian liberation theology. keywords: ateek; people cache: scjr-11004.pdf plain text: scjr-11004.txt item: #39 of 511 id: scjr-11005 author: Cunningham, Philip A. title: Paula Fredriksen. When Christians Were Jews: The First Generation date: 2019-04-09 words: 1764 flesch: 55 summary: SCJR 14, no. 1 (2019): 1-4 Paula Fredriksen When Christians Were Jews: The First Generation (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018), Hardcover, 261 pp. PHILIP A. CUNNINGHAM pcunning@sju.edu Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA 19131 Paula Fredriksen is the author of several earlier, highly-regarded volumes, including From Jesus to Christ: His unexpected death, Fredriksen states, totally perplexed his followers: “If Jesus were dead, how could his prophecy [about the Kingdom’s arrival] be true? keywords: fredriksen; jesus; jews cache: scjr-11005.pdf plain text: scjr-11005.txt item: #40 of 511 id: scjr-11024 author: Williams, Joseph title: Samuel Goldman. God’s Country: Christian Zionism in America date: 2019-04-09 words: 984 flesch: 35 summary: In sum, God’s Country convincingly demonstrates just how mistaken it is to view contemporary Christian Zionism as solely the province of wild-eyed proph- ecy enthusiasts. Yet he makes it clear right from the start that offering a thoroughly novel interpretation of the history of American Christian Zionism was never his primary goal. keywords: christian; goldman; zionism cache: scjr-11024.pdf plain text: scjr-11024.txt item: #41 of 511 id: scjr-11025 author: Goldstone, Matthew title: Malka Simkovich. The Making of Jewish Universalism: From Exile to Alexandria date: 2019-04-09 words: 1240 flesch: 43 summary: Academy for Jewish Religion, Yonkers, NY 10701 Malka Simkovich’s The Making of Jewish Universalism explores the devel- opment of universalistic themes in Jewish literature from exilic works preserved in the Hebrew Bible through texts dating to around the turn of the millennium and likely authored in an Alexandrian milieu. SCJR 14, no. 1 (2019): 1-3 Malka Simkovich The Making of Jewish Universalism: From Exile to Alexandria (London: Lexington Books, 2017), hardcover, xxx + 185 pp. keywords: nations; simkovich; universalism cache: scjr-11025.pdf plain text: scjr-11025.txt item: #42 of 511 id: scjr-11026 author: Gilbert, Gary title: Amy-Jill Levine and Ben Witherington III. The Gospel of Luke date: 2019-04-09 words: 1691 flesch: 54 summary: While the authors provide a sustained critique of anti-Jewish readings, there are some rare misses. Amy-Jill [Levine] finds that Luke can be read, and certainly has been read, as having anti-Jewish views” keywords: authors; jews; luke cache: scjr-11026.pdf plain text: scjr-11026.txt item: #43 of 511 id: scjr-11027 author: Nash, Dustin title: Fossilized Jews and Witnessing Dinosaurs at the Creation Museum: Public Remembering and Forgetting at a Young Earth Creationist “Memory Place” date: 2019-04-09 words: 10761 flesch: 44 summary: 7 Nevertheless, Bielo’s digital cata- logue lists roughly thirty seven facilities of this type, with the first installations dating to the 1970s. 8 AiG’s Creation Museum stands out as the largest and most well-funded of these sites built to date. Two New Large Exhibits to Open by Memorial Day Weekend,” last modified May 26, 2017, https://answersingenesis.org/about/press/2017/05/26/record-crowds-creation-museum-celebrates- 10th-anniversary/. “Ark Encounter and Creation Museum to Host Día Latino For Spanish-Speaking Guests,” accessed November 13, 2018, https://creationmuseum.org/press/ark-encounter-and-creation- museum-host-d%C3%ADa-latino-spanish-speaking-guests/. 11 Placard Text, “The Evidence is in the Present…But What Happened in the Past,” Dig Site, Creation Museum, Petersburg, KY. 12 Ella Butler, “God is in the Data: Epistemologies of Knowledge at the Creation Museum,” Ethnos 75, no. 3 (2010): 234. keywords: bible; christian; creation; creation museum; dinosaurs; earth; figure; history; jews; memory; museum; nash; new; past; place; present; press; room; site; trollinger; university; young cache: scjr-11027.pdf plain text: scjr-11027.txt item: #44 of 511 id: scjr-11229 author: Novenson, Matthew V. title: Mark D. Nanos. Reading Paul within Judaism date: 2019-06-06 words: 899 flesch: 56 summary: Two of these essays began as addresses at Catholic institutions on the occasion of the Jubilee Year of St. Paul in 2008-2009, one at Villanova University in Philadelphia (chapter 4, “Paul and the Jewish Tradition: The Ideology of the Shema”) and one at the Society of St. Paul in Rome (chapter 7, “Paul and Judaism [Codex Pauli]”). Each of chapters 2 through 6 identifies a point at which exegesis of Paul touches on a problem relevant to Jewish-Christian relations, for instance, chapter 2, “How Inter-Christian Approaches to Paul’s Rhetoric Can Perpetuate Negative Valuations of Jewishness—Although Proposing to Avoid That Outcome,” and chapter 3, “The Myth of the ‘Law-Free’ Paul Standing between Christians and Jews.” keywords: judaism; nanos; paul cache: scjr-11229.pdf plain text: scjr-11229.txt item: #45 of 511 id: scjr-11243 author: Moses, Jay title: Elena Procario-Foley and Robert Cathey, Eds. Righting Relations After the Holocaust and Vatican II date: 2019-06-12 words: 2376 flesch: 46 summary: There is a consistently high level of sophistication in these chapters, a shar- ing of gifts gleaned from decades of hard work in Jewish Christian dialogue. It is heartening to realize that the presence of Jewish contributors to this theological discussion, all honoring the work of John Pawlikowski, is something that would have been unlikely 25 years ago, let alone with such palpable feelings of trust and friendship across the religious divide. keywords: christian; holocaust; jesus; pawlikowski; relations cache: scjr-11243.pdf plain text: scjr-11243.txt item: #46 of 511 id: scjr-11353 author: Elyada, Aya title: Ofri Ilani. In Search of the Hebrew People: Bible and Nation in the German Enlightenment date: 2019-07-10 words: 949 flesch: 40 summary: Using critical methodologies and tools from modern fields of research such as geography, anatomy, linguistics, and ethnography, German biblical scholars, headed by Johann David Michaelis, sought to distance themselves from the orthodox tradition of textual exegesis of previous generations. He further seeks to explore the meanings that were given to the story of the Hebrew people in eighteenth-century Germany within the framework of broader discussions concerning religion and statehood, war and morality, law and justice, and nationalism and ethnicity, topics which preoccupied German scholars of the time. keywords: enlightenment; german cache: scjr-11353.pdf plain text: scjr-11353.txt item: #47 of 511 id: scjr-11391 author: Elder, Nicholas A. title: Ben C. Blackwell, John K. Goodrich, and Jason Maston, Eds. Reading Mark in Context: Jesus and Second Temple Judaism date: 2019-07-25 words: 1137 flesch: 53 summary: Having addressed introductory issues related to Sirach, Grindheim offers Sirach 48:1–11 as a text that reveals Second Temple Jewish expectations of Elijah’s eschatological role, largely based on Malachi 4:6. A broad swath of Second Temple literature is represented, including the Letter of Aristeas, the Psalms of Solomon, 4 Ezra, the Book of Jubilees, 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees, and various texts from Qumran, Philo, Josephus, Rabbinic literature, and the Enochic corpus. keywords: mark; temple; text cache: scjr-11391.pdf plain text: scjr-11391.txt item: #48 of 511 id: scjr-11541 author: Tapie, Matthew title: The Mortara Affair and the Question of Thomas Aquinas’s Teaching Against Forced Baptism date: 2019-08-06 words: 9827 flesch: 56 summary: Without attention to the 1858 exchange, the contemporary debate lacks an understanding of the questions in the dispute as these relate to Aquinas’s theology, as well as the significance of Aquinas’s teaching against forced baptism of Jewish children. I conclude with a brief summary of Aquinas’s argu- ment against forced baptism of Jewish children. keywords: aquinas; baptism; case; catholic; cessario; children; church; edgardo; jewish; mortara; parents; stahl; teaching cache: scjr-11541.pdf plain text: scjr-11541.txt item: #49 of 511 id: scjr-11587 author: Rutishauser, Christian M. title: Christian Mission to the Jews Revisited: Exploring the Logic of the Vatican Document “The Gifts and Calling of God are Irrevocable” date: 2019-08-21 words: 8158 flesch: 45 summary: In these Pauline congregations, Christian Jews and Christian gentiles worship together for some time, but a distinction remains. We need to ask, though, whether we can go beyond expressing merely an ambivalent and dialectical stand about, on the one hand, the mystery that God guides the Jewish people collectively through history, and, on the other hand, God’s call to Christians to integrate individual Jews into the Church? keywords: catholic; christian; church; covenant; dialogue; g&c; gentiles; god; jesus; jews; judaism; mission; new; paul; relationship; salvation cache: scjr-11587.pdf plain text: scjr-11587.txt item: #50 of 511 id: scjr-11695 author: McGlothlin, Thomas D. title: Matthew J. Thomas. Paul’s ‘Works of the Law’ in the Perspective of Second Century Reception date: 2019-09-23 words: 1246 flesch: 58 summary: Category A (Justin Martyr, Irenaeus) is defined by (1) evident conflict regarding law or works with “Jewish parties” (a term Thomas consciously leaves ambiguous), (2) demonstrable use of mailto:tmcglothlin@caj.ac.jp McGlothlin: Matthew J. Thomas’ Paul’s ‘Works of the Law’ 2 Galatians and Romans, and (3) direct use of the phrase “works of the law” or cita- tions of Pauline verses that do so. From all this data, Thomas synthesizes an “early perspective” on works of the law and concludes that the modern “new perspective on Paul” is closest to this “early perspective” regarding the referents of “works of the law” and the signifi- cance of practicing them. keywords: law; thomas; works cache: scjr-11695.pdf plain text: scjr-11695.txt item: #51 of 511 id: scjr-11719 author: Novak, David title: George Hunsinger, Ed. Karl Barth: Post-Holocaust Theologian? date: 2019-09-27 words: 1400 flesch: 58 summary: (This was confirmed to me personally many years ago by Swiss-Jewish philosopher Jacob Taubes, who described himself as “Barth’s only Jewish student.”) SCJR 14, no. 1 (2019): 1-3 George Hunsinger, Ed. Karl Barth: Post-Holocaust Theologian? keywords: barth; jews; judaism cache: scjr-11719.pdf plain text: scjr-11719.txt item: #52 of 511 id: scjr-11835 author: Yares, Laura title: Samira K. Mehta. Beyond Chrismukkah: The Christian-Jewish Interfaith Family in the United States date: 2019-11-07 words: 1172 flesch: 27 summary: President Deborah Waxman stated that just as they expect their students to “model commitments to Judaism in their communal, per- sonal and family lives,” so they “witness Jews with non-Jewish partners demonstrating these commitments every day.”2 “First rabbinical school to allow students with non-Jewish partners.” keywords: christian; interfaith; jewish; mehta cache: scjr-11835.pdf plain text: scjr-11835.txt item: #53 of 511 id: scjr-11853 author: Menke, Martin title: Kevin P. Spicer, Ed. and Martina Cucchiara, Trans. The Evil that Surrounds Us: The WWII Memoir of Erna Becker-Kohen date: 2019-11-14 words: 1088 flesch: 60 summary: The bishop of Innsbruck and other clergy support Erna. Erna’s diary covers the years from 1937 to 1963. keywords: catholic; erna; jews cache: scjr-11853.pdf plain text: scjr-11853.txt item: #54 of 511 id: scjr-11873 author: Drake, H. A. title: Ari Finkelstein. The Specter of the Jews: Emperor Julian and the Rhetoric of Ethnicity in Syrian Antioch date: 2019-11-21 words: 1033 flesch: 56 summary: But specter is just the right word for this book, because Ari Finkelstein’s aim is to show how Julian con- structed an image of “Judeans” that he could use to encourage his fellow Hellenes (the people we usually call “pagans”) to oppose his former co-religionists, the Christians (who paid him back by labeling him “the Apostate”). So it is a bit of a surprise to see it on a book about the fourth-century Roman emperor Julian’s dealings with the Jews, which were fairly positive. keywords: finkelstein; jews; julian cache: scjr-11873.pdf plain text: scjr-11873.txt item: #55 of 511 id: scjr-11897 author: Simkovich, Malka Z. title: Adi Ophir and Ishay Rosen-Zvi. Goy: Israel’s Multiple Others and the Birth of the Gentile date: 2019-12-04 words: 1034 flesch: 44 summary: I also wondered why Ophir and Rosen-Zvi did not more fully treat examples of individual gentiles in Second Temple literature who stand as foils against or as ambassadors of the Jewish people, such as the figure of Achior in Judith 5–6, and whose roles might serve to enhance or complicate their thesis. SCJR 14, no. 1 (2019): 1-3 Adi Ophir and Ishay Rosen-Zvi Goy: Israel’s Multiple Others and the Birth of the Gentile (Oxford Studies in the Abrahamic Religions; Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2018), hardcover, viii + 333 pp. keywords: goy; israel; ophir cache: scjr-11897.pdf plain text: scjr-11897.txt item: #56 of 511 id: scjr-11925 author: Cunningham, Philip A.; Gregerman, Adam title: “Genuine Brotherhood” without Remorse: A Commentary on Joseph Ratzinger’s "Comments on 'De Iudaeis'" date: 2019-12-12 words: 15770 flesch: 43 summary: Benedict’s eschatology diverges significantly from Jewish views. While we share some of the concerns found in essays by other commen- tators (especially regarding Benedict’s lack of substantive engagement with Jews and Judaism; see below), we reject overheated accusations that Benedict’s views are motivated by antisemitic or anti-Jewish sentiments. keywords: benedict; catholic; christian; christianity; church; covenant; dialogue; god; history; israel; jesus; jewish; jews; judaism; new; people; testament; theological; theology cache: scjr-11925.pdf plain text: scjr-11925.txt item: #57 of 511 id: scjr-11927 author: Joseph, Simon J. title: Matthias Henze. Mind the Gap: How the Jewish Writings between the Old and New Testament Help Us Understand Jesus date: 2019-12-13 words: 1894 flesch: 46 summary: SCJR 14, no. 1 (2019): 1-4 Matthias Henze Mind the Gap: How the Jewish Writings between the Old and New Testament Help Us Understand Jesus (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2017), 248 pages SIMON J. JOSEPH simonjoseph@humnet.ucla.edu University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 Jesus was Jewish. In an important discussion focused on Jesus’ relationship to the Mosaic Law in chapter 5, “Did Jesus Abolish the Law of Moses?” keywords: christian; henze; jesus cache: scjr-11927.pdf plain text: scjr-11927.txt item: #58 of 511 id: scjr-12115 author: Benjamin Bickart, Noah title: Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski. The More Torah, the More Life: A Christian Commentary on Mishnah Avot date: 2020-03-03 words: 947 flesch: 50 summary: As such the goal of the com- mentary is neither the search for Rabbinic influences on Christianity nor for Bickart: Joslyn-Siemiatkoski’s The More Torah, the More Life 2 parallels between Rabbinic and New Testament texts. He begins with an analysis of the pericope's structure and basic meaning, helpfully situating it within the context of Avot spe- cifically and within Rabbinic Judaism more broadly. keywords: rabbinic; torah cache: scjr-12115.pdf plain text: scjr-12115.txt item: #59 of 511 id: scjr-12117 author: Burnett, Stephen title: Alon Goshen-Gottstein. Luther the Anti-Semite: A Contemporary Jewish Perspective date: 2020-03-03 words: 855 flesch: 43 summary: He devotes roughly half of the book to evaluating Luther from several dif- ferent perspectives: Luther as Jews perceived him (chapter 2), Luther within his historical context (chapter 3), and the internal coherence of Luther’s anti-Jewish views within his theological framework (chapter 4). It is in the latter chapter that Goshen-Gottstein creates a “model” for evaluating where religious traditions gen- erally can “go wrong” (p. 23).The criteria that he uses to evaluate Luther’s anti- Judaism includes “Lack of contact with Jews and no meaningful firsthand knowledge of Jews”; “Wrong and misleading knowledge and information”; “Per- sonal hurt and offense as a consequence of deep religious engagement”; “Personal trauma and personal fears”; “Theological and scriptural foundations”; “Protecting Christian identity”; “the Apocalyptic dimension”; and “Disappointment with lack of Jewish conversions.” keywords: jews; luther cache: scjr-12117.pdf plain text: scjr-12117.txt item: #60 of 511 id: scjr-12119 author: Admirand, Peter title: Following the Breadcrumbs: Jesus as Superfluous to Salvation? A Catholic Search date: 2020-03-03 words: 12403 flesch: 52 summary: Some of the key breadcrumbs here include: Jesus’ Jewishness, which as Nostra Aetate 4 proclaims, should be celebrated and studied, as should the Jewish roots of many of Jesus’ early followers and family25; so, too should Christians respect and learn Jewish ways of reading the Tanach, which are also valid26; and rejoice in the ongoing, rich and diverse life of the Jewish people, as still beloved of God (not replaced as superses- sionism would contend27); the Jews, moreover, are the biblical people whose covenant is alive and vibrant, irrevocable, who cannot be blamed for the death of Jesus, and most importantly, for whom no systematic, institutional attempt to con- vert should be undertaken by the Catholic Church. See, for example, Philip A. Cunningham, Joseph Sievers, Mary C. Boys, Hans Hermann Henrix, and Jesper Svartvik, eds., Christ Jesus and the Jewish People Today: New Explorations of Theological Interrelationships (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerd- mans, 2011); Erich Zenger, “The Covenant that Was Never Revoked,” in The Catholic Church and the Jewish People: keywords: catholic; christian; christology; church; death; dialogue; example; god; jesus; jews; john; judaism; life; new; paul; people; phan; pluralism; press; relations; studies; theological; theology; vatican cache: scjr-12119.pdf plain text: scjr-12119.txt item: #61 of 511 id: scjr-12121 author: von Kellenbach, Katharina title: Guilt and the Transformation of Christian-Jewish Relations date: 2020-03-03 words: 9533 flesch: 51 summary: The revolution proclaimed by Nostra Aetate rested on the deliberate denial of centuries of Christian anti-Jewish teachings. Nostra Aetate did not mention the his- tory of Christian anti-Jewish persecutions nor the churches’ silence and complicity in the Holocaust.19 It proposed two pathways to move beyond violence and con- tempt in the past, both of which are problematic because they erase memory. keywords: anti; antisemitism; blood; christian; church; community; dresden; german; god; guilt; history; israel; jews; judaism; luther; new; november; people; relations; synagogue; theological; von cache: scjr-12121.pdf plain text: scjr-12121.txt item: #62 of 511 id: scjr-12171 author: Krajewski, Stanislaw title: Pope John Paul II’s Encounters with Polish Jews date: 2020-03-26 words: 9747 flesch: 61 summary: Pope John Paul II’s Encounters with Polish Jews 2 1986, was also an epoch-making event. Pope John Paul II’s Encounters with Polish Jews 4 humanity. keywords: church; jewish; jews; john; meeting; paul; poland; polish; pope; pope john; rabbi; suffering; time; visit; warsaw cache: scjr-12171.pdf plain text: scjr-12171.txt item: #63 of 511 id: scjr-12217 author: Mandsager, John title: Michal Bar-Asher Siegal. Jewish-Christian Dialogues on Scripture in Late Antiquity: Heretic Narratives of the Babylonian Talmud date: 2020-04-14 words: 1261 flesch: 54 summary: This requires the deft and careful examination of biblical interpretation across a wide range of both Latin, Greek, and Syriac Christian sources and of Second Temple-period and rabbinic Jewish sources. Her primary task is to discern “what these stories can teach us of the Babylo- nian Talmudic knowledge of Christian traditions” (p. 5). keywords: asher; bar cache: scjr-12217.pdf plain text: scjr-12217.txt item: #64 of 511 id: scjr-12349 author: Langer, Ruth title: Jewish Universalism?: The Nations in the Rosh Hashanah Liturgy date: 2020-05-20 words: 10525 flesch: 55 summary: 5 Malka Z. Simkovich, The Making of Jewish Universalism from Exile to Alexandria (Lanham. MD: Lexington Books, 2017), passim, summarized in Part IV, 139-143. Focusing on specific prayers that express a tension between uni- versalism and particularism, I will demonstrate that while Jewish tradition was significantly particularist, contemporary liturgies, to different degrees, but across most of the spectrum of American Jewish practice, deliberately emphasize a uni- versalist vision. Universalism and Particularism as Theological Categories Is this contrast between Jewish particularism and Christian universalism a ste- reotype, or is there substance to it? keywords: god; hanefesh; hashanah; hebrew; israel; jews; kippur; maḥzor; mishkan; nations; new; paragraph; particularism; prayer; rosh; rosh hashanah; universalism; world; yom cache: scjr-12349.pdf plain text: scjr-12349.txt item: #65 of 511 id: scjr-12401 author: Akiyama, Kengo title: Matthew S. Goldstone. The Dangerous Duty of Rebuke: Leviticus 19:17 in Early Jewish and Christian Interpretation. Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 185 date: 2020-06-12 words: 1318 flesch: 51 summary: Unlike Sifra, which presents the view 3 Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations 15, no. 1 (2020) that rebuke is important but unfeasible, rabbis in the Talmud assert that rebuke is perfectly possible but undesirable because humble self-restraint trumps rebuke. In his revised and expanded NYU dissertation, Matthew Goldstone traces the ways in which the Levitical command to rebuke (Lev 19:17) was variously under- stood by Jews and Christians in antiquity. keywords: goldstone; lev; rebuke cache: scjr-12401.pdf plain text: scjr-12401.txt item: #66 of 511 id: scjr-12403 author: Price, David H. title: Steven Nadler. Menasseh ben Israel: Rabbi of Amsterdam date: 2020-06-12 words: 1134 flesch: 40 summary: To serve this community, which grew with astonishing speed, as well as others throughout Europe and soon the Americas (he once aspired to emigrate to Recife, Brazil), Menasseh established the first Jewish printing house in Amsterdam, thereby laying the foundation for what would be one of the most illustrious Jewish printing centers of all time (pp. 39-57). For Christian Europe, Menasseh became the most prominent Jewish voice of the age. keywords: amsterdam; christian; menasseh cache: scjr-12403.pdf plain text: scjr-12403.txt item: #67 of 511 id: scjr-12409 author: Robins, Walker title: Jason M. Olson. America’s Road to Jerusalem: The Impact of the Six-Day War on Protestant Politics date: 2020-06-17 words: 1150 flesch: 36 summary: As noted above, Olson’s central claim is that this vindication of dispensation- alist interpretations of the Bible allowed American evangelicals to recover a cultural dominance they had lost in the 1920s. In actual execution, however, Amer- ica’s Road to Jerusalem has a much narrower focus, offering an examination of American Protestant attitudes towards a variety of issues related to the Arab-Israeli conflict, as expressed in a handful of Protestant periodicals between roughly 1966 and 1973. keywords: american; jewish; olson cache: scjr-12409.pdf plain text: scjr-12409.txt item: #68 of 511 id: scjr-12431 author: Siker, Jeffrey S. title: Ruth Sheridan. The Figure of Abraham in John 8: Text and Intertext date: 2020-06-30 words: 823 flesch: 44 summary: Retelling Scripture: The Jews and the Scriptural Citations in John 1:19-12:15 (Leiden: Brill, 2012) and chapters in two edited volumes, How John Works: SCJR 15, no. 1 (2020): 1-2 Ruth Sheridan The Figure of Abraham in John 8: Text and Intertext (London: T & T Clark, 2020), hardcover, xv + 452 pp. keywords: abraham; john cache: scjr-12431.pdf plain text: scjr-12431.txt item: #69 of 511 id: scjr-12433 author: Goshen-Gottstein, Alon title: The New Covenant - Jeremiah 31:30-33 (31:31-34) in Jewish Interpretation date: 2020-06-30 words: 17517 flesch: 58 summary: Searching for “new covenant” in the most exten- sive, though not necessarily most important, database, Otzar Hachochma, we find further occurrences of “new covenant,” again several dozen, but no significant ex- pansion of the approach to or scope of use of Jer 31. In terms of terminol- ogy, Jer 31 is the only occurrence of “new covenant.” keywords: christian; context; covenant; covenant jeremiah; future; god; heart; history; interpretation; israel; jewish; literature; love; making; new; prophecy; reference; relationship; term; time; torah cache: scjr-12433.pdf plain text: scjr-12433.txt item: #70 of 511 id: scjr-12455 author: Bahle, Chava title: Jon W. Sweeney, Ed. Jesus Wasn’t Killed by the Jews: Reflections for Christians in Lent date: 2020-07-06 words: 752 flesch: 60 summary: They were carried out by men influenced by anti-Jewish ideas, with their racial, religious, and political threads, now so pervasive on the internet. The authors look at anti-Judaism from different vantage points and issue calls for deep personal and communal redress of systemic “othering” of Jews by Christians and in Christianity. keywords: christians; jews cache: scjr-12455.pdf plain text: scjr-12455.txt item: #71 of 511 id: scjr-12513 author: Cunningham, Philip A. title: A Response to Alon Goshen-Gottstein’s "The New Covenant - Jeremiah 31:30-33 (31:31-34) in Jewish Interpretation" date: 2020-07-17 words: 769 flesch: 48 summary: In the interest of encouraging such conversation in SCJR, I’d like to share a few ideas that this article brought to my mind, some of which are tangential to its main focus on noteworthy readings of “new covenant” in Jewish thought. SCJR 15, no. 1 (2020): 1-2 A Response to Alon Goshen-Gottstein’s The New Covenant - Jeremiah 31:30-33 (31:31-34) in Jewish Interpretation PHILIP A. CUNNINGHAM pcunning@sju.edu Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA 19131 I would like to thank Alon Goshen-Gottstein for his stimulating article, “The New Covenant - Jeremiah 31:30-33 (31:31-34) in Jewish Interpretation.” keywords: covenant; jeremiah cache: scjr-12513.pdf plain text: scjr-12513.txt item: #72 of 511 id: scjr-12545 author: Soloff, Emily D. title: Deborah Hart Strober and Gerald S. Strober. Confronting Hate: The Untold Story of the Rabbi Who Stood Up for Human Rights, Racial Justice, and Religious Reconciliation date: 2020-07-29 words: 1025 flesch: 47 summary: EMILY D. SOLOFF soloffe@ajc.org American Jewish Committee, Chicago, IL The long subtitle of this admiring biography may seem excessive to those who have never heard of Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum, the renowned interfaith and civil rights activist of the last century who was called “Secretary of State for the Jews” (p. 37) and the “foremost Apostle to the Gentiles” (pp. 174, 331). The authors explain how his arrival at AJC, on the cusp of the momentous changes wrought in Catholic teachings at Vatican II, was fortuitous for the young Tanenbaum, for AJC, and for Jewish relations with Christianity in its myriad forms. keywords: book; jewish; tanenbaum cache: scjr-12545.pdf plain text: scjr-12545.txt item: #73 of 511 id: scjr-12625 author: Langer, Ruth title: Gavin D’Costa. Catholic Doctrines on the Jewish People After Vatican II date: 2020-08-27 words: 2926 flesch: 46 summary: His key suggestion is that, because of the irrevocable covenant, this witness and the hoped-for conversion resulting from it must not eradicate Jewish identity (151). In other words, the Church must no longer be complicit in genocide or in lesser forms of violence, including against Jewish identity, which must remain intact. keywords: catholic; christian; d’costa; god; identity; jews cache: scjr-12625.pdf plain text: scjr-12625.txt item: #74 of 511 id: scjr-12669 author: Von Kellenbach, Katharina title: Norbert Reck. Der Jude Jesus und die Zukunft des Christentums: Zum Riss zwischen Dogma und Bibel: Ein Lösungsvorschlag date: 2020-09-09 words: 1133 flesch: 49 summary: [From Abba to the Wrath of God] (Patmos 2017), which moves alphabetically through a variety of topics in order to dislodge anti-Jewish tropes. In Der Jude Jesus und die Zukunft des Christentums, he links the failure of Christianity to address anti-Judaism more broadly with its loss of credibility in Eu- rope. keywords: christian; jesus; reck cache: scjr-12669.pdf plain text: scjr-12669.txt item: #75 of 511 id: scjr-12765 author: Kertzer, David I.; Benedetti, Roberto title: The Vatican’s Role in the Finaly Children’s Kidnapping Case date: 2020-10-09 words: 11601 flesch: 59 summary: All this sheds light not simply on one particularly prominent case, but on the larger phenomenon of the fate of thousands of Jewish children who were pro- tected in Catholic institutions or by Catholic families while their parents were taken to the German death camps. The discussion of baptism of Jewish children is found on 1030 - 1031 8 “Affaire Finaly,” handwritten document, February 23, 1953, AAV, Segr.Stato, anno 1950/54, Privati, posiz. keywords: aav; boys; brun; cardinal; case; children; church; dell’acqua; family; finaly; france; gerlier; holy; jews; march; montini; office; pope; rabbi; stato; vatican cache: scjr-12765.pdf plain text: scjr-12765.txt item: #76 of 511 id: scjr-12767 author: Tanzer, Sarah ; Cathey, Robert title: Paula Fredriksen. When Christians Were Jews: The First Generation date: 2020-10-11 words: 1694 flesch: 51 summary: Fredriksen’s portrait aims at removing the obstacles that historically have blocked attempts to place Jesus and his earliest followers fully within the diverse world of first-century Judaism. In order to weave the story of this first Jesus community together, Fredriksen broadly considers the social and political dynamics in Roman-ruled Jerusalem in the pre-70 period. keywords: fredriksen; jesus; jews cache: scjr-12767.pdf plain text: scjr-12767.txt item: #77 of 511 id: scjr-12845 author: Neuhaus, David M. title: Emma O’Donnell Polyakov. The Nun in the Synagogue: Judeocentric Catholicism in Israel date: 2020-11-05 words: 907 flesch: 49 summary: She has chosen to study a group of Catholic religious, monks and nuns, men and women, who have immersed themselves in Jewish life in Israel. Many of the protagonists in the book, who share with the author their uncompromising and passionate love for the Jewish people, for Judaism, and for contemporary Jewish life in Israel express their awareness of the ongoing tragedy of the Palestinian people. keywords: book; israel cache: scjr-12845.pdf plain text: scjr-12845.txt item: #78 of 511 id: scjr-12849 author: Zhai, Yujia (Sam) title: Gavin D’Costa. Catholic Doctrines on the Jewish People After Vatican II date: 2020-11-06 words: 1656 flesch: 29 summary: However, this principle of compatibility can also lead to the possibility of Hebrew Catholics’ and Messianic Jews’ serving as alternative forms of targeted institu- tional effort to solicit Jewish conversions. He is also committed to learning from Jewish perspectives, taking into consideration not only elements of Jewish beliefs but also the history of Jewish existence among Christians and in the Land of Israel. keywords: christian; d’costa; jews cache: scjr-12849.pdf plain text: scjr-12849.txt item: #79 of 511 id: scjr-12969 author: Sax, Benjamin E. title: Shaul Magid, Ed., and Jordan Gayle Levy, Trans. The Bible, the Talmud, and the New Testament: Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik’s Commentary to the Gospels date: 2020-11-27 words: 1352 flesch: 48 summary: Conceding the possibility that Soloveitchik may have consulted Delitzsch’s trans- lation, Levy draws on The Delitzsch Hebrew English Gospels in her translation of New Testament texts. Complicating matters fur- ther, Magid explains that we do not know which New Testament Soloveitchik consulted in his commentary. keywords: levy; magid; soloveitchik cache: scjr-12969.pdf plain text: scjr-12969.txt item: #80 of 511 id: scjr-13075 author: Weissman, Deborah title: Karma Ben Johanan. A Pottage of Lentils: Mutual Perceptions of Christians and Jews in the Age of Reconciliation (Hebrew) date: 2020-12-28 words: 924 flesch: 54 summary: To take a model from another field with which I am familiar, imagine a re- searcher writing 30-40 years ago about Jewish feminism. I am suggesting that Jewish-Christian dialogue within Orthodoxy is in its nascent stages, similar to Jewish feminism in the 1980s. keywords: book; jews; orthodox cache: scjr-13075.pdf plain text: scjr-13075.txt item: #81 of 511 id: scjr-13115 author: Cunningham, Philip A. title: Gavin D’Costa. Catholic Doctrines on the Jewish People After Vatican II date: 2021-01-10 words: 7203 flesch: 38 summary: While it is true that it does not explicitly state, as John Paul II later did, that Jewish covenantal life was “never revoked by God,” one wonders how it would be possible for either the drafters or the Council fathers not to have had living Jews in mind given the recent occurrence of the Shoah. Gavin D’Costa’s Catholic Doctrines on the Jewish People 6 [B]iblical Jews, as well as Rabbinic Jews, are in an irrevocable covenant that is sufficient [for salvation] in itself, for God instituted this covenant, is faithful to it, and he is followed faithfully through this covenant. keywords: aetate; catholic; christian; church; council; covenant; dialogue; d’costa; god; jews; nostra; people; word cache: scjr-13115.pdf plain text: scjr-13115.txt item: #82 of 511 id: scjr-13221 author: Fox Sandmel, David title: Gavin D’Costa. Catholic Doctrines on the Jewish People After Vatican II date: 2021-02-12 words: 1747 flesch: 42 summary: This raises another question that is admittedly beyond the scope of this book: in light of the relationship with the Jews that has developed in the years since Nostra Aetate, what role, if any, would the awareness of Jewish sensitivities play in how the Church might proceed from theory to practice on such matters? In this regard, the discussion of the “ceremonial law” reflects either a misun- derstanding of Jewish categories or (and?) keywords: catholic; d’costa; jews; judaism cache: scjr-13221.pdf plain text: scjr-13221.txt item: #83 of 511 id: scjr-13251 author: Marshall, Bruce D. title: Gavin D’Costa. Catholic Doctrines on the Jewish People After Vatican II date: 2021-02-22 words: 2511 flesch: 54 summary: The conflict would go away, however, if traditional Jewish practice were pos- sible within the Catholic Church in a way that clearly maintained both the unrevoked covenantal identity of Jews inside the Church and their full embrace of Catholic liturgical and sacramental life, the life of the one Church of Christ. Among the many merits of D’Costa’s work is precisely that he treats the Church’s relation to the Jewish people and Judaism as a doctrinal matter, rather than seeing it only as a pastoral, political, catechetical, or public relations issue. keywords: catholic; church; god; people cache: scjr-13251.pdf plain text: scjr-13251.txt item: #84 of 511 id: scjr-13321 author: Cucchiara, Martina title: James Bernauer. Jesuit Kaddish: Jesuits, Jews, and Holocaust Remembrance date: 2021-04-05 words: 1191 flesch: 47 summary: SCJR 16, no. 1 (2021): 1-3 James Bernauer, S.J. Jesuit Kaddish: Jesuits, Jews, and Holocaust Remembrance (Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame University Press, 2020), hardcover, xxx + 187 pp. In the first of five chapters, Bernauer focuses on the papacy, in particular on Pope John Paul II and his crucial role in advocating a new relationship between Jews and Christians. keywords: bernauer; church; jews cache: scjr-13321.pdf plain text: scjr-13321.txt item: #85 of 511 id: scjr-13323 author: Davis, Joseph title: Benjamin E. Fisher. Amsterdam’s People of the Book: Jewish Society and the Turn to Scripture in the Seventeenth Century date: 2021-04-05 words: 1101 flesch: 57 summary: Fisher argues that Menasseh and Morteira, as well as Spinoza, were all committed to intense study of Scripture and humanist historical study and cultivated similar contacts with contemporary radical Christians. Morteira is a less studied figure; here Fisher breaks new ground. keywords: fisher; morteira cache: scjr-13323.pdf plain text: scjr-13323.txt item: #86 of 511 id: scjr-13325 author: Von Kellenbach, Katharina title: Repenting for Antisemitism: “To Elevate Evil into a State of Goodness” date: 2021-04-05 words: 8920 flesch: 43 summary: A year later, in 1965, the Second 37 Eva Fleischner, “The Shoah and Jewish Christian Relations,” in Seeing Judaism Anew, 12. 38 Franklin Sherman, “The Road to Reconciliation,” in Seeing Judaism Anew, 241. 39 Eva Fleischner, “The Shoah and Jewish Christian Relations,” in Seeing Judaism Anew, 10. 40 Sherman, Bridges, Vol 1, 59. Christian Tisha B’Av calls for penance for past misdeeds—most especially by growing Christian support for Israel.71 Is the observance of Jewish rituals an appropriate form of Christian repentance? keywords: antisemitism; christian; church; god; israel; january; jesus; jewish; jews; judaism; new; penance; people; press; reconciliation; relations; repentance; theological; theology; tree; york cache: scjr-13325.pdf plain text: scjr-13325.txt item: #87 of 511 id: scjr-13385 author: D'Costa, Gavin title: Response from the Author date: 2021-04-19 words: 9747 flesch: 52 summary: A recent pub- lication by Antoine Lévy, O.P., entitled Jewish Church: A Catholic Approach to Messianic Judaism (2021)4 boldly sketches out the contours of this constitutive and 4 Levy, Antoine, O.P., Jewish Church: A Catholic Approach to Messianic Judaism (Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2021). Langer’s second point is that my arguments for non-coercive mission are unconvincing to Jewish ears for they still spell the extinction of rabbinic Jewish existence, especially with the introduction of Hebrew Catholics into the equation. keywords: catholic; christ; christian; church; covenant; cunningham; dialogue; god; israel; jesus; jews; judaism; messiah; people cache: scjr-13385.pdf plain text: scjr-13385.txt item: #88 of 511 id: scjr-13393 author: Chilton, Bruce title: Matthew Colvin. The Lost Supper: Revisiting Passover and the Origins of the Eucharist date: 2021-04-22 words: 1408 flesch: 49 summary: To make a typological argument of this sort into an historical argument, however, would require that the origins of the Haggadah be elucidated; that the practice, etymology, and dating of the aphiqoman be deter- mined; and that Judaic meal practices be assessed. SCJR 16, no. 1 (2021): 1-3 Matthew Colvin The Lost Supper: Revisiting Passover and the Origins of the Eucharist (Lanham: Lexington Books / Fortress Academic, 2019), hardcover, 173 + xiii pp. keywords: argument; colvin; melito; pascha cache: scjr-13393.pdf plain text: scjr-13393.txt item: #89 of 511 id: scjr-13411 author: Ariel, Yaakov title: David B. Ruderman. Missionaries, Converts, and Rabbis: The Evangelical Alexander McCaul and Jewish-Christian Debate in the Nineteenth Century date: 2021-05-03 words: 1087 flesch: 47 summary: Jewish thinkers, especially among the emerging reformist movements, took excep- tion to the attacks on rabbinic Judaism. The missions proliferated at the same time that Jewish thinkers were themselves working to modernize their tradi- tion and re-interpret and reconfigure their own faith. keywords: jews; missionaries; missions cache: scjr-13411.pdf plain text: scjr-13411.txt item: #90 of 511 id: scjr-13455 author: Korn, Eugene title: Philip A. Cunningham, Ruth Langer, and Jesper Svartvik, Eds. Enabling Dialogue about the Land: A Resource Book for Jews and Christians date: 2021-05-20 words: 1610 flesch: 48 summary: The book emerged from an International Council of Christians and Jews (ICCJ) project “Promise, Land and Hope” conducted between 2011-2016 by well- known Christian and Jewish interfaith scholars. Even contemporary ultra-Orthodox anti-Zionists fervently insist on the Jewish connection and return to the Land, rejecting only the political entity of Israel as the proper means for that return. keywords: christian; jews; land; theology cache: scjr-13455.pdf plain text: scjr-13455.txt item: #91 of 511 id: scjr-1351 author: Cunningham, Philip A.; Kessler, Edward D. title: Editors' Introduction date: 2011-04-15 words: 801 flesch: 36 summary: Microsoft Word - editorial1.doc Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations Volume 1 (2005-2006): i-ii Editors’ Introduction i http://escholarship.bc.edu/scjr/vol1/iss1/art1 Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations A peer-reviewed e-journal of the Council of Centers in Jewish-Christian Relations Published by the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning at Boston College Editors’ Introduction Philip A. Cunningham and Edward Kessler Volume 1 (2005-2006): i-ii http://escholarship.bc.edu/scjr/vol1/iss1/art1 Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations Volume 1 (2005-2006): i-ii Editors’ Introduction ii http://escholarship.bc.edu/scjr/vol1/iss1/art1 Welcome to the first volume of STUDIES IN CHRISTIAN-JEWISH RELATIONS. Edward Flannery, “terminated in a stroke a millennial teaching of contempt of Jews and Judaism and unequivocally asserted the Church’s debt to its Jewish heritage.”1 Traditionally, ever since the adversus Ioudaios writings of the second through fifth centuries of the Common Era, Christianity had claimed to be the successor covenant people, elected by God to replace the People of Israel because of their faithlessness. keywords: christian; god; relations cache: scjr-1351.pdf plain text: scjr-1351.txt item: #92 of 511 id: scjr-1352 author: Svartvik, Jesper title: Forging an Incarnational Theology Two Score Years after Nostra Aetate date: 2011-04-15 words: 7841 flesch: 54 summary: However complex, one must also address another issue; namely, how does the death of Jesus atone for the sins of humankind? Nothing is more central to Christian faith than Christology, i.e., what Christians think, teach and preach about Jesus of Nazareth. keywords: christian; cross; death; god; jesus; new; paul; people; relations; suffering; svartvik; teaching; theology; words cache: scjr-1352.pdf plain text: scjr-1352.txt item: #93 of 511 id: scjr-1353 author: Gamberini, SJ, Paolo title: With Sincere Reverence: A Christological Perspective for the Interreligious Dialogue Envisioned by Nostra Aetate date: 2011-04-15 words: 5684 flesch: 50 summary: Facing not only the religious expansion of Islam and of other religions, but also preoccupied by the threat of terrorist fundamentalism, many Catholics are tempted to defend their identity by suspecting any kind of pluralistic attitude in dealing with the present situation. I will highlight three different moments in which this “sincere reverence” towards other religions may be realized. keywords: christian; dialogue; experience; god; jesus; relations; religions; reverence; spirit; truth; way cache: scjr-1353.pdf plain text: scjr-1353.txt item: #94 of 511 id: scjr-1354 author: Henrix, Hans Hermann title: After 40 Years, Nostra Aetate's Christological Implications date: 2011-04-15 words: 10522 flesch: 49 summary: In this context, there is one statement that is one of the most exciting statements of the past few years: “Jewish messianic expectation is not in vain” (§ 21).5 Judentum, Neuhausen (Stuttgart: Haenssler, 1996); Daniel Cohn- Sherbok, The Jewish Messiah (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1997); R. Mayer, War Jesus der Messias? Jewish messianic expectation is viewed very positively by the Church. keywords: aetate; christian; christianity; document; expectation; god; henrix; human; incarnation; israel; jesus; jewish; jews; judaism; messiah; nostra; people; son; und cache: scjr-1354.pdf plain text: scjr-1354.txt item: #95 of 511 id: scjr-1355 author: Cunningham, Philip A. title: A Covenantal Christology date: 2011-04-15 words: 6466 flesch: 45 summary: … At the most fundamental level of theology Christians need to emphasize God more than they have and Jesus Christ as savior within the context of God’s relationship to humanity. Thus, it is the Church’s experience that Jesus Christ incarnates both Israel’s covenantal relationship with God and God’s constant divine self-revealing Logos that brings people into relationship with the Triune God. keywords: christ; christian; church; covenantal; covenanting; god; israel; jesus; life cache: scjr-1355.pdf plain text: scjr-1355.txt item: #96 of 511 id: scjr-13553 author: Kessler, Edward title: Barbara U. Meyer. Jesus the Jew in Christian Memory: Theological and Philosophical Exploration date: 2021-06-14 words: 910 flesch: 46 summary: Meyer writes, “Jesus the Jew observed the commandments of the Torah, and Jesus Christ fulfilled the Torah, without abrogating it” (54). She argues that the answer to Dieter Bonhoeffer’s question, “Who is Jesus Christ for us today?” cannot be provided by Christians alone, which is why interreligious dialogue (in- cluding with Muslims) is vital. keywords: jesus; jew cache: scjr-13553.pdf plain text: scjr-13553.txt item: #97 of 511 id: scjr-13555 author: Hoff, Gregor Maria title: Christian Danz, Kathy Ehrensperger, and Walter Homolka (Eds.). Christologie Zwischen Judentum und Christentum date: 2021-06-14 words: 1326 flesch: 42 summary: Oder Paulus, der Diasporajude, und der christliche Erlöser” (81-107), sees the early church councils as “transversal to Paul’s very immediate eschatological Christ” (105), Josef Wohlmuth argues that the Council of Chalcedon illustrates a continuing influence of Jewish traditions in efforts to affirm both the human reality of Jesus Christ and the transcendence of God (“Der jüdische Jesus und die Christologie des Konzils von Chalkedon” With the document “‘The Gifts and the Calling of God Are Irrevocable’” (2015), the Vatican Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews once again raised the question of the significance of the “universality of salvation in Jesus Christ” (Sect. 37) and affirmed that the “covenant of God with Israel has never been revoked” (Preface). keywords: christian; christology; jesus; questions cache: scjr-13555.pdf plain text: scjr-13555.txt item: #98 of 511 id: scjr-1356 author: Rutishauser, Christian M. title: Jewish-Christian Dialogue and the Theology of Religions date: 2011-04-15 words: 8153 flesch: 45 summary: The history of the origin of Nostra Aetate conveys the degree to which the changing attitude of the Church towards Judaism served as a catalyst for a foundational exploration of the Church in relation to other religions. Nevertheless, the historic fact remains that – when the conciliar writing and editing process was finished – the declaration on the relationship of the Church to the Jewish people was no longer part of the decree on Christian ecumenism but rather was placed in the same context as the relationship to other religions. keywords: christian; christianity; church; dialogue; god; history; israel; judaism; new; people; relationship; religions; revelation; salvation; testament; theology; und cache: scjr-1356.pdf plain text: scjr-1356.txt item: #99 of 511 id: scjr-1357 author: Levenson, Jon D. title: Can Catholicism Validate Jewish Biblical Interpretation? date: 2011-04-15 words: 9829 flesch: 48 summary: The second of the two points on which I see the document making a noteworthy change relates to the question of Jewish biblical interpretation, that is, the way Jews have traditionally understood the book that Christians, for very good Christian reasons, call “the Old Testament.” For that reason, Catholicism cannot ever fully validate Jewish biblical interpretation, any more than Judaism could ever fully validate Catholic biblical interpretation, or historical criticism could ever fully validate the characteristic interpretive moves of either Catholicism or Judaism. keywords: bible; christian; church; document; interpretation; jews; judaism; new; pbc; people; sense; testament cache: scjr-1357.pdf plain text: scjr-1357.txt item: #100 of 511 id: scjr-1358 author: Anderson, Gary A title: What Can a Catholic Learn from the History of Jewish Biblical Exegesis? date: 2011-04-15 words: 6142 flesch: 63 summary: The striking line here, of course, is the request that Moses step aside so that God may bring this project of electing the nation of Israel to a temporary halt (… now, let Me be). Why wouldn't God simply proceed to judge Israel according to the nature of her deeds? keywords: christian; god; honor; israel; jesus; jonah; moses; people; prophet; son cache: scjr-1358.pdf plain text: scjr-1358.txt item: #101 of 511 id: scjr-1359 author: Tyson, Joseph B. title: Anti-Judaism in Marcion and his Opponents date: 2011-04-15 words: 8057 flesch: 59 summary: 17 See, e.g., Irenaeus, Heresies 4, 34:1. 18 Harnack, Marcion: The Gospel, 67. 19 See Tertullian, Adv. Marc. 2, 21:2; 3, 5:4; 3, 12:1. Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations Volume 1, (2005-2006): 196-208 Tyson, “Anti-Judaism in Marcion and His Opponents” 201 http://escholarship.bc.edu/scjr/vol1/iss1/art21 to take up the strength of Damascus and the spoils of Samaria against the king of the Assyrians: and yet he who has come was neither known by any name of that kind, nor has ever performed any warlike act.20 But Marcion evidently believed in the authority of the Hebrew Scriptures and accepted Isaiah and the other prophets as trustworthy predictors of the future. Justin knew about Marcion but did not give him the same attention that Luke, Irenaeus, and Tertullian did.34 He nevertheless struggled with problems presented by the Hebrew Scriptures, which seemed to speak in promising terms about Israel, despite the fact that it was Gentiles who were receiving the fulfillment of the promises. keywords: acts; anti; christian; god; gospel; hebrew; jesus; jews; judaism; justin; marcion; scriptures; tertullian cache: scjr-1359.pdf plain text: scjr-1359.txt item: #102 of 511 id: scjr-1360 author: Neuhaus, sj, David M.; Khader, Jamal title: A Holy Land Context for Nostra Aetate date: 2011-04-15 words: 12080 flesch: 48 summary: The introductory part of the Synod document discreetly underlines a fundamental difference in perspective between Holy Land Christians and the heart of the Universal Church in Rome. At the same time, reading the Bible in this Holy Land has certain particularities which broaden 35 Patriarch Michel Sabbah has said: “The whole of the Bible, the New Testament and the Old (also known as the Torah), is the Word of God, revealed for the salvation of humankind. keywords: aetate; christians; church; context; dialogue; document; holy; jews; land; muslims; nostra; peace; relations; relationship cache: scjr-1360.pdf plain text: scjr-1360.txt item: #103 of 511 id: scjr-1361 author: Breger, Marshall J. title: Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik''s ‘Confrontation’: A Reassessment date: 2011-04-15 words: 11599 flesch: 47 summary: Thus for Israelis the grounds for Soloveitchik’s fear of religious dialogue no longer exist. If a Jew were to give a lecture about some aspect of Jewish faith or halakha to a non-Jew, even if the non-Jew were to ask questions (thereby engaging in “dialogue” in the common use of the term), he 63 Soloveitchik, “Confrontation,” p. 25. 64 Some, like David Berger, have criticized reciprocity: See David Berger, “Statement Regarding the New York Times Ad by Dabru Emet,” (Sept. 14, 2000): http://www.ou.org/public/statements/2000/betty25.htm. keywords: breger; christian; christianity; community; confrontation; dialogue; essay; faith; interfaith; interfaith dialogue; jewish; jews; judaism; note; rabbi; rav; relations; soloveitchik; studies; theological; view; volume cache: scjr-1361.pdf plain text: scjr-1361.txt item: #104 of 511 id: scjr-1362 author: Peppard, Michael title: Do We Share a Book? The Sunday Lectionary and Jewish-Christian Relations date: 2011-04-15 words: 7778 flesch: 52 summary: Table 1: Frequency of Old Testament books in Sunday Lectionary OT book frequency Isaiah 49 Genesis 21 Exodus 16 Ezekiel 10 Deuteronomy 10 Jeremiah 9 Sirach 9 Wisdom of Solomon 8 1 Kings 7 Joel 6 Numbers 4 1 Samuel 4 Baruch 4 19 books 3 or less 13 books not used Total = 189 readings from OT Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations Volume 1 (2005-2006): 89-102 Peppard, “Do We Share a Book?” 96 http://escholarship.bc.edu/scjr/vol1/iss1/art9 The choice of Old Testament lections can be criticized for some grave imbalances.25 Almost half the lections (86 of 189) are from the three books of Isaiah, Genesis and Exodus. These seasons have a higher concentration of Old Testament texts interpreted as predictions. keywords: bible; book; catholic; christian; document; god; jews; lectionary; readings; relations; studies; sunday; testament; time cache: scjr-1362.pdf plain text: scjr-1362.txt item: #105 of 511 id: scjr-1363 author: Anderson, E. Byron title: Christian Prayer and Song in a Post-Holocaust Church date: 2011-04-15 words: 13736 flesch: 52 summary: Conclusion A reading of Christian liturgical texts with particular attention to how these texts describe or interpret the relationship between Christianity and Judaism may feel to some, as has been true of first encounters with issues of inclusive language, as an awkward and unnecessary restraint on the language of Christian prayer, yet one more form of liturgical legalism. 103-126 http://escholarship.bc.edu/scjr/vol1/iss1/art10 Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations Volume 1 (2005-2006): 103-126 Anderson, “Christian Prayer and Song in a Post-Holocaust Church” 104 http://escholarship.bc.edu/scjr/vol1/iss1/art10 Introduction Over the past twenty years or more, some Christian liturgical theologians have raised important questions about the nature of Christian prayer, and especially practices of Christian worship, in a post-Holocaust, post-Auschwitz age. keywords: anderson; christian; church; covenant; day; easter; god; holocaust; hymnal; israel; people; post; prayer; relations; sabbath; song; studies; sunday; volume; worship cache: scjr-1363.pdf plain text: scjr-1363.txt item: #106 of 511 id: scjr-13631 author: Carenen, Caitlin title: Daniel G. Hummel. Covenant Brothers: Evangelicals, Jews, and U.S.-Israeli Relations date: 2021-07-02 words: 1559 flesch: 29 summary: This section also shows the extent to which the Israeli government, particularly the Ministry of Tourism, actively sought American evangelical support, through awarding and supporting notable evangelical Israel boosters who developed pro- Zionist tourism in Israel for American evangelicals that emphasized its “sacred landscape” (122). Hummel then traces the development of “advocacy, organizing, and cooperation” between evangelicals and modern Israel and, in so doing, offers a gentle revision to scholarship that insists evangelicals are only focused on the end of times and on the role Israel plays in this scenario and ignores the mutuality of the evangelical-Israeli relationship and its “covenantal sol- idarity” (3). keywords: evangelicals; hummel; israel; jewish cache: scjr-13631.pdf plain text: scjr-13631.txt item: #107 of 511 id: scjr-1364 author: Doetzel, Audrey title: Branches of that Good Olive Tree: 21st Century Liturgical Challenges and Possibilities date: 2011-04-15 words: 13631 flesch: 38 summary: They find solid ground in Church statements such as Pope John Paul II’s Laborem Exercens and numerous national episcopal social documents that highlight this co-creatorship theme. 127-150 http://escholarship.bc.edu/scjr/vol1/iss1/art11 Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations Volume 1 (2005-2006): 127-150 Doetzel, “Branches of that Good Olive Tree” 128 http://escholarship.bc.edu/scjr/vol1/iss1/art11 Introduction On October 28, 1965 when Vatican Council II – through the promulgation of Nostra Aetate – began the process of addressing the Church’s relationship with Jews and Judaism, the Council Fathers recognized the importance of the declaration and the depths to which this new teaching would reach. keywords: advent; branches; christian; church; doetzel; faith; god; good; human; jesus; judaism; liturgy; new; olive; people; relations; studies; time; tree; volume cache: scjr-1364.pdf plain text: scjr-1364.txt item: #108 of 511 id: scjr-1365 author: Kessler, Edward title: Bernd Janowski and Peter Stuhlmacher, eds. The Suffering Servant: Isaiah 53 in Jewish and Christian Sources date: 2011-04-15 words: 776 flesch: 41 summary: Hengel examines a variety of Greek and Hebrew sources and disagrees with the assumption, common among scholars today, that the passage was uninfluential in pre-Christian Jewish interpretation. Schreiner shows that Isaac had knowledge not only of rabbinic interpretations of Scripture but also a detailed grasp of Christian interpretations of Isaiah 53. keywords: christian; suffering cache: scjr-1365.pdf plain text: scjr-1365.txt item: #109 of 511 id: scjr-1366 author: O'Neill, Corry title: Attilio Mastrocinque. From Jewish Magic to Gnosticism date: 2011-04-15 words: 825 flesch: 39 summary: Microsoft Word - Mastrocinque_ONeill.doc Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations Volume 1 (2005-2006): R3-4 Attilio Mastrocinque, From Jewish Magic to Gnosticism R3 http://escholarship.bc.edu/scjr/vol1/iss1/art13 Attilio Mastrocinque, From Jewish Magic to Gnosticism (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2005), paper, xiii To put it more accurately, however, as Mastrocinque REVIEW Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations Volume 1 (2005-2006): R3-4 Attilio Mastrocinque, From Jewish Magic to Gnosticism R4 http://escholarship.bc.edu/scjr/vol1/iss1/art13 points out, ‘magic’ was a blanket condemnatory term that always connoted that activity practiced by the heretics. keywords: magic; mastrocinque cache: scjr-1366.pdf plain text: scjr-1366.txt item: #110 of 511 id: scjr-13665 author: Fisher, Josey G. title: Carol Rittner and John K. Roth, Eds. Advancing Holocaust Studies date: 2021-07-27 words: 1116 flesch: 56 summary: Her research for Children with a Star (1991), including her use of primary sources, was considered a new dimension in Holocaust studies at that time. Ventresca, noted biographer of Pope Pius XII, writes that explaining the Pope’s silence during the Nazi era remains one of the most significant challenges for Holocaust studies in the 21st century: Questions about Pope Pius XII’s spiritual authority and political influence in a time of war and genocide haunt me as a Catholic and motivate me as a his- torian... keywords: holocaust; studies; ventresca; world cache: scjr-13665.pdf plain text: scjr-13665.txt item: #111 of 511 id: scjr-13667 author: Trainor, Michael title: Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler. The Bible With and Without Jesus: How Jews and Christians Read the Same Stories Differently date: 2021-07-27 words: 1463 flesch: 53 summary: The authors invite their readers to reflect on biblical texts, starting with their appearance in the Tanakh and then later on with their appearance in the New Tes- tament and in subsequent interpretations. Their agenda is not to reconcile different interpretations of biblical texts but to honor the differences (15). keywords: bible; chapter; jesus cache: scjr-13667.pdf plain text: scjr-13667.txt item: #112 of 511 id: scjr-1367 author: Cunningham, Philip A. title: Michael Wyschogrod. Abraham's Promise: Judaism and Jewish-Christian Relations date: 2011-04-15 words: 1235 flesch: 50 summary: It is this physicality of Israel’s life with God that, for Wyschogrod, explains why being Jewish is “not just a religious but also a national identity” (p. 45), and why the land of Israel is so important to Jews, even though their “nationality” is not dependent on being physically present on its soil (p. 100). Wyschogrod’s understanding of Judaism is predicated on his conviction that the five books of the Torah were given by God to Moses as God’s gift to the people of Israel, whom God loves “as no other” (p.28). keywords: god; israel; wyschogrod cache: scjr-1367.pdf plain text: scjr-1367.txt item: #113 of 511 id: scjr-1368 author: Grypeou, Emmanouela title: Daniel Boyarin. Border Lines: The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity date: 2011-04-15 words: 1059 flesch: 41 summary: The development of rabbinic Judaism and orthodox Christianity as two distinct systems was founded in great part on what Boyarin calls – following Isaac Heinemann – the “Shattering of the Logos.” Reviewed by Emmanouela Grypeou, University of Cambridge Daniel Boyarin’s latest book explores the beginnings of Christianity and Judaism and the formation of Judaism and Christianity as two distinct cultural-religious systems. keywords: christianity; judaism cache: scjr-1368.pdf plain text: scjr-1368.txt item: #114 of 511 id: scjr-1369 author: Sandmel, David Fox title: Irving Greenberg. For the Sake of Heaven and Earth: The New Encounter between Judaism and Christianity date: 2011-04-15 words: 949 flesch: 42 summary: REVIEW Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations Volume 1 (2005-2006): R9-10 Irving Greenberg, For the Sake of Heaven and Earth R10 http://escholarship.bc.edu/scjr/vol1/iss1/art23 The most provocative aspect of this theology for Jews, and for Christians for that matter, and most relevant for this review, is the concept of covenantal pluralism and, more specifically, Greenberg’s treatment of Jesus. For the Sake of Heaven and Earth: The New Encounter between Judaism and Christianity Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations Volume 1 (2005-2006): R9-10 Irving Greenberg, For the Sake of Heaven and Earth R9 http://escholarship.bc.edu/scjr/vol1/iss1/art23 Irving Greenberg, For the Sake of Heaven and Earth: The New Encounter between Judaism and Christianity (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 2004), paper, xiv + 274 pp. keywords: christianity; greenberg cache: scjr-1369.pdf plain text: scjr-1369.txt item: #115 of 511 id: scjr-1370 author: McCarron, Richard E. title: Henry F. Knight. Celebrating Holy Week in a Post-Holocaust World. date: 2011-04-15 words: 875 flesch: 46 summary: Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations Volume 1 (2005-2006): R11-12 Henry F. Knight, Celebrating Holy Week R11 http://escholarship.bc.edu/scjr/vol1/iss1/art24 Henry F. Knight, Celebrating Holy Week in a Post-Holocaust World (Louisville, Ky: Westminster / John Knox Press, 2005), paper, xix +172 pp. It is a night filled with REVIEW Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations Volume 1 (2005-2006): R11-12 Henry F. Knight, Celebrating Holy Week R12 http://escholarship.bc.edu/scjr/vol1/iss1/art24 even more anguish since the Shoah. keywords: knight; passion; week cache: scjr-1370.pdf plain text: scjr-1370.txt item: #116 of 511 id: scjr-1371 author: Spurling, Helen title: Hanneke Reuling. After Eden: Church Fathers and Rabbis on Genesis 3:16-21 date: 2011-04-15 words: 1159 flesch: 31 summary: Chapters four and five of the source analysis focus on rabbinic exegesis with assessment of Genesis Rabbah and Aboth de-Rabbi Nathan (Versions A and B). The first three chapters focus on patristic exegesis, examining Didymus the Blind and Ambrose of Milan as representatives of the Alexandrian approach to exegesis, John Chrysostom from the school of Antioch, and Augustine of Hippo from the Latin tradition. keywords: genesis; reuling cache: scjr-1371.pdf plain text: scjr-1371.txt item: #117 of 511 id: scjr-1372 author: Monferrer-Sala, Juan Pedro title: Claudia Setzer. Resurrection of the Body in Early Judaism and Early Christianity: Doctrine, Community, and Self-Definition date: 2011-04-15 words: 564 flesch: 45 summary: It would also have been interesting to elaborate on the differences in early Christian writings on resurrection, eschatological resurrection, and the resurrection of Christ. Resurrection of the Body in Early Judaism and Early Christianity: Doctrine, Community, and Self-Definition Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations Volume 1 (2005-2006): R15 Claudia Setzer, Resurrection of the Body R15 http://escholarship.bc.edu/scjr/vol1/iss1/art26 Claudia Setzer, Resurrection of the Body in Early Judaism and Early Christianity: Doctrine, Community, and Self-Definition (Leiden: Brill, 2004), paper, xii + 191 pp. keywords: christianity; resurrection cache: scjr-1372.pdf plain text: scjr-1372.txt item: #118 of 511 id: scjr-1373 author: Bumazhnov, Dmitrij F. title: Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra. The Impact of Yom Kippur on Early Christianity date: 2011-04-15 words: 1125 flesch: 37 summary: Of great importance is the figure of Melchizedek who in 11QMelchizidek is described as high priest performing a collective atonement on eschatological Yom Kippur. Similarly, Chrysostom’s mocking Jewish “templization” of Yom Kippur rites does not necessarily provide a reason to understand Christian “templization” of the Eucharist in terms of a response to the Jewish challenge, as the author suggest. keywords: christian; kippur; yom cache: scjr-1373.pdf plain text: scjr-1373.txt item: #119 of 511 id: scjr-1374 author: Doetzel, Audrey title: Nostra Aetate, §, the Rabbis, and the Messianic Age date: 2011-04-15 words: 4593 flesch: 41 summary: He includes as well a comparison of Jewish social ethics with Christian and American belief systems today. It is included in his explanation of the series of concentric circles of Jewish responsibility as depicted by Classical Jewish sources: that Jews’ primary duties are to themselves and their family, then to their local community and the wider Jewish community, and ultimately to the world at large. keywords: christian; dorff; jews; judaism; levine; olam; responsibility; sacks; world cache: scjr-1374.pdf plain text: scjr-1374.txt item: #120 of 511 id: scjr-1375 author: Fitzgerald, Michael L. title: What the Catholic Church Has Learnt from Interreligious Dialogue date: 2011-04-15 words: 6681 flesch: 55 summary: So it was that in the field of interreligious dialogue the Church as a whole had almost everything to learn. Therefore in attempting to answer the question about what the Church has learnt from interreligious dialogue it will be well to approach the matter in two ways, one theological, the other more practical. 1. keywords: aetate; christ; christian; church; dialogue; god; nostra; people; relations; religions cache: scjr-1375.pdf plain text: scjr-1375.txt item: #121 of 511 id: scjr-1376 author: Fitzgerald, Michael L. title: The Promise of Interreligious Dialogue for a World in Conflict date: 2011-04-15 words: 6433 flesch: 59 summary: Its aim is to build up good relations among people of different religions, helping them to live in peace and harmony. There is certainly need for people of different religions to work together, for the challenges presented by the world we live in are so great that the combined efforts of all are needed to solve them. keywords: conflict; countries; dialogue; good; life; peace; people; religions; time; traditions; understanding; world cache: scjr-1376.pdf plain text: scjr-1376.txt item: #122 of 511 id: scjr-1377 author: Cunningham, Philip A.; Kessler, Edward D. title: Editors' Afterword date: 2011-04-15 words: 502 flesch: 38 summary: Peer-reviewed articles concerning Bible, Christian Theology, Documents, Jewish Theology, and Liturgy were published in this volume, and others involving History and Religious Education are in preparation for Volume 2. The study of Jewish-Christian relations has been dominated by the discipline of theology, religious studies, history or Jewish studies and insufficient attention has been given to history, psychology, politics and so on. keywords: relations; volume cache: scjr-1377.pdf plain text: scjr-1377.txt item: #123 of 511 id: scjr-1398 author: Cunningham, Philip A.; Kessler, Edward D. title: Editors' Introduction date: 2011-04-15 words: 648 flesch: 39 summary: Contemporary debate turns on whether Bonhoeffer is to be regarded as part of the problem Jewish–Christian relations must resolve or is one of the few theologians who made future dialogue possible. The accessibility of this e-journal enables a wide readership and we are grateful to our editorial board and colleagues at the Council of Centers on Jewish-Christian Relations for their encouragement and support. keywords: christian; relations cache: scjr-1398.pdf plain text: scjr-1398.txt item: #124 of 511 id: scjr-13987 author: Ryan, Maurice title: Revisiting the Parable of the Good Samaritan date: 2021-10-04 words: 7987 flesch: 54 summary: A foundational scholarly interest focuses on the way echoes of 2 Chron- icles 28:8-15 may have resounded in Luke’s parable of the compassionate Samaritan. Luke locates this parable in his Gospel after a story of Jesus being rejected in a Samaritan village in Luke 9:51-56. keywords: christian; chronicles; good; gospel; jerusalem; jesus; jews; levite; luke; man; new; parables; priest; samaritan; story cache: scjr-13987.pdf plain text: scjr-13987.txt item: #125 of 511 id: scjr-13989 author: Carter-Chand, Rebecca title: Tim Dowley. Defying the Holocaust: Ten Courageous Christians who Supported Jews date: 2021-10-04 words: 975 flesch: 47 summary: Works on “Christian rescuers” can further distort the history and do a disserve to contemporary Jewish-Christian relations by presenting them as counterweights to the complicity of many Christian institutions, communities, and individuals, as though one cancels out the other. Another unstated function is to give shape to a shared identity of devout Christian rescuers, an identity that is juxtaposed not so much with other religious identities but with secular Europeans and marginally-practicing Chris- tians. keywords: christian; jews; rescuers cache: scjr-13989.pdf plain text: scjr-13989.txt item: #126 of 511 id: scjr-1399 author: Hockenos, Matthew D. title: The Church Struggle and the Confessing Church: An Introduction to Bonhoeffer's Context date: 2011-04-15 words: 12056 flesch: 44 summary: John Bowden (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1987-88); Robert P. Ericksen, Theologians under Hitler: Gerhard Kittel, Paul Althaus, and Emanuel Hirsch (New Haven: Yale University, 1985); Doris Bergen, Twisted Cross: The German Christian Movement in the Third Reich (Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1996); and Robert P. Ericksen and Susannah Heschel eds., Betrayal: German Churches and the Holocaust (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1999). Zur Geschichte des Kirchenkampfes (Munich: Claudius, 1969), 117-21 and Klaus Scholder, “The Church Struggle,” in A Requiem for Hitler and Other New Perspectives on the German Church Struggle (London: SCM Press, 1989), 94-95. 10 keywords: barmen; barth; bonhoeffer; christian; church; church leaders; church struggle; churches; confessing; confessional; german; god; hitler; jews; lutheran; nazi; opposition; reich; relations; state; studies; theological; theology cache: scjr-1399.pdf plain text: scjr-1399.txt item: #127 of 511 id: scjr-13995 author: Frizzell, Lawrence E. title: Maria Chiara Rioli. A Liminal Church: Refugees, Conversions and the Latin Diocese of Jerusalem, 1946-1956 date: 2021-10-07 words: 1125 flesch: 59 summary: Catholic and other Christian schools in Israel were seen as potential settings for conversion of Jewish children (208-12). From the early 1900s the Holy See rejected Jewish efforts to promote a na- tional homeland. keywords: catholic; holy; israel cache: scjr-13995.pdf plain text: scjr-13995.txt item: #128 of 511 id: scjr-1400 author: Krell, Marc A. title: Repositioning The “Holy Remnant” of Israel: German Jewish Negotiations with Christian Culture on the Eve of the Holocaust date: 2011-04-15 words: 8407 flesch: 33 summary: David Biale, Michael Galchinsky, and Susannah Heschel (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998), 102-103, 108. Cf. Krell, Intersecting Pathways, 6-7; Amos Funkenstein, Perceptions of Jewish History (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), 36, 48-49; Mendes-Flohr, German Jews, 77. Ironically by portraying Jewish theology in universal terms as the seed of ethical monotheism in western history, the scholars of the Wissenschaft des Judentums ultimately diluted Jewish particularity as a contemporary religious community and essentially transformed it into an historical consciousness.4 Marginalized by their neo-Orthodox contemporaries keywords: bonhoeffer; buber; christian; culture; german; god; history; holy; jews; krell; pathways; remnant; rosenzweig; schoeps; studies; theology cache: scjr-1400.pdf plain text: scjr-1400.txt item: #129 of 511 id: scjr-1401 author: Haynes, Stephen R. title: Bonhoeffer, the Jewish People and Post-Holocaust Theology: Eight Perspectives; Eight Theses date: 2011-04-15 words: 9218 flesch: 46 summary: For instance, John D. Godsey's The Theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1960) has no index entries for Jews, Israel, or anti-Semitism.1 B. Guide for Post-Holocaust Christianity By the end of the 1970s, the view that Jews are irrelevant for understanding Bonhoeffer was difficult to detect in Bonhoeffer studies. This portrayal of Bonhoeffer, which links his experiences in Harlem during 1930-31 with his opposition to the Aryan paragraph two years later, is captured by Elizabeth Raum: “On one evening, when a number of students, including Franklin Fisher and Dietrich Bonhoeffer went to dinner at a New York restaurant, the restaurant refused service to Fisher because he was black. keywords: bethge; bonhoeffer; christian; church; dietrich; god; haynes; holocaust; israel; jews; judaism; nazi; people; post; relations; studies; theology; witness cache: scjr-1401.pdf plain text: scjr-1401.txt item: #130 of 511 id: scjr-1402 author: Barnett, Victoria J. title: Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Relevance for Post-Holocaust Christian Theology date: 2011-04-15 words: 9133 flesch: 47 summary: Bonhoeffer’s radical Christology – Christian preaching and witness for him were incarnational acts – was the means by which he detached 25 The planned meeting with the White Rose group is mentioned in Eberhard Bethge, Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Biography. See Glenthöj, Bonhoeffer und die Ökumene, 140-141. keywords: anti; barnett; bonhoeffer; christian; christianity; church; dietrich; holocaust; jews; judaism; nazi; post; relevance; resistance; state; theology cache: scjr-1402.pdf plain text: scjr-1402.txt item: #131 of 511 id: scjr-1403 author: Dahill, Lisa E. title: Particularity, Incarnation, and Discernment: Bonhoeffer’s "Christmas" Spirituality date: 2011-04-15 words: 5182 flesch: 50 summary: The philosophical concept of the boundary, partaking of divine alterity in its person-forming power, has taken on flesh and shape as Jesus Christ himself, the one whose voice and gaze and touch Bonhoeffer now knows personally. For more on Bonhoeffer’s understandings of “concreteness” and “abstraction,” see Mark Brocker, The Community of God, Jesus Christ, and Responsibility: keywords: bonhoeffer; christ; christian; discernment; god; jesus; person; reality; world cache: scjr-1403.pdf plain text: scjr-1403.txt item: #132 of 511 id: scjr-1404 author: Bernauer, James title: Bonhoeffer and Arendt at One Hundred date: 2011-04-15 words: 4989 flesch: 50 summary: Even as a philosophy student, Arendt would follow the theology courses of Bultmann and Tillich, study Kierkegaard and write a dissertation on Augustine.2 While I would maintain that this theological concern survives at the core of her conceptual 1 Karl Jaspers to Hannah Arendt, March 1, 1964, in Hannah Arendt and Karl Jaspers Correspondence 1926-1969, eds. This loss of a feeling for reality was exhibited in the 9 Arendt’s 1967 notes for a lecture on Dostoyevsky’s The Possessed, in The Papers of Hannah Arendt, container 69; The Origins of Totalitarianism, 446. 10 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, “Sations on the Way to Freedom (July 21, 1944)” and “Creation and Fall 1932-1933,” in A Testament to Freedom, 516, 106-107. keywords: action; arendt; bonhoeffer; christian; faith; hannah; human; jesus; new; world cache: scjr-1404.pdf plain text: scjr-1404.txt item: #133 of 511 id: scjr-1405 author: Wansbrough, OSB, Henry title: Can Catholicism Validate Jewish Biblical Interpretation? -- A Reply to Jon D. Levenson date: 2011-04-15 words: 4802 flesch: 54 summary: They are irreducible one to the other because Jewish faith reads the Bible in one way, Christian faith in another. Can Catholicism Validate Jewish Biblical Interpretation? -- A Reply to Jon D. Levenson Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations Volume 2 (2007): 86-93 Wansbrough, “A Reply to Jon D. Levenson” 86 http://escholarship.bc.edu/scjr/vol2/iss1/art7 Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations A peer-reviewed e-journal of the Council of Centers on Jewish-Christian Relations Published by the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning at Boston College “‘Can Catholicism Validate Jewish Biblical Interpretation?’ – A Reply to Jon D. Levenson” Henry Wansbrough, OSB Ampleforth Abbey Volume 2 (2007): 86-93 http://escholarship.bc.edu/scjr/vol2/iss1/art7 Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations Volume 2 (2007): 86-93 Wansbrough, “A Reply to Jon D. Levenson” 87 http://escholarship.bc.edu/scjr/vol2/iss1/art7 I have been asked to comment, as a Christian in the Roman Catholic tradition, on the stimulating reflections of Professor Jon Levenson1 on the 2001 document of the Pontifical Biblical Commission, The Jewish People and their Sacred Scriptures in the Christian Bible.2 keywords: bible; christian; document; judaism; law; levenson; paul; text cache: scjr-1405.pdf plain text: scjr-1405.txt item: #134 of 511 id: scjr-1406 author: Wolff, Judith E. title: Reflections on the Experience of Teaching about Christianity to Jewish Teenagers date: 2011-04-15 words: 5777 flesch: 54 summary: However, when those others who believe differently are Christians, then some particular forces come into play for Jewish students. My experiences teaching Jewish students about Christi- anity have convinced me that the students rather immediately take the information they learn in Hebrew School outside the classroom. keywords: christian; christianity; class; course; jews; students; teaching; wolff cache: scjr-1406.pdf plain text: scjr-1406.txt item: #135 of 511 id: scjr-1407 author: Heinz, Hanspeter title: Björn Krondörfer, Katharina von Kellenbach, Norbert Reck. Facing the Perpetrators: Questions for German Theology after 1945 date: 2011-04-15 words: 1230 flesch: 52 summary: This book is an easily read and thoroughly researched documentation of the mistakes of German theologians and Church leaders during and after the Nazi period. This ethical question (which the Pope did not mention), calls for deeper reflection about guilt and sin, and also for an active and energetic change in the Church. keywords: church; guilt; perpetrators; victims cache: scjr-1407.pdf plain text: scjr-1407.txt item: #136 of 511 id: scjr-1408 author: Kessler, Edward title: Bernd Janowski and Peter Stuhlmacher, eds. The Suffering Servant: Isaiah 53 in Jewish and Christian Sources date: 2011-04-15 words: 786 flesch: 39 summary: Hengel examines a variety of Greek and Hebrew sources and disagrees with the assumption, common among scholars today, that the passage was uninfluential in pre-Christian Jewish interpretation. The first, by Christoph Markschies, looks at a variety of christological and typological interpretations noting that in the early centuries a Jewish framework is maintained by Christian interpretations, with examples taken from Justin Martyr and Aphrahat, but in later centuries the commentators wholly reject the idea that the divine nature of Christ could have suffered. keywords: christian; suffering cache: scjr-1408.pdf plain text: scjr-1408.txt item: #137 of 511 id: scjr-1409 author: Fisher, Eugene J. title: Amy-Jill Levine. The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus date: 2011-04-15 words: 859 flesch: 50 summary: As a Jewish woman, Levine effectively goes after the implicit antisemitism of many “early” Christian feminists who sought to play up Jesus advocacy of women at the expense of turning the Judaism of Jesus’ time into a misogynistic, oppressive religion when, in fact, Judaism of the period was much more supportive of what we would today call women’s rights than the societies around them. Levine writes from the point of view of an Orthodox Jew who grew up admiring much about the Christians around her and about Jesus’ teaching, though not the claims to his divinity, or much about what Christians in general mistakenly believe to be Jewish beliefs and practices. keywords: jesus; levine cache: scjr-1409.pdf plain text: scjr-1409.txt item: #138 of 511 id: scjr-1410 author: Eckardt, Alice L. title: Isaac C. Rottenberg. Christian-Jewish Dialogue: Exploring Our Commonalities and Our Differences date: 2011-04-15 words: 844 flesch: 38 summary: Rottenberg traces a positive stand on Jewish return to the Land back to 16th century Restorationists and follows this that forward through 17th century Puritanism, some 18th and 19th century American Protestantism, to the 1930s’ Pro-Palestine Federation of America, the early 1940s’ Christian Council on Palestine, and the post- World War II American Christian Palestine Committee. Unlike many who write in this field the author confronts the divisive issues of mission, Jewish converts, and “messianic Jews” several times. keywords: christian; israel; rottenberg cache: scjr-1410.pdf plain text: scjr-1410.txt item: #139 of 511 id: scjr-1411 author: Langer, Ruth title: Peter Schäfer. Jesus in the Talmud date: 2011-04-15 words: 1015 flesch: 38 summary: (129) Schäfer is not the first to notice the disproportionate attention paid to Christianity in the Babylonian Talmud. Christian martyrological texts of this era portray Jews as actively siding with the Sasanians against the Christians. keywords: jesus; schäfer; talmud cache: scjr-1411.pdf plain text: scjr-1411.txt item: #140 of 511 id: scjr-14111 author: Strait, Drew J. title: Christopher Stroup. The Christians Who Became Jews: Acts of the Apostles and Ethnicity in the Roman City date: 2021-11-16 words: 1533 flesch: 47 summary: Stroup successfully undermines the pervasive binary between ethnic Jews and universal / non-ethnic Christians, along with the pro- / anti-Jewish dichotomy regarding Luke’s views by showing that “One can be both Jewish and Carian, both Jewish and Cretan, both Jewish and Roman, or a non-Jewish Jewish proselyte … and still qualify for the label ‘Jew’ in ancient civic space” (129). With similar ethnic reasoning, Stroup writes, Luke appeals to the authority of Is- rael’s God, the concept of a Jewish proselyte, the Spirit’s movement, and the authority of James to show that Christian non-Jews “can be both Jewish and what- ever else they once were. keywords: acts; jews; stroup cache: scjr-14111.pdf plain text: scjr-14111.txt item: #141 of 511 id: scjr-1412 author: Dietrich, Donald J. title: The Catholic Context in Bonhoeffer's Lifetime date: 2011-04-15 words: 2301 flesch: 43 summary: Detesting democracy, Catholic theologians and ecclesial leaders felt more at home in Hitler’s state, at least initially, than in the Weimar Republic. A study of Krebs’ theology and politics may uncover a clue for understanding the political ideas of Catholic theologians under Hitler. keywords: church; nazi; state; theologians; theological cache: scjr-1412.pdf plain text: scjr-1412.txt item: #142 of 511 id: scjr-1413 author: Pope, Stephen J. title: Moral Formation as Transformation: The Contribution of Dietrich Bonhoeffer date: 2011-04-15 words: 1949 flesch: 47 summary: Christian prayer, worship and spirituality ought to serve as key bases of Christian moral formation. Christian moral formation, particularly in light of the Shoah, has to be alert to the importance of the key distinction between proper loyalty and improper, blind loyalty. keywords: bonhoeffer; christian; church; formation; god cache: scjr-1413.pdf plain text: scjr-1413.txt item: #143 of 511 id: scjr-1414 author: Gushee, David P. title: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Evangelical Moment in American Public Life date: 2011-04-15 words: 2741 flesch: 48 summary: It is partly my loyalty to Bonhoeffer’s model (and awareness of the history of the German church in that era) that leaves me strongly resistant to this model of Christian influence on culture and strongly offended by the manipulation of religious language and symbols for political purposes. Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Evangelical Moment in American Public Life Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations Volume 2, Number 1(2007): CP8-12 Gushee, “Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Evangelical Moment” CP8 http://escholarship.bc.edu/scjr/vol2/iss1/art16 “Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Evangelical Moment in American Public Life” David P. Gushee Union University Delivered at the conference, DIETRICH BONHOEFFER FOR OUR TIMES: keywords: bonhoeffer; christian; church; jesus; loyalty cache: scjr-1414.pdf plain text: scjr-1414.txt item: #144 of 511 id: scjr-1416 author: Doetzel, Audrey title: Editor's Introduction date: 2011-04-15 words: 673 flesch: 34 summary: At its Sixth Annual Meeting on October 21-22, 2007, the Council of Centers on Jewish- Christian Relations appointed as journal co-editors: Ruth Langer, associate professor of Jewish Studies in the Theology Department at Boston College, and John Merkle, professor of theology at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University. Several noted Heschel scholars pay tribute to him as “one of the preeminent witnesses to God in the twentieth century” (Merkle). keywords: christian; relations cache: scjr-1416.pdf plain text: scjr-1416.txt item: #145 of 511 id: scjr-1417 author: Merkle, John C. title: Abraham Joshua Heschel: Witness to God in Word and Deed date: 2011-04-15 words: 5613 flesch: 52 summary: i n W o r d a n d D e e d John C. Merkle College of St. Benedict/St. St. John’s University Volume 2, Issue 2 (2007): 3-12 http://escholarship.bc.edu/scjr/vol2/iss2/ Merkle, “Abraham Joshua Heschel” 3 http://escholarship.bc.edu/scjr/vol2/iss2 Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations Volume 2, Issue 2 (2007): 3-12 “Here was a man for whom God was real,” said renowned Protestant theologian Robert McAfee Brown about Abraham Joshua Heschel. 12 Abraham J. Heschel, “Teaching Jewish Theology in the Solomon Schechter Day School,” The Synagogue School (Fall 1969), 7. 13 Susannah Heschel, “Introduction,” in Abraham Joshua Heschel, Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity, ed. keywords: abraham; abraham joshua; god; heschel; human; joshua; joshua heschel; judaism; life; new; relations cache: scjr-1417.pdf plain text: scjr-1417.txt item: #146 of 511 id: scjr-1418 author: O'Hare, Padraic title: Abraham Heschel and the Catholic Heart date: 2011-04-15 words: 3013 flesch: 59 summary: O’Hare, “Abraham Heschel and the Catholic Heart” 14 http://escholarship.bc.edu/scjr/vol2/iss2 http://www.bc.edu/research/ http://www.bc.edu/research/cjl/meta-elements/texts/cjrelations/resources/education/Walking_Gods_Paths.htm Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations Volume 2, Issue 2 (2007): 13-18 (It is also broadly analogous to Tillich’s “Catholic substance” and “Protestant principle,” this despite Heschel’s firm and whimsical rejection of Tillich’s idea of the “Ground of being”).7 Linking the practice of contemplation and prophetic action, prayer and works of compassion, justice and peace, is work Heschel shared with Thomas Merton, who also sought to forge such a link. Abraham Heschel and the Catholic Heart Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations A peer-reviewed e-journal of the Council of Centers on Jewish-Christian Relations Published by the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning at Boston College A b r a h keywords: abraham; catholic; christian; god; heart; heschel; merton; prayer cache: scjr-1418.pdf plain text: scjr-1418.txt item: #147 of 511 id: scjr-1419 author: Kasimow, Harold title: Heschel’s View of Religious Diversity date: 2011-04-15 words: 3583 flesch: 61 summary: In his essay “Heschel’s Impact on Catholic-Jewish Relations,” Eugene Fisher, former executive secretary of the Secretariat for Catholic-Jewish Relations of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, writes: 1 Abraham Joshua Heschel, in “Carl Stern’s Interview with Dr. Heschel,” in Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Christian inclusivists like John Paul II would agree with Heschel when he states that the aim of dialogue is to overcome “hardness of heart” and to cultivate “a sense of wonder and mystery in unlocking doors to holiness in 18 Abraham Joshua Heschel, God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism (New York: keywords: abraham; diversity; god; heschel; joshua; religions; view cache: scjr-1419.pdf plain text: scjr-1419.txt item: #148 of 511 id: scjr-1420 author: Merkle, John C. title: Heschel’s Monotheism vis-à-vis Pantheism and Panentheism date: 2011-04-15 words: 4632 flesch: 64 summary: In Search of Man, 97, where Heschel says that “Nature is not a part of God but a fulfillment of His will.” 23 Abraham Joshua Heschel, “God, Torah, and Israel,” in Theology and Church in Times of Change: Heschel echoes the tradition in claiming that the Sh’ma means not simply that there is only one true God, but also that God possesses inner unity, which, in turn, is the necessary precondition for whatever unity is achieved in this world.1 Pantheism is one way of explaining unity in the world. keywords: dimension; god; heschel; holy; world cache: scjr-1420.pdf plain text: scjr-1420.txt item: #149 of 511 id: scjr-1421 author: Rutishauser, Christian M. title: The 1947 Seelisberg Conference: The Foundation of the Jewish-Christian Dialogue date: 2007-04-15 words: 9733 flesch: 49 summary: Today, the confrontations presented in the Gospels between Jesus and the Pharisees are understood as intra-Jewish confrontations, or as a sociological reflex in the early Christian community’s attempt to establish and demarcate its own identity.21 21 See for example Walter Dietrich, Martin Georg und Ulrico Luz, eds., Antijudaismus – christliche Erblast (Stuttgart, 1999). Thus the commission makes the important point that it does not understand the Gospel to be in itself or constitutively anti-Jewish, as is occasionally claimed today, but rather, it becomes so only when inaccurately read and interpreted. keywords: anti; christian; christianity; commission; conference; council; document; issue; jesus; jews; judaism; new; people; points; relations; rutishauser; seelisberg; semitism; studies; switzerland; volume cache: scjr-1421.pdf plain text: scjr-1421.txt item: #150 of 511 id: scjr-1422 author: Barnett, Victoria title: Seelisberg: An Appreciation date: 2011-04-15 words: 1871 flesch: 50 summary: Only in Seelisberg did Christians submit their thinking to Jewish colleagues for critique. In turn, many of the Christians involved with Seelisberg were people who were already engaged in reformulating Christian teachings and fighting anti-Semitism; in some cases they had been involved in trying to rescue the European Jews. keywords: christians; church; holocaust; jews; seelisberg cache: scjr-1422.pdf plain text: scjr-1422.txt item: #151 of 511 id: scjr-1423 author: Ventresca, Robert A. title: Jacques Maritain and the Jewish Question: Theology, Identity and Politics date: 2011-04-15 words: 7331 flesch: 46 summary: Still, Simon worried that the practical effect of Maritain’s theoretical work might be to “kill action,” precisely at a time when concrete action was needed to meet the threat posed by totalitarianism.8 Let us consider, then, Maritain’s early writings on the ‘Jewish question’ through the critical lens afforded by Yves R. Simon, namely, with an eye to assessing the practical implications for 7 Ralph McInerny, The Very Rich Hours of Jacques Maritain (Notre Dame, Indiana: 9 By far the most comprehensive list of Maritain’s many writings on the subject is Charles P. O’Donnell, “A Select Bibliography on Jacques Maritain’s Writings on Jews, Christians, and Anti-Semitism,” in Robert Royal, ed., Jacques Maritain and the Jews (Notre Dame, Indiana: keywords: action; anti; catholic; christian; european; jacques; jacques maritain; jews; maritain; question; simon; thought; world cache: scjr-1423.pdf plain text: scjr-1423.txt item: #152 of 511 id: scjr-1424 author: Tollerton, David C title: Emancipation from the Whirlwind: Piety and Rebellion among Jewish-American Post-Holocaust and Christian Liberation Readings of Job date: 2011-04-15 words: 12600 flesch: 55 summary: And you, brother Job, in spite of everything, you haven’t given up. Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him [Job 13:15 – King James] Translators of these words in which Job assesses his relationship with God face a difficult choice. keywords: berkovits; book; christian; dussel; god; gutiérrez; holocaust; job; liberation; people; reading; satan; suffering; tamez; theology; wiesel cache: scjr-1424.pdf plain text: scjr-1424.txt item: #153 of 511 id: scjr-1425 author: Jospe, Raphael title: Pluralism Out Of The Sources Of Judaism: Religious Pluralism Without Relativism date: 2011-04-15 words: 13651 flesch: 46 summary: If one relativizes truth within Judaism, on what grounds can one refuse to relativize it outside Judaism?15 Kellner’s argument here – that internal Jewish pluralism is unacceptable because one could then no longer oppose external religious pluralism – strikes me as a peculiar adoption of the logic employed by Peter Stuyvesant, the governor of the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam (what would later become New York), who in 1654 attempted unsuccessfully to keep Jews out of the colony, arguing that “giving them liberty, we cannot refuse the Lutherans and Papists. 18 Mendelssohn’s argument, that external, interreligious toleration, should lead to internal, intra-religious toleration, strikes me as far more persuasive than Kellner’s argument against internal Jewish pluralism on the grounds that it might lead to external religious pluralism. keywords: christian; god; issue; jospe; judaism; kellner; maimonides; mendelssohn; new; people; pluralism; relations; relativism; religion; revelation; sources; studies; truth; volume; world cache: scjr-1425.pdf plain text: scjr-1425.txt item: #154 of 511 id: scjr-1426 author: Langton, Daniel R. title: Jewish Philosophical and Psychological Approaches to the Apostle Paul date: 2011-04-15 words: 17895 flesch: 52 summary: Furthermore, as obedience to God consists solely in love to our neighbor - for whosoever loveth his neighbor, as a means of obeying God, hath, as St. Paul says (Rom. 13:8), fulfilled the law - it follows that no knowledge is commended in the Bible save that which is necessary for enabling all men to obey God in the manner stated, and without which they would become rebellious, or without the discipline of obedience.17 Thirdly, Spinoza argues that a close reading of Paul’s writings suggests the proper approach to the sacred scriptures, the interpretation of which was conventionally regarded as a priestly prerogative. For example, St. Paul says: Isaiah dared to say: “I was found by those who did not seek me, I manifested myself to those who did not inquire after me.” keywords: apostle; approaches; christian; faith; god; jewish; knowledge; langton; law; new; paul; people; philosophy; relations; shestov; spinoza; studies; taubes; theology; treatise cache: scjr-1426.pdf plain text: scjr-1426.txt item: #155 of 511 id: scjr-1427 author: Rutishauser, Christian M. title: And after the fire a soft murmuring sound ... The Abiding Significance of Judaism for Christian Identity date: 2011-04-15 words: 9452 flesch: 49 summary: Jewish history must be seen as a continuum through the centuries as well. Elijah’s image of God was revised as he received tasks that were altered in order to deal with a new situation. keywords: christian; christianity; church; covenant; der; dialogue; faith; fire; god; history; identity; israel; jesus; jews; judaism; murmuring; new; people; relations; sound; und; world cache: scjr-1427.pdf plain text: scjr-1427.txt item: #156 of 511 id: scjr-1428 author: Tonias, Demetrios title: James K, Aitken and Edward Kessler, eds. Challenges in Jewish-Christian Relations date: 2011-04-15 words: 1072 flesch: 47 summary: Challenges in Jewish-Christian Relations utilizes an interdisciplinary approach, reminiscent of such texts as Christianity in Jewish Terms (2000), Irreconcilable Differences? Many of the authors, for example, caution against couching the dialogue exclusively in terms of Christian guilt or Jewish suffering and look to a broader grass roots initiative as the agent for a better understanding of other and self, which Kessler and Aitken see as foundational for improved relations. keywords: christian; dialogue; relations cache: scjr-1428.pdf plain text: scjr-1428.txt item: #157 of 511 id: scjr-1429 author: Lehmann, Daniel title: Mary C. Boys and Sara S. Lee. Christians and Jews in Dialogue: Learning in the Presence of the Other date: 2011-04-15 words: 1095 flesch: 36 summary: (97) I am not at all convinced that this assertion is true, and that there is not important work to be done in the realm of Jewish theology that should inform the pedagogy and content of interreligious learning. In addition, Dabru Emet, a Jewish statement on Christianity written by a group of highly regarded professors of Jewish Studies, is filled with theological claims that challenge Jews to reconceptualize their understanding of Christianity in terms of authentic Jewish religious principles, not just historical analysis. keywords: book; learning; lee cache: scjr-1429.pdf plain text: scjr-1429.txt item: #158 of 511 id: scjr-1430 author: Fisher, Eugene J. title: David L. Coppolla, ed. What Do We Want the Other to Teach About Us? Jewish, Christian and Muslim Dialogues date: 2011-04-15 words: 1069 flesch: 62 summary: Reviewed by Eugene J. Fisher, Associate Director Emeritus, Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops This very useful volume is the result of five international Christian, Jewish, Muslim conferences held from 2000 to 2003 in Jerusalem, Israel; Edmonton, Canada; Rome, Italy; Bamberg, Germany; and Fairfield, Connecticut. Francis Tiso, who staffs the U.S. Bishops’ ongoing dialogues with the Muslim community. keywords: traditions cache: scjr-1430.pdf plain text: scjr-1430.txt item: #159 of 511 id: scjr-1431 author: Fisher, Eugene J. title: Jonathan Elukin. Living together, Living Apart: Rethinking Jewish-Christian Relations in the Middle Ages date: 2011-04-15 words: 1381 flesch: 55 summary: He notes the role of St. Augustine in establishing the theological basis for Jewish freedom of worship in Christian societies and the role of Pope St. Gregory the Great in enacting that vision into canon law, an approach which made the popes through the ages up to the Counter-Reformation protectors of the Jews. The view of many that, following the First Crusade, Christian Europe became nothing other than an unremitting “persecuting society” against Jews and Judaism fails, he argues, to account for the continuing vitality and continual return of Jews to areas that had expelled them, or worse. keywords: christian; elukin; jews; period cache: scjr-1431.pdf plain text: scjr-1431.txt item: #160 of 511 id: scjr-14313 author: Oliver, Isaac W. title: Gabriele Boccaccini. Paul’s Three Paths to Salvation date: 2021-12-21 words: 1208 flesch: 50 summary: The challenge lies instead in determining “what kind of Jew Paul was, as there were many different ways to be a Jew in the diverse world of Second Temple Judaism” (27). By widening the spectrum of Second Temple Jewish texts, Boccaccini effectively elucidates Paul’s Jewish identity without divorcing him from his original Jewish milieu or reducing him into a Jew of “common Judaism” (to quote E. P. Sanders) who agreed with other Jews on every key point, save for the belief that Jesus had come to save the Gentiles. keywords: boccaccini; paul cache: scjr-14313.pdf plain text: scjr-14313.txt item: #161 of 511 id: scjr-1432 author: Setzer, Claudia title: Raimo Hakola Identity Matters: John, the Jews and Jewishness date: 2011-04-15 words: 1119 flesch: 64 summary: Although contemporary Jewish groups criticized other Jews who profaned the Temple, John’s interpretive move to destruction and replacement takes him beyond Judaism. If some members of the community still cling to aspects of Jewish identity, say the so-called “secret Christians” still in the synagogue or “the Jews who had believed in him” (8:31), John’s rhetoric widens the breach by lumping all together Hakola, Identity Matters R 10 http://escholarship.bc.edu/scjr/vol2/iss2/ Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations Volume 2, Issue 2 (2007): R10-11 as “the Jews,” denying them their symbols, and calling them names like “children of the devil.” keywords: jesus; jews; john cache: scjr-1432.pdf plain text: scjr-1432.txt item: #162 of 511 id: scjr-1434 author: Langer, Ruth title: Peter Schafer. Jesus in the Talmud date: 2011-04-15 words: 1038 flesch: 43 summary: (129) Schäfer is not the first to notice the disproportionate attention paid to Christianity in the Babylonian Talmud. Christian martyrological texts of this era portray Jews as actively siding with the Sasanians against the Christians. keywords: jesus; schäfer; talmud cache: scjr-1434.pdf plain text: scjr-1434.txt item: #163 of 511 id: scjr-1435 author: Joslyn-Siemiatkoski, Daniel title: Kenneth Stow. Jewish Dogs: An Image and Its Interpreters: Continuity in the Catholic-Jewish Encounter date: 2011-04-15 words: 1149 flesch: 50 summary: Stow shows that anti-Jewish thought is a latent potentiality as long as supersessionist theological structures exist. (ix) The extraordinary analysis of the persistence of the image of the Jew as dog and Stow’s illustration of its importance for supersessionist thought and anti-Jewish policies raises an important question. keywords: stow cache: scjr-1435.pdf plain text: scjr-1435.txt item: #164 of 511 id: scjr-1436 author: Keenan, S.J., James F. title: Joseph Telushkin. A Code of Jewish Ethics. Volume 1: You Shall be Holy date: 2011-04-15 words: 1031 flesch: 61 summary: Moreover, to recommend some character traits or virtues over others, virtue ethicists often rely on narratives of virtuous exemplars. As opposed to giving priority to the ethical assessment of actions, virtue ethics focuses first, though not exclusively, on persons and their character, and then, on the actions they should or should not perform. keywords: ethics; virtue cache: scjr-1436.pdf plain text: scjr-1436.txt item: #165 of 511 id: scjr-1437 author: Edwards, Laurence title: Christian Wiese. Challenging Colonial Discourse: Jewish Studies and Protestant Theology in Wilhelmine Germany date: 2011-04-15 words: 1508 flesch: 58 summary: In nineteenth-century Germany, Jewish scholars began to speak the language of the modern academy. Jewish scholars, from Zunz and Geiger on, took on the project of reversing the gaze. keywords: jewish; judaism; wiese cache: scjr-1437.pdf plain text: scjr-1437.txt item: #166 of 511 id: scjr-1438 author: Kessler, Edward title: Elliott Horowitz. Reckless Rites: Purim and the Legacy of Jewish Violence date: 2011-04-15 words: 903 flesch: 51 summary: Horowitz, professor of Jewish History at Bar-Ilan University and co-editor of the Jewish Quarterly Review, argues that “the legacy of Jewish violence” can be uncovered particularly at Purim and successfully demonstrates that Christian contempt of Jews and Judaism was mirrored by Jewish antipathy towards Christians and Christianity. Reviewed by Edward Kessler, Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations, Cambridge Elliott Horowitz has produced a challenging and thought-provoking work, which examines both negative Jewish views of Christianity and Jewish violence against Christians. keywords: horowitz; purim cache: scjr-1438.pdf plain text: scjr-1438.txt item: #167 of 511 id: scjr-1439 author: Bellinger, William title: Exploring Covenant in a World of Faiths date: 2011-04-15 words: 3693 flesch: 64 summary: The Noachic covenant has not been much present in Christian tradition; perhaps it could be a helpful resource for us and could help us expand our dialogue partners.9 On the other side of the ledger, when I look at how the New Testament appropriates covenant traditions, I realize how we pick and choose according to our agenda. Second, the claim of covenant traditions is that communities and persons are grounded in “Another” who initiates the relationship and stays bound to the communities in loyal ways for their benefit.11 God initiates the covenant established in the Noah story and the blessing initiating the promissory ancestral covenant. keywords: covenant; god; promise; testament; text; traditions cache: scjr-1439.pdf plain text: scjr-1439.txt item: #168 of 511 id: scjr-1440 author: Langer, Ruth title: Response to: Exploring Covenant in a World of Faiths date: 2011-04-15 words: 1286 flesch: 60 summary: There are conflicting interpretations of this verse in Jewish tradition, differing on whether that new covenant will be radically discontinuous with the Sinaitic Torah or simply another expression of it. While some of these, like the instructions for a judiciary, have some role in directing Jewish life outside the land too, even there, when Jews are subject to other nations, many elements of local law will trump the internal Jewish teachings. keywords: covenant; god; israel cache: scjr-1440.pdf plain text: scjr-1440.txt item: #169 of 511 id: scjr-1441 author: Langer, Ruth title: Jewish-Christian Dialogue about Covenant date: 2011-04-15 words: 3956 flesch: 49 summary: So we need to be wary of similar distortions in the reverse, when we try to understand Jewish covenant by speaking in the vocabulary and topography of the Christian theological traditions. Today’s dialogue thus asks Jews to bring to the table discussions that fit neatly into Christian categories of thought, but that don’t always fit so neatly into Jewish traditions of learning. keywords: christian; covenant; dialogue; god; israel; jews; judaism cache: scjr-1441.pdf plain text: scjr-1441.txt item: #170 of 511 id: scjr-1442 author: Bellinger, William title: Response to: Jewish-Christian Dialogue about Covenant date: 2011-04-15 words: 1596 flesch: 80 summary: When I read with Jewish interpreters as conversation partners, I see my Christian hermeneutic more clearly and I am stopped in my tracks by a different interpretive tradition. I have the sense that Jewish interpreters read the Scriptures in terms of faith as lifestyle. keywords: pope; rabbi cache: scjr-1442.pdf plain text: scjr-1442.txt item: #171 of 511 id: scjr-1443 author: Rettig, Edward title: Dabro LeShalom : A Jewish Contemplation of Peacemaking date: 2011-04-15 words: 4262 flesch: 52 summary: Any historical survey of Jewish religious sources from the Bible through the Talmud and the medieval commentators, and on to the modern theological writings of thinkers from all the denominations of Judaism, will show how formative and central this idea is to Jewish identity and civilization. Responding to the challenges of modernity in the nineteenth century, the Reform Movement in modern Judaism (the movement to which I belong and in which I am ordained), sought to reframe Jewish identity by discarding the connection with the Land of Israel. keywords: conflict; dabro; identity; israel; jewish; justice; land; leshalom; peace; sum cache: scjr-1443.pdf plain text: scjr-1443.txt item: #172 of 511 id: scjr-14685 author: Azar, Michael G. title: “Supersessionism”: The Political Origin of a Theological Neologism date: 2022-01-19 words: 13343 flesch: 42 summary: For these American pioneers, it was no longer ancient Israel that was moribund and fossil- ized; it was the Arab (even specifically Christian) communities of erstwhile Palestine. Among many other and varied observations, he raised concern that “a certain Zionist press” had declared “Christian Arabs” to be “enemies of Israel.” keywords: american; antisemitism; arab; christian; christianity; church; eckardt; israel; jewish; jews; littell; new; orthodox; people; perspectives; relations; roy; roy eckardt; state; supersessionism; theological cache: scjr-14685.pdf plain text: scjr-14685.txt item: #173 of 511 id: scjr-1476 author: Langer, Ruth; Merkle, John C. title: Editors' Introduction date: 2011-04-21 words: 937 flesch: 38 summary: Traditional Christian theology, on the other hand, justified the exile of Jews from the land, making it difficult for Christians to understand the signifi- cance of these elements of modern Jewish experience and the need for a new Christian theology of Israel. We are also delighted to welcome to our editorial staff Leonard Greenspoon, Creighton University’s Phillip M. and Ethel Klutznick Professor in Jewish Civilization, as he replaces Ruth Langer as book review editor in September. keywords: christian; relations; volume cache: scjr-1476.pdf plain text: scjr-1476.txt item: #174 of 511 id: scjr-1477 author: Cohen, Raymond; Weissman, Deborah; Bernauer, SJ, James; Korn, Eugene; Lautt, OP, Ruth; Greenspoon, Leonard; Rudnick, Ursula; Hale, Dennis; Pettit, Peter; Weiman, Racelle title: The Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel: Reflections on its Sixtieth Anniversary date: 2011-04-21 words: 8700 flesch: 50 summary: First, the Declaration’s insistent use of “Eretz Israel” to name the land ignored too much history and ambiguity about ownership and sovereignty over time; the Ministry of Foreign Affairs now wisely glosses the phrase with “Land of Israel, Pal- estine” on its web site. And perhaps among America’s most helpful contributions to contemporary Israel might be the example of its constitutional ambition to separate religion from politics and, in doing so, pro- tect both domains. keywords: christians; declaration; establishment; god; israel; jewish; jews; land; nations; page; people; relations; state; studies; world cache: scjr-1477.pdf plain text: scjr-1477.txt item: #175 of 511 id: scjr-1478 author: Langer, Ruth title: Theologies of the Land and State of Israel: The Role of the Secular in Jewish and Christian Understandings date: 2011-04-21 words: 11089 flesch: 47 summary: Jewish theology often does not rely on abstract philoso- phizing; here it is concretely grounded, literally, in the historical experience of a people called Israel in relation to a specific place called Israel. As doors opened for Jews to receive less marginalized status in the eighteenth cen- tury, this assimilatory process gained momentum, resulting in conscious adaptations of Jewish theology and intellectual tradi- tions that sought to make Jews more deserving of accep- tance.28 Aspects of this modern process were also deliberately imposed on the Jewish community. keywords: christian; dabru; dialogue; emet; israel; jewish; jews; judaism; land; people; relations; state; studies; theologies; theology; understanding; world cache: scjr-1478.pdf plain text: scjr-1478.txt item: #176 of 511 id: scjr-1479 author: Lux, Richard C. title: The Land of Israel (Eretz Yisra’el) in Jewish and Christian Understanding date: 2011-04-21 words: 12580 flesch: 56 summary: Examples could be multiplied from the Babylonians, Canaanites, Assyrians, et al. 6 W. Janzen, “Land,” Anchor Bible Dictionary, ed. The first theme to be distinguished in the Bible after the “pre- history” of Genesis 1-11 is that of the Land as a promised land.7 Abraham is promised the land five times, beginning with an ac- count in the earliest written tradition, the Yahwist (or J) tradition, dated in writing from the time of the Davidic and Solomonic empire in the tenth century BCE.8 God says to Abraham in Genesis 12:1-4a: Go forth from the land of your kinsfolk and from your father’s house to a land that I will show you. keywords: abraham; christian; church; community; covenant; eretz; god; holy; israel; jesus; jewish; jews; land; new; paul; people; presence; press; relations; scriptures; tradition cache: scjr-1479.pdf plain text: scjr-1479.txt item: #177 of 511 id: scjr-1480 author: Bolton, David; Nathan, Emmanuel title: New Understandings of Paul and His Jewish Heritage: A Select Bibliography date: 2011-04-21 words: 2438 flesch: 68 summary: Microsoft Word - 153902-text.native.1234812275.doc Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations Volume 3 (2008): Biblio 1-7 New Understandings of Paul Biblio 1 http://escholarship.bc.edu/scjr/vol3 Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations A peer-reviewed e-journal of the Council of Centers on Jewish-Christian Relations Published by the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning at Boston College New Understandings of Paul and His Jewish Heritage A Select Bibliography Compiled by David Bolton and Emmanuel Nathan Volume 3 (2008) http://escholarship.bc.edu/scjr/vol3 In the SCJR call for papers focusing on the significance of Paul and Pauline studies for Christian-Jewish relations , the journal’s editors acknowledge that while biblical scholars “have usually viewed Paul as rejecting ‘the Law’ in favor of the Gospel, thus providing the basis for the persistent Christian supersessionist approach to Jews and Judaism,” there are contemporary scholars who “question whether Paul was anti-Jewish and suggest that recovering the historical context of his letters and understanding his rhetorical techniques can provide a new perspective on Paul as a resource for improved Christian-Jewish relations.” keywords: biblio; christian; mohr; new; paul; perspective; press; siebeck; studies; tübingen cache: scjr-1480.pdf plain text: scjr-1480.txt item: #178 of 511 id: scjr-1481 author: Smiles, Vincent M title: The Blessing of Israel and “the Curse of the Law” : A Study of Galatians 3:10-14 date: 2011-04-21 words: 13345 flesch: 60 summary: 9 Dunn, New Perspective, 29 and n. 108, and 417 and n. 19, criticizes my view that in Galatians Paul contests “the law’s claims upon the entire world” (Gospel and Law, 126). This scheme is not apparent as such in Galatians; the only one of the trio that features here is the Law, but its personification (most notably in 3:15-18) shows that also in Galatians Paul sees it as one of the powers (“the elements” – 4:3, 9) of the world. keywords: christ; covenant; curse; galatians; gentiles; god; israel; jews; law; paul; rom; smiles cache: scjr-1481.pdf plain text: scjr-1481.txt item: #179 of 511 id: scjr-1482 author: Boys, Mary C. title: Does the Catholic Church Have a Mission “with” Jews or “to” Jews? date: 2011-04-21 words: 12221 flesch: 50 summary: If the chorus of voices calling for Jews to convert (or “be completed”) swells and finds resonance in the church, the trust many Jews experienced in and through dialogue will likely give way to wariness and suspicion. He notes the importance of sensitivity to Jewish concerns, recognizing that “Many Jews consider a mission to the Jews as a threat to their existence; some even speak of it as a Shoah by different means. keywords: aetate; boys; cardinal; catholic; christian; church; council; dialogue; god; israel; jesus; jews; judaism; mission; new; nostra; people; prayer; relations; vatican cache: scjr-1482.pdf plain text: scjr-1482.txt item: #180 of 511 id: scjr-14827 author: Barnett, Victoria title: K. Healan Gaston. Imagining Judeo-Christian America: Religion, Secularism, and the Redefinition of Democracy date: 2022-03-07 words: 3770 flesch: 40 summary: In one of the most significant insights of her book, Gaston argues that in the second half of the twentieth century the early inclusivist understanding of “Judeo-Christian” (i.e., as a unifying principle around which different religious groups could find their place in our democracy) had Barnett: K. Healan Gaston’s Imagining Judeo-Christian America 4 changed to an exclusivist understanding. Such distinctions are crucial for understanding the very different perspectives among and within religious groups in this country when it comes to the proper place of faith issues in the public sphere, particularly with respect to the issue of “secu- larism.” keywords: american; book; christian; democracy; faith; gaston; judeo cache: scjr-14827.pdf plain text: scjr-14827.txt item: #181 of 511 id: scjr-14829 author: Phelan, Jr., John E. title: Marvin R. Wilson. Our Father Abraham, 2nd Edition date: 2022-03-07 words: 1111 flesch: 61 summary: They imagined modern Jews in robes and sandals living in the land of the Bible. I have long shared his concern for the ignorance of many Christians of modern Jews and Judaism. keywords: evangelicals; jews; wilson cache: scjr-14829.pdf plain text: scjr-14829.txt item: #182 of 511 id: scjr-1483 author: Henrix, Hans Hermann title: The Controversy Surrounding the 2008 Good Friday Prayer in Europe: The Discussion and its Theological Implications date: 2011-04-21 words: 12218 flesch: 49 summary: Good Friday prayers for the Jews – that of the 1970 missal and that of the year 2008 – as a challenge for further theological reflection. The Good Friday prayer “for the Jews” that was promulgated by Pope Benedict XVI and published in a note from the Secretariat of State on February 4, 2008 triggered significant controversy affecting Catholic-Jewish relations. keywords: cardinal; catholic; christian; church; covenant; dialogue; discussion; faith; friday prayer; god; henrix; intercession; israel; jesus; jesus christ; jews; judaism; kasper; new; people; pope; relations; salvation; theological cache: scjr-1483.pdf plain text: scjr-1483.txt item: #183 of 511 id: scjr-14831 author: Soloff, Emily title: John E. Phelan, Jr. Separated Siblings: An Evangelical Understanding of Jews and Judaism date: 2022-03-07 words: 1070 flesch: 52 summary: The first 15 chapters cover Jewish history, ancient and modern; peoplehood; religious understandings; the development of the rabbinic tradition; Zionism and the founding of the State of Israel; and the Jewishness of Jesus and Paul. He has writ- ten this book as a corrective for Christians, though Jewish readers as well will appreciate his survey of key moments in the development of Judaism. keywords: jews; phelan cache: scjr-14831.pdf plain text: scjr-14831.txt item: #184 of 511 id: scjr-1484 author: Korn, Eugene B. title: Jewish Reflections on Richard Lux’s ‘The Land of Israel (Eretz Yisrael) in Jewish and Christian Understanding’ date: 2011-04-21 words: 3127 flesch: 46 summary: Judaism and Jewish life became relegated to the home and the synagogue. These considerations have led Jewish thinkers to reflect on the paradox of a covenantal land, and may well have been the reason why Eretz Yisra’el was so easily dismissed by the early universalizing Christian thinkers. keywords: christian; god; israel; jews; korn; land cache: scjr-1484.pdf plain text: scjr-1484.txt item: #185 of 511 id: scjr-1485 author: McGarry, Michael B. title: Uri Bialer. Cross on the Star of David: The Christian World in Israel's Foreign Policy, 1948-1967 date: 2011-04-21 words: 1268 flesch: 50 summary: With his singular access to Israeli sources, Bialer weaves his narrative through a series of factors, almost like icebergs floating in a sea, which influenced Israeli strategy: the weighty memory of Christian persecution of Jews (notably the Crusades, the Inquisition, and the Shoah); the perennial fear of Christian proselytizing; the uncharted undertaking of forging the Jewish character of the State while at the same time guaranteeing, at least from its Declaration of Independence (Israel does not have a constitution), freedom of religious expression for all citizens; the challenge of starting up a representative democracy by persons with little experience; a concern about how Jewish religious groups internally would benefit or suffer from privileges or rights demanded by the local Christian groups; an obsessive monitoring about how REVIEW Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations Volume 3(2008): R1-2 Bialer, Cross on the Star of David R2 http://escholarship.bc.edu/scjr/vol3 Israeli actions vis-à-vis its own Christians would be viewed and then, perhaps, be used as a “wedge” in pressuring Israel; an ambivalence about the Christian presence in Israel that was overwhelmingly Arab (indeed, still today, 80% of the Christian community in Israel are Arab); the truly Byzantine relationships among various Christian communities within Israel and how these might be, alternately, respected and manipulated to Israel’s advantage; the issue of Christian ownership of land: who owns it, how do you prove it, and who can buy it; and finally how might taxes, building permits, and zoning codes be imposed on Christian communities? While one may wish for more space to be devoted to other Christian communities (and, to be fair, he does deal with almost all the Christian communities in Israel), Bialer reasonably spends most of his time on the Catholic Church. keywords: bialer; israel; state cache: scjr-1485.pdf plain text: scjr-1485.txt item: #186 of 511 id: scjr-14853 author: Clark, David A. R. title: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Prayerbook of the Bible, and the Reichsschrifttumskammer (RSK): Reassessing the Historical Record date: 2022-03-07 words: 9636 flesch: 50 summary: Reassessing the Historical Record DAVID A. R. CLARK mail@davidarclark.ca Wycliffe College, Toronto, ON M5S 1H7, Canada This article examines Geffrey B. Kelly’s influential argument that, in 1941, the Reichsschrifttumskammer (the Reich Chamber of Literature, hereinafter the RSK) prohibited Dietrich Bonhoeffer from publishing because the agency objected to the ostensibly pro-Jewish and anti-Nazi content of Bonhoeffer’s brief work, Prayerbook of the Bible: An Introduction to the Psalms (hereinafter Prayerbook).1 Kelly’s argument appeared first in the journal Weavings in 1991, then more prom- inently in the introduction to the 1996 critical edition of Prayerbook in DBWE 5. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Prayerbook of the Bible 10 Kelly presents the measures of the RSK against Bonhoeffer as an extraordinary reaction to an extraordinary protest; however, Lempp informed Bonhoeffer that “a great number of theological authors” had been subjected to similar actions by the RSK, suggesting that Bonhoeffer’s exchange with the RSK was not remarkable but routine. keywords: academic; bible; bonhoeffer; books; chamber; content; dbwe; kelly; letter; nazi; prayerbook; psalms; reich; rsk cache: scjr-14853.pdf plain text: scjr-14853.txt item: #187 of 511 id: scjr-14857 author: Waaler, Erik title: John J. R. Lee. Christological Rereading of the Shema (Deut 6:4) in Mark’s Gospel date: 2022-03-11 words: 712 flesch: 62 summary: In both texts he notes Mark’s use of two parallel “one God” statements, which he directly links to Jesus’ ability to forgive sins (2:7) and his ability to be good, as Waaler: John J. R. Lee.’s The main thesis of John J. R. Lee’s revised Ph.D. dissertation is that Mark’s Gospel by the use of monotheistic god-language makes a sustained argument that Jesus Christ is on par with God. keywords: god; mark cache: scjr-14857.pdf plain text: scjr-14857.txt item: #188 of 511 id: scjr-1486 author: McMichael, Steven J. title: Miriam Bodian. Dying in the Law of Moses: Crypto-Jewish Martyrdom in the Iberian World date: 2011-04-21 words: 949 flesch: 48 summary: This led to a new type of martyrdom because of the circumstances of Jewish life and the emergence of the Inquisition as an institution in Catholic Europe and the Americas. This raises an important issue regarding the influence of the Christian Reformation on inner Jewish life. keywords: inquisition; jews cache: scjr-1486.pdf plain text: scjr-1486.txt item: #189 of 511 id: scjr-1487 author: Fisher, Eugene J. title: David G. Dalin and Matthew Levering, eds. John Paul II and the Jewish People: A Jewish-Christian Dialogue date: 2011-04-21 words: 1389 flesch: 46 summary: In the historical section, George Weigel, among other accomplishments a major biographer of John Paul II, provides an excellent biographical overview of why the future John Paul II, because of his youthful experiences with Jewish friends and as a Pole under Nazi occupation, focused so much of his papal energy on expanding on the thinking of the Second Vatican Council on Jews and Judaism and embedding it so deeply in the teaching of the Catholic Church that it cannot, ever, be rolled back or overturned, a point on which the contributors to this book and this humble reviewer agree and take heart in. There have also REVIEW Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations Volume 3(2008): R1-2 Dalin & Levering, John Paul and the Jewish People R2 http://escholarship.bc.edu/scjr/vol3 been, ever since the Second Vatican Council, theological discussions in scholarly conferences as well as in various programs set up by the USCCB working with Jewish agencies such as the American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League. keywords: dialogue; jewish; jews; paul cache: scjr-1487.pdf plain text: scjr-1487.txt item: #190 of 511 id: scjr-1488 author: Blank, Debra Reed title: Albert Gerhards and Clemens Leonhard, eds. Jewish and Christian Liturgy and Worship: New Insights into its History and Interaction date: 2011-04-21 words: 1001 flesch: 39 summary: A number of such individuals focused on Jewish liturgy, and it is upon their shoulders that the study of Jewish liturgy has progressed in the immediate generation. A couple writers rehash already-known material, but this does not necessarily translate into weakness: Stefan Reif provides a good summary of the Genizah’s contributions to the study of Jewish liturgy, and while there is no new information, Reif sets the stage for several others who illustrate this importance. keywords: liturgy; symposium; volume cache: scjr-1488.pdf plain text: scjr-1488.txt item: #191 of 511 id: scjr-1489 author: Boys, Mary C. title: Melody D. Knowles, Esther Menn, John Pawlikowski, and Timothy J. Sandoval, eds. Contesting Texts: Jews and Christians in Conversation about the Bible date: 2011-04-21 words: 673 flesch: 51 summary: Novak’s essay on biblical authority functions as a commentary on the second proposition of Dabru Emet (“Jews and Christians seek authority from the same book—the Bible (what Jews call ‘Tanakh’ and Christians call the “Old Testament’)” Contesting Texts: Jews and Christians in Conversation about the Bible (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2007), 213 pp. keywords: christians; jews; texts cache: scjr-1489.pdf plain text: scjr-1489.txt item: #192 of 511 id: scjr-1490 author: McMichael, Steven J. title: Katrin Kogman-Appel. Illuminated Haggadot from Medieval Spain: Biblical Imagery and the Passover Holiday date: 2011-04-21 words: 933 flesch: 37 summary: The truly illuminating lessons about medieval Jewish art, life, and culture along with a deepened understanding of Jewish-Christian interaction in the Middle Ages make an extremely valuable contribution in this publication. These haggadot, which emerged as a separate text in the thirteenth century, hold a primary key for a deeper understanding for medieval Jewish life and Jewish-Christian interaction based on the passages that appear in these Passover liturgies. keywords: ages; jews cache: scjr-1490.pdf plain text: scjr-1490.txt item: #193 of 511 id: scjr-1491 author: Langer, Ruth title: Alan Mittleman, Byron Johnson, and Nancy Isserman, eds. Uneasy Allies?: Evangelical and Jewish Relations date: 2011-04-21 words: 1127 flesch: 47 summary: The Evangelical community “should not expect their devotion to Israel, however expressed, to be enough to win a nihil obstat or vow of silence from American Jews.”(185) Reviewed by Ruth Langer, Boston College Long largely ignored by most Jews engaged in interfaith work with Christians, Evangelical Protestants suddenly and increasingly insistently entered the conversation in the opening years of the twenty-first century. keywords: evangelical; israel; jews; volume cache: scjr-1491.pdf plain text: scjr-1491.txt item: #194 of 511 id: scjr-1492 author: Boys, Mary C. title: Eboo Patel and Patrice Brodeur, eds. Building the Interfaith Youth Movement: Beyond Dialogue to Action date: 2011-04-21 words: 735 flesch: 54 summary: Yet musing on some of the central ideas and theoretical foundations will reveal the potential of this book; many essays bear re-reading. The initial section offers some theoretical discussion of the context of interfaith youth movement. keywords: interfaith; movement; youth cache: scjr-1492.pdf plain text: scjr-1492.txt item: #195 of 511 id: scjr-1493 author: Tonias, Demetrios title: Isabella Sandwell. Religious Identity in Late Antiquity: Greeks, Jews, and Christians in Antioch date: 2011-04-21 words: 1284 flesch: 40 summary: While Chrysostom and Libanius had profoundly different views concerning religious identity, they both spoke to and about the same fourth-century Antiochene society. Sandwell herself contends that it was Libanius who more accurately described the realities of religious identity in fourth-century Antioch. keywords: chrysostom; identity; sandwell cache: scjr-1493.pdf plain text: scjr-1493.txt item: #196 of 511 id: scjr-1494 author: Suomala, Karla title: Elizabeth Shanks Alexander. Transmitting Mishnah: The Shaping Influence of Oral Tradition date: 2011-04-21 words: 1078 flesch: 32 summary: Microsoft Word - 137526-text.native.1219863132.doc Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations Volume 3(2008): R1-2 Shanks Alexander, Transmitting Mishnah R1 http://escholarship.bc.edu/scjr/vol3 Elizabeth Shanks Alexander Transmitting Mishnah: The Shaping Influence of Oral Tradition (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006), hc, xvi+246 pp. Reviewed by Karla Suomala, Luther College The Mishnah is the foundational document upon which the two Talmuds (Babylonian and Palestinian) were created, and as such, it was central to both the formation of the Talmudic world and Judaism as we know it today. In Transmitting Mishnah: The Shaping Influence of Oral Tradition, Elizabeth Shanks Alexander argues that not only the content of the document but also the circumstances of its oral transmission and study helped make it so significant. keywords: alexander; mishnah cache: scjr-1494.pdf plain text: scjr-1494.txt item: #197 of 511 id: scjr-1495 author: Sonsino, Rifat title: Roger E. Van Harn, ed. The Ten Commandments for Jews, Christians, and Others date: 2011-04-21 words: 1060 flesch: 49 summary: For example, in the 1950’s, Solomon Goldman examined each “Word” (the Hebrew term for these commandments) one after the other in The Ten Commandments (Chicago: Phoenix, 1956), providing valuable rabbinic insights. Allen Vermes, quoting Calvin, states that the “Eighth Word” prohibits “theft by violence, theft by fraud, theft through craftiness, theft through flatteries” (p. 165). keywords: commandments; word cache: scjr-1495.pdf plain text: scjr-1495.txt item: #198 of 511 id: scjr-1496 author: Friedmann, Jonathan L. title: Brad Hirschfield. You Don’t Have To Wrong For Me To Be Right: Finding Faith Without Fanaticism date: 2011-04-21 words: 911 flesch: 53 summary: In this book, You Don’t Have To Wrong For Me To Be Right: Finding Faith Without Fanaticism, prominent American rabbi Brad Hirschfield reflects on these profound words, arguing persuasively that mature faith does not entail surety or absoluteness, but rather abides in mystery, in being unsure. This is, in Hirschfield’s analysis, best captured in the story of Abraham, who left behind the security of home in his search for what God called the Promised Land. keywords: faith; hirschfield cache: scjr-1496.pdf plain text: scjr-1496.txt item: #199 of 511 id: scjr-1497 author: Gregerman, Adam title: Darrell Jodock, Ed. Covenantal Conversations: Christians in Dialogue with Jews and Judaism date: 2011-04-21 words: 1139 flesch: 43 summary: Furthermore, there are surprisingly few quotations from Jewish sources, an odd omission in a book geared to group study. Suomala, in “Healing the World and Mending the Soul,” builds her discussion of Jewish views of social justice from a sampling of sources (e.g., a medieval Kabbalist, some Hasidic rabbis, a modern Orthodox leader, web sites of a few contemporary synagogues) without elaborating the criteria she used to select them or how they fit into the larger Jewish tradition (114-27). keywords: christian; judaism; relations cache: scjr-1497.pdf plain text: scjr-1497.txt item: #200 of 511 id: scjr-1498 author: Peck, Abraham J. title: Kevin P. Spicer, ed. Antisemitism, Christian Ambivalence and the Holocaust date: 2011-04-21 words: 1581 flesch: 40 summary: A number of the essays in this volume point to the depth of Christianity’s anti-Jewish teachings, an ideology that conditioned Christian attitudes toward Jews and Judaism for well over a thousand years. In that book, Steigmann-Gall argued that to label Nazism as anti-Christian and pro-pagan was to miss the point that many convinced Nazis saw no incompatibility between National Socialism and Christianity as long as the Marcionite exclusion of the Hebrew Testament, along with the depiction of Jesus as an Aryan and as the greatest anti-Semite, highlighted the new teachings of the Christian churches. keywords: antisemitism; christian; christianity; holocaust; new cache: scjr-1498.pdf plain text: scjr-1498.txt item: #201 of 511 id: scjr-1499 author: Sabella, Jeremy title: Jeremy Cohen. Christ Killers: The Jews and the Passion from the Bible to the Big Screen date: 2011-04-21 words: 1376 flesch: 49 summary: Reviewed by Jeremy Sabella, Boston College Originating in a course that Cohen has taught for twenty years, Christ Killers traces the myth of the Jew as Christ killer from its origins in the context of the Gospel writers through its development into the early modern period and examines its various present-day manifestations. Cohen also examines the ways in which Jewish intellectuals have identified various aspects of Jewish tradition and experience with the sufferings of Christ, from themes of death and resurrection in Talmudic interpretations of the Isaac story to 20 th century Jewish art depicting Jesus on the cross. keywords: christ; cohen; myth cache: scjr-1499.pdf plain text: scjr-1499.txt item: #202 of 511 id: scjr-1500 author: Slotemaker, John T. title: Deborah L. Goodwin “Take Hold of the Robe of a Jew”: Herbert of Bosham’s Christian Hebraism date: 2011-04-21 words: 1223 flesch: 42 summary: Here Herbert is portrayed between the Christian tradition of adversus iudaeos literature and Psalms commentaries and the Jewish exegesis of Rashi, often interpreting particular passages with striking originality. The second chapter considers Herbert’s methodology as developed in the Psalms Commentary, emphasizing Herbert’s divergence from previous Christian tradition in three foci. keywords: christian; goodwin; herbert cache: scjr-1500.pdf plain text: scjr-1500.txt item: #203 of 511 id: scjr-1501 author: Landau, Yehezkel title: The Land of Israel in Jewish-Christian-Muslim Relations date: 2011-04-21 words: 7922 flesch: 49 summary: For Jew- ish mystics, there are four co-existing realms of creation, suggesting a parallel with the four lev- els or dimensions of the Torah: (a) Olam HaAsiyah, the world of material phenomena, including our body and its sensations, and of human action; (b) Olam HaYetsirah, the world of formation and shaping of both nature and history through Divine Providence; this includes the three major categories of Divine agency: creation, revelation, and redemption; (c) Olam HaBriyah, the world 3 In applying this four-dimensional typology to the challenge of sharing the holiness of Erets Yisrael with another na- tion and with non-Jewish faith communities, I am (as far as I know) entering uncharted intellectual and spiritual terrain. 9 Instead of citing as a precedent the military conquest under Joshua, we find a better model for the Zionist homecoming in our time in the nonviolent return from Babylon of only part of the people to only part of the land (at the invita- tion of the non-Jewish ruler Cyrus/Koresh). keywords: christians; god; holy; israel; jerusalem; jews; land; need; olam; peace; people; relations; song; spiritual; studies; torah cache: scjr-1501.pdf plain text: scjr-1501.txt item: #204 of 511 id: scjr-1502 author: Berger, David title: Reflections on Conversion and Proselytizing in Judaism and Christianity date: 2011-04-21 words: 4707 flesch: 43 summary: Berger, Reflections on Conversion and Proselytizing R2 http://escholarship.bc.edu/scjr/vol3 Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations Volume3 (2008): CP1-7 imply in response to a direct question that Christians could be saved through their own faith; other medieval Jews unhesitatingly answered this question in the negative.6 In sum, then, Jews in the Christian world refrained from missionizing as a result of an extraordinarily complex constellation of theological, historical, and psychological considerations not always consistent with one another: The Jewish people should retain its uniqueness even in eschatological times; non-Jews have an avenue of salvation without joining that people (though that avenue is probably not Christianity); missionizing was dangerous; its chances of meeting with significant success were minuscule; and the persecutors of Israel should receive their just punishment for all that they had done. At the same time, it is far from clear that medieval Jews refrained from missionizing only or even primarily because they saw another route to salvation for gentiles. keywords: christian; christianity; conversion; jews; medieval; non; position; proselytizing; relations; salvation cache: scjr-1502.pdf plain text: scjr-1502.txt item: #205 of 511 id: scjr-15023 author: Boys, Mary C.; Schwartz, Shuly Rubin title: Reorienting “Settled Identities”: Rethinking a Course on Jewish-Christian Relations date: 2022-04-19 words: 8553 flesch: 46 summary: 13 Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations 17, no. 1 (2022) how to understand Jewish texts. They had, he hypothesizes, originally formed a minority sub-group within a Pharisaic association in which there was attraction to Jesus’s teaching among some members.18 Yet the Mattheans became disillusioned in the 80s, separated themselves—perhaps because they saw the Pharisees as lacking faith in the messianic mission of Jesus—, and thus sought to delegitimize the Pharisees as neglecting the most vital aspects of Torah.19 Runesson convincingly shows that the Mattheans shared a basic worldview with other Jews: “It is obvious from the text that Jesus and the disciples share the same basic point of departure in Torah and its interpretation as other Jewish groups and that the critique against the Pharisees, the very force of the arguments used by the Matthean Jesus, depends on this shared foundation. keywords: century; christian; christianity; concepts; course; jesus; jewish; jews; judaism; matthew; new; relations; runesson; students; texts; threshold cache: scjr-15023.pdf plain text: scjr-15023.txt item: #206 of 511 id: scjr-1503 author: Pawlikowski, John T. title: Moving the Christian-Jewish Dialogue to a New Level: Can it Happen? date: 2011-04-21 words: 7622 flesch: 43 summary: Some scholars today would argue that even Christ worship did not bring about a total split; (4) The later parts of the New Testament do exhibit the beginnings of some sense of distancing often leading to hostility towards each other (some would argue that synagogue of satan language in the gospel of John is the result of such hostility among rival Christian Jewish groups). Among the newly emerging images of the Christian-Jewish rela- tionship is the notion of siblings advanced by Jewish scholars Alan Segal and the late Hayim Perelmuter which argues that two new communities – rabbinic Judaism and the Christian church – resulted from the revolution taking place in Second Temple Judaism. keywords: christian; church; dialogue; jewish; jews; judaism; new; prayer; relations; relationship; theological; vatican cache: scjr-1503.pdf plain text: scjr-1503.txt item: #207 of 511 id: scjr-1504 author: Fisher, Eugene title: The Impact of Christian-Jewish Dialogue on Catholic Biblical Studies date: 2011-04-21 words: 3056 flesch: 46 summary: Bea, of course, was a biblical scholar whose work was profoundly influenced by Pius’ 1943 encyclical, and so was able to accept John XXIII’s mandate that the Council take up the question of the Catholic Church’s understanding of its relationship with the Jewish People armed with and ready for new understandings of New Testament texts long interpreted as solely negative about Jews and Judaism. Since I first undertook the study of this topic the field of Catholic biblical studies has undersone immense change. keywords: biblical; catholic; christian; dialogue; jews; new; studies cache: scjr-1504.pdf plain text: scjr-1504.txt item: #208 of 511 id: scjr-1505 author: Eckardt, Alice title: Founding Father of Jewish-Christian Relations: The Rev. James Parkes (1896-1981) date: 2011-04-21 words: 5991 flesch: 65 summary: The Rev. Dr. James Parkes, Anglican clergyman and leader in many national and international student and other organizations from the early 1920s on, author of ground-breaking historical and theological works, deserves to be acknowledged as the founding father of Jewish-Christian relations as he was the first to recognize that the roots of antisemitism were to be found in Christianity from its earliest days. Founding Father of Jewish-Christian Relations: The Rev. James Parkes (1896-1981) Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations Volume 3 (2008): CP1-9 CONFERENCE PROCEEDING Founding Father of Jewish-Christian Relations: The Rev. James Parkes (1896-1981) keywords: christian; church; james; james parkes; jews; judaism; parkes; relations; university; war; work; world; years cache: scjr-1505.pdf plain text: scjr-1505.txt item: #209 of 511 id: scjr-1506 author: McGarry, Michael title: One Christian Perspective On Land And The State Of Israel date: 2011-04-21 words: 4699 flesch: 54 summary: 9 To affirm the centrality of Land in Jewish life derives from paying attention to the many Jewish sides of the conversation. So from the fourth century, despite admonitions from Origen, Eusebius, and Gregory of Nyssa, Christians flocked to Jerusalem not only to touch the land made holy by their Savior, but also to behold how bereft Palestine was of Jewish life. keywords: christian; israel; jesus; jews; land; mcgarry; state cache: scjr-1506.pdf plain text: scjr-1506.txt item: #210 of 511 id: scjr-1507 author: Langer, Ruth; Merkle, John C. title: Editors' Afterword date: 2011-04-21 words: 396 flesch: 36 summary: Microsoft Word - 154051-text.native.1234902478.doc Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations Volume 3 (2008) Editors’ Afterword i http://escholarship.bc.edu/scjr/vol3 Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations A peer-reviewed e-journal of the Council of Centers in Jewish-Christian Relations Published by the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning at Boston College Editors’ Afterword Ruth Langer and John C. Merkle Volume 3 (2008) http://escholarship.bc.edu/scjr/vol3 Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations Volume 3 (2008) Editors’ Afterword ii http://escholarship.bc.edu/scjr/vol3 “Unfinished business,” understood in a positive sense, characterizes the state of our journal’s discussions as we close out its third volume. David Berger’s conference proceeding provides a Jewish contribution on this same topic. keywords: volume cache: scjr-1507.pdf plain text: scjr-1507.txt item: #211 of 511 id: scjr-1508 author: Langer, Ruth; Spicer, Kevin P title: Editors' Introduction date: 2011-04-21 words: 824 flesch: 41 summary: http://escholarship.bc.edu/scjr/vol4 Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations Volume 4 (2009) i-iii Langer & Spicer: Editors’ Introduction ii http://escholarship.bc.edu/scjr/vol4 Welcome to the fourth volume of Studies in Christian- Jewish Relations. We begin that discussion with our inclusion here of the document itself as well as of two of the papers presented at the Berlin conference: Philip Cunningham’s introduction to the document; and Ruth Langer’s plenary address on its call in point six for attention to the ways Jewish liturgy discusses the religious other. keywords: christian; relations; volume cache: scjr-1508.pdf plain text: scjr-1508.txt item: #212 of 511 id: scjr-15083 author: Cathey, Robert title: Munther Isaac. The Other Side of the Wall: A Palestinian Narrative of Lament and Hope date: 2022-05-09 words: 1047 flesch: 48 summary: McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago, IL 60615 Palestinian Christians once numbered 12 percent of the population of British Mandate Palestine before 1948. His primary audience for this book is Christians from other parts of the world, especially Chris- tian Zionists who he says ignore the plight of Palestinian Christians. keywords: author; palestinian; region cache: scjr-15083.pdf plain text: scjr-15083.txt item: #213 of 511 id: scjr-1509 author: Koester, Helmut; Harrington, Daniel J. title: Tribute to Krister Stendahl date: 2011-04-21 words: 3486 flesch: 54 summary: In the following days Krister Stendahl was our guide in getting a Social Security number, opening a bank account, familiarizing us with Andover Hall, introducing us to the Dean of Harvard Divinity School, Douglas Horton, and last but not least in directing us to a church. Krister Stendahl was my close colleague on the faculty of Harvard Divinity School for many years. keywords: christian; harrington; koester; krister; paul; school; stendahl cache: scjr-1509.pdf plain text: scjr-1509.txt item: #214 of 511 id: scjr-1510 author: Stegman, S.J., Thomas D title: ‘Lifting the Veil’: The Challenges Posed by 2 Corinthians 3 date: 2011-04-21 words: 9229 flesch: 61 summary: God has acted through Jesus’ death (and resurrection) to bring about the 151515 18 See N.T. Wright, What Saint Paul Really Said: Was Paul of Tarsus the Real Founder of Christianity? S t e g m a n , S J Boston College School of Theology and Ministry Volume 4 (2009) http://escholarship.bc.edu/scjr/vol4 An earlier version of this paper was presented at Boston College on March 16, 2008 at the conference: Paul of Tarsus: The Apostle to the Gentiles in His Jewish Context Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations Volume 4 (2009): keywords: corinthians; covenant; glory; god; jesus; ministry; moses; new; paul; spirit; stegman; veil cache: scjr-1510.pdf plain text: scjr-1510.txt item: #215 of 511 id: scjr-15105 author: Newberg, Eric title: Donald M. Lewis. A Short History of Christian Zionism date: 2022-05-12 words: 1275 flesch: 40 summary: He helpfully clarifies the distinction between Christian Restorationism and Christian Zionism, noting that the term Christian Zionist was not coined until the 1890s (108). Lewis’ approach differs from authors like Donald Wagner (Anxious for Armageddon: A Call to Partnership for Middle Eastern and Western Christians from 1995) and Stephen Sizer (Christian Zionism: Road Map to Armageddon? from 2004) who caricature Christian Zionists as captivated by dispensational end- times scenarios which are used to exonerate supporters for injustices committed against Palestinians. keywords: christian; jews; lewis; zionism cache: scjr-15105.pdf plain text: scjr-15105.txt item: #216 of 511 id: scjr-1511 author: Nanos, Mark title: The Myth of the 'Law-Free' Paul Standing between Christians and Jews date: 2011-04-21 words: 14567 flesch: 54 summary: James D. G. Dunn, Who Did Paul Think He Was? For critique of this view, see Neil Elliott, Liberating Paul: The Justice of God and the Politics of the Apostle (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1994), 66-72, 108. 23 James D. G. Dunn, Romans 9-16, WBC 38b (Dallas: Word Books, 1988), 798; in my The Mystery of Romans: The Jewish Context of Paul's Letter (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1996), 88-95, I provide other examples of this phenomenon, and discuss the process of Luther's trap for the prevailing interpretations of the weak in Romans 14; see also my Paul and Judaism. Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations Volume 4(2009): keywords: christ; christian; food; god; identity; israel; james; jews; judaism; law; nanos; new; non; ones; paul; paul nanos; peter; studies; torah cache: scjr-1511.pdf plain text: scjr-1511.txt item: #217 of 511 id: scjr-1512 author: Langton, Daniel R. title: The Apostle Paul in the Popular Jewish Imagination: The Case Study of the British Jewish Chronicle date: 2011-04-21 words: 7467 flesch: 44 summary: According to Jewish Writers, 1886-1986,” PhD thesis, Temple University (May 1990); Donald A. Hagner, “Paul in Modern Jewish Thought” in Donald A. Hagner and Murray J. Harris, eds, Pauline Studies: Essays Presented to F.F. Bruce (Exeter: Paternoster Press, 1980), pp.143-165; Halvor Ronning, “Some Jewish Views of Paul as Basis of a Con- sideration of Jewish-Christian Relations” in Judaica 24 (1968), pp.82-97. For, he goes on: Paul was not only opposed to Jewish Law and its ceremo- nial observances, but to all law, whether moral or legal. keywords: apostle; christian; christianity; chronicle; imagination; jesus; jewish; jews; judaism; langton; law; paul; self; studies cache: scjr-1512.pdf plain text: scjr-1512.txt item: #218 of 511 id: scjr-1513 author: Gregerman, Adam title: The Lack of Evidence for a Jewish Christian Countermission in Galatia date: 2011-04-21 words: 15945 flesch: 53 summary: However, the claim about membership is sufficient to explain the demand, especially because the claim about a soteriological motive rests on an unproven link between the Teachers and other Jewish Christians from elsewhere; see Francis Watson, Paul, Judaism and the Gentiles, Revised ed. This development may have alienated other Jews and caused some to think it contributed to a delay in the coming of the end of days, though we lack convincing evidence for this provocative claim; see Paula Fredriksen, Judaism, the Circumcision of Gentiles, and Apocalyptic Hope: Another Look at Galatians 1 and 2, Journal of Theological Studies 42 (1991): 532-64 (561); Jerry L. Sumney, Paul and Christ-believing Jews he Opposes, in Jewish Christianity Reconsidered: Rethinking Ancient Groups and Texts, ed. keywords: christian; circumcision; evidence; galatians; gentiles; gregerman; jewish; jews; judaism; lack; missionary; observance; paul; salvation; studies; teachers; torah; views cache: scjr-1513.pdf plain text: scjr-1513.txt item: #219 of 511 id: scjr-1514 author: Ettin, Andrew V; Wiethaus, Ulrike title: Mysticism, Experience, and Pedagogy in Jewish-Christian Dialogue date: 2011-04-21 words: 7745 flesch: 43 summary: The learning included frequent reminders from mystical writers and from us that language may be an inadequate albeit often necessary medium for recording and transmitting mystical experience. Buber, compiling and editing the texts of Ecstatic Confessions before World War I, reclaimed mystical experience as existential-cognitive matrix of human self-understanding. keywords: class; course; dialogue; ettin; experience; mysticism; new; pedagogy; pedagogy ettin; relations; students; studies; texts; volume; wiethaus cache: scjr-1514.pdf plain text: scjr-1514.txt item: #220 of 511 id: scjr-1515 author: Hayman, Marina S. title: Christ in the Works of Two Jewish Artists: When Art is Interreligious Dialogue date: 2011-04-21 words: 6653 flesch: 56 summary: However, it is also important to include historical factors and precedents, such as the focus on Christ in the period of modernization of Judaism, as discussed in this paper, when trying to reach an understanding of the choice of Christ as a subject for Jewish artists. How many people, Jewish or Christian, even know that Jewish writers wrote plays about Jesus or that Jewish artists painted and sculpted Christ? keywords: artists; chagall; christ; christian; crucifixion; dialogue; epstein; figure; hayman; jesus; relations; works; world cache: scjr-1515.pdf plain text: scjr-1515.txt item: #221 of 511 id: scjr-1516 author: McMichael, Fr., Steven J title: The Resurrection of Jesus and Human Beings in Medieval Christian and Jewish Theology and Polemical Literature date: 2011-04-21 words: 12623 flesch: 54 summary: In other words: “His Treatise on Resurrection, written in Arabic in 1191, explicitly affirms physical resurrection. The resurrection of Jesus was a significant issue in Jewish-Christian polemical literature in the Middle Ages, though it does not appear to be the most prominent one in relation to other issues that appear in polemical texts.1 Themes of Jesus as Messiah, his incarnation and divinity, the abrogation of the Mosaic Law—all these took center stage then and remain central in Jewish-Christian dialogue even today.2 Nevertheless, the theme of resurrection was important because of its place in Jewish and Christian theology in general. keywords: beings; beings mcmichael; belief; christian; dead; espina; god; human; israel; jesus; jewish; jews; life; maimonides; mcmichael; medieval; messiah; new; polemical; resurrection; thomas; world cache: scjr-1516.pdf plain text: scjr-1516.txt item: #222 of 511 id: scjr-1517 author: Moseley, Carys title: Reinhold Niebuhr's Approach to the State of Israel: The Ethical Promise and Theological Limits of Christian Realism date: 2011-04-21 words: 11872 flesch: 51 summary: Reinhold Niebuhr, September 9, 1941, cited in Charles C. Brown, Niebuhr and His Age: Reinhold Niebuhr’s Prophetic Role and Legacy (Philadelphia: Trinity Press International, 1992), 142. Ronald H. Stone, Professor Reinhold Niebuhr: A Mentor to the Twentieth Century (Louisville, Ky.: keywords: america; approach; christian; history; israel; jewish; jews; land; moseley; new; niebuhr; palestine; realism; reinhold niebuhr; state; studies; theology; world; zionism cache: scjr-1517.pdf plain text: scjr-1517.txt item: #223 of 511 id: scjr-1518 author: Abramovich, Dvir title: Jesus-Believing Jews in Australia: Celebrate Messiah as a Case Study date: 2011-04-21 words: 16637 flesch: 44 summary: Messianic Jewish groups may also include those from non-Jewish backgrounds who have a confirmed call to participate fully in the life and destiny of the Jewish people. The burning of hundreds of New Testaments by students from Michtav M’eliyahu Yeshiva in the Israeli town of Or Yehuda, Tel Aviv on May 15, 2008 set off a storm of concern by messianic Jewish groups over the ever increasing violent nature of anti-missionary activity. keywords: abramovich; australia; beit; celebrate messiah; christian; christianity; church; community; congregation; faith; hamashiach; hirsch; http://escholarship.bc.edu/scjr/vol4; israel; jesus; jewish; jews; judaism; melbourne; messiah; messianic; new; news; organization; people; relations; studies; volume cache: scjr-1518.pdf plain text: scjr-1518.txt item: #224 of 511 id: scjr-1519 author: Cunningham, Philip A. title: Introduction of A Time for Recommitment: Building the New Relationship between Christians and Jews date: 2011-04-21 words: 1137 flesch: 37 summary: A founding officer and secretary-treasurer of The Council of Centers on Christian-Jewish Relations, Dr. Philip Cunningham, addressed the assembly before the ceremony at which representatives from twenty-three countries signed the document. The document signatories representing twenty-three countries, with ICCJ President, Dr. Deborah Weissman (front row, far left) and ICCJ Vice-President, Dr. Philip A. Cunningham (second row, far left). keywords: cunningham; recommitment; time cache: scjr-1519.pdf plain text: scjr-1519.txt item: #225 of 511 id: scjr-1520 author: Christians and Jews, International Council of title: A Time for Recommitment: Building the New Relationship between Jews and Christians date: 2011-04-21 words: 11021 flesch: 47 summary: A Study of the Origins of Antisemitism, he blamed the centuries of Christian anti-Jewish teaching for contemp- orary antisemitism. The humanist tradition emphasized the enduring qualities of Jewish religious teaching. keywords: century; christian; christianity; dialogue; god; iccj; israel; jesus; jews; judaism; people; recommitment iccj; relations; studies; time; understanding; volume; world cache: scjr-1520.pdf plain text: scjr-1520.txt item: #226 of 511 id: scjr-15205 author: Goldberg, Sol title: Timothy Jackson. Mordecai Would Not Bow Down: Anti-Semitism, the Holocaust, and Christian Supersessionism date: 2022-03-07 words: 1312 flesch: 43 summary: Jackson argues that, although as a matter of pretense Hitler and other Nazi leaders depicted the Jews as a subhuman threat to Aryan life and culture, their Goldberg: Timothy Jackson’s Mordecai Would Not Bow Down 2 beliefs and actions reflect a deep awareness of Jews’ holiness. SCJR 17, no. 1 (2022): 1-3 Timothy Jackson Mordecai Would Not Bow Down: Anti-Semitism, the Holocaust, and Christian Supersessionism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021), xv + 266 pp. keywords: jackson; jews; nazi cache: scjr-15205.pdf plain text: scjr-15205.txt item: #227 of 511 id: scjr-1521 author: Cunningham, Philip A. title: Official Ecclesial Documents to Implement the Second Vatican Council on Relations with Jews: Study Them, Become Immersed in Them, and Put Them into Practice date: 2011-04-21 words: 21463 flesch: 38 summary: Two aspects of this trajectory are particularly relevant: how the Notes understood (1) the vitality of Jewish religious life today; and (2) eschatology and fulfillment. Implementing the conciliar work that Pope Benedict described as evaluating and defining in a new way the relationship between the Church and the faith of Israel,”80 the Notes established or reiterated certain parameters: (1) Jewish covenantal life is permanent and vital; (2) this vitality is evidenced throughout Jewish history; (3) Judaism and Christianity are closely related and are not disconnected parallel traditions; (4) Judaism and Christianity are on converging paths toward the eschatological age, when all God's plans and promises will achieve their complete fulfillment; and (5) in the present time, both Jews and Christians have the covenantal responsibility to prepare the world for the coming of the Messiah.” keywords: aetate; catholic; christian; church; council; covenant; cunningham; dialogue; documents; documents cunningham; god; jewish; jews; john; judaism; new; nostra; nostra aetate; paul; people; relations; vatican cache: scjr-1521.pdf plain text: scjr-1521.txt item: #228 of 511 id: scjr-1522 author: Greenberg, Gershon title: The Holocaust as a Source for Jewish-Christian Bonding date: 2011-04-21 words: 7309 flesch: 62 summary: However, when they deal with the church’s central teaching, and do not reflect explicitly on Jewish existence, then even they do what the church has always done, i.e., leave no room for Jewish religion.59 I would suggest, that by absorbing the suffering of Auschwitz into the cross, Moltmann set aside the understanding and the reality of sacred death on the part of Jewish thinkers, and thereby precluded any basis for Jewish Christian unity in its terms. As such, it provided another ingredient for Jewish unity surrounding sacred death. keywords: auschwitz; body; bonding; christian; cross; death; god; greenberg; holocaust; isaac; israel; jewish; jews; love; new; soul; studies; suffering cache: scjr-1522.pdf plain text: scjr-1522.txt item: #229 of 511 id: scjr-1523 author: Berger, Alan title: Gilbert S. Rosenthal. What Can A Modern Jew Believe? date: 2011-04-21 words: 1325 flesch: 58 summary: First, Rabbi Rosenthal, after discussing the history and transformation of the particular concept, states his own personal view on the topic. Although Rabbi Rosenthal contends that he is “not a theologian, [but] a rabbi and historian of ideas” (xi), his claim is too modest. keywords: book; jews; rabbi; rosenthal cache: scjr-1523.pdf plain text: scjr-1523.txt item: #230 of 511 id: scjr-1524 author: Berger, Alan L. title: Mimi Schwartz. Good Neighbors, Bad Times: Echoes of My Father's German Village date: 2011-04-21 words: 2386 flesch: 66 summary: The author even includes a recipe for Berches, a type of potato bread that was given by certain Benheim Jews to their Christian neighbors. Mimi hears this story in Israel while eating linzertorte, served by Gretl, the widow of the founder of Oleh Zion [not its real name], the Israeli kibbutz settled by some fourteen Benheim Jewish families who escaped the village. keywords: benheim; holocaust; jews; mimi; neighbors; schwartz cache: scjr-1524.pdf plain text: scjr-1524.txt item: #231 of 511 id: scjr-1525 author: Jospe, Raphael title: Lippman Bodoff. The Binding of Isaac, Religious Murder and Kabbalah: Seeds of Jewish Extermination and Alienation? date: 2011-04-21 words: 2268 flesch: 43 summary: Bodoff is less interested in biblical and historical scholarship for its own sake (although his copious notes reflect serious reading of such scholarship as well as of the classical texts) than he is in the existential predicament of Jews and Judaism today, resulting from misreading biblical and rabbinic texts, ignorance of Jewish history, Bodoff, The Binding of Isaac Jospe R 1 http://escholarship.bc.edu/scjr/vol4 Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations Volume 4 (2009): The problem is that Jewish history all too frequently seems to defy reasonable explanation. keywords: abraham; bodoff; god; jospe; judaism cache: scjr-1525.pdf plain text: scjr-1525.txt item: #232 of 511 id: scjr-1526 author: Langer, Ruth title: Yaakov Y. Teppler. Birkat HaMinim: Jews and Christians in Conflict in the Ancient World date: 2011-04-21 words: 1502 flesch: 52 summary: Consequently, he sees the Septuagint, Jubilees, and the Damascus Document as of no relevance as Jewish texts and fails to understand the contexts of the New Testament’s books. How do we understand traditions, like the story of the institution of this prayer, that appear only in the Babylonian Talmud and not in earlier rabbinic texts or in texts from the Land of Israel? keywords: birkat; haminim; prayer; teppler cache: scjr-1526.pdf plain text: scjr-1526.txt item: #233 of 511 id: scjr-1527 author: McMichael, Steven J. title: Thomas Michel. Friends on the Way: Jesuits Encounter Contemporary Judaism date: 2011-04-21 words: 808 flesch: 44 summary: For those interested in a contemporary Jesuit critique of modern Jewish biblical scholarship, Jean-Pierre Sonnet offers two articles on Robert Alter, Michael Fishbane, B. M. Levinson, and other scholars. Friends on the Way is a valuable collection of articles that show how one particular religious community within the Roman Catholic tradition is taking seriously the call of the 1965 Vatican document, Nostra Aetate, to engage in serious dialogue with our Jewish brothers and sisters: “Since the spiritual patrimony common to Christians and Jews is thus so great, this sacred synod wants to foster and recommend that mutual understanding and respect which is the fruit, above all, of biblical and theological studies as well as of fraternal dialogues.” keywords: articles; friends; way cache: scjr-1527.pdf plain text: scjr-1527.txt item: #234 of 511 id: scjr-1528 author: Tassel, Janet title: Kevin J. Madigan and Jon D. Levenson. RESURRECTION: The Power of God for Christians and Jews date: 2011-04-21 words: 2131 flesch: 58 summary: After all, as we have often been taught, the concept of bodily resurrection was alien to the Jewish tradition. This book opens our eyes to the fact that, contrary to popular belief, Jewish tradition has powerful links to the concept of bodily resurrection. keywords: authors; god; life; resurrection; tassel cache: scjr-1528.pdf plain text: scjr-1528.txt item: #235 of 511 id: scjr-1529 author: Fisher, Eugene J. title: Gunther Lawrence. The Business of Being a Jew date: 2011-04-21 words: 1130 flesch: 56 summary: He goes on to describe subsequent key meetings in which both he and I took part, such as the meeting of IJCIC and the Pontifical Commission in Prague in 1990 and —against the background of the Auschwitz Convent controversy—an unforgettable encounter between a small, key group of Jewish leaders in Washington and Cardinal Jozef Glemp of Poland. It started with a meeting of the nine Jewish leaders and corresponding Catholic leaders representing the Holy See and the US Bishops Conference, Cardinal Keeler and myself. keywords: jewish; lawrence; meeting cache: scjr-1529.pdf plain text: scjr-1529.txt item: #236 of 511 id: scjr-1530 author: Cohen, Raymond title: Charles R. Gallagher, SJ. Vatican Secret Diplomacy: Joseph P. Hurley and Pope Pius XII date: 2011-04-21 words: 2147 flesch: 57 summary: His successor, Pius XII, reversed Vatican policy, assigning the Communist threat greater priority and opting to appease Hitler. In his first encyclical of October 20, 1939, Summi Pontificatus, Pius XII defined the duties of Catholics in wartime: prayer, mortification, and penance. keywords: hurley; pius; pope; vatican; xii cache: scjr-1530.pdf plain text: scjr-1530.txt item: #237 of 511 id: scjr-1531 author: Eckardt, Alice title: Steven Leonard Jacobs, ed. Maven in Blue Jeans: A Festschrift in Honor of Zev Garber date: 2011-04-21 words: 1000 flesch: 52 summary: This will impact on Jewish theology just as writings from other devastating times in Jewish history helped shape the Hebrew Bible, the Talmud, Maimonides’ Both see a “national pathology” which subverted Jewish history and “repeatedly led the Jewish people to the brink of annihilation” (p. 455); and both find Judaism ultimately responsible. keywords: eckardt; garber; shoah cache: scjr-1531.pdf plain text: scjr-1531.txt item: #238 of 511 id: scjr-15311 author: Marcus, Joel title: Jens Schröter, Benjamin A. Edsall, and Joseph Verheyden, Eds. Jews and Christians – Parting Ways in the First Two Centuries CE? Reflections on the Gains and Losses of a Model date: 2022-07-07 words: 1341 flesch: 41 summary: SCJR 17, no. 1 (2022): 1-3 Jens Schröter, Benjamin A. Edsall, and Joseph Verheyden, Eds. Jews and Christians – Parting Ways in the First Two Centuries CE? Reflections on the Gains and Losses of a Model (Berlin / Boston: De Gruyter, 2021, Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 253), hardcover, 409 pp. The term was thus conceived as a weapon against anti-Judaism, deliberately opposing the view of Adolf von Harnack that the church quickly (by the end of the first century), naturally, and rightfully separated from its Jewish parent (see 16-17, 217-18). keywords: christians; judaism; parting; ways cache: scjr-15311.pdf plain text: scjr-15311.txt item: #239 of 511 id: scjr-1532 author: Fisher, Eugene title: Rembert G. Weakland, OSB. A Pilgrim in a Pilgrim Church date: 2011-04-21 words: 1194 flesch: 53 summary: Weakland, A Pilgrim in a Pilgrim Church Fisher R 1 http://escholarship.bc.edu/scjr/vol4 Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations Volume 4 (2009): Fisher R1-2 After the security guard had taken the woman away, Weakland narrates, “I asked the audience to reflect with me on how historical this evening was: here was a Catholic archbishop speaking in a Jewish synagogue and both of us together were being treated to this ignominy” (pp. 301- 302). Weakland, A Pilgrim in a Pilgrim Church Fisher R 2 http://escholarship.bc.edu/scjr/vol4 keywords: catholic; jews; weakland cache: scjr-1532.pdf plain text: scjr-1532.txt item: #240 of 511 id: scjr-1533 author: Gregerman, Adam title: Terence L. Donaldson. Judaism and the Gentiles: Jewish Patterns of Universalism (to 135 BCE) date: 2011-04-21 words: 1288 flesch: 48 summary: This omission is understandable, if the book was to be kept to a manageable size, though his occasional references to biblical texts seem scattershot. In those works, he focused on subsets of this material, especially when Jewish views illuminate early Christian missionary activity. keywords: donaldson; gentiles; texts cache: scjr-1533.pdf plain text: scjr-1533.txt item: #241 of 511 id: scjr-1534 author: Kalman, Jason title: Sarah Stroumsa. Maimonides in His World: Portrait of a Mediterranean Thinker date: 2011-04-21 words: 1495 flesch: 52 summary: For the important implications of her work for Maimonides studies and for this broader concern the reader of this fine volume owes Stroumsa a debt of gratitude. By this she means both that he, from the perspective of geography, lived his life around the Mediterannean basin and more importantly, was a cultural product of having lived among the intertwined groups who inhabited the region: Maimonides’ cultural Mediterranean encompassed the legacy of other religious communities. keywords: jewish; maimonides; stroumsa; world cache: scjr-1534.pdf plain text: scjr-1534.txt item: #242 of 511 id: scjr-1535 author: Sherman, Franklin title: Michael S. Kogan. Opening the Covenant: A Jewish Theology of Christianity date: 2011-04-21 words: 1537 flesch: 58 summary: That is to say, just as Christian scholars have asked themselves, What is the significance of the ongoing vitality of Judaism within the Christian scheme of things? Jewish scholars should ask themselves, What is the significance of the ongoing vitality of Christianity within the Jewish scheme of things? Surprisingly, however, he does not deal with the important volume produced as a follow-up to Dabru Emet by Tikva Frymer-Kensky, David Novak et al., Christianity in Jewish Terms (Boulder: Westview, 2000). keywords: christian; christianity; judaism; kogan cache: scjr-1535.pdf plain text: scjr-1535.txt item: #243 of 511 id: scjr-15353 author: Reynolds, Benjamin E. title: Laura Tack. John 14:6 in Light of Jewish-Christian Dialogue: Sharing Truth on the Way to Life date: 2022-07-12 words: 1069 flesch: 57 summary: Laura Tack’s John 14:6 in Light of Jewish-Christian Dialogue 2 In chapter 3, Tack combines her examinations of the literary context of John 14:6 and the concepts of way, truth, and life to determine the meaning of Jesus’ statement. The first, Nostra Aetate (1965), is a Second Vatican Council document, and the second, Dominus Iesus (2000), was completed under Cardinal Ratzinger and ratified by Pope John Paul II. keywords: john; tack cache: scjr-15353.pdf plain text: scjr-15353.txt item: #244 of 511 id: scjr-1536 author: Harrington, Daniel J. title: Paul’s Use of the Old Testament in Romans date: 2011-04-21 words: 4647 flesch: 62 summary: In the first century A.D. Paul used the same words to refer to God’s promises of salvation and eternal life (“will live”) to those Jews and Gentiles who accept the gospel or good news about Harrington, Paul’s Use of the Old Testament Harrington CP 2 http://escholarship.bc.edu/scjr/vol4 Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations Volume 4 (2009): Harrington CP1-8 Christ (“from faith”). In making his case and arriving at his conclusion, Paul frequently appeals to Old Testament texts. keywords: christ; god; harrington; paul; romans; testament; use cache: scjr-1536.pdf plain text: scjr-1536.txt item: #245 of 511 id: scjr-1537 author: Sievers, Joseph; Schiffman, Lawrence H. title: Learning About Ourselves While Learning About Each Other: date: 2011-04-21 words: 2718 flesch: 26 summary: Jews must come to understand that all of Jewish history was not one episode of anti-Semitism and that the Catholic Church related to Jews in various ways throughout the ages. Further, we must make sure that textbooks, whether regarding Jewish history or general history, speak respectfully of Christianity and adequately portray the complexities of the relationship of Jews to their Christian neighbors as well as the important developments in recent years in Jewish-Catholic relations. keywords: catholic; jews; relations; schiffman; sievers cache: scjr-1537.pdf plain text: scjr-1537.txt item: #246 of 511 id: scjr-1538 author: Brutti, Maria title: Jews and Judaism in European Catholic Catechisms and Textbooks date: 2011-04-21 words: 4418 flesch: 58 summary: The issues considered are: a) Attitudes toward Jewish people and the Pharisees; b) the Jewish- ness of Jesus and the relationship between Jews and Christians today; c) the relationship between the Hebrew Bible and the Old and New Testaments; d) the Holocaust. However, we can observe, as a positive element, the presence of some texts which explicitly recognize the importance and the value of the religious experience of Jewish people for the understanding of Christianity47 or af- firm their aim to recuperate signs or symbols of the Jewish Christian tradition present in our cul- ture.48 But perhaps the most important element to emerge from this research is the recognition of Jewishness of Jesus, expressed both openly and by intimation. keywords: brutti; catechisms; catholic; jesus; jews; judaism; people; textbooks cache: scjr-1538.pdf plain text: scjr-1538.txt item: #247 of 511 id: scjr-15381 author: Banki, Judith title: Carol Rittner and John K. Roth, Eds. The Memory of Goodness: Eva Fleischner and Her Contributions to Holocaust Studies date: 2022-07-13 words: 1309 flesch: 56 summary: The Memory of Goodness: Eva Fleischner and Her Contributions to Holocaust Studies (Greensburg, PA: SCJR 17, no. 1 (2022): 1-3 Carol Rittner and John K. Roth, Eds. keywords: fleischner; holocaust; life; roth cache: scjr-15381.pdf plain text: scjr-15381.txt item: #248 of 511 id: scjr-1539 author: Barber, Anat title: Jewish Community Institutions and Education in Interfaith Efforts date: 2011-04-21 words: 1447 flesch: 40 summary: This program will aim to bring Jewish student leaders together with student leaders of other denominations. This means that most of the contemporary Jewish population, save for Jewish leaders, has no formal education or up-to-date information regarding the Catholic Church or any other religious group. keywords: catholic; community; jewish cache: scjr-1539.pdf plain text: scjr-1539.txt item: #249 of 511 id: scjr-1540 author: Lewy, Mordechay title: From Denial to Acceptance: Holy See - Israel Relations date: 2011-04-21 words: 4101 flesch: 54 summary: From Denial to Acceptance: Holy See - Israel Relations Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations Volume 4 (2009): Lewy CP1-7 Lewy, Denial to Acceptance Lewy CP 1 http://escholarship.bc.edu/scjr/vol4 From Denial to Acceptance: Holy See - Israel Relations H.E. Mordechay Lewy, Ambassador of Israel to the Holy See Keynote address at the Holy See and Israel Conference Center for Christian- Jewish Learning, Boston College, June 17-18, 2009 Excellencies, Reverends, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, dear friends: It is a special honor for me to present this address which inaugurates tomorrow’s colloquium. What has happened to Vatican attitudes towards Israel and Zionism during the last century, between 1904 and 2009? keywords: denial; holy; israel; lewy; pope; relations; vatican; visit cache: scjr-1540.pdf plain text: scjr-1540.txt item: #250 of 511 id: scjr-1542 author: Meyer, Barbara title: Considering the Other’s Tikkun: A Response to Liturgy in the Light of Jewish-Christian Dialogue date: 2011-04-21 words: 1982 flesch: 59 summary: The advantage of keeping the sentence but not saying it is that it can help us remember the past of Christian violence that is echoed in it. Historical research informs us that Christian violence is in the background —and maybe only in the background of interpretation. keywords: christian; jews; memory; meyer; tikkun cache: scjr-1542.pdf plain text: scjr-1542.txt item: #251 of 511 id: scjr-1543 author: Kessler, Edward title: A Study of Covenant date: 2011-04-21 words: 3275 flesch: 53 summary: Reflection on the biblical concept of covenant will remind Christians that the Jewish people remain part of the people of God. This emphasis is not simply dependent upon the existence of the remnant but upon the impossibility for him that the Jewish people as a whole could first have been elected by God and then later displaced. keywords: christian; christianity; covenant; der; des; die; god; israel; jews; judaism; kessler; paul; people; study; und cache: scjr-1543.pdf plain text: scjr-1543.txt item: #252 of 511 id: scjr-1544 author: Kessler, Ed D; Cunningham, Philip A. title: A Public Dialogue: Contemporary Questions about Covenant(s) and Conversion date: 2011-04-21 words: 8954 flesch: 47 summary: Regardless of whether a one- or two-covenant model, or some other metaphor, is employed, a Jewish affirmation that Christians are in a spiritual relationship with the same One with whom Jews covenant raises challenging questions─questions that historical oppression has not encouraged Jews to consider. From the Jewish perspective, no change took place in Israel’s covenantal relationship with God. keywords: christian; church; conversion; covenant; cunningham; god; israel; jews; judaism; kessler; people; relations cache: scjr-1544.pdf plain text: scjr-1544.txt item: #253 of 511 id: scjr-1545 author: Cunningham, Philip A.; Carroll, Michael J.; Iser, Alan title: The Lifting of the Excommunications of Bishops Ordained by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre date: 2011-04-21 words: 299 flesch: 9 summary: The Lifting of the Excommunications of Bishops Ordained by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations Volume 4 (2009): SJU Panel CP 1 CONFERENCE PROCEEDING The Lifting of the Excommunications of Bishops Ordained by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre: A Briefing and Panel Discussion Philip A. Cunningham, Director, Institute for Jewish-Catholic Relations, SJU Michael J. Carroll, Director, Office of Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, Archdiocese of Philadelphia Alan Iser, Executive Committee, Philadelphia Board of Rabbis; Adjunct Instructor, SJU and Villanova Presented at St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA, February 3, 2009 Video Presentation: http://rehost.sju.edu/ramgen/SJUevents/JewishCathfeb3.rm PowerPoint Presentation: http://www.sju.edu/academics/centers/ijcr/pdf/SPXX.pdf SJU Panel, Lifting Excommunications SJU Panel CP 1 http://escholarship.bc.edu/scjr/vol4 http://rehost.sju.edu/ramgen/SJUevents/JewishCathfeb3.rm http://www.sju.edu/academics/centers/ijcr/pdf/SPXX.pdf keywords: bishops; excommunications cache: scjr-1545.pdf plain text: scjr-1545.txt item: #254 of 511 id: scjr-1546 author: Perkins, Pheme title: To the Jews as a Jew (1 Cor 9:20): Paul and Jewish Identity date: 2011-04-21 words: 6722 flesch: 53 summary: No Gentile could ever be counted as “Ioudaios”.3 The antitheses and asymmetries of Paul’s arguments in Galatians remain troubling: (a) the shocking reduction of Sinai/Jerusalem to a place of bondage─suggests an abiding hostility be- tween those whose identity is grounded in the “earthly Jerusalem” and those Christ believers whom Paul designates as “offspring of Sarah”; (b) the presumption that while Jewish believers can be encouraged to adopt a Gentile way of life for the sake of their Gentile co-religionists, the opposite cannot be the case.4 James devises two strategies: Paul’s par- ticipation in a Nazarite vow with four members of the Jerusalem community and a stipulation that Gentiles observe the commandments necessary to enable Jewish believers to associate with their Gentile co-religionists comfortably (vv. 22-25). keywords: barclay; believers; christian; cor; gentile; god; identity; israel; jerusalem; jews; paul; perkins cache: scjr-1546.pdf plain text: scjr-1546.txt item: #255 of 511 id: scjr-1547 author: Madigan, Kevin title: Has the Papacy 'Owned' Vatican Guilt for the Church's Role in the Holocaust? date: 2011-04-21 words: 12392 flesch: 51 summary: 35 “World Jewish Group Chastises Vatican’s Shoah Stance,” Jewish Telegraphic Agency, September 4, 1998. Many Jewish commentators expressed frustration that the document as a whole was so nebulous, so equivocal, so partial, and so euphemistically formulated that it amounted to a lower-order sort of denial. keywords: bishops; catholic; christian; church; document; german; guilt; holocaust; jewish; jews; madigan; madigan cp; march; new; papacy; pius; pope; relations; vatican; volume; xii; years cache: scjr-1547.pdf plain text: scjr-1547.txt item: #256 of 511 id: scjr-1548 author: Spicer, C.S.C., Kevin P. title: The Vatican, Antisemitism, and the Holocaust: A Response to Kevin Madigan date: 2011-04-21 words: 2337 flesch: 49 summary: Has not the Catholic Church over its two thousand year history permitted and, many times, broadly propagated and even instigated Christian antisemitism that led to the untold murders of Jews over the centuries, culminating in the Holocaust? To this day, the Holy See, the Vatican, has failed to issue any papal document that honestly addresses the Church’s role in the propagation and dissemination of Christian antisemitism and how it led to its direct connection with racial antisemitism. keywords: antisemitism; catholic; church; holocaust; jews cache: scjr-1548.pdf plain text: scjr-1548.txt item: #257 of 511 id: scjr-1549 author: Brill, Alan title: Does the Church 'Get' the Holocaust? A Response to Kevin Madigan date: 2011-04-21 words: 5708 flesch: 63 summary: If one attends an event such as a Holocaust memorial to honor Jewish memory, then one should not merely speak of the eternal problem of evil. (4) However, the understanding of Jewish Holocaust memory is intermittent. keywords: antisemitism; benedict; brill; christian; church; history; holocaust; jews; john; memory; pope; vatican cache: scjr-1549.pdf plain text: scjr-1549.txt item: #258 of 511 id: scjr-1550 author: Langer, Ruth; Spicer, Kevin P. title: Editors' Afterword date: 2011-04-21 words: 621 flesch: 46 summary: At the same time that tensions have arisen, we have seen great signs of hope with the release A Time for Recom- mitment: The Twelve Points of Berlin, A Call to Christian and Jewish Communities Worldwide by the International Conference of Christians and Jews. A peer-reviewed e-journal of the Council of Centers in Jewish-Christian Relations Published by the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning at Boston College E keywords: jews; relations cache: scjr-1550.pdf plain text: scjr-1550.txt item: #259 of 511 id: scjr-1551 author: Langer, Ruth; Spicer, Kevin title: Editors' Introduction date: 2011-04-21 words: 827 flesch: 41 summary: The initial upload of this issue begins with a series of papers presented at a session of the Christian Systematic Theology Section, called “The Torah and the Continuity of Scripture in Jewish Christian Dialogue” at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting in November 2008. Holly Taylor Coolman suggests a reading of Aquinas that allows Christ and Torah to be inseparable theo- logical categories; however, she argues that for Christians to take on full Torah observance in Jewish manner would be to negate the significance of Christ as Torah. keywords: christian; relations; volume cache: scjr-1551.pdf plain text: scjr-1551.txt item: #260 of 511 id: scjr-15513 author: Hummel, Daniel G. title: Cary Nelson and Michael C. Gizzi, Eds. Peace and Faith: Christian Churches and The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict date: 2022-08-23 words: 1107 flesch: 34 summary: Scholars and clergy who are in search of a larger framework for assessing the current state of anti-supersessionist Christian thought, or the ongoing Christian dialogue with Israel and contemporary Jews, will benefit from consulting Peace and Faith in parts and as a whole. First, there is a general and sustained aversion to supersession- ism in Christian theology—in its historical varieties, in its “hard” and “soft” expressions as represented in post-Holocaust Catholic and Protestant theological thought, and in its liberationist strain as represented by the 2009 Kairos Palestine Document, among others. keywords: christian; contributors; peace; volume cache: scjr-15513.pdf plain text: scjr-15513.txt item: #261 of 511 id: scjr-1552 author: Wise, Andrew K title: Civilizational Boundaries in Christian-Jewish Relations date: 2011-04-21 words: 13405 flesch: 42 summary: 53 Koneczny, Plurality of Civilisations, 322. 54 Sonia Bukowska, ―Feliks Koneczny – induksyjna nauka o cywilizacji a prawa dziejowe,‖ Folia Philosophica 8 (1991): 211. 55 Feliks Koneczny, ―O kierunek polskości,‖ 220. In Jewish civilization, in comparison, there was a 108 Feliks Koneczny, ―Amoralność życia gospodarczego,‖ in O sprawach ekonomicznych (Kraków: Wydawnictwo WAM, 2000), 121-122. keywords: andrzej; anti; boundaries; catholic; christian; civilization; cywilizacja; example; feliks; feliks koneczny; giertych; horodecki; http://escholarship.bc.edu/scjr/vol5; ibid; jewish; jews; judaism; june; koneczny; latin; law; myśl; nowy; period; poland; polish; polska; przegląd; relations; studies; volume; war; wszechpolski; wydawnictwo; żydowska cache: scjr-1552.pdf plain text: scjr-1552.txt item: #262 of 511 id: scjr-1553 author: O'Keefe, Theresa title: Relationships Across the Divide: An Instigator of Transformation date: 2011-04-21 words: 12576 flesch: 50 summary: Stated in another way, it would be unlikely for most adult con- gregants to see where and how one‟s religious tradition interferes on the dignity, freedom, and religious sensibilities of another. The presence of the other as a learning partner not only assists in the development of renewed schemes, but also provides an added incentive for reconsidera- tion of religious perspectives than if this same material were studied in isolation. keywords: catholic; christian; conversation; divide; education; jews; jim; learning; o’keefe; participants; perspective; relationships; studies; tradition; understanding cache: scjr-1553.pdf plain text: scjr-1553.txt item: #263 of 511 id: scjr-1554 author: Posset, Franz title: In Search of an Explanation for the Suffering of the Jews: Johann Reuchlin's Open Letter of 1505 date: 2011-04-21 words: 6900 flesch: 58 summary: 48 See Reimund Leicht, ―Johannes Reuchlin – der erste christliche Leser des hebräischen More Nevukhim,‖ in The Trias of Maimonides. Charles Zika, Reuchlin und die okkulte Tradition der Renaissance (Sigmaringen: Thorbecke, 1998), 128-130, wants to see a con- nection between Reuchlin‘s Missiue and Pico‘s concept of employing the Cabala as a ―weapon against the Jews.‖ keywords: christian; der; die; explanation; german; god; hebrew; iv.1; jewish; jews; missiue; pfefferkorn; posset; relations; reuchlin; search; sin; und; volume cache: scjr-1554.pdf plain text: scjr-1554.txt item: #264 of 511 id: scjr-1555 author: Ryan, Fainche title: Salvation is from the Jews (Jn 4:22): Aquinas, God, and the People of God date: 2011-04-21 words: 9534 flesch: 65 summary: Aquinas, God, and the People of God Ryan, Salvation is from the Jews Ryan 1 http://escholarship.bc.edu/scjr/vol5 Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations A peer-reviewed e-journal of the Council of Centers on Jewish-Christian Relations Published by the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning at Boston College “Salvation is from the Jews” (Jn 4:22): Aquinas, God, and the People of God F ai nc ―One cannot,‖ he writes, ―say that we adore together the one God and then say that we cannot or may not talk together about that God, or about that sense of adoration that God evokes in us. keywords: aquinas; christ; christian; election; faith; gentiles; god; god‘s; human; jewish; jews; life; non; people; predestination; q.23; question; quod; romans; ryan; salvation; sed cache: scjr-1555.pdf plain text: scjr-1555.txt item: #265 of 511 id: scjr-1556 author: Rudolph, David J. title: Paul's "Rule in All the Churches" (1 Cor 7:17-24) and Torah-Defined Ecclesiological Variegation date: 2011-04-21 words: 16862 flesch: 57 summary: The ultimate goal, in Paul’s mind, was the mutual recognition of each under the divine rule of…[ADONAI], the God of Abraham…Paul’s particular insistence on unity between Jews and Gentiles, as opposed to some nebulous concept of world unity, gives the continued observance of the law on the part of Jewish Christianity an important role to play within his gospel…All of this is to say that with Paul salvation is the unification of uncircumcised, non-Torah-abiding Gentiles with circumcised, Torah-abiding Jews under the one divine headship of…[ADONAI], the God of Abraham.63 Countering Paul van Buren’s argument that “Only one Jew is essential to the Church and that is the Jew Jesus,”64 Isaac Rottenberg points out that “Jewish-Gentile unity belongs to the esse Paul's Rule in All the Churches (1 Cor 7:17-24) and Torah-Defined Ecclesiological Variegation Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations Volume 5 (2010): Rudolph CP1-24 Rudolph, Paul’s “Rule in All the Churches” Rudolph CP 1 http://escholarship.bc.edu/scjr/vol5 Paul’s “Rule in All the Churches” (1 Cor 7:17-24) and Torah-Defined Ecclesiological Variegation David J. Rudolph, Messianic Jewish Theological Institute Presented at the American Academy of Religion Conference, November 3, 2008 17 keywords: 7:17; acts; calling; christian; church; churches; circumcision; cor; corinthians; cp1; gentiles; god; identity; israel; jerusalem; jesus; jewish; jews; judaism; law; life; new; paul; relations; rudolph; rule; studies; torah cache: scjr-1556.pdf plain text: scjr-1556.txt item: #266 of 511 id: scjr-15565 author: Frizzell, Lawrence E. title: Gavin D’Costa and Faydra L. Shapiro, Eds. Contemporary Catholic Approaches to the People, Land and State of Israel date: 2022-09-21 words: 2520 flesch: 51 summary: Frizzell: D’Costa and Shapiro’s Contemporary Catholic Approaches 2 Lawrence Feingold, a Jewish convert to Catholicism, has written the first chap- ter of this part, “The Return to the Land of Israel as an Eschatological Sign in the Light of Romans 11.” Then they point to Vladimir Solovyov’s eschatological theocratic ideal in connection with the Jewish people, followed by Jacques Maritain’s “opinion that we touch two realities in the Land of Israel: the struggle for survival and the resurrection of the Jewish nation, but also the mystery of redemption carried by the Church” (54). keywords: catholic; israel; jews; land; people; state cache: scjr-15565.pdf plain text: scjr-15565.txt item: #267 of 511 id: scjr-1557 author: Coolman, Holly Taylor title: Christological Torah date: 2011-04-21 words: 7577 flesch: 57 summary: This schema of “double appropriation” could be explained in a much more elaborate way, but it is easy to see the main point: the move from Old Law to New Law is not, as some might suppose, a move from a reality appropriated to the Father into a reality appropriated to the Son. First, we might consider the way in which this position allows a highly plausible, if uncommon, reading of the controversial Galatians 3:28: “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” 30 It is clear 28 “Sed lex indita communis est et eis qui sunt in novo testamento, et eis qui sunt in veteri testamento” ST, I-II, 106, 1, obj. keywords: account; aquinas; ceremonial; christ; christian; claim; coolman; jesus; law; new; observance; torah cache: scjr-1557.pdf plain text: scjr-1557.txt item: #268 of 511 id: scjr-1558 author: Hatlem, Jodie Boyer; Hatlem, Doug Johnson title: Unmuzzling the Ox: Should Torah be Normative for Gentile Christians? date: 2011-04-21 words: 15446 flesch: 54 summary: While not described in great detail, at least in this text, certain of Justin‘s arguments let us know that he takes a combination of natural law written on the heart through baptism (but also available in some regard to all nations) and the commands of Jesus and the prophets to be what replaces Jewish law as normative for the Christian life. If one reads Thomas Aquinas‘ Treatise on Law as a whole, one can discern that natural law functions for Thomas, not so much as a guiding norm for human behavior, but as part of a larger theological discussion about the place of Jewish law in the Christian life. keywords: aquinas; christian; corinthians; god; hatlem; hatlem cp1; ibid; jews; keeping; law; new; noachide; ox hatlem; paul; paul‘s; question; relations; studies; torah; volume; way; yoder cache: scjr-1558.pdf plain text: scjr-1558.txt item: #269 of 511 id: scjr-1559 author: Gregerman, Adam title: Response to Papers Presented at the American Academy of Religion Conference date: 2011-04-21 words: 6342 flesch: 52 summary: The community was untouched by any of the disputes over Jewish law, unlike in other places (e.g., Galatia). 16 In other communities, divisions over Jewish law were so heated they could not be ignored, of course. keywords: christian; gregerman; jews; law; observance; paul; paul‟s; torah; views cache: scjr-1559.pdf plain text: scjr-1559.txt item: #270 of 511 id: scjr-1560 author: Korn, Eugene B. title: Borders and Beyond: Priests and Laity, Jews and Christians date: 2011-04-21 words: 6204 flesch: 56 summary: Jewish priests, too, had a special holiness, but they were never considered any- thing other than human administrators. As administrators, Jewish priests are referred to as ministrants of God (Is 61:6; Jer 33:21–22; Jl 1:9, 2:17, 13; et al.). keywords: abraham; blessing; god; israel; jews; korn; life; people; priesthood; priests; temple; world cache: scjr-1560.pdf plain text: scjr-1560.txt item: #271 of 511 id: scjr-1561 author: Kasimow, Harold title: Carol Rittner and David Smith, eds. No Going Back: Letters to Pope Benedict XVI on the Holocaust, Jewish-Christian Relations and Israel date: 2011-04-21 words: 1121 flesch: 54 summary: Unlike some of the book’s contributors, I believe that Pope Benedict is as interested in furthering Jewish-Catholic relations as was Pope John Paul II. Pope Benedict played a key role in all the controversial issues discussed above. keywords: benedict; christian; pope cache: scjr-1561.pdf plain text: scjr-1561.txt item: #272 of 511 id: scjr-1562 author: Modras, Ronald title: Stanislaw Dziwisz and David Rosen. Brothers Reunited: Catholic-Jewish Dialogue date: 2011-04-21 words: 1020 flesch: 59 summary: In honoring the memory of Stanislaw Musial and continuing the legacy of Pope John Paul II and the Jesuits, Dziwisz and Rosen fostered a spirit more recently associated with Assisi but with deeper historical roots in Krakow. Following Dziwisz's acknowledgement that Poles have not been able to overcome all prejudices and stereotypes, Rabbi Rosen assured the cardinal that the situation in Spain is much worse, where, as in Poland, there is not a robust Jewish community with which to join in dialogue. keywords: dziwisz; jewish; rosen cache: scjr-1562.pdf plain text: scjr-1562.txt item: #273 of 511 id: scjr-1563 author: Fisher, Eugene J. title: Edward Kessler. An Introduction to Jewish-Christian Relations date: 2011-04-21 words: 1371 flesch: 48 summary: Despite the fact that Pope Innocent IV (c. 1200-54) officially rejected the notion that Jews used human (Christian) blood for ritual purposes, the blood libel spread, and with it anti-Jewish portrayals in Christian art and literature. One of the points Kessler makes throughout the book is that, despite the massacres, pogroms, ghettos, and expulsions of Jews that marred so much of Jewish life under Christian rule, there were also periods of relative harmony. keywords: christian; jews; judaism; kessler cache: scjr-1563.pdf plain text: scjr-1563.txt item: #274 of 511 id: scjr-1564 author: Berger, Alan L. title: Suzanne Vromen. Hidden Children of the Holocaust: Belgian Nuns and Their Daring Rescue of Young Jews from the Nazis date: 2011-04-21 words: 1407 flesch: 51 summary: Furthermore, the mothers superior often had a mother-daughter relationship with the nuns, which helped to convince reluctant nuns to feel that hiding Jewish children was essentially God’s will. Some mothers superior spared the youngsters from making this momentous decision by ruling that children could only be baptized with parental consent. keywords: children; nuns; vromen cache: scjr-1564.pdf plain text: scjr-1564.txt item: #275 of 511 id: scjr-1565 author: Fisher, Eugene J. title: Derek Hastings. Catholicism and the Roots of Nazism: Religious Identity and National Socialism date: 2011-04-21 words: 1046 flesch: 43 summary: Whereas in the initial stages Catholic Church officials allowed, though did not encourage, the participation of Catholic priests in the movement, they eventually decided that the movement had become too extreme. However, this reviewer might suggest a more nuanced title, such as “Catholics and the Roots of Nazism” rather than “Catholicism and the Roots of Nazism,” given the distinctiveness, as Hastings himself emphasizes, of the Munich Catholic community and the growing opposition to Nazism by Church leaders in this period. keywords: catholic; munich; nazism cache: scjr-1565.pdf plain text: scjr-1565.txt item: #276 of 511 id: scjr-1566 author: Cook, Michael J. title: Seth Schwartz. Were the Jews a Mediterranean Society? Reciprocity and Solidarity in Ancient Judaism date: 2011-04-21 words: 1225 flesch: 43 summary: Reciprocity and Solidarity in Ancient Judaism Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations Volume 5 (2010): Cook R1-3 Schwartz, Were the Jews a Mediterranean Society? Schwartz therefore asks how well integrated could the Jews have been in eastern Mediterranean society of the late Seleucid and early Roman periods if their biblical values were ostensibly so strongly opposed to the widely accepted reciprocal-normative system and if institutionalized rec- iprocity was so very hard to circumvent? keywords: jews; mediterranean; schwartz cache: scjr-1566.pdf plain text: scjr-1566.txt item: #277 of 511 id: scjr-1567 author: Leighton, Christopher M. title: Robert Wistrich. A Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad date: 2011-04-21 words: 1463 flesch: 41 summary: A Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations Volume 5 (2010): Leighton R1-3 Wistrich, A Lethal Obsession Leighton R 1 http://escholarship.bc.edu/scjr/vol5 Robert Wistrich A Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad (New York: Random House, 2010), hardcover, 1184 pp. Reviewed by Christopher M. Leighton, Institute for Christian & Jewish Studies In A Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad, Robert Wistrich has as- sembled a mind-boggling amount of data and chronicled a pattern of anti-Jewish hostility that makes unmistakably clear the resilience and adaptability of this worldwide pathology. Of particular concern to Wistrich is the recasting of traditional anti-Jewish tropes into an anti- Zionist platform that has garnered support in many places, not only in the Middle East but Africa, Latin America, and Asia. keywords: antisemitism; christian; jews; wistrich cache: scjr-1567.pdf plain text: scjr-1567.txt item: #278 of 511 id: scjr-1568 author: Ruff, Mark Edward title: Derek Hastings. Catholicism and the Roots of Nazism: Religious Identity and National Socialism date: 2011-04-21 words: 1051 flesch: 42 summary: Even in the late 19 th century, support for the Center Party in Munich was less than half that in other Catholic regions of Germany. By 1924, Hastings notes, 80% of Munich Catholics were voting for parties other than the Center Party and the Bavarian People’s Party. keywords: catholic; catholicism; hastings; party cache: scjr-1568.pdf plain text: scjr-1568.txt item: #279 of 511 id: scjr-1569 author: Boys, Mary C. title: Alan L. Berger and David Patterson, with David P. Gushee, John T. Pawlikowski, and John K. Roth. Jewish-Christian Dialogue: Drawing Honey from the Rock date: 2011-04-21 words: 1010 flesch: 51 summary: Finally, the claim that Christian doctrine is simply “unintelligible” to Jews is be- lied by the writings of some contemporary Jewish scholars (p. 92). Despite the honey in its subtitle, the book guides its readers along a very stony path of dialogue, focusing principally on the tragedies of the historical encounter of Judaism with Christi- anity, the seemingly inextricable link between Christian identity and supersessionism, problematical aspects of Christian theology, and the status of the relation between the two tradi- tions after Auschwitz. keywords: christian; christianity cache: scjr-1569.pdf plain text: scjr-1569.txt item: #280 of 511 id: scjr-1570 author: Sherman, Franklin title: Susannah Heschel. The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany date: 2011-04-21 words: 1272 flesch: 49 summary: A video of Prof. Heschel discussing her research for this book in a lecture at Boston College can be found at http://frontrow.bc.edu/program/heschel. The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations Volume 5 (2010): Sherman R1-3 Heschel, The Aryan Jesus Sherman R 1 http://escholarship.bc.edu/scjr/vol5 Susannah Heschel The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2008), hardcover, xvii + 339 pp. keywords: aryan; heschel; jesus; university cache: scjr-1570.pdf plain text: scjr-1570.txt item: #281 of 511 id: scjr-1571 author: Langer, Ruth title: Adiel Schremer. Brothers Estranged: Heresy, Christianity, and Jewish Identity in Late Antiquity date: 2011-04-21 words: 1423 flesch: 52 summary: Rabbinic texts express this Jewish doubt obliquely by projecting it onto the nations of the world. Rabbinic texts that appear to polemicize against Christianity could equally well be directed against the Roman imperial cult and power. keywords: minim; rabbinic; schremer cache: scjr-1571.pdf plain text: scjr-1571.txt item: #282 of 511 id: scjr-1572 author: Vuong, Lily title: Thomas A. Robinson. Ignatius of Antioch and the Parting of the Ways: Early Jewish-Christian Relations date: 2011-04-21 words: 1229 flesch: 33 summary: Highlighting the influence of the Maccabean revolt and events such as the Roman civil war, Caligula’s attempt to place his statue in the Jerusalem Temple, and the REVIEW Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations Volume 5 (2010): Vuong R1-2 Robinson, Ignatius of Antioch Vuong R 2 http://escholarship.bc.edu/scjr/vol5 Jerusalem council, Robinson reevaluates and critiques strongly the general trend in recent scholarship toward what he describes as the “muting” of the tensions between Jews and Chris- tians through scholars’ reinterpretation of stories of conflict from the “realm of reality to the realm of rhetoric” (p. 149). In chapter one, Robinson critiques modern interpretations of Ignatius that question his authority as the leader of the church in Antioch and portray him as peripheral to the development of the early church, and attempts instead to reconstruct a portrait of Ignatius that is reflective of the wider world in which he lived. keywords: antioch; ignatius; robinson cache: scjr-1572.pdf plain text: scjr-1572.txt item: #283 of 511 id: scjr-1573 author: Tobin, S.J., Thomas H.; Mallow,, Jeffry V. title: The Jewishness of Jesus and Christian-Jewish Dialogue: A Colloquium in Honor of Joep van Beeck, S.J. date: 2011-04-21 words: 4886 flesch: 63 summary: Tobin & Mallow CP1-8 Tobin & Mallow, The Jewishness of Jesus Tobin & Mallow CP 1 http://escholarship.bc.edu/scjr/vol5 The Jewishness of Jesus and Christian-Jewish Dialogue: A Colloquium in Honor of Joep van Beeck, S.J. Tributes Thomas H. Tobin, S.J., Loyola University Chicago Jeffry V. Mallow, Emeritus, Loyola University Chicago Presented at the John Cardinal Cody Colloquium, March 16, 2010 On March 16, 2010, at the John Cardinal Cody Colloquium at Loyola University, Chicago, seven scholars honored former John Cardinal Cody Chair, Dr. Frans Josef (Joep) van Beeck, S.J., on the occasion of his 80 th birthday. Anyone who has read Christ Proclaimed, or his magnum opus, God Encountered: A Contem- porary Catholic Systematic Theology, or any of his other shorter works cannot but be struck by the breadth of Joep’s reading. keywords: catholic; christian; god; jew; joep; judaism; mallow; theology; tobin cache: scjr-1573.pdf plain text: scjr-1573.txt item: #284 of 511 id: scjr-1574 author: Pawlikowski,, OSM, John T. title: The State of the Global Catholic-Jewish Dialogue date: 2011-04-21 words: 1849 flesch: 37 summary: However, the question of whether Jews, from the Jewish perspective, can affirm a theological validity for Chris- tianity certainly presents a considerable challenge to Jewish scholarship today. Responsibilities incumbent upon the Jewish community: 5) to acknowledge the efforts of many Christian communities in the late 20th century to reform their attitudes towards Jews; 6) to re-examine Jewish texts and liturgy in the light of these Christian reforms; 7) to differentiate between fair-minded criticism of Israel and antisemitism; 8) to offer encouragment to the State of Israel as it works to fulfill the ideals stated in its founding documents, a task Israel shares with many nations of the world. keywords: catholic; christian; dialogue; document; pawlikowski cache: scjr-1574.pdf plain text: scjr-1574.txt item: #285 of 511 id: scjr-1575 author: Harrington, S.J., Daniel J. title: The Word Set Free: Presenting the New Testament in its First Century Context date: 2011-04-21 words: 185 flesch: 27 summary: The Word Set Free: Presenting the New Testament in its First Century Context Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations Volume 5 (2010): Harrington CP1 Harrington, The Word Set Free Harrington CP 1 http://escholarship.bc.edu/scjr/vol5 The Word Set Free: Presenting the New Testament in its First Century Context Daniel J. Harrington, SJ, Boston College School of Theology and Ministry Panel: Christopher Leighton, David Michael, Celia Sirois Presented at the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning, Boston College, January 27, 2010 To pay tribute to Daniel J. Harrington, S.J. for his many contributions to help bridge the historic chasm between Judaism and Christianity—and to mark the 2009 publication of his book The Synoptic Gospels Set Free: Preaching Without Antisemitism—the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning sponsored this Colloquium. keywords: harrington cache: scjr-1575.pdf plain text: scjr-1575.txt item: #286 of 511 id: scjr-1576 author: Heschel, Susannah; Spicer, Kevin P. title: The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany date: 2011-04-21 words: 236 flesch: 17 summary: The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations Volume 5 (2010): Heschel/Spicer CP 1 Heschel & Spicer, The Aryan Jesus Heschel/Spicer CP 1 http://escholarship.bc.edu/scjr/vol5th The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth College Kevin P. Spicer, Stonehill College Presented at the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning, Boston College, April 12, 2010 On April 12, 2010, following the April 11 th observance of Holocaust Remembrance Day, Susannah Heschel addressed the theme of her 2008 book, The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany. Kevin Spicer, C.S.C., associate professor of history at Stonehill College, responded to Heschel's remarks with a discussion of several German theologians who attempted to adapt Catholic teachings to National Socialism during the Nazi regime. keywords: heschel cache: scjr-1576.pdf plain text: scjr-1576.txt item: #287 of 511 id: scjr-1577 author: Athans, B.V.M., Mary Christine title: Courtesy, Confrontation, Cooperation: Jewish-Christian/Catholic Relations in the United States date: 2011-04-21 words: 13181 flesch: 50 summary: Catholic universities established chairs and began programs in Jewish studies, e.g., Rabbi Hayim Perlmeuter was appointed to the faculty at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago in 1968 to teach courses in Judaism; the Jay Phillips Chair in Jewish Studies was founded at St. 67 Edward Flannery, The Anguish of the Jews: Twenty-Three Centuries of Anti-Semitism, revised ed. Charles Evans Hughes helped to bring the group into existence, but the leadership troika consisted of Protestant Newton D. Baker, formerly in Woodrow Wilson‘s Cabinet, Catholic Carlton J. H. Hayes, former ambassador and professor of history at Columbia University, and Jewish member and industrialist Roger Strauss. keywords: american; athans; catholic; christian; church; confrontation; coughlin; courtesy; dialogue; http://escholarship.bc.edu/scjr/vol5; jesus; jewish; jews; john; judaism; new; new york; people; press; relations; relations volume; states; studies; united; university; vatican; volume; world; york; ―the cache: scjr-1577.pdf plain text: scjr-1577.txt item: #288 of 511 id: scjr-1578 author: Dennert, Brian C. title: Mark 11:16: A Status Quaestionis date: 2011-04-21 words: 5362 flesch: 57 summary: 3 Reasons for the preference of Matthew over Mark include the belief of apostolic authorship for Matthew but not Mark, the fact that most of Mark is contained in Matthew, the more logical arrangement of Matthew that seemed to make it easier to use in practice, the greater intelligibility and consistency of the presentation of Jesus in Matthew as opposed to the mystery and enigma of Christ in Mark, and, eventually, Augustine's comments that Mark abbreviated Matthew (R. H. Lightfoot, The Gospel Message of St. Mark [Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1950], 2-6). In addition to implementing these and meaning, with the result that the statement in Mark that the Lord allowed no one to carry a vessel through the temple [11:16] may imply that His supporters seized and guarded the entrances and exits of the temple (Gospel Message of St. Mark, 78). keywords: cleansing; demonstration; dennert; destruction; event; gospel; incident; jesus; mark; temple; verse cache: scjr-1578.pdf plain text: scjr-1578.txt item: #289 of 511 id: scjr-15791 author: Griech-Polelle, Beth title: Kevin P. Spicer and Rebecca Carter-Chand, Eds. Religion, Ethnonationalism, and Antisemitism in the Era of the Two World Wars date: 2022-10-19 words: 1740 flesch: 42 summary: Sara Han’s work examines one school in Nazi Berlin, the Hochschule fuer die Wissenschaft des Judentums, as a place of perceived—albeit temporary—protection for many Jewish students. Many university students and professors came to regard the school as a refuge from the attacks and discrimination against German Jews. keywords: antisemitism; christian; essay; ethnonationalism; jews cache: scjr-15791.pdf plain text: scjr-15791.txt item: #290 of 511 id: scjr-1580 author: Watson, Murray K. title: The “Johannine Prayer” that Never Really Was date: 2011-04-28 words: 6890 flesch: 53 summary: No Vatican office could have confirmed the authen- ticity of this prayer, which exists neither at the Apostolic Penitentiary, nor in the writings of Pope John XXIII, whether printed or unpublished. The poignancy of the words captured the imagination of many who respected and loved Pope John, and who saw in the account an accurate expression of the Pope‟s love for the Jew- ish people, and his desire to begin redressing the wrongs of which they had been victims for much of Christian history. keywords: anti; article; catholic; http://ejournals.bc.edu/ojs/index.php/scjr; jewish; jews; johannine; johannine prayer; john; mark; martin; new; pope; prayer; que; relations; studies; text; vatican; volume; watson; xxiii cache: scjr-1580.pdf plain text: scjr-1580.txt item: #291 of 511 id: scjr-1581 author: Tilley, Terrence W. title: Doing Theology in the Context of the Gift and the Promise of Nostra Aetate date: 2011-04-28 words: 10746 flesch: 54 summary: Other peoples and other faith traditions can also provide ways to God. 33 ―God is God of all humanity, but between Babel and the end of days no single faith is the faith of all humanity.‖ 34 Because the tradi- tion is fundamentally ethical, Judaism especially can recognize the worth of other faith traditions that observe the commands of the universal covenant God made with Noah: ―prohibitions of idolatry and blasphemy, murder, theft, sexual transgression and wanton cruelty to animals, and the positive command to insti- tute a system of justice.‖ 35 keywords: christian; christianity; covenant; dialogue; evil; god; god‘s; jesus; jews; judaism; new; problem; theology; tilley; traditions; view cache: scjr-1581.pdf plain text: scjr-1581.txt item: #292 of 511 id: scjr-1582 author: Ray, Jonathan; Elukin, Jonathan title: Introduction to Golden Age Conference Proceedings date: 2011-04-28 words: 2215 flesch: 49 summary: Most nations have cultivated the memory of some kind of golden age. For a response to Yerushalmi on this last point, see Robert Bonfil, “Jewish Attitudes Toward History and Historical Writing in Pre-Modern Times,” Jewish History 11 (Spring 1997): 7-40. 5 Among these texts I include sefer yossipon, chronicle of Ahimaaz, and the various Crusade chronicles. keywords: age; christian; elukin; history; ray cache: scjr-1582.pdf plain text: scjr-1582.txt item: #293 of 511 id: scjr-1583 author: Ribak, Eliya title: Bright Beginnings: Jewish Christian Relations in the Holy Land, AD 400-700 date: 2011-04-28 words: 6141 flesch: 51 summary: Moving away from religious evidence into semi religious evidence, we will now examine Jewish and Christian burials. Tiberias shows religious evidence of Christian and Jewish groups and artifactual evidence for Christians. keywords: christian; churches; communities; evidence; jews; palestina; relations; ribak; structures; synagogues cache: scjr-1583.pdf plain text: scjr-1583.txt item: #294 of 511 id: scjr-1584 author: Jennings, Margaret title: The Cathedral of Bourges: A Witness to Judeo-Christian Dialogue in Medieval Berry date: 2011-04-28 words: 6639 flesch: 48 summary: 41 If one compares this treatise with other treatises having similar aims, Deacon William‟s seems moderate; comparing it with other treatises written by converted Jews, it seems mild. 62 For various reasons it was somewhat protected by the church and not consistently harassed by the crown and/or by non-Jews. keywords: abraham; age; bourges; bourges jennings; cathedral; christian; church; france; gothic; jennings; jews; medieval; new; note; relations; william cache: scjr-1584.pdf plain text: scjr-1584.txt item: #295 of 511 id: scjr-1585 author: Ray, Jonathan title: Whose Golden Age? Some Thoughts on Jewish-Christian Relations in Medieval Iberia date: 2011-04-28 words: 7750 flesch: 46 summary: Yitzhak Baer, perhaps the most influential historian of Spanish Jewry of the twentieth cen- tury, took this revision of the Golden age paradigm one step further by comparing the Jewish experience in Christian Iberia unfavorably with that of Jewish society in the rest of medieval Latin Europe. As they transitioned from al-Andalus to the Christian kingdoms of the north, the upper echelons of Jewish society maintained their positions as royal physicians, dip- lomats, tax collectors and scribes. keywords: age; century; christian; communities; iberia; interaction; jews; medieval; middle; muslim; new; period; ray; relations; royal; society; spain; spanish; studies; volume cache: scjr-1585.pdf plain text: scjr-1585.txt item: #296 of 511 id: scjr-1586 author: Teter, Magda title: Rethinking the “Golden Age”: Jewish-Christian Relations in Pre-Modern Poland date: 2011-04-28 words: 5325 flesch: 52 summary: For Leopold Zunz, Jewish history “from Constantine to Charles V” was a “mournful recital,” “replete with endeavors on the part of the [Jews‟] enemies to extermi- nate them.” CONFERENCE PROCEEDING Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations Volume 6 (2011): Teter CP1-8 Teter, Rethinking the “Golden Age” Teter CP 2 http://ejournals.bc.edu/ojs/index.php/scjr It was only with Salo Baron‟s groundbreaking essay “Ghetto and Emancipation” that some of these earlier assumptions about Jewish history in Christian Europe began to break down. keywords: age; baron; christian; dubnow; history; iii; jewish; jews; king; poland; polish; relations; sigismund; teter; vol cache: scjr-1586.pdf plain text: scjr-1586.txt item: #297 of 511 id: scjr-15867 author: Hensley, Jason title: Per Jarle Bekken. Paul’s Negotiation of Abraham in Galatians 3 in the Jewish Context date: 2022-11-07 words: 1052 flesch: 57 summary: It focuses solely on Paul’s argument in Gala- tians 3 about Abraham’s faith and justification and compares Paul’s line of reasoning with writings from Philo that have not previously been compared to Paul’s writings. Hensley: Bekken’s Paul’s Negotiation of Abraham 2 Bekken’s comparison between Paul and Philo begins in chapters one and two with his examination of Philo’s understanding of Abraham. keywords: abraham; paul cache: scjr-15867.pdf plain text: scjr-15867.txt item: #298 of 511 id: scjr-1587 author: Bodian, Miriam title: “Liberty of Conscience” and the Jews in the Dutch Republic date: 2011-04-28 words: 5716 flesch: 48 summary: See also Yosef Kaplan, ―The Travels of Portuguese Jews from Amsterdam to the ‗Lands of Idolatry,‘‖ in idem, ed., Jews and Conversos: Studies in Society and the Inquisition (Jerusalem 1985), 197-224. But for most Portuguese Jews, this restriction and a few other restrictions particular to their community were beside the point. keywords: amsterdam; authorities; bodian; christian; community; conscience; dutch; freedom; jews; public; relations; worship cache: scjr-1587.pdf plain text: scjr-1587.txt item: #299 of 511 id: scjr-15875 author: Zaas, Peter title: Gerald R. McDermott, Ed. Understanding the Jewish Roots of Christianity: Biblical, Theological, and Historical Essays on the Relationship between Christianity and Judaism date: 2022-11-10 words: 3511 flesch: 47 summary: Oliver’s comment in his pe- nultimate footnote is a fitting summary for the entire volume: “The joint collaboration represented by the various essays gathered in this volume, composed by gentile Christians and Messianic Jewish scholars, is a remarkable achievement in itself” (127 n. 73). He summarizes the “Copernican turn” (147) in Christian theology regarding Jews and Judaism after the Holocaust, as well as providing a useful summary of Jewish thinkers since the Middle Ages, from Maimonides to Samson Raphael Hirsch, who found a positive place for Christians and Christianity in God’s world (138-44). keywords: christian; christianity; essay; jesus; jews; judaism; volume cache: scjr-15875.pdf plain text: scjr-15875.txt item: #300 of 511 id: scjr-1588 author: Ariel, Yaakov title: Interfaith Dialogue and the Golden Age of Christian-Jewish Relations date: 2011-04-28 words: 11278 flesch: 42 summary: Conservative evangelicals 50 Cf. Judith Hersheopf Banki, Christian Responses to the Yom Kippur War: Implication for Christian Jewish Relations (New York: 35 The National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., an ecumenical, largely liberal or- ganization, to which conservative Protestant denominations have taken exception, issued the following statement: “Especially reprehensible are the notions that the Jews, rather than all man- kind, are responsible for the death of Jesus Christ, and God has for this reason rejected his covenant people.” 36 Both Protestants and Catholics were motivated, at least in part, by a sense of guilt over the his- torical role of Christian anti-Jewish accusations in bringing about the mass murder of Jews during World War II. keywords: ariel; christian; christianity; churches; council; dialogue; groups; interfaith; interfaith dialogue; israel; jewish; jews; judaism; new; new york; press; protestant; relations; world; york cache: scjr-1588.pdf plain text: scjr-1588.txt item: #301 of 511 id: scjr-1589 author: Burns, Joshua Ezra title: Leo Duprée Sandgren. Vines Intertwined: A History of Jews and Christians from the Babylonian Exile to the Advent of Islam date: 2011-04-28 words: 1200 flesch: 37 summary: As a result, the net effect of Sandgren’s portrait of early rabbinic Judaism is skewed heavily toward those of its facets mirrored in contemporaneous Christian practice and thought. In his textbook Vines Intertwined: A History of Jews and Christians from the Babylonian Exile to the Advent of Islam, Leo Sandgren undertakes the ambitious task of narrating a coherent history of the two re- ligious traditions on the basis of their theoretical conceptions and implementations over the roughly 1,300-year span between the fall of the kingdom of Judah and the rise of Islam. keywords: history; judaism; sandgren cache: scjr-1589.pdf plain text: scjr-1589.txt item: #302 of 511 id: scjr-1590 author: Lasker, Daniel J. title: David Berger. Persecution, Polemic, and Dialogue: Essays in Jewish-Christian Relations date: 2011-04-28 words: 1046 flesch: 34 summary: His works include the seminal The Jewish-Christian Debate in the High Middle Ages (1979), which incorporates an edition and annotated translation of Nizzahon Yashan, one of the most signifi- cant, and acerbic, medieval Jewish anti-Christian polemics (the introduction to which is reproduced in this book). Ber- ger’s discussion of twelfth-century Christian anti-Jewish polemical literature (“Mission to the Jews and Jewish-Christian Contacts in the Polemical Literature of the High Middle Ages”) is a welcome corrective to the traditional historiography that the Jewish critique of Christianity is REVIEW Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations Volume 6 (2011): Lasker R1-2 Berger, Persecution, Polemic, and Dialogue Lasker R 2 http://ejournals.bc.edu/ojs/index.php/scjr solely a response to the Christian mission. keywords: berger; dialogue; polemic cache: scjr-1590.pdf plain text: scjr-1590.txt item: #303 of 511 id: scjr-15903 author: Lefebure, Leo D. title: Philip A. Cunningham. Maxims for Mutuality: Principles for Catholic Theology, Education, and Preaching about Jews and Judaism date: 2022-11-17 words: 1149 flesch: 37 summary: Again, the value of mutuality presents a challenge: if mutuality is a value to be promoted and fostered, then it is important to listen to Palestinian Catholic experiences of suffering and to include these in the process of understanding and shaping of Jewish-Catholic relationships. Here again Catholics hear a variety of conflicting Jewish voices, some seeking Catholic support for the policies and actions of the government of Israel and others calling for Catholic criticism of these same policies and actions. keywords: catholic; cunningham; jews cache: scjr-15903.pdf plain text: scjr-15903.txt item: #304 of 511 id: scjr-1591 author: Fisher, Eugene J. title: Leonard A. Schoolman. The Changing Christian World: A Brief Introduction for Jews date: 2011-04-28 words: 1143 flesch: 51 summary: Indeed, though Schoolman inexplicably fails even to mention this, probably to protect his errone- ous absolute dichotomy, Jewish tradition agrees with Catholic (and much other Christian) teaching on this core point. In describing for Jews the similarities and differences between Christian and Jewish theological and moral positions and the historical memories that have framed them, Rabbi Schoolman goes into almost as much detail on Judaism as he does with regard to the various Christian positions (Catholic, Mainline Protestant, and Evangelical). keywords: christian; jews; schoolman cache: scjr-1591.pdf plain text: scjr-1591.txt item: #305 of 511 id: scjr-1592 author: Garroway, Joshua D. title: Michael Bachmann. Anti-Judaism in Galatians? Exegetical Studies on a Polemical Letter and on Paul’s Theology date: 2011-04-28 words: 979 flesch: 58 summary: Through these in- vestigations, Bachmann aims to discredit the prevailing view of Galatians as the locus classicus for Paul’s supposed anti-Judaism. The differ- ence between these alternatives is slight but crucial, according to Bachmann, because it means Paul does not view observance of the Law as inherently evil, sinful, or undesirable; the Law simply cannot save as faith can. keywords: bachmann; judaism cache: scjr-1592.pdf plain text: scjr-1592.txt item: #306 of 511 id: scjr-1593 author: Soloff, Emily D. title: Jonathan Frankel and Ezra Mendelsohn, editors. The Protestant-Jewish Conundrum (Studies in Contemporary Jewry, Vol. XXIV) date: 2011-04-28 words: 1231 flesch: 37 summary: He focuses mainly on the several Jewish groups that favor Jewish sovereignty over the Temple Mount and the support they receive from Protestant funda- mentalists. Mark Silk of Trinity College traces the weakening of the alliance for civic causes like alleviating poverty and stopping religious discrimination between Jewish and Mainline Protestant organiza- tions and the evolving relationship of Jews with Evangelical Christian supporters of Israel in “The Protestant Problem(s) of American Jewry.” keywords: christian; jewish; relations cache: scjr-1593.pdf plain text: scjr-1593.txt item: #307 of 511 id: scjr-1594 author: Kreimer, Nancy Fuchs title: John B. Cobb, Jr. and Ward M. McAfee, editors. The Dialogue Comes of Age: Christian Encounters with Other Traditions date: 2011-04-28 words: 1091 flesch: 54 summary: Reviewed by Nancy Fuchs Kreimer, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College John Cobb and Ward McAfee have assembled a valuable book for progressive Christians and for anyone wanting to understand interfaith encounter from that perspective. The line McAfee draws between “progressive” Muslims and other Muslims is a line I do not think most Muslims would recognize. keywords: christians; cobb; mcafee cache: scjr-1594.pdf plain text: scjr-1594.txt item: #308 of 511 id: scjr-15949 author: Ryan, Maurice title: Living with the Enemy: Why High Priest Joseph Caiaphas was not a Roman Collaborator date: 2022-11-21 words: 7401 flesch: 48 summary: Since little evidence of any kind is available detailing the relationship between Joseph Caiaphas and Pontius Pilate, scholars rely heavily on overlap in the dates for Pilate and Caiaphas to support their views about the actions and motivations of Caiaphas, using inference and implication to bridge the gaps. 1 SCJR 17, no. 1 (2022): 1-14 Living with the Enemy: Why High Priest Joseph Caiaphas was not a Roman Collaborator MAURICE RYAN keywords: caiaphas; collaborator; enemy; evidence; jesus; jews; john; joseph; norwegian; pilate; pontius; press; priest; relations; roman; term cache: scjr-15949.pdf plain text: scjr-15949.txt item: #309 of 511 id: scjr-15983 author: Feldman, Rachel Z. title: Manoela Carpenedo. Becoming Jewish, Believing in Jesus date: 2022-12-07 words: 1277 flesch: 26 summary: Future research might address how Judaizing Evangelicals navigate their liminal position as individuals who iden- tify as Jews within a Christian social landscape, and how exactly they obtain essential resources from local Jewish communities who still view them as Chris- tians. In Chapter 4, Carpenedo illustrates how the adoption of Jewish orthopraxis extends beyond a process of theological hybridization and actually results in an ethnic re-identification with Jews. keywords: carpenedo; community; evangelicals cache: scjr-15983.pdf plain text: scjr-15983.txt item: #310 of 511 id: scjr-16131 author: Goshen-Gottstein, Alon title: Genesis 9, Noah’s Covenants and Jewish Theology of Religions date: 2023-01-17 words: 14851 flesch: 59 summary: For a review of biblical covenants, including the statement of the inferiority of the covenant with Noah as compared with earlier covenants, see G. Mendenhall and G. Herion, “Covenant” in The Anchor Bible Dictionary, ed. The present essay offers a reading that accounts for all these facts and seeks to reframe Gen 9 within the spectrum of biblical covenants. keywords: chapter; commandments; covenant; creation; genesis; god; harm; harm covenant; human; image; life; noah; noahide; reading; relationship; theological cache: scjr-16131.pdf plain text: scjr-16131.txt item: #311 of 511 id: scjr-16135 author: Frizzell, Lawrence title: Olivier Rota. Apostolat catholique et travail social en milieu juif: Les Ancelles de Notre-Dame de Sion (1926-1964) date: 2023-01-18 words: 735 flesch: 55 summary: For al- most thirty years the Ancelles navigated between their wish to be better integrated into Sion and their will to preserve their specificity within the Congregation” (18). This research describes the moves of the Ancelles into cities in France, Spain, and Palestine and chronicles Sisters’ benign but blundering efforts to situate them in the rhythms of religious life: “The history of the Ancelles is one of an unfortunate graft of a group of religious women who were engaged in the vicissitudes of the world to a congregation, welcoming but unprepared, for such an addition. keywords: ancelles; sion cache: scjr-16135.pdf plain text: scjr-16135.txt item: #312 of 511 id: scjr-16213 author: Smith, Eric C. title: Joseph Sievers and Amy-Jill Levine, Eds. The Pharisees date: 2023-02-13 words: 1228 flesch: 44 summary: Henry Pat- tarumadathil explores the juxtaposition of Pharisees with Sadducees in the Gospel of Matthew, and Adela Yarbro Collins continues the focus on Matthew and espe- cially its polemics against the opponents of Jesus and his followers in the “woes” of chapter 23. One of the contributors quotes co- editor Joseph Sievers (writing in an earlier article), “We know considerably less about the Pharisees than an earlier generation ‘knew’” keywords: book; jesus; pharisees; volume cache: scjr-16213.pdf plain text: scjr-16213.txt item: #313 of 511 id: scjr-16215 author: Kampen, John title: R. Alan Culpepper. Matthew: A Commentary (The New Testament Library) date: 2023-02-13 words: 994 flesch: 53 summary: In addition to the Hebrew Bible, Culpepper skillfully mines diverse Second Temple Jewish texts as well as early Christian literature. Methodist Theological School in Ohio, Delaware, OH 43015 R. Alan Culpepper’s commentary is a masterful work which should become one of the standard references for academics and the first commentary on Matthew consulted by clergy. keywords: christian; culpepper; matthew cache: scjr-16215.pdf plain text: scjr-16215.txt item: #314 of 511 id: scjr-16269 author: Pak, G. Sujin title: Wulfert de Greef. Of One Tree: Calvin on Jews and Christians in the Context of the Late Middle Ages date: 2023-03-01 words: 1144 flesch: 54 summary: In chapter five de Greef explores Calvin’s use of Scripture to develop his views of how Christians should approach their relationship with Jews. In this way, de Greef makes the case for Calvin’s complicated and tension-filled view that even as Christians have seemingly replaced Jews in God’s covenant, this is not the last word. keywords: calvin; jews cache: scjr-16269.pdf plain text: scjr-16269.txt item: #315 of 511 id: scjr-16477 author: Staples, Jason A. title: František Ábel, Ed. Israel and the Nations: Paul’s Gospel in the Context of Jewish Expectation date: 2023-05-04 words: 1691 flesch: 47 summary: Instead, she argues, Paul believed the opposite, “that gentile circumci- sion worked all too well in making gentiles Jews” (16), threatening the apostle’s eschatological vision of a union of Jews and gentiles under one God. Most of the contributors agree that Paul envisions gentile salvation as entirely distinct from, albeit related to, Israel. keywords: essays; gentiles; israel; paul cache: scjr-16477.pdf plain text: scjr-16477.txt item: #316 of 511 id: scjr-16493 author: Frizzell, Lawrence title: Olivier Rota. Les catholiques anglais et la “question juive”: D’une approche politique à une approche spirituelle date: 2023-05-12 words: 1309 flesch: 52 summary: One false stereotype was that English Christians thought that few Jews volunteered to join the British army during the Boer War or World War I. Frizzell: He begins with a back- ground of English Catholics’ views of Jews. keywords: catholic; english; jews; question cache: scjr-16493.pdf plain text: scjr-16493.txt item: #317 of 511 id: scjr-16533 author: Watson, Murray title: Thérèse Andrevon and William Krisel, Eds. Réflexions juives sur le christianisme date: 2023-05-24 words: 2010 flesch: 46 summary: Similarly, the rabbinic evocation of past figures like Yehuda Halevi and Menachem ben Shlomo Meiri is a reminder of the diversity of Jewish voices on these topics, many of which remain somewhat marginal and little-quoted. But the 2001 joint statement “Dabru Emet” proved to be the catalyst for a number of other Jewish statements on how Christianity might be understood from a Jewish perspective. keywords: andrevon; christian; christianity; dialogue; judaism cache: scjr-16533.pdf plain text: scjr-16533.txt item: #318 of 511 id: scjr-16539 author: Phelan, Jr., John E. title: Robert W. Bleakney. Evangelical Interpretation After Auschwitz date: 2023-05-25 words: 771 flesch: 49 summary: While Jewish religious leaders and theologians asked serious questions about the apparent silence of Israel’s God, some Christians began a painful reckoning with the abject failure of many if not most Christian leaders to support and defend the Jews at their most desperate hour of need. Also, few have been willing to consider the potential anti-Jewish (if not antisemitic) character of their traditional theologies and their sacred texts. keywords: evangelicals; jews cache: scjr-16539.pdf plain text: scjr-16539.txt item: #319 of 511 id: scjr-16589 author: Bumin, Kirill; Cunningham, Philip A.; Gregerman, Adam; Inbari, Motti title: American Catholic Attitudes toward Jews, Judaism, and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict date: 2023-06-08 words: 10421 flesch: 38 summary: Catholics on Jews Catholics on Muslims Evangelicals on Jews Evangelicals on Muslims 5 Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations 18, no. 1 (2023) 5. FAMILIARITY WITH CURRENT CATHOLIC TEACHING As noted early in this article, since the Catholic Church has a highly centralized teaching authority or magisterium, it has been possible to compare the ideas of American Catholics with the official beliefs and teachings of their Church, some of which have changed or evolved since the issuance of Nostra Aetate in 1965.48 The survey gives the overall impression that the respondents generally have positive attitudes of and good relationships with American Jews and do not hold the anti-Jewish views that were common before the Second Vatican Council, such as holding that all Jews were guilty of the rejection and crucifixion of Jesus. keywords: american; bible; catholic; christian; church; covenant; evangelicals; god; israel; jews; palestinians; people; respondents; support; survey cache: scjr-16589.pdf plain text: scjr-16589.txt item: #320 of 511 id: scjr-16615 author: Carpenedo, Manoela title: Cynthia Holder Rich, Ed. Christian Zionism in Africa date: 2023-06-15 words: 1231 flesch: 41 summary: Contributors to part III, “Ministry in the Church,” analyze the impact of Christian Zionist teachings in African Christian ministries, specifically in Pen- tecostal, Lutheran, and Independent African churches. Christian Zionism in Africa (Lanham, MD: Lexington / Fortress, 2020), 288 pp. keywords: africa; christian; zionism cache: scjr-16615.pdf plain text: scjr-16615.txt item: #321 of 511 id: scjr-16707 author: Rodríguez, Rafael title: William S. Campbell. Romans: A Social Identity Commentary date: 2023-07-12 words: 1380 flesch: 50 summary: Paul thus confronts and corrects an arrogant misperception among the Roman ethnē that God has rejected Israel and transferred his election to gentiles in Christ, a misperception that Campbell infers from Rom 11:17–19. Campbell notes that Paul, in the opening verses of these chapters, “identifies with the people of Israel” and “confirms the continuing promises that God has given them” (247). keywords: campbell; israel; paul cache: scjr-16707.pdf plain text: scjr-16707.txt item: #322 of 511 id: scjr-16709 author: Admirand, Peter title: Remembering the Shoah without Jewish Voices: "We Remember" as a Failure of Memory date: 2023-07-12 words: 4729 flesch: 55 summary: Part of this turn to Jewish testimony is rooted in the recognition of a fractured Christian community, often split under liberal or conservative lenses, that will seemingly al- ways stand opposed on issues like Pius XII; the teaching of contempt and its role or responsibility in the Shoah; gospel passages like Matthew 27:25; the salvation of Jews through Jewish ways; whether the Church and not just some Christians morally failed during the Shoah; and so on. What matters is the overall point that Shoah testimony, especially from Jews and other non-Christians, should fill We Remember and related Vatican documents if the aim is really to remember the Shoah and face Christian failures and complic- ity. keywords: christian; church; holocaust; jews; memory; press; remembering; shoah; testimonies; testimony; university cache: scjr-16709.pdf plain text: scjr-16709.txt item: #323 of 511 id: scjr-16711 author: Pawlikowski, John title: We Remember: A Complex Narrative date: 2023-07-12 words: 2053 flesch: 51 summary: Because of this document, Catholics throughout the world, not only those in countries immediately impacted by World War II, must take seriously the challenge of the Shoah to Catholic theology and ethics. Anti-Judaism had become so embedded in Catholic theology, catechesis, and artistic expression. keywords: cardinal; catholic; church; document cache: scjr-16711.pdf plain text: scjr-16711.txt item: #324 of 511 id: scjr-16715 author: Ron, Nathan title: We Remember: “Antisemitism had Its Roots Outside of Christianity” – Really? A Reflection on Early Modern Europe date: 2023-07-12 words: 3141 flesch: 53 summary: A devout Catholic who disputed Martin Luther on essential doctrines, Erasmus dedicated his Novum Instrumentum, his new critical version of the New Testament (1516), to Pope Leo X. Far from Luther’s incendiary anti-Jewish incitement, Erasmus was identified with “a-Semitism, an indifferent alienation from all things Jewish. It was coined only then, or a few years earlier, if not definitely so then most likely so, by Wilhelm Marr (1819-1904) to “impart a new, nonreligious connotation to the term anti-Jewish.”2 keywords: antisemitism; christian; erasmus; europe; hatred; jews; modern; oxford; press; term; university cache: scjr-16715.pdf plain text: scjr-16715.txt item: #325 of 511 id: scjr-16825 author: Stow, Kenneth title: Emily Michelson. Catholic Spectacle and Rome’s Jews: Early Modern Conversion and Resistance date: 2023-08-03 words: 1211 flesch: 54 summary: Roman Jews, as a rule, who, as Michelson properly insists, had been Romans before Christianity, found Christianity illogical, and often worse, a source of derision. University of Haifa, Emeritus, Haifa, 3498838, Israel Emily Michelson has shed valuable light on the question of forced preaching in the Roman Ghetto. keywords: jews; michelson; sermons cache: scjr-16825.pdf plain text: scjr-16825.txt item: #326 of 511 id: scjr-1691 author: Gribble, C.S.C., Richard title: Saints in the Christian Tradition: Unraveling the Canonization Process date: 2011-05-25 words: 10607 flesch: 53 summary: 6 The theologian Richard Kieckhefer has identified five essential elements found in Christian saints. Thus, it must be understood that while these virtues (and others could be added) are the goals, many saints have struggled with fulfilling them. keywords: canonization; canonization process; christian; church; cult; faith; god; gribble; history; life; people; pope; process; roman; saints; tradition cache: scjr-1691.pdf plain text: scjr-1691.txt item: #327 of 511 id: scjr-16921 author: Kertzer, David I.; Benedetti, Roberto title: In the Wake of the Holocaust: Massimo Vitale, Pius XII, and the Battle over the Good Friday Prayer for the “Perfidious Jews” date: 2023-08-21 words: 13729 flesch: 59 summary: For biographical details on Massimo Vitale, see Roberto Bassi “Ricordo di Massimo Adolfo Vitale,” Rassegna Mensile di Israel 45 (1979), 1/3, 8-21; and Costantino Di Sante, Auschwitz prima di « Auschwitz ». The secretariat of state invitation to Vitale, dated March 31, is found at Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea (CDEC), Fondo Vitale, b.4, fasc. 157. keywords: catholic; christian; church; congregation; dell’acqua; friday; friday prayer; holocaust; holy; jews; letter; maritain; monsignor; montini; new; pius; pope; pos; prayer; rites; segr; stato; vatican; vitale; xii; years cache: scjr-16921.pdf plain text: scjr-16921.txt item: #328 of 511 id: scjr-1693 author: Korn, Eugene title: Richard Lux. The Jewish People, the Holy Land, and the State of Israel: A Catholic View date: 2011-05-25 words: 1085 flesch: 49 summary: Since Israel occupies such a central role in Jewish thought and self-identification for Jews today, I am hard-pressed to think of a topic other than the significance of a Jewish return to Zion that would be more fruitful in bringing Jews and Christians together in serious dialogue today. Lux draws close to Jewish theological sensibilities when he outlines the Holy Land as a Sacra- ment of Encounter and discusses a Theology of Presence that is a function not of history but of the living, personal human-divine encounter. keywords: christian; israel; land cache: scjr-1693.pdf plain text: scjr-1693.txt item: #329 of 511 id: scjr-1714 author: Sandmel, David Fox title: Donald M. Lewis. The Origins of Christian Zionism: Lord Shaftsbury and the Evangelical Support for a Jewish Homeland date: 2011-07-05 words: 1179 flesch: 37 summary: In the final section of the book, “Shaftesbury‟s Final Years,” Lewis describes Shaftesbury‟s ongo- ing efforts on behalf of Jewish restoration and the continued influence of philosemitism on British foreign policy. David Fox Sandmel, Catholic Theological Union In his book The Origins of Christian Zionism: Lord Shaftesbury and the Evangelical Support for a Jewish Homeland, Donald M. Lewis examines the “evangelical mindset” of 19 th -century British Protestantism in order to “account for the distinctive influence that this religious culture had on popular attitudes to the Jews, and particularly on the idea of the „restoration‟ to Palestine” (p. 8). keywords: christian; jews; lewis cache: scjr-1714.pdf plain text: scjr-1714.txt item: #330 of 511 id: scjr-1719 author: Lucci, Diego title: Eric Nelson. The Hebrew Republic: Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought date: 2011-07-29 words: 1780 flesch: 32 summary: Had Nelson of- fered a more complex assessment of Spinoza’s and Locke’s Erastian roots, and had he examined the reasons for the significant differences between those two influential authors’ works and their Erastian sources, especially regarding Spinoza’s view of philosophy and revealed reli- gion and Locke’s distinction between the spheres of politics and religion, he would have provided an even more convincing discussion of the idea that modern political thought resulted merely from a process of secularization. In conclusion, Nelson’s book is an extremely important contribution to the debate on the roots of modern political thought. keywords: century; christian; hebrew; nelson cache: scjr-1719.pdf plain text: scjr-1719.txt item: #331 of 511 id: scjr-1720 author: Krondorfer, Bjorn title: Steven Leonard Jacob, editor. Confronting Genocide: Judaism, Christianity, Islam date: 2011-07-29 words: 2076 flesch: 43 summary: Björn Krondorfer, St. Mary’s College of Maryland The continuously growing literature on genocide—both in the form of anthologies and mono- graphs—is often comparative in scope, looking at various genocides from different historical and geographical locations and through particular frames of reference. Part II explores the religion-genocide link through case studies of Armenia, Bangladesh, Rwanda, and the Balkans, and it is here that we find the widest angle in comparative genocide studies. keywords: genocide; holocaust; krondorfer; religion; rwanda cache: scjr-1720.pdf plain text: scjr-1720.txt item: #332 of 511 id: scjr-1762 author: Garroway, Joshua D. title: Kent L. Yinger. The New Perspective on Paul: An Introduction date: 2011-08-31 words: 889 flesch: 41 summary: His analysis is admirably clear, con- cise, and balanced, enabling even newcomers to New Testament studies to discern the differences between the traditional and new perspectives along with the strengths and weak- nesses of each. It is here where many readers of this journal, regardless of their specialty, might take interest because the New Perspective is often credited with wearing down the supposed contrasts that have generat- ed Christian antipathy towards Judaism: grace vs. works, love vs. fear, Spirit vs. Law, etc. REVIEW Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations Volume 6 (2011): Garroway R1-2 Yinger, The New Perspective on Paul Garroway R 2 http://ejournals.bc.edu/ojs/index.php/scjr Unfortunately, Yinger’s reflections on contemporary Christian-Jewish relations are meager. keywords: perspective; yinger cache: scjr-1762.pdf plain text: scjr-1762.txt item: #333 of 511 id: scjr-1783 author: Harris, Robert A. title: The Book of Leviticus Interpreted as Jewish Community date: 2011-10-03 words: 9641 flesch: 51 summary: There Baron writes (p. 80), ―Within that Jewish quarter Jewish law reigned supreme… In the century following Rashi, Maimonides standardized the positions expressed in those ancient rabbinic sources in his great code of Jewish law; see Mishneh Torah, Repentence 3:5. keywords: book; century; christian; commandments; comment; commentary; community; community harris; exegesis; god; harris; hebrew; israel; jews; laws; leviticus; rabbinic; rashi; rashi‘s; relations; sinai; studies; torah; van; volume cache: scjr-1783.pdf plain text: scjr-1783.txt item: #334 of 511 id: scjr-1800 author: Lasker, Daniel J. title: The Jewish Critique of Christianity: In Search of a New Narrative date: 2011-11-02 words: 5847 flesch: 44 summary: It is true that there was a relatively large Christian presence in Islamic countries, but there was cer- tainly no organized Christian mission to the Jews which, if the old narrative were to be believed, would be necessary to form the occasion for Jewish anti-Christian polemics. 18 15 In the absence of a good edition of the text, Samuel Krauss, Das Leben Jesu nach juedischem Quellen (Berlin, 1902) is still useful. 46 The state of Jewish anti-Christian polemics in the early modern and mod- ern periods, such as the proliferation of treatises in Italy and the relative dearth of such works in eastern Europe, should be studied in light of the con- clusions expressed in this paper. keywords: century; christian; christianity; critique; jews; judaism; lasker; narrative; new; polemics; pressure; relations; studies; treatises cache: scjr-1800.pdf plain text: scjr-1800.txt item: #335 of 511 id: scjr-1801 author: Resnick, Irven title: Dietary Laws in Medieval Christian-Jewish Polemics: A Survey date: 2011-11-02 words: 10538 flesch: 56 summary: 13 The received connection between Jews and pigs seems even to have influenced municipal legislation: John Carpenter‘s 1419 compilation of London town ordinances in- cludes an entry ―Of Jews, Lepers and Swine that are to be removed from the City.‖ Since there had been no Jews in Eng- land for more than a century, Carpenter‘s compilation likely served to reinforce existing notions that associated Jews and swine (and lepers) as sources of filth or impurity. 17 While it is an error for Christians to observe these laws, in his A Dialogue of a Phi- losopher with a Jew and a Christian, Abelard places in the mouth of the Jew the explanation that both circumcision and the dietary laws have this same purpose for Jews: circumcision prevents marriage between Jews and non-Jews, and the die- tary laws prevent social interaction. keywords: ages; albert; animals; century; christian; diet; food; great; http://ejournals.bc.edu/ojs/index.php/scjr; jews; laws; meat; medieval; middle; new; pig; pigs; polemics; pork; press; relations; resnick; studies; text; trans; university; volume cache: scjr-1801.pdf plain text: scjr-1801.txt item: #336 of 511 id: scjr-1802 author: Vehlow, Katja title: Franklin T. Harkins, editor. Transforming Relations: Essays on Jews and Christians Throughout History in Honor of Michael A. Signer date: 2011-11-02 words: 1159 flesch: 40 summary: Jeremy Cohen concludes this section with an article looking at the function of exegesis in a sixteenth-century Jewish anti-Christian polemic, the Shevet Yehu- dah (Staff of Judah). Transforming Relations: Essays on Jews and Christians Throughout History in Honor of Michael A. Signer (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2010), keywords: christian; jews; relations; signer cache: scjr-1802.pdf plain text: scjr-1802.txt item: #337 of 511 id: scjr-1803 author: Berger, Alan L. title: Joseph D. Small and Gilbert S. Rosenthal, editors. Let Us Reason Together: Christians and Jews in Conversation date: 2011-11-02 words: 1323 flesch: 51 summary: It is, argues Hammer, “vital that Christians understand the centrality of the land to Jewish belief” (p. 94). Despite this distinction, he notes that for contemporary Jews “the [S]tate has a status more important than a mere political entity” (p. 90). keywords: israel; jews; small cache: scjr-1803.pdf plain text: scjr-1803.txt item: #338 of 511 id: scjr-1804 author: Leighton, Christopher title: Robert Eisen. The Peace and Violence of Judaism: From the Bible to Modern Zionism date: 2011-11-02 words: 1042 flesch: 40 summary: He graphically illustrates the point in his analysis of traditional kabbalistic claims that Jewish souls emanate from the realm of sefirot, while non-Jewish souls stem from a domain of impurity and evil and do not reflect “the image of God” (p. 132). To offset disturbing claims about “Jewish souls” over and against their non-Jewish inferiors, Ei- sen notes the historical circumstances of political, economic, and social oppression of the Jewish community to account for (although certainly not to excuse!) keywords: eisen; peace; violence cache: scjr-1804.pdf plain text: scjr-1804.txt item: #339 of 511 id: scjr-1805 author: Fisher, Eugene J. title: James Rudin. Christians & Jews, Faith to Faith: Tragic History, Promising Present, Fragile Future date: 2011-11-02 words: 1118 flesch: 52 summary: Fisher R1-2 Rudin, Christians & Jews, Faith to Faith Fisher R 1 http://ejournals.bc.edu/ojs/index.php/scjr James Rudin Christians & Jews, Faith to Faith: Tragic History, Promising Present, Fragile Future (Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights, 2011), hardcover, xii + 267 pp. To illustrate the complexity of competing religious identities, Rudin begins with a reflection on the possible names for the Jewish people, citing the biblical terms “Hebrews,” “Israelites,” and “Jews,” and noting the positive and pejorative uses of the terms over the ages. keywords: faith; jews; rudin cache: scjr-1805.pdf plain text: scjr-1805.txt item: #340 of 511 id: scjr-1818 author: Cook, Michael J. title: Daniel J. Harrington, S.J. The Synoptic Gospels Set Free: Preaching without Anti-Judaism date: 2012-12-01 words: 1163 flesch: 45 summary: Skeptics may thus argue that the book is really about freeing modern preachers from the Synoptics’ actual anti-Judaism, as well as to free Jesus from the Synoptists’ actual anti-Jewish recastings of him. While Harrington is surely correct that the Synoptics later on became misapplied anti-Jewishly, such misapplication could also be an exacerbation of anti-Jewish tendencies which characterized these Gospels ab initio. keywords: anti; harrington; jewish cache: scjr-1818.pdf plain text: scjr-1818.txt item: #341 of 511 id: scjr-1819 author: Kaell, Hillary title: Kevin M. Schultz. Tri-Faith America: How Catholics and Jews Held Postwar America to its Protestant Promise date: 2012-12-01 words: 966 flesch: 44 summary: By the early-1960s, however, tri-faith leaders embraced civil rights, finally supplanting their own cause as they began to see race, rather than religion, as the nation’s most prominent division and pressing problem (Chapter 8). Most Jews, as a very small non-Christian minority, regarded any governmental support for religion (especially in public schools) with suspicion, using the courts to block its expression. keywords: catholics; faith; schultz cache: scjr-1819.pdf plain text: scjr-1819.txt item: #342 of 511 id: scjr-1820 author: Crane, Richard Francis title: Heart-Rending Ambivalence: Jacques Maritain and the Complexity of Postwar Catholic Philosemitism date: 2012-12-01 words: 10259 flesch: 45 summary: Avshalom Fein- berg et Jacques Maritain (Paris: Éditions Parole et Silence, 2005). 47 Jacques Maritain to Giovanni Battista Montini, July 12, 1946, reprinted in Cahiers Jacques Maritain 23 (October 1991), 31-33. keywords: ambivalence; antisemitism; catholic; christian; crane; france; heart; holocaust; jacques maritain; jews; maritain; new; pius; pope; press; question; relations; studies; university; vatican; volume; york cache: scjr-1820.pdf plain text: scjr-1820.txt item: #343 of 511 id: scjr-1906 author: Ochs, Peter title: Chris Boesel. Risking Proclamation, Respecting Difference: Christian Faith, Imperialistic Discourse, and Abraham date: 2012-02-01 words: 1513 flesch: 45 summary: The striking argument of Boesel’s book is that, despite these initial appearances, Barth’s version of Christian supersessionism may, with modest refinement, be used for a more favorable treat- ment of the Jews. Christian theologian Chris Boesel addresses the question of how can Christians honor Judaism’s enduring covenant without abandoning Christianity’s classical proclamations about Jesus: “He is risen” and “He is Messiah”? keywords: boesel; christian; particular cache: scjr-1906.pdf plain text: scjr-1906.txt item: #344 of 511 id: scjr-1907 author: Brown-Fleming, Suzanne title: Hubert Wolf. Pope and Devil: The Vatican's Archives and the Third Reich date: 2012-02-01 words: 2179 flesch: 43 summary: During these years, Eugenio Pacelli, the future Pope Pius XII (1939-1958), served as nuncio to Bavaria and Germany (1917-1929) and Secretary of State to Pope Pius XI (1930–1939). In Pope and Devil, Wolf, accessing these new sources, analyzes the “view from Rome” on five general areas, broken into five individual chapters: (1) the Vatican Secretariat of State’s (and Pacelli’s) aims and goals in Germany from 1917-1929; (2) Amici Israel and the ugly circum- stances surrounding the March 1928 Holy Office decree on anti-Semitism (see p. 82); (3) the role played by Pacelli and Pius XI in the fraught months between January and July 1933, the pe- riod of the Enabling Act, the retraction of the Mainz Declaration, and the concordat between the Holy See and Nazi Germany; (4) Pacelli, Pius XI, and the persecution of Jews, focusing on 1933 and 1938; and (5) the relationship between Catholic worldview and Nazi ideology from 1933 to 1939. keywords: anti; jews; pacelli; pius; pope; wolf cache: scjr-1907.pdf plain text: scjr-1907.txt item: #345 of 511 id: scjr-1908 author: Kaminsky, Joel S. title: Matthew Thiessen. Contesting Conversation: Genealogy, Circumcision and Identity in Ancient Judaism and Christianity date: 2012-02-01 words: 1038 flesch: 42 summary: While Thiessen convincingly shows how the issue of eighth day circumcision, which is central to texts like Jubilees, explains the differing treatment of Jewish and Gentile circumcision in Luke- Acts, he is on shakier ground when he tries to argue that eighth day circumcision sits at the heart of the Hebrew Bible’s attempt to distinguish Israelites from circumcised non-Israelites. Furthermore, if the text wanted to be sure to distinguish Israelites from non-Israelites by eighth day circumcision, why does Genesis 17 not include a clause pro- hibiting the circumcision of household slaves on the eighth day? keywords: circumcision; thiessen cache: scjr-1908.pdf plain text: scjr-1908.txt item: #346 of 511 id: scjr-1909 author: Grazi, Alessandro title: A Jewish Construction of a Catholic Hero: David Levi's "A Pio IX" date: 2012-02-01 words: 9258 flesch: 55 summary: For Italian Jews, the struggle for emancipation and the Risorgimen- to movement coincided. 4 2 It is important to clarify that when mentioning three distinct categories (patri- ots, liberals and Jews), I do not imply a separation between them. This act marked the high point of enthusiasm and positive opinion towards Pio Nono by Italian Jews. keywords: catholic; christ; david; grazi; hero; ibid; italian; italy; jesus; jews; levi; liberal; nono; pio; pius; poem; pope; relations; risorgimento; studies; volume cache: scjr-1909.pdf plain text: scjr-1909.txt item: #347 of 511 id: scjr-1910 author: Bernauer, SJ, James title: Heroic Collective Action: A People's Blessing? date: 2012-02-01 words: 7160 flesch: 54 summary: This essay proposes a shift of focus to a greater appre- ciation of heroic collective action without denying its relationship to leaders, many of whom, though, are anonymous. 3 Solzhenitsyn might seem, however, a contrast to my fo- cus here which is on collective action because he was so obviously an heroic individual. keywords: action; action bernauer; bernauer; bishops; catholic; christian; church; german; holocaust; jews; nazi; new; people; relations; revolution; studies; volume cache: scjr-1910.pdf plain text: scjr-1910.txt item: #348 of 511 id: scjr-1911 author: Korn, Eugene title: Covenantal Possibilities in a Post-Polemical Age: A Jewish View date: 2012-02-01 words: 8063 flesch: 40 summary: One can plot four stages in the evolution of rabbinic thinking about Christianity in different historical eras: 8 (1) In the first and second centuries, Jewish Christians were first a tolerated sect in the Jewish community and later came to be regarded as heretics or apostates from Judaism. This has been an unacceptable thesis for Jewish theology, as traditional Jewish thinkers have consistently maintained that Jews and Christians do not share any post-Noahide 18 keywords: abraham; christian; christianity; covenant; god; jews; judaism; korn; mission; new; noahide; possibilities; relations; theology; world cache: scjr-1911.pdf plain text: scjr-1911.txt item: #349 of 511 id: scjr-2071 author: Palmisano, SJ, Joseph Redfield title: A Phenomenology of Return: Forgiveness and Atonement in Emmanuel Levinas and Abraham Joshua Heschel date: 2012-05-01 words: 7692 flesch: 55 summary: 2 Section 2.1 “Biblical Approach: The Old Testament,” of the document Memory and Reconciliation attempts to “clarify,” that is to say, frame the limits of Jewish atonement. [t]he experiences of maltreatment suffered by Is- rael at the hands of other peoples and the animosity thus aroused could also have militated against the idea of asking pardon of these peo- ples for the evil done to them. keywords: atonement; christian; forgiveness; gibeonites; god; heschel; israel; levinas; memory; palmisano; people; relations; return; sins cache: scjr-2071.pdf plain text: scjr-2071.txt item: #350 of 511 id: scjr-2072 author: Koch, Kurt Cardinal title: Theological Questions and Perspectives in Jewish-Catholic Dialogue date: 2012-05-01 words: 8351 flesch: 50 summary: Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations Volume 7 (2012): Koch CP1-12 Koch, Theological Questions and Perspectives Koch CP 8 http://ejournals.bc.edu/ojs/index.php/scjr path for all other people which leads through Jesus Christ would not only call into question the ground-breaking discovery of the Second Vatican Council, that Jews and Christians do not be- long to two different peoples of God but even in their difference form one people of God; it would in fact also endanger the foundations of Christian faith. 313. Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations Volume 7 (2012): Koch CP1-12 Koch, Theological Questions and Perspectives Koch CP 7 http://ejournals.bc.edu/ojs/index.php/scjr that of the Jews, and indeed not only of observant Jews, and the application of the people of God to the church is in any case a metaphor requiring interpretation.” 23 As the inserted “not only observant Jews” shows, this reveals a second tendency to comprehend the ‘people of God’ concept no longer in a strictly theological sense but ethnologically instead, deleting any exclusive connotation, replacing exclusivity with exemplarity and understanding the people of God not as a “monopoly” but rather as a “model”, as the Catholic mission theologian Walbert Bühlmann has done in postulating that the biblical understanding on Israel as the cho- sen people of God means that not only Israel but every people is a chosen people of God. keywords: christian; christianity; church; covenant; der; faith; god; history; israel; jesus; jewish; jews; judaism; koch; new; people; testament; und cache: scjr-2072.pdf plain text: scjr-2072.txt item: #351 of 511 id: scjr-2073 author: Cunningham, Philip A. title: Discerning the "Stumbling Block" date: 2012-05-01 words: 5944 flesch: 41 summary: 17 Raymond E. Brown, Jesus God and Man (New York: Macmillan, 1967), 91. He observes that: (1) The “universal salvific significance of Jesus Christ and consequently the uni- versal mission of the church are of fundamental significance; (2) The church’s evangelical task vis-à-vis Jews occurs “in a different manner from that to the nations;” (3) The Catholic church “neither has nor supports any specific institutional [conversionary] mission work directed towards Jews; and (4) “The rejection of an institutional mission to the Jews does not…exclude Christians from bearing witness to their faith in Jesus Christ also to Jews, but [they] should do so in a hum- ble and unassuming manner” keywords: cardinal; christian; cunningham; god; jesus; jews; judaism; new; relations cache: scjr-2073.pdf plain text: scjr-2073.txt item: #352 of 511 id: scjr-2074 author: Gregerman, Adam title: Jewish Theology and Limits on Reciprocity in Catholic-Jewish Dialogue date: 2012-05-01 words: 8418 flesch: 49 summary: Rather, he hopes that “[i]f Christian theology succeeds in credibly demonstrating” the truth of trinitarian claims, it might spur a new understanding by Jews of Christian interpretations (parallel to Christians’ new understanding of Jewish claims). Importantly, he also broadens this to include Christians’ dissent from Jewish theological claims. keywords: catholic; christian; christianity; church; covenant; god; gregerman; jews; judaism; koch; theological cache: scjr-2074.pdf plain text: scjr-2074.txt item: #353 of 511 id: scjr-2075 author: Korn, Eugene title: A Jewish Response to "Theological Questions and Perspectives in Jewish-Catholic Dialogue" by Cardinal Kurt Koch date: 2012-05-01 words: 4179 flesch: 47 summary: 4 I also deeply appreciate Cardinal Koch’s insistence that Jewish people as the people of God is an ethnological fact in God’s plan, not only a theological community. I do applaud Cardinal Koch’s insistence that Jews and Christians are both included in the Abra- hamic covenant reaching back to the very origins of Jewish history and Judaism, and that were Christians to lose their identification with that covenant, they would also lose their historical lega- cy and spiritual moorings. keywords: cardinal; christian; covenant; god; jews; koch; korn cache: scjr-2075.pdf plain text: scjr-2075.txt item: #354 of 511 id: scjr-2076 author: Phan, Peter C. title: Judaism and Christianity: Reading Cardinal Koch's Address Between the Lines and Against the Grain date: 2012-05-01 words: 3995 flesch: 49 summary: Cardinal Koch begins his lecture with reflections on “the complex history between Christians and Jews” and comments on the role of Christians in the Holocaust: The Shoah cannot and should not however be attributed to Christianity as such: it was in fact led by a godless, anti-Christian and neo-pagan ideology. To the best of my knowledge, however, no reputable historians, not even the most rabid anti-Christian and anti-Pius XII ranters and ravers, have claimed that the Christian churches were actively collaborating with Hitler in formulating the Nazi ideology and in gassing six million Jews. keywords: cardinal; christian; christianity; jews; koch; phan cache: scjr-2076.pdf plain text: scjr-2076.txt item: #355 of 511 id: scjr-2077 author: Suomala, Karla title: Response to Kurt Cardinal Koch date: 2012-05-01 words: 4947 flesch: 38 summary: 6 For precisely these reasons, as well as the fact that it offers “a reassuringly ecumenical etiology of the religious differences between present-day Christians and Jews,” Cardinal Koch is not alone in in using this model to begin his discussion of Jewish Christian relations. “Parting of the Ways” Model In his opening paragraph, Cardinal Koch traces the long estrangement between Jews and Chris- tians to the emergence of Christianity, describing the separation between the two traditions as the first split and the “primal rift” in the church’s history. keywords: christianity; christians; ibid; jews; judaism; koch; relations; suomala cache: scjr-2077.pdf plain text: scjr-2077.txt item: #356 of 511 id: scjr-2078 author: Svartvik, Jesper title: What if There is Life on Other Planets? Reflections on Kurt Cardinal Koch's Inaugural Lecture date: 2012-05-01 words: 7167 flesch: 55 summary: In his speech the Cardinal maintains that God has never revoked the covenant with Israel, a re- markable statement first made by John Paul II, probably in Mainz in 1980, when he referred to: “… the people of God of the old covenant, which has never been revoked by God”. 12 Neverthe- less, the Cardinal emphasizes that there cannot be two ways to salvation: The assumption that there may be two different paths to salvation…would in fact also endanger the foundations of Christian faith. Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations Volume 7 (2012): Svartvik RES1-12 Svartvik, Life on Other Planets Svartvik RES 8 http://ejournals.bc.edu/ojs/index.php/scjr In other words, Christian faith means something different for Jews than for others. keywords: cardinal; christian; christianity; church; god; jesus; jews; judaism; koch; life; people; relations; svartvik cache: scjr-2078.pdf plain text: scjr-2078.txt item: #357 of 511 id: scjr-2079 author: Lux, Richard C. title: Leonard Grob and John K. Roth, Eds. Anguished Hope: Holocaust Scholars Confront the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict date: 2012-05-01 words: 1426 flesch: 49 summary: He also does not believe Jewish existence is dependent on the survival of Israel since Jews have survived 2,000 years without a state. Baum, reviewing Jewish history, and in particular the Exodus / Passover and the establishment of Israel after the Shoah, writes that “we [Jews] were victims, we were victimizers...but we are no longer” (p. 228). keywords: christian; conflict; holocaust cache: scjr-2079.pdf plain text: scjr-2079.txt item: #358 of 511 id: scjr-2080 author: Leonhard, Clemens title: Ruth Langer. Cursing the Christians? A History of the Birkat HaMinim date: 2012-05-01 words: 1022 flesch: 54 summary: discusses the history and the broad array of meanings of one of the most controversial and unstable Jewish prayers, the so-called “blessing”—a euphemism for the “curse”—“of the heretics,” which is found in the Amidah (standing prayer) of the weekday liturgy. In this book, Langer illustrates the multifarious historical meanings of the different forms of this text, which also reflect the rich humanistic heritage of Judaism. keywords: christians; langer cache: scjr-2080.pdf plain text: scjr-2080.txt item: #359 of 511 id: scjr-2081 author: Baird, Justus Nathan title: Robert Putnam and David Campbell. American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us date: 2012-05-01 words: 1117 flesch: 44 summary: Among the book’s many findings that observers of Jewish-Christian relations will surely want to consider, three stand out to this reviewer: (1) the theological gap between clergy and laity; (2) increasing rates of and acceptance of religious intermarriage; and (3) the measurable impact of having acquaintances from different faith communities. However, this particular gap is a stark reminder to those involved in Jewish-Christian dialogue to pay close attention to whom one is in dialogue with (clergy, lay people, or both), and to refrain from making generalizations about religious groups. keywords: american; grace; intermarriage cache: scjr-2081.pdf plain text: scjr-2081.txt item: #360 of 511 id: scjr-2082 author: Stahl, Neta title: Yael Feldman. Glory and Agony: Isaac's Sacrifice and National Narrative date: 2012-05-01 words: 1251 flesch: 46 summary: In one of the most comprehensive and impressive historiographies of Hebrew national culture, Feldman elegantly yet passionately presents a multi-dimensional narrative of the Israeli preoccupation with Genesis 22, the near-sacrifice of Isaac known in Hebrew as the Aqedah (the Binding). In the first part of the book, Feldman discusses the roots of the secularization of the biblical Aqedah and the ways it was transformed from a religious text into “a trope for heroic national sacrifice” (p. 34). keywords: aqedah; feldman; sacrifice cache: scjr-2082.pdf plain text: scjr-2082.txt item: #361 of 511 id: scjr-2083 author: Lenk, Marcie title: Terence L. Donaldson. Jews and Anti-Judaism in the New Testament: Decision Points and Divergent Interpretations date: 2012-05-01 words: 993 flesch: 48 summary: In his most recent book, Terence Donaldson studies New Testament texts that have been found by many to be painfully (and by some, irredeemably) anti-Jewish. In order to interpret statements relating to Jews and Judaism in the various books of the New Testament, he examines the ways that the original author “understood and constructed the identity of the group to which he and his readers belonged” vis-à-vis the Jewish community. keywords: anti; jews cache: scjr-2083.pdf plain text: scjr-2083.txt item: #362 of 511 id: scjr-2231 author: Langer, Ruth; Spicer, CSC, Kevin title: Editors' Introduction: Koch Symposium date: 2012-06-07 words: 446 flesch: 27 summary: Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations Volume 7 (2012): Langer and Spicer RES1 Langer and Spicer, Introduction Langer and Spicer RES 1 http://ejournals.bc.edu/ojs/index.php/scjr Editors’ Introduction: Koch Symposium Ruth Langer and Kevin Spicer, CSC Editors’ Introduction to Responses to Cardinal Kurt Koch’s October 30, 2011 Keynote Address at Seton Hall University during the 10 th Annual Meeting of the Council of Centers on Christian-Jewish Relations On October 30, 2011, the Council of Centers on Jewish-Christian Relations was privileged to welcome Cardinal Kurt Koch, President of the Commission of the Holy See for Religious Rela- tions with the Jews, to its tenth annual meeting as its keynote speaker. Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations, the journal of the Council of Centers, is grateful that Cardinal Koch agreed to publish his address here and to open a discussion of its contents in this context. keywords: cardinal; relations cache: scjr-2231.pdf plain text: scjr-2231.txt item: #363 of 511 id: scjr-2285 author: Sax, Benjamin E. title: Micah Gottlieb, Ed. Moses Mendelssohn: Writings on Judaism, Christianity, and the Bible date: 2012-06-30 words: 1604 flesch: 49 summary: Take for example Johann Casper Lavater’s public challenge to Mendelssohn to accept the Swiss philos- opher and scientist Charles Bonnet’s “philosophical investigation of the proofs of Christianity” as REVIEW Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations Volume 7 (2012): Sax R1-3 Gottlieb, Moses Mendelssohn Sax R 2 http://ejournals.bc.edu/ojs/index.php/scjr irrefutable (p.5). Michael Wyschogrod, Abraham’s Promise: Judaism and Christian-Jewish Relations Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations Volume 7 (2012): Sax R1-3 Gottlieb, Moses Mendelssohn Sax R 1 http://ejournals.bc.edu/ojs/index.php/scjr Michah Gottlieb, Ed. Moses Mendelssohn: Writings on Judaism, Christianity, and the Bible (Waltham, MA: keywords: gottlieb; mendelssohn; volume; writings cache: scjr-2285.pdf plain text: scjr-2285.txt item: #364 of 511 id: scjr-2286 author: Boesel, Chris title: Steven A. Hunt, Ed. Perspectives on Our Father Abraham: Essays in Honor of Marvin R. Wilson date: 2012-06-30 words: 1636 flesch: 33 summary: In my reading, the book has two main points of interest with regard to Wilson’s impact: the state of contemporary evangelical biblical scholarship, and evangelicals’ relation to theological anti-Judaism and supersessionism. It is a worthy celebration of Wilson’s exemplary career of moderate to progressive (depending on one’s per- spective) evangelical scholarship, teaching, and activism. keywords: abraham; christian; god; scriptures cache: scjr-2286.pdf plain text: scjr-2286.txt item: #365 of 511 id: scjr-2287 author: Peppard, Michael title: Florian Wilk and J. Ross Wagner, Eds. Between Gospel and Election: Explorations in the Interpretation of Romans 9-11 date: 2012-06-30 words: 1490 flesch: 44 summary: Essays examine: how a person’s memory of oneself—and especially one’s biological lineage—becomes a treasury of resources from which religious identity is con- tinually constructed, looking at the example of Paul (N. Slenczka); Paul’s doctrine of election as contingent and historical (K. Sonderegger); how anti-Judaism has affected Christian education in Germany (M. Rothgangel); and the actual effects of Rom 9-11 in contemporary Jewish-Christian dialogue encounters (R. K. Soulen and W. Kraus). But Soulen emphasizes instead the present tense of Rom 9:4 and 11:28b—“the iron brackets which surround Paul’s argument and ultimately contain its explosive force”—in order to focus Christian readers on the “abiding now of covenant history” for Jews, the “shock of the present tense” (p. 499; italics in original). keywords: christian; essays; paul; relations; rom cache: scjr-2287.pdf plain text: scjr-2287.txt item: #366 of 511 id: scjr-2395 author: Zaas, Peter title: Zev Garber, Ed. The Jewish Jesus: Revelation, Reflection, Reclamation date: 2012-08-16 words: 2170 flesch: 52 summary: There can be no doubt that Paul narrated Jesus’ Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations Volume 7 (2012): Zaas R1-4 Garber, The Jewish Jesus Zaas R 3 http://ejournals.bc.edu/ojs/index.php/scjr crucifixion and his resurrection, but there is little evidence that he was a transmitter of other sto- ries about Jesus. Ziony Zevit is among the world’s most prominent scholars in Near Eastern Studies, not in the study of the New Testament nor any other field connected directly to Jesus research. keywords: basser; garber; jesus; paul; volume; zevit cache: scjr-2395.pdf plain text: scjr-2395.txt item: #367 of 511 id: scjr-2396 author: Valkenberg, Pim title: Gary Burge. Jesus and the Land: The New Testament Challenge to "Holy Land" Theology date: 2012-08-16 words: 1500 flesch: 57 summary: Burge argues for a stronger critique of land theology in John. The first chapter of his book gives a survey of the biblical and second Temple period views that form the background against which New Testament authors forged their notions of land. keywords: burge; israel; land cache: scjr-2396.pdf plain text: scjr-2396.txt item: #368 of 511 id: scjr-2397 author: Merback, Mitchell B. title: Anthony Bale. Feeling Persecuted: Christians, Jews and Images of Violence in the Middle Ages date: 2012-08-16 words: 2027 flesch: 26 summary: To a degree that will roil some readers in Jewish studies, Bale also steers clear of the whole late medieval arsenal of anti-Jewish myth and accusation: histori- cal Jews qua historical Jews, the real victims of real persecutions, largely disappear from his account. Building on the fine work of Marc Michael Epstein (Dreams of Subversion in Medieval Jewish Art and Literature, University Park, Pennsylvania State University Press [1997]), Bale gives more substantive treatment to the hunting imagery inside the Prato Haggadah (Jewish Theological Seminar, Ms. 9478), teasing out nuanced metaphors of textual starting off and pursuit. keywords: bale; christian; jews; merback; violence cache: scjr-2397.pdf plain text: scjr-2397.txt item: #369 of 511 id: scjr-2473 author: Schoenfeld, Devorah title: David M. Freidenreich. Foreigners and their Food: Constructing Otherness in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Law date: 2012-08-28 words: 1044 flesch: 44 summary: Freidenreich illustrates this slipperiness through his history of Jewish food restrictions, which be- gan as primarily ingredient-based. Some writers, such as Philo and other Alexandrians, continued to view Jewish food restrictions as ingredient-based and a purely symbolic representation of Jewish difference. keywords: food; restrictions cache: scjr-2473.pdf plain text: scjr-2473.txt item: #370 of 511 id: scjr-2696 author: Donaldson, Terence L. title: Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler, Eds. The Jewish Annotated New Testament date: 2012-09-29 words: 1554 flesch: 43 summary: The issue is touched on, especially in Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert’s “Judaizers, Jewish Christians, and Others” and Claudia Setzer’s “Jewish Responses Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations Volume 7 (2012): Donaldson R1-3 Levine and Brettler, The Jewish Annotated Donaldson R 3 http://ejournals.bc.edu/ojs/index.php/scjr to Believers in Jesus,” though neither essay title indicates this, and it could well have warranted an essay of its own. Some are New Testament spe- cialists; many of them specialize in some aspect of Judaism in the Second Temple period and late antiquity; all of them are experts in some pertinent area of Jewish studies. keywords: christian; judaism; testament; volume cache: scjr-2696.pdf plain text: scjr-2696.txt item: #371 of 511 id: scjr-2822 author: Ramelli, Ilaria L. E. title: Philo as Origen’s Declared Model: Allegorical and Historical Exegesis of Scripture date: 2012-11-05 words: 11151 flesch: 50 summary: Ramelli, Philo as Origen’s Declared Model Ramelli 1 http://ejournals.bc.edu/ojs/index.php/scjr Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations A peer-reviewed e-journal of the Council of Centers on Jewish-Christian Relations Published by the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning at Boston College Philo as Origen’s Declared Model: Allegorical and Historical Exegesis of Scripture 1 I l Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations Volume 7(2012): Ramelli 1-17 Ramelli, Philo as Origen’s Declared Model Ramelli 2 http://ejournals.bc.edu/ojs/index.php/scjr Origen and Jewish Exegesis: Close Interactions I am going to focus on the relations between Origen of Alexandria († 255 ca.), the great and extremely learned Chris- tian exegete, theologian, and philosopher, and Judaism as regards Biblical exegesis. keywords: allegoresis; bible; christian; exegesis; genesis; hom; http://ejournals.bc.edu/ojs/index.php/scjr; interpretation; judaism; meaning; model; origen; philo; philosophy; plato; rabbinic; ramelli; relations; scripture; studies; volume cache: scjr-2822.pdf plain text: scjr-2822.txt item: #372 of 511 id: scjr-2895 author: Gillis, Chester title: Dermot A. Lane. Stepping Stones to Other Religions: A Christian Theology of Inter-Religious Dialogue date: 2012-11-21 words: 866 flesch: 33 summary: After a brief examination of the contemporary situation that invites a new Christian theology of other religions, Lane takes the reader through the development of Christian theology on interreligious dialogue. Michael Wyschogrod, Abraham’s Promise: Judaism and Christian-Jewish Relations Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations Volume 7 (2012): Gillis R1-2 Lane, Stepping Stones to Other Religions Gillis R 1 http://ejournals.bc.edu/ojs/index.php/scjr Dermot A. Lane Stepping Stones to Other Religions: A Christian Theology of Inter-Religious Dialogue (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2011), paperback, 328 pp. keywords: dialogue; lane; religions cache: scjr-2895.pdf plain text: scjr-2895.txt item: #373 of 511 id: scjr-3196 author: Kensky, Meira Z. title: David Rudolph. A Jew to the Jews: Jewish Contours of Pauline Flexibility in 1 Corinthians 9:19-23 date: 2013-01-04 words: 1761 flesch: 48 summary: In the final chapter, Rudolph presents a constructive case for understanding Paul’s statements in 1 Cor 9:19-23 as reflecting “Paul’s ethic of imitating Christ’s accommodation and open table- fellowship” (p. 173). Rudolph argues that what he calls “the traditional view” of scholars— that this passage reveals that Paul no longer observed Jewish law—does not stand up to critical scrutiny, and that the time has come for a full-length re-examination of the issue. keywords: cor; paul; rudolph cache: scjr-3196.pdf plain text: scjr-3196.txt item: #374 of 511 id: scjr-3264 author: Knitter, Paul F. title: Alan Brill. Judaism and Other Religions: Models of Understanding date: 2013-01-09 words: 1080 flesch: 42 summary: Contemporary Jewish theologians, in contrast to their Christian counterparts, have “sorely neglected” the need to make sense of the perduring fact of religious diversity (p. 8). Michael Wyschogrod, Abraham’s Promise: Judaism and Christian-Jewish Relations Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations Volume 7 (2012): Knitter R1-2 Brill, Judaism and Other Religions Knitter R 1 http://ejournals.bc.edu/ojs/index.php/scjr Alan Brill Judaism and Other Religions: Models of Understanding (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), hardcover, xiv + 275 pp. keywords: brill; religions cache: scjr-3264.pdf plain text: scjr-3264.txt item: #375 of 511 id: scjr-3391 author: Stegman, S.J., Thomas D. title: Reimund Bieringer and Didier Pollefeyt, Eds. Paul and Judaism: Crosscurrents in Pauline Exegesis and the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations date: 2013-01-17 words: 1205 flesch: 47 summary: Michael Wyschogrod, Abraham’s Promise: Judaism and Christian-Jewish Relations Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations Volume 7 (2012): Stegman R1-2 Bieringer and Pollefeyt, Paul and Judaism Stegman R 1 http://ejournals.bc.edu/ojs/index.php/scjr Reimund Bieringer and Didier Pollefeyt, Eds. Paul and Judaism: Crosscurrents in Pauline Exegesis and the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations (London–New York: T & T Clark, 2012), hardcover, xiv + 256 pp. Thus, according to Bachmann, REVIEW Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations Volume 7 (2012): Stegman R1-2 Bieringer and Pollefeyt, Paul and Judaism Stegman R 2 http://ejournals.bc.edu/ojs/index.php/scjr “a disinheritance or expropriation of Judaism does not (yet) take place” (p. 104). keywords: judaism; paul cache: scjr-3391.pdf plain text: scjr-3391.txt item: #376 of 511 id: scjr-3468 author: Korn, Eugene title: Philip A. Cunningham, Joseph Sievers, Mary Boys, Hans Herman Henrix, and Jesper Svartik, Eds. Christ Jesus and the Jewish People Today: New Explorations of Theological Interrelationships date: 2013-01-28 words: 1758 flesch: 44 summary: The recent- ly published collection of their essays (along with brief responses from Jewish scholars) gathered in Christ Jesus and the Jewish People Today represents the first fruits of this project. The book explores a number of other questions that flow from the meta-question, like the mean- ing of Jesus’ eternity for Jewish identity, the implications of loving Jesus for Christian-Jewish relations, the relation of the trinity to Jewish monotheism, and the theological significance of Je- sus’ Jewishness. keywords: christian; covenant; jesus; jews cache: scjr-3468.pdf plain text: scjr-3468.txt item: #377 of 511 id: scjr-4428 author: Watson, Murray title: The Best Pope the Jews Ever Had: Jewish Reactions to the Death of Pope John Paul II date: 2013-04-04 words: 11222 flesch: 39 summary: When, on April 13, 1986, Pope John Paul II made his historic first visit to the Great Synagogue of Rome, he was fa- mously welcomed by its venerable Chief Rabbi, Dr. Elio Toaff, a man who had already been serving in that capacity for thirty- five years. He himself had helped set up the foundation, The Church that Suffers, which helped finance the building of the convent, but when he understood the Jewish per- ception that the nuns' presence there, as well as a huge, neighboring cross, was “Christianizing” the memory of a genocide whose Jewish victims comprise approximately 90 percent of the total, he took the un- precedented measure… 12 At a prayer-gathering in the hours before John Paul’s death, Rabbi Michael Schudrich, the Chief Rabbi of John Paul’s native Poland, had highlighted the unique affection Poland— and its Jewish community—felt for the first son of Poland to sit on the chair of St. Peter, stating: We Jews feel a special attachment to Pope John Paul II because of everything he has done for us. keywords: april; benedict; catholic; church; death; february; israel; jewish; jews; john paul; judaism; paul ii; people; pope; pope john; rabbi; relations; volume; watson; world cache: scjr-4428.pdf plain text: scjr-4428.txt item: #378 of 511 id: scjr-4440 author: Gregerman, Adam title: Recent Anthologies and Resources date: 2013-04-04 words: 230 flesch: 48 summary: An extensive collection of texts from religious bodies and groups of scholars and clergy from 1945-1985, organized in five parts (Protestant Statements, Roman Catholic State ments, Ecu- menical [Christian] Statements, Joint Jewish-Christian Statements, and Jewish Viewpoints). Contains speeches by and interviews with Cardinal Lustiger, archbishop of Paris and a convert to Catholicism from Judaism. keywords: catholic cache: scjr-4440.pdf plain text: scjr-4440.txt item: #379 of 511 id: scjr-5178 author: Dewey, Arthur title: What Difference Does a Life Make? Reflections on Jesus the Jew date: 2013-07-31 words: 4006 flesch: 73 summary: From the pre-Pauline materials we can detect that the Syr- ian Jewish community of Jesus followers began to make sense of the death of Jesus as that of a martyr’s death such as found in the book of 4 th Maccabees. It has been, however, my experience over my years of teaching that for many Jesus is so removed from history that he cannot be imagined as Jewish. keywords: death; difference; god; jesus; life; relations; scjr cache: scjr-5178.pdf plain text: scjr-5178.txt item: #380 of 511 id: scjr-5179 author: Levine, Amy-Jill title: Reflections on Reflections: Jesus, Judaism, and Jewish-Christian Relations date: 2013-07-31 words: 4460 flesch: 53 summary: Some want in- formation to counter the false and ugly stereotypes about Jesus’ Jewish context not infrequently promulgated by misin- formed Christians; others seek ammunition to counter Christian missionaries. Whereas this emphasis on the human Jesus, embedded in his social context, should have promoted a generous, appreciative reading of Jesus’ Jewish context, at times the opposite is the case. keywords: christian; context; god; jesus; jews; judaism; relations; scjr; studies cache: scjr-5179.pdf plain text: scjr-5179.txt item: #381 of 511 id: scjr-5182 author: Cunningham, Philip A. title: A Catholic Theology of the Land?: The State of the Question date: 2013-08-02 words: 4870 flesch: 33 summary: As with the 1985 Vatican Notes, both of these documents urge Christians to understand and respect Jewish ties to Eretz Yisrael, but not to embrace any particular religious understanding of the foundation of the modern State of Israel. 4. Jews as the “Chosen People” Another pathway closed to Catholics is to backslide in- to a sort of “default position” that denies or minimizes the vitality of Jewish covenantal life. keywords: catholic; christian; god; israel; jews; land; people; relations; state cache: scjr-5182.pdf plain text: scjr-5182.txt item: #382 of 511 id: scjr-5183 author: Visotzky, Burton L. title: Some Aspects of Rabbinic Literature on Holy Land and Covenant date: 2013-08-02 words: 4205 flesch: 70 summary: 19 If heavenly Jerusalem was pure and pristine, then it was safe to aver that the reason earthly Jerusalem had been destroyed for the Jews of yore was due to hypocritical piety and base hatred of one Jew for an- other. Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations SCJR 8 (2013) 1 www.bc.edu/scjr PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLE Some Aspects of Rabbinic Literature on Holy Land and Covenant 1 Burton L. Visotzky, The Jewish Theological Seminary of America In the biblical book of Deuteronomy 11:31-32, God commands the Israelites, “You are crossing the Jordan to in- herit the Land which the Lord, your God, has given you. keywords: israel; jerusalem; jews; land; rabbi; rabbinic; relations; scjr; studies cache: scjr-5183.pdf plain text: scjr-5183.txt item: #383 of 511 id: scjr-5184 author: Patton, Pamela A. title: Herbert L. Kessler and David Nirenberg, Eds. Judaism and Christian Art: Aesthetic Anxieties from the Catacombs to Colonialism date: 2013-08-02 words: 971 flesch: 37 summary: Sara Lipton explores the visual and epis- temological elaboration of Augustine’s “Jewish witness” as a means of validating both Christian truths and Christian senso- ry experience in the twelfth-century. Judaism and Christian Art: Aesthetic Anxieties from the Catacombs to Colonialism (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011), hardcover, 456 pages + 110 illustrations. keywords: art; christian; jews; judaism cache: scjr-5184.pdf plain text: scjr-5184.txt item: #384 of 511 id: scjr-5185 author: Sherman, Franklin title: Brooks Schramm and Kirsi I. Stjerna. Martin Luther, the Bible, and the Jewish People: A Reader. Eric W. Gritsch. Martin Luther's Anti-Semitism: Against His Better Judgment date: 2013-08-02 words: 1453 flesch: 51 summary: Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations SCJR 8 (2013) 1 www.bc.edu/scjr REVIEW Brooks Schramm and Kirsi I. Stjerna Martin Luther, the Bible, and the Jewish People: A Reader (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2012) Schramm contributes an introductory overview of “Martin Luther, the Bible, and the Jewish People,” while Stjerna provides an extensive, historical- ly nuanced essay on “The Jew in Luther’s World.” keywords: gritsch; jews; luther; stjerna cache: scjr-5185.pdf plain text: scjr-5185.txt item: #385 of 511 id: scjr-5186 author: Marans, Noam E. title: Alan L. Berger, Ed. Trialogue and Terror: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam after 9/11 date: 2013-08-02 words: 946 flesch: 50 summary: The book’s topics are as diverse as the authors, including Bible (Theresa Sanders); geopolitics (Akbar S. Ahmed); human rights (Donald J. Dietrich); afterlife (David Patterson); interreligious journeys (Mary C. Boys, Muhammad Shafiq); Jewish-Muslim history (Anouar Majid); education (Deborah Weissman); sal- vation (Gilbert S. Rosenthal); evangelization (John T. Pawlikowski); peace (A. Rashied Omar) and the evolution of interreligious relations (A. James Rudin, Ricardo Di Segni, Eugene J. Fisher, and Khaleel Mohammed). But notwithstanding the significant advances of select trialogue endeavors, Trialogue and Terror affirms the challenges of trialogue when two of the communi- ties (Judaism and Christianity) have significant mutual histories in modern interreligious relations and one (Islam) does not. keywords: islam; jewish; relations cache: scjr-5186.pdf plain text: scjr-5186.txt item: #386 of 511 id: scjr-5187 author: Resnick, Irven M. title: Devorah Schoenfeld. Isaac on Jewish & Christian Altars: Polemic and Exegesis in Rashi and the Glossa Ordinaria date: 2013-08-02 words: 1061 flesch: 43 summary: Although Rashi lived in a Christian culture in northern France and was aware of some Christian doctrines, Schoenfeld acknowledges that “there is no evidence that Rashi read Latin or read Christian biblical exegesis” (p. 4). The Glossa generates an anti-Jewish polemical reading, while Rashi, although he never mentions Christianity, develops a polemical interpretation that is intend- ed to undermine Christian exegesis. keywords: christian; jewish; rashi cache: scjr-5187.pdf plain text: scjr-5187.txt item: #387 of 511 id: scjr-5188 author: Massena, Andrew title: Lloyd Kim. Polemic in the Book of Hebrews: Anti-Judaism, Anti-Semitism, or Supersessionism? Princeton Theological Monograph Series 64 date: 2013-08-02 words: 1234 flesch: 50 summary: But Kim does view the epistle as anti-Jewish and supersessionist, with qualifications. It is anti- Jewish to the extent that it reflects intra-Jewish theological disa- greements (interestingly, Kim defines anti-Judaism as any “theological disagreement” between Jews, or between Jews and Jewish-Christians or Gentiles keywords: hebrews; kim cache: scjr-5188.pdf plain text: scjr-5188.txt item: #388 of 511 id: scjr-5189 author: Joselit, Jenna Weissman title: Neal King. The Passion of the Christ date: 2013-08-02 words: 981 flesch: 51 summary: Insisting that his uncommonly gory and violent film was about “faith, hope, love and forgiveness” and that the profoundly hostile anti-Jewish sources to which he resorted were based on the facts—“I’m telling the story as the Bible tells it,” he claimed—the filmmaker rejected out of hand any notion that he was doing Jews, or history, for that matter, a Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations 2 SCJR 8 (2013) Little wonder, then, that “The Passion of Christ became a cause célèbre,” writes Neal King in his elegant and incisive ac- count of the contretemps. keywords: film; king cache: scjr-5189.pdf plain text: scjr-5189.txt item: #389 of 511 id: scjr-5190 author: Langer, Ruth title: Elisheva Carlebach and Jacob J. Schachter, Eds. New Perspectives on Jewish-Christian Relations: In Honor of David Berger date: 2013-08-02 words: 1129 flesch: 43 summary: This wide-ranging collection presents many of the approaches to the study of the relationship be- tween Jews and Christians typical of orthodox participants in the world of Jewish Studies today. Debra Kaplan discusses the chang- ing applications of halakhic restrictions on Jewish women’s being in the presence of Christian men in light of changing economic conditions, but does not sufficiently contextualize her discussion of the (today “difficult”) presumptions about the nature of non-Jews on which this is based. keywords: articles; christian; jews; relations cache: scjr-5190.pdf plain text: scjr-5190.txt item: #390 of 511 id: scjr-5191 author: Jackson-McCabe, Matt title: Edwin K. Broadhead. Jewish Ways of Following Jesus: Redrawing the Religious Map of Antiquity date: 2013-08-02 words: 1135 flesch: 43 summary: The central aim of this book is “to isolate and to collect” the surviving “historical markers” for this “Jewish Christianity” in order to place it back on the map and thus to “lay to rest any assertion that Jewish Christianity did not exist or that it did not matter” (p. 2). A broadly similar set of criteria are brought to bear on the Letter of James (pp. 133-34), while the Letter of Jude is said to stand “firmly in the realm of Jewish Christianity” (p. 135) simply due to a “conceptual world…built upon the lit- erature of Palestinian Judaism” (p. 134) and a “guiding ethos…of Jewish apocalyptic thought” (p. 135). keywords: chapter; christianity cache: scjr-5191.pdf plain text: scjr-5191.txt item: #391 of 511 id: scjr-5192 author: Cucchiara, Martina title: Robert A. Ventresca. Soldier of Christ: The Life of Pope Pius XII date: 2013-08-02 words: 1185 flesch: 46 summary: Pope Pius XII, born Eugenio Pacelli (1876-1958), emerges in the first chapter as a highly intelligent but frail scion of the Roman black nobility (aristocratic families that backed the Vat- ican in earlier disputes with secular rulers). This impression of moral failure is reinforced in the chapter on the immediate post-war era when, freed from the fetters of Nazism, Pope Pius XII still did not heed calls to exhibit courage and leadership in the face of the singular catastrophe of the Holocaust and to speak out clearly and decisively against antisemitism. keywords: pius; xii cache: scjr-5192.pdf plain text: scjr-5192.txt item: #392 of 511 id: scjr-5193 author: Walton, Michael T. title: David H. Price. Johannes Reuchlin and the Campaign to Destroy Jewish Books date: 2013-08-02 words: 849 flesch: 52 summary: Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations SCJR 8 (2013) 1 www.bc.edu/scjr REVIEW David H. Price Johannes Reuchlin and the Campaign to Destroy Jewish Books (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), hardcover, ix + 355 pp. Michael T. Walton, Independent Scholar In 1509, the Jewish convert to Christianity, Johannes Pfef- ferkorn, supported by the Dominicans and the Franciscans, persuaded Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I to authorize the confiscation and burning of Jewish books. When Reuchlin, to the surprise of Pfefferkorn and the theolo- gians, opposed destroying Jewish books, fault lines between the humanists’ biblical studies based on original languages and established doctrines appeared. keywords: books; reuchlin cache: scjr-5193.pdf plain text: scjr-5193.txt item: #393 of 511 id: scjr-5194 author: Fisher, Benjamin title: Robert Chazan. Reassessing Jewish Life in Medieval Europe date: 2013-08-02 words: 1446 flesch: 33 summary: Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations SCJR 8 (2013) 5 www.bc.edu/scjr Chazan’s efforts to counter misconceptions held regarding medieval Jewish history are balanced and judicious. By the end of the book, the reader has encountered a coherent syn- thesis of medieval Jewish history between 1000-1500 emphasizing the positive and negative aspects of the Jewish experience. keywords: chazan; christian; europe; medieval cache: scjr-5194.pdf plain text: scjr-5194.txt item: #394 of 511 id: scjr-5238 author: Mann, Barbara title: Neta Stahl. Other and Brother: Jesus in the 20th Century Jewish Literary Landscape date: 2013-09-04 words: 1216 flesch: 46 summary: These native, largely secular writ- ers had little truck with the potential stigma and antisemitism often associated with Christianity for European Jewish writers. Stahl’s arguments concern one particular set of currents within modern Jewish experience that culminated in the establishment of a national homeland. keywords: figure; jesus; stahl cache: scjr-5238.pdf plain text: scjr-5238.txt item: #395 of 511 id: scjr-5239 author: Kanarfogel, Ephraim title: Irven M. Resnick. Marks of Distinction: Christian Perceptions of Jews in the High Middle Ages date: 2013-09-04 words: 1232 flesch: 39 summary: Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations SCJR 8 (2013) 1 www.bc.edu/scjr REVIEW Irven M. Resnick Marks of Distinction: Christian Perceptions of Jews in the High Middle Ages (Washington, DC: Ephraim Kanarfogel, Yeshiva University In this thoroughly researched and well-written work, Irven Resnick sets out to demonstrate that medieval Christians viewed Jews as different not only in terms of their religious be- liefs and practices, but also on the basis of their physical nature. keywords: christian; jews; resnick cache: scjr-5239.pdf plain text: scjr-5239.txt item: #396 of 511 id: scjr-5240 author: Kaplan, Debra title: Yaacov Deutsch. Judaism in Christian Eyes: Ethnographic Descriptions of Jews and Judaism in Early Modern Europe, trans. by Avi Aronsky date: 2013-09-04 words: 1072 flesch: 45 summary: The religious battles between Catholics and Protestants were also an important con- text for some of the polemical aspects of this genre, as some of the characterizations of Jewish ritual as superstitious could be “interpreted as veiled criticism against Catholics” (pp. 29-30). By choosing to highlight certain rituals ra- ther than others, the authors of the ethnographic texts created an opportunity to point to what they perceived as anti- Christian and superstitious elements of Jewish practice. keywords: authors; deutsch; texts cache: scjr-5240.pdf plain text: scjr-5240.txt item: #397 of 511 id: scjr-5265 author: Crane, Richard Francis; Moore, Brenna title: Cracks in the Theology of Contempt: The French Roots of Nostra Aetate date: 2013-09-27 words: 9947 flesch: 50 summary: Réflexions sur un parcours,” in Jacques Maritain, L’impossible anti- sémitisme, précédé de Jacques Maritain et les Juifs par Pierre Vidal- Naquet (Paris: See also Rich- ard Francis Crane, “Heart-Rending Ambivalence: Jacques Maritain and the Complexities of Postwar Catholic Philosemitism,” Studies in Christian- Jewish Relations 6 (2011). keywords: aetate; antisemitism; catholic; christian; church; de lubac; henri; isaac; jacques; jacques maritain; jews; judaism; jules; lubac; maritain; new; nostra; raïssa; relations; scjr; studies cache: scjr-5265.pdf plain text: scjr-5265.txt item: #398 of 511 id: scjr-5266 author: Nussberger, Mark title: Peter Schafer. The Jewish Jesus: How Judaism and Christianity Shaped Each Other date: 2013-09-27 words: 1024 flesch: 36 summary: In his latest book, Peter Schäfer, one of the world’s foremost scholars of rabbinic Judaism, makes his own contribution to the ongoing reconceptualization of ancient Jewish-Christian re- lations, in part responding to the work of scholars such as Daniel Boyarin and Adiel Schremer. Schäfer discerns evidence for those Jewish rivals to Jesus, and thus for the existence of minim (“heretics”) both within and outside emerging rabbinic Judaism, through a close historical- critical reading of rabbinic texts. keywords: jewish; schäfer cache: scjr-5266.pdf plain text: scjr-5266.txt item: #399 of 511 id: scjr-5330 author: Bell, Dean Phillip title: Robert Aleksander Maryks. The Jesuit Order as a Synagogue of Jews: Jesuits of Jewish Ancestry and Purity-of-Blood Laws in the Early Society of Jesus. Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions 146 date: 2013-10-29 words: 863 flesch: 40 summary: In some cases, an endorsement of anti-converso legislation appears to have been a means by which some tried to mask their Jewish ances- try. The increasing concern with purity of blood and the growth of anti-converso sensibilities throw into sharp contrast the obser- vation that Christians of Jewish ancestry played prominent roles in the first generations of the Order and the initial anti- discriminatory approach of the Jesuits, which Maryks casts as an act of bold resistance to religious and political currents of the day. keywords: converso; maryks; order cache: scjr-5330.pdf plain text: scjr-5330.txt item: #400 of 511 id: scjr-5331 author: Nickson, Tom title: Pamela Patton. Art of Estrangement: Redefining Jews in Reconquest Spain date: 2013-10-29 words: 1117 flesch: 41 summary: For instance, if the Cantigas were in- deed painted in the 1270s and early 1280s in Seville— conquered only in 1248—then they were produced in the midst of a community of first and second generation settlers that included many Jews, as well as Christians (and their books) from northern Spain and beyond. Chapter two, “Topos and Narrative: New Signs and Stories for Iberian Jews,” then traces the earliest attempts to develop a visual lexicon with which to represent Jews, one typically in- debted to northern European stereotypes, even if these Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations 2 SCJR 8 (2013) sometimes seem to be resisted. keywords: christian; jews; patton cache: scjr-5331.pdf plain text: scjr-5331.txt item: #401 of 511 id: scjr-5332 author: Smerick, Christina title: Peter Ochs. Another Reformation: Postliberal Christianity and the Jews date: 2013-11-01 words: 1133 flesch: 44 summary: Ochs’ main point is that postliberal theologians hold that the Church need not turn from the Gospels or from the history of church doctrine in order to reject supersessionism. A clear distinction between the desire for union that is part of mod- ernist thought (and therefore looked upon with suspicion by postliberal theologians) and this continued longing for unity ar- ticulated in Ochs’ reading of these theologians is not immediately apparent. keywords: ochs; theologians; thought cache: scjr-5332.pdf plain text: scjr-5332.txt item: #402 of 511 id: scjr-5338 author: Novenson, Matthew V. title: Thomas G. Casey and Justin Taylor, Eds. Paul's Jewish Matrix date: 2013-11-25 words: 1019 flesch: 44 summary: Didier Pollefeyt and David J. Bolton, in “Paul, Deicide, and the Wrath of God: Towards a Hermeneutical Reading of 1 Thess 2:14-16,” survey various text-critical and exegetical strat- egies for dealing with an ostensibly anti-Jewish Pauline text and favor a theological-hermeneutical solution that gives priority to God’s salvation over God’s wrath. Serge Ruzer, in “Paul’s Stance on the Torah Revisited: Gentile Addressees and the Jewish Setting,” argues that Paul’s ostensi- bly anti-Torah statements reflect pre-Christian intra-Jewish debate about the proper purpose of the Torah. keywords: book; essays; paul cache: scjr-5338.pdf plain text: scjr-5338.txt item: #403 of 511 id: scjr-5339 author: Marmur, Michael title: Alon Goshen-Gottstein and Eugene Korn, Eds. Jewish Theology and World Religions date: 2013-11-25 words: 951 flesch: 44 summary: Considering the implications of what he terms “religious loyalty” and the Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations 2 SCJR 8 (2013) extent to which pluralism is compatible with Jewish tradition, Sagi’s short article is an invaluable survey in English of some of his key philosophical insights into this question. Paul B. Fenton trawls centuries of Jewish tradition to provide a fascinating examination of “Islam in Jewish Thought and Faith.” keywords: book; jewish; religions cache: scjr-5339.pdf plain text: scjr-5339.txt item: #404 of 511 id: scjr-5369 author: Ariel, Yaakov title: David Rudolph and Joel Willitts, Eds. Introduction to Messianic Judaism: Its Ecclesial Context and Biblical Foundations date: 2014-01-03 words: 625 flesch: 42 summary: Messianic Jews take special interest in such matters as they are strongly connected to their historical perception of the place of Jewish believers, and of Judaism in general, within the church. Scholars such as Daniel Harrington, Darrell Bock, Todd Wilson, and Scott Hafemann take the view that passages in the New Testament point to the existence of vibrant Jewish Christian communities in the early generations of Christianity. keywords: jews; judaism cache: scjr-5369.pdf plain text: scjr-5369.txt item: #405 of 511 id: scjr-5383 author: Gottlieb, Isaac; Vanning, Stewart title: Rupert and Bekhor Shor date: 2014-02-07 words: 11446 flesch: 64 summary: Unfortunately, we cannot investigate this possibility, as Qara’s commentary on the Pentateuch is 12 Sarah Kamin, “The Polemic against Allegory in the Commentary of Rabbi Joseph Bekhor Shor,” in Sarah Kamin, Jews and Christians (Jerusa- lem: Magnes Press, 2008), 89–112 [Heb.], rpt. Wayne State University Press, 2013), 161, n.137, cites Rami Reiner’s suggestion that Bekhor Shor was born in the early 1120s. keywords: abraham; angels; bekhor shor; bible; case; cccm; christian; comment; commentary; est; exegesis; explanation; god; idea; interpretation; jacob; jewish; land; life; lord; midrash; nahmanides; peshat; rashi; relations; relations scjr; rupert; scjr; studies; tree; word cache: scjr-5383.pdf plain text: scjr-5383.txt item: #406 of 511 id: scjr-5384 author: Hess, Jonathan M. title: Ruth HaCohen. The Music Libel Against the Jews date: 2014-02-07 words: 1064 flesch: 42 summary: As Ruth HaCohen demon- strates, Wagner’s polemics against Jewishness in the musical world rest on a long and deep tradition in Western culture of setting Jewish noise in opposition to Christian harmony, on a “music libel” against the Jews that charges Jews with producing noise in a Christian world governed by harmonious sounds. She exposes both the ongoing unease over Jewish noise constitutive of much Western musi- cal culture and the dramatic changes that occur, starting in the mid-eighteenth century, as the sonic worlds of Jewish and Christian culture begin to collide and interact to create a new, shared sonic sphere. keywords: hacohen; jewish; music cache: scjr-5384.pdf plain text: scjr-5384.txt item: #407 of 511 id: scjr-5385 author: Sherman, Franklin title: Robert W. Jenson and Eugene B. Korn, Eds. Covenant & Hope: Christian and Jewish Reflections date: 2013-02-07 words: 1052 flesch: 48 summary: The venera- ble Jewish philosopher and theologian Michael Wyschogrod, in a highly idiosyncratic essay, proposes that since covenant implies kingship, the State of Israel should declare itself a Davidic monarchy, meanwhile appointing a “regent” to sym- bolize the absence of an actual king (p. 142). Christian and Jewish Reflections (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2012) Franklin Sherman, Muhlenberg College (Emeritus) keywords: covenant; god cache: scjr-5385.pdf plain text: scjr-5385.txt item: #408 of 511 id: scjr-5386 author: Price, David H. title: Sina Rauschenbach. Judentum für Christen: Vermittlung und Selbstbehauptung Menasseh ben Israels in den gelehrten Debatten des 17. Jahrhunderts. date: 2014-02-07 words: 1091 flesch: 38 summary: Menasseh ben Israel, the prolific Sephardic author and pub- lisher, was read so avidly by Christian scholars that Cecil Roth fittingly dubbed him “an apostle to the gentiles.” Menasseh ben Israel and the Christian Respublica Litteraria.” keywords: christian; latin; menasseh cache: scjr-5386.pdf plain text: scjr-5386.txt item: #409 of 511 id: scjr-5398 author: Worthen, Jeremy title: Praying the Psalms and the Challenges of Christian–Jewish Relations: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Thomas Merton date: 2014-03-03 words: 8308 flesch: 50 summary: Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations SCJR 9 (2014) 1 www.bc.edu/scjr PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLE Praying the Psalms and the Challenges of Christian–Jewish Relations: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Thomas Merton Jeremy Worthen, South East Institute for Theological Education Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Thomas Merton are two of the most enduringly influential figures from twentieth-century Christianity, and their overlapping lives were bound up with what might be counted among its pivotal events. , Bonhoeffer taught his students that “The church of God is Jewish Relations 2:1 (2007): 53–67, http://ejournals.bc.edu/ojs/index.php/scjr/article/view/1402 (accessed Au- gust 28 2013). keywords: bible; bonhoeffer; christian; god; judaism; life; merton; praying; psalms; relations; scjr; studies cache: scjr-5398.pdf plain text: scjr-5398.txt item: #410 of 511 id: scjr-5399 author: Connelly, John title: Eschatology and the Ideology of Anti-Judaism date: 2014-03-03 words: 7394 flesch: 64 summary: From 1939 she was involved in helping German Jews escape to Switzerland, and focused specially on the rescue of Jewish children. Karl Thieme justified his radical change by turning to the one statement in the New Testament where the author ex- plicitly tells followers of Christ what to make of the fact that most Jews did not accept Christ as Messiah (statements in Acts or the Gospels are not as direct). keywords: anti; catholic; christian; church; god; jewish; jews; judaism; new; oesterreicher; people; relations; scjr; studies; thieme cache: scjr-5399.pdf plain text: scjr-5399.txt item: #411 of 511 id: scjr-5400 author: Schoenfeld, Devorah title: Anna Sapir Abulafia. Christian-Jewish Relations 1000-1300: Jews in the Service of Medieval Christendom date: 2014-03-03 words: 981 flesch: 43 summary: Many medieval Jews did not see themselves as servants of Christendom at all, but rather as dia- logue partners, with the ability to reject Christian uses of their scholarship and to respond to Christian anti-Jewish polemics with a polemic of their own. The trope of Jewish servitude, as Abulafia shows, is a tool that Christian thinkers developed for navi- gating between these two ideas about Jews and for finding them a role and a place in their society. keywords: jews; trope cache: scjr-5400.pdf plain text: scjr-5400.txt item: #412 of 511 id: scjr-5405 author: Rioli, Maria Chiara title: John Connelly. From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews, 1933-1965 date: 2014-03-03 words: 749 flesch: 41 summary: Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations SCJR 9 (2014) 1 www.bc.edu/scjr REVIEW John Connelly From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews, 1933-1965 (Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: Harvard University Press, 2012), 376 pp. The book explores, through a chronological approach, the shift that occurred in Catholic attitudes toward the Jews and the move away from a long tradition of Catholic anti- Judaism and antisemitism toward new, more positive views. keywords: connelly; jews cache: scjr-5405.pdf plain text: scjr-5405.txt item: #413 of 511 id: scjr-5496 author: Lasker, Daniel J. title: Christoph Ochs. Matthaeus Adversus Christianos. The Use of the Gospel of Matthew in Jewish Polemics Against the Divinity of Jesus date: 2014-04-29 words: 1138 flesch: 43 summary: One group of especially close readers of the Christian scriptures consisted of Jewish polemicists who took upon themselves the defense of Judaism and the refutation of Christianity. Why did Jewish polemicists focus on Matthew? keywords: book; christian; matthew cache: scjr-5496.pdf plain text: scjr-5496.txt item: #414 of 511 id: scjr-5497 author: Dunn, Geoffrey D. title: F.J.E. Boddens Hosang. Establishing Boundaries: Christian-Jewish Relations in Early Council Texts and the Writings of Church Fathers. Jewish and Christian Perspectives, Vol. 19 date: 2014-04-29 words: 973 flesch: 57 summary: While this vol- ume may be of use to someone who knows little about early Christianity, it fails to be what is needed as an investigation in- to early canonical material on the relationship between Jews and Christians and in relating that material to the well- surveyed body of literature. Christian canonical legislation has not had much influence on studies of this relationship. keywords: chapter; christian cache: scjr-5497.pdf plain text: scjr-5497.txt item: #415 of 511 id: scjr-5498 author: Borelli, John title: John Connelly. From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews, 1933-1965 date: 2014-04-29 words: 2234 flesch: 51 summary: Vermes and Démann would eventually return to Jewish life, but they first Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations SCJR 9 (2014) 3 www.bc.edu/scjr made contributions to improving Catholic views of Jews right up to the convening of Vatican II. French speakers also included the Jewish scholar Jules Isaac and those Christians and Jews in his circle, L'Amitié Judéo-chrétiènne de France, founded in 1948 with its journal, Sens. Also, there was a Fribourg / Basel contingent that included Thieme as well as Charles Journet, a regular correspondent with Maritain. keywords: aetate; catholic; connelly; council; jews; nostra; relations cache: scjr-5498.pdf plain text: scjr-5498.txt item: #416 of 511 id: scjr-5601 author: Ventresca, Robert A. title: The Vatican was for us like a mountain: Reassessing the Vatican's Role in Jewish Relief and Rescue during the Holocaust. Settled Questions and New Directions in Research. date: 2014-06-03 words: 16179 flesch: 43 summary: The response to 23 So claimed Ronald Rychlak in his book Hitler, the War, and the Pope (Huntingon, Ind.: Our Sunday Visitor, 2000), 203, 365; the claim has been authoritatively rebutted by Zuccotti in her contribution to the symposium “Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust in Italy,” pp. 244-245. 24 ADSS, 8, #5, Innitzer to Pius XII, Vienna, January 20, 1941, 78-79. 29 Aryeh L. Kubovy (Leon Kubowitzki), “The Silence of Pope Pius XII and the Beginnings of the ‘Jewish Document,’” 16. 30 Author, (2013), 100-105. Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations 16 SCJR 9 (2014) matters, both domestic and foreign, Pius XII and his chief dip- lomats continued to pursue a line of diplomatic engagement. keywords: aid; benoît; catholic; delasem; father; holocaust; holy; italy; jewish; jews; new; papal; pius; pius xii; pope; relations; relief; rescue; rome; scjr; studies; vatican; war; work; world; xii cache: scjr-5601.pdf plain text: scjr-5601.txt item: #417 of 511 id: scjr-5602 author: Cunningham, Philip A. title: Mark Braverman. A Wall in Jerusalem: Hope, Healing, and the Struggle for Justice in Israel and Palestine date: 2014-06-03 words: 2297 flesch: 36 summary: Seen from this wider perspective, Braverman’s assertion that “It is the faithful action of the global church that will be critical in ending the system that is destroying Israeli society, has hijacked the Jewish faith, continues to fuel global conflict, and has produced one of the most systematic and long-standing violations of human rights in the world today” (p. 228) seems woefully inadequate. First, he fairly enough claims that Christians developed a “new theology” toward Jews be- cause of the Shoah, but Braverman also asserts that “just as powerful was the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 and then the Israeli victory in the 1967 war ... that changed the way Christians began to regard the Jewish people” (p. 5). keywords: braverman; jews; judaism; state cache: scjr-5602.pdf plain text: scjr-5602.txt item: #418 of 511 id: scjr-5603 author: Ruiz, Jean-Pierre title: Jorge Mario Bergoglio and Abraham Skorka. On Heaven and Earth: Pope Francis on Faith, Family, and the Church in the Twenty-First Century date: 2014-06-03 words: 1289 flesch: 52 summary: Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations SCJR 9 (2014) 1 www.bc.edu/scjr REVIEW Jorge Mario Bergoglio and Abraham Skorka On Heaven and Earth: Pope Francis on Faith, Family, and the Church in the Twenty-First Century Translated by Alejandro Bermudez and Howard Goodman (New York: Image, 2013), xvi + 236 pp. Jean-Pierre Ruiz, St. John’s University NY What would have been the fate of this book if Jorge Mario Bergoglio, S.J. had not emerged on the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica on March 13, 2013 as Francis, the 266 th bishop of Rome? The book’s co-authors are Cardi- nal Bergoglio and his close friend Rabbi Abraham Skorka, rector of the Seminario Rabinico Latinoamericano “Marshall T. Meyer.” keywords: bergoglio; book; pope cache: scjr-5603.pdf plain text: scjr-5603.txt item: #419 of 511 id: scjr-5624 author: Spielman, Loren R. title: Holger M. Zellentin. Rabbinic Parodies of Jewish and Christian Literature date: 2014-07-01 words: 1419 flesch: 41 summary: Zellentin here turns his attention to “external” or “exegetical” parodies”—i.e., rabbinic texts that imitate and satirize non-rabbinic texts. “Inter-rabbinic parodies” are also found at the redactional layer of rabbinic texts, but differ from “intra- Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations 2 SCJR 9 (2014) rabbinic parodies” because the texts that they target were pro- duced by other groups or communities of rabbis. keywords: rabbinic; texts; zellentin cache: scjr-5624.pdf plain text: scjr-5624.txt item: #420 of 511 id: scjr-5651 author: Peace, Jennifer title: Jesper Svartvik and Jakob Wirén, Eds. Religious Stereotyping and Interreligious Relations date: 2014-08-04 words: 1160 flesch: 39 summary: The twenty-two contributions by international scholars (both sea- soned and emerging) come from a richly diverse range of disciplinary backgrounds including religious studies; theology; philosophy; history; international relations; Islamic theology; comparative literature; Jewish studies; peace and conflict stud- ies; ethics; psychology; biblical studies; and interreligious studies. Categories shift in Part IV from an emphasis on religious iden- tity and interreligious relations to an emphasis on national identities and political relations. keywords: relations; stereotyping; studies; volume cache: scjr-5651.pdf plain text: scjr-5651.txt item: #421 of 511 id: scjr-5652 author: Crossley, James title: Neta Stahl. Jesus among the Jews: Representation and Thought date: 2014-08-04 words: 949 flesch: 25 summary: For example, work by Hal- vor Moxnes, Susannah Heschel, Ward Blanton, Shawn Kelley, and others on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Chris- tian thinkers and historical Jesus scholars raise similar questions. James Crossley, University of Sheffield Jesus among the Jews brings together scholars from across Jewish Studies to look at receptions of Jesus, from the earliest Jewish understandings through medieval debates up to con- temporary Israeli uses, covering rabbis, messiahs, philosophers, theologians, poets, and artists. keywords: essay; jesus; studies cache: scjr-5652.pdf plain text: scjr-5652.txt item: #422 of 511 id: scjr-5718 author: Lawrence, Beatrice title: A Time to Deconstruct: Refining the Work of Jewish-Christian Engagement date: 2014-09-30 words: 12171 flesch: 39 summary: Essentialization: the failure to recognize the vast diversity in Jewish communities today in terms of practice and belief, the misunderstanding of Judaism in the 1 st c. CE as monolith- ic, the insistence that 1 st c. Judaism is accurately depicted in the gospels, and/or the equation of the Judaism of the late Second Temple period with contemporary Judaism. The canons are different in significant ways: the Catholic and Orthodox forms of the Old Testament contain books that are not sacred in Jewish tradition, and certain translation issues pertaining to the use of the Septuagint vs. the He- brew/Masoretic manuscripts result in significant theological changes. keywords: approaches; christian; christianity; community; engagement; faith; god; jews; judaism; knitter; new; pluralism; relations; religions; scjr; studies; theologies; theology; work cache: scjr-5718.pdf plain text: scjr-5718.txt item: #423 of 511 id: scjr-5792 author: Fancy, Hussein title: Paola Tartakoff. Between Christian and Jew: Conversion and Inquisition in the Crown of Aragon, 1250-1391 date: 2014-11-05 words: 1073 flesch: 54 summary: Part Two, “At the Font of New Life,” examines the motiva- tions and lives of Jewish converts to Christianity before 1391. Indeed, like Jewish converts, Muslim converts to Christianity who “re- lapsed” were subject to inquisition and the death penalty. keywords: christian; converts; tartakoff cache: scjr-5792.pdf plain text: scjr-5792.txt item: #424 of 511 id: scjr-5793 author: Cunningham, Philip A.; Nanos, Mark D. title: Implications of Paul's Hopes for the End of Days for Jews and Christians Today: A Critical Re-evaluation of the Evidence date: 2014-11-05 words: 17378 flesch: 52 summary: In a pivotal passage in that chapter wherein Paul de- scribes the restoration of Israel as well as the reconciliation of the rest of Creation, he reveals his conviction that this process was going to reach its next stage through the completion of his ministry to the nations. According to this ubiquitous Christian view, which naturally also shaped Jewish perceptions of Paul’s attitudes toward Jews and their religious sensibilities, Paul de- clared the end of the “Law” as a futile effort by the Jewish people to earn God’s favor. keywords: christian; gentiles; god; israel; jesus; jews; judaism; nations; new; non; paul; present; relations; relations scjr; romans; scjr; studies; time; way cache: scjr-5793.pdf plain text: scjr-5793.txt item: #425 of 511 id: scjr-5827 author: Cathey, Robert title: Paul R. Hinlicky. Before Auschwitz: What Christian Theology Must Learn from the Rise of Nazism date: 2015-12-02 words: 1077 flesch: 42 summary: Finally, I wanted to ask the author at the end of each chapter and the book what were the implications of his research for how we critically evaluate Christian theology today with regard to particular movements and authors? The im- plication seems to be that the Person and Work of Christ are salvific for the nations (the Gentiles) but unnecessary for Jesus’ own Jewish people, whose covenant with God is irrevocable. keywords: theological; theology cache: scjr-5827.pdf plain text: scjr-5827.txt item: #426 of 511 id: scjr-5828 author: Tonias, Demetrios E. title: Robert Bonfil, Oded Irshai, Guy G. Stroumsa, and Rina Talgam, Eds. Jews in Byzantium: Dialectics of Minority and Majority Cultures date: 2014-12-02 words: 1077 flesch: 45 summary: These ar- ticles also demonstrate the uniqueness of Byzantine Jewish life when viewed against the backdrop of the broader Jewish world. There is a general concern on the part of the editors and the authors that Byzantine Jewish life be situated within the broader cultural milieu. keywords: christian; jews; life cache: scjr-5828.pdf plain text: scjr-5828.txt item: #427 of 511 id: scjr-5829 author: Kaell, Hillary title: Yaacov Ariel. An Unusual Relationship: Evangelical Christians and Jews date: 2014-12-02 words: 899 flesch: 38 summary: Hillary Kaell, Concordia University Describing evangelicals’ “unusual” relationship with Jews and Judaism, historian Yaacov Ariel notes that “in no other in- stance have members of one community of faith considered another group to hold a special role in the divine course of human redemption and to be their God’s first nation” (p. 245). That said, at times Ariel overstates the case, calling its production “amazing” and “remarkable” (and even as rich and creative as non-Christian Jewish Yiddish literature keywords: ariel; christian; relationship cache: scjr-5829.pdf plain text: scjr-5829.txt item: #428 of 511 id: scjr-5830 author: Carenen, Caitlin title: Hillary Kaell. Walking Where Jesus Walked: American Christians and Holy Land Pilgrimage date: 2014-12-02 words: 1180 flesch: 37 summary: Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations SCJR 9 (2014) 1 www.bc.edu/scjr REVIEW Hillary Kaell Walking Where Jesus Walked: American Christians and Holy Land Pilgrimage (New York and London: New York University Press, 2014), paperback, xiii + 269 pp. Caitlin Carenen, Eastern Connecticut State University In Walking Where Jesus Walked: American Christianity and Holy Land Pilgrimage, Hillary Kaell uses a broad subject— twenty-first century Holy Land pilgrimage—to examine a deep- ly personal issue—faith and relationships of modern pilgrims. keywords: kaell; pilgrimage; pilgrims cache: scjr-5830.pdf plain text: scjr-5830.txt item: #429 of 511 id: scjr-5873 author: Svartvik, Jesper title: Celia M. Deutsch, Eugene J. Fisher, and James Rudin, Eds. Toward the Future: Essays on Catholic-Jewish Relations in Memory of Rabbi León Klenicki date: 2014-01-05 words: 1118 flesch: 49 summary: As in other edited volumes, there are both overlapping chapters and tensions between the various parts of the book. On the one hand, because of texts, traditions, and terminology, Jews and Christians are joined together in a way that seems without parallel in other interreligious relations. keywords: christian; dialogue; relations cache: scjr-5873.pdf plain text: scjr-5873.txt item: #430 of 511 id: scjr-5874 author: Moyaert, Marianne title: Mary C. Boys. Redeeming our Sacred Story: The Death of Jesus and Relations between Jews and Christians date: 2014-01-05 words: 1210 flesch: 53 summary: Her historical analysis reveals how over the course of centuries Jews were charged with deicide, and how this charge prompted anti-Jewish violence. Throughout Christian history the pas- sion narratives that constitute the heart of Christian identity have been used to rationalize and legitimize violence against the Jewish people. keywords: boys; jews cache: scjr-5874.pdf plain text: scjr-5874.txt item: #431 of 511 id: scjr-5904 author: Hoffman, Jeffrey title: The Image of The Other in Jewish Interpretations of Alenu date: 2015-02-04 words: 14417 flesch: 59 summary: All other versions describe non-Jewish worship fairly generically, saying, “For they bow down to vanity and emptiness and pray to a god who cannot save.” 31 In a manu- script dated 1189 that French Jews brought with them to History: Rabbi Akiba’s im- mediate turn from personally experiencing the reality of Israel’s God in the most palpable, forceful, compelling, and persuasive way to declaring, over and over, the falsity of non- Jewish nations’ worship constitutes a most rhetorically power- ful condemnation of the non-Jewish Other. keywords: alenu; book; bow; century; christian; god; hebrew; image; israel; jerusalem; jews; judaism; liturgy; nations; non; prayer; rabbi; reform; relations; relations scjr; scjr; service; studies; text; translation; worship cache: scjr-5904.pdf plain text: scjr-5904.txt item: #432 of 511 id: scjr-5905 author: Pear, Rachel S. A. title: Jeremy Brown. New Heavens and a New Earth: The Jewish Reception of Copernican Thought date: 2015-02-04 words: 933 flesch: 38 summary: This “myth-busting” component of Brown’s work of scholarship will be of interest not only to academics in fields such as Jewish Studies and the History of Science, but to many non-academics as well. Taking on the ambitious project of tracing Jewish responses to Copernican thought from the 16 th century to the present in various geo- graphical contexts, Brown, a professor of medicine at George Washington University, looks at those who were sympathetic to and also those who were critical of Copernicus’ project. keywords: brown; reception; science cache: scjr-5905.pdf plain text: scjr-5905.txt item: #433 of 511 id: scjr-8657 author: McMaken, W. Travis title: “Shalom, Shalom, Shalom Israel!” Jews and Judaism in Helmut Gollwitzer’s Life and Theology date: 2015-04-09 words: 7928 flesch: 61 summary: For an overview of Gollwitzer’s political activism, see Claudia Lepp, “Helmut Gollwitzer als Dialogpartner der sozialen Bewegungen,” Umbrüche: Der deutsche 20 Gollwitzer speaks 18 Braun, “Helmut Gollwitzer in Den Jahren Des Kirchenkampfs 1934– 1938,” 95. 19 Paul Oestreicher writes concerning Dahlem: “Not only was this one of the wealthiest suburbs of the German capital, but in it lived a high propor- tion of the most influential and powerful people in Nazi Germany. keywords: buber; christian; church; der; german; gollwitzer; helmut; helmut gollwitzer; israel; jews; life; martin; scjr; und; work cache: scjr-8657.pdf plain text: scjr-8657.txt item: #434 of 511 id: scjr-8658 author: Azar, Michael G. title: Prophetic Matrix and Theological Paradox: Jews and Judaism in the Holy Week and Pascha Observances of the Greek Orthodox Church date: 2015-04-09 words: 10044 flesch: 54 summary: With regard to the practices of Holy Week specifically, one could mention the addition of the procession of the cross during Holy Friday Matins (Holy Thursday night)—one of the most distinct and memorable moments of Orthodox Holy Week, but one that was not added until the nineteenth century. As Amy-Jill Lev- ine has poignantly asked of Christian Holy Week in general, “[How] can a gospel of love be proclaimed, if that same gospel is heard to promote hatred of Jesus’s own people?” 3 Such an apparent contradiction in the Holy Week services has led to official amendments in the Western counterparts to these texts, but not in the East, though there have been varied calls to enact such changes from clergy and laypeople, not the least 3 Amy-Jill Levine, “Holy Week and the Hatred of the Jews,” ABC Religion and Ethics, April 4, 2012, http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2012/04/04/3470618.htm (accessed October 2014). keywords: christ; christian; friday; god; hai; hierai; holy; hymns; jewish; jews; lord; orthodox; pascha; people; scjr; texts; week cache: scjr-8658.pdf plain text: scjr-8658.txt item: #435 of 511 id: scjr-8659 author: Marans, Noam E. title: The Pope Francis Effect and Catholic-Jewish Relations date: 2015-04-09 words: 3361 flesch: 37 summary: Pope Francis did not hesitate to publicly herald a painting featuring a syncretistic “Jewish Jesus” that certainly has the potential to offend, notwithstanding the facts of Jesus’ historic Jewishness and the painter’s Jewish identity. Pope Francis’ artistic sensibili- ties are, perhaps, in sync with the Jewish people’s own cultural comfort level. 3 Chaim Potok. keywords: catholic; christian; francis; jewish; jews; march; pope; relations; studies cache: scjr-8659.pdf plain text: scjr-8659.txt item: #436 of 511 id: scjr-8660 author: Mikva, Rachel S. title: Jon D. Levenson. Inheriting Abraham: The Legacy of the Patriarch in Judaism, Christianity and Islam date: 2015-04-09 words: 1243 flesch: 26 summary: Levenson explores interpretations that present Abraham reasoning his way to the One God, and others that emphasize the essential components of revelation and relationship. Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations SCJR 10 (2015) 1 www.bc.edu/scjr REVIEW Jon D. Levenson Inheriting Abraham: The Legacy of the Patriarch in Judaism, Christianity and Islam (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012), hardcover, xvi + 214 pp. keywords: abraham; levenson; studies cache: scjr-8660.pdf plain text: scjr-8660.txt item: #437 of 511 id: scjr-8661 author: Urbano, Arthur P. title: Demetrios E. Tonias. Abraham in the Works of John Chrysostom date: 2015-04-09 words: 1124 flesch: 46 summary: Tonias develops the theological and eschatological significance of Abraham for Chrysostom in Chapter 4. Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations SCJR 10 (2015) 1 www.bc.edu/scjr REVIEW Demetrios E. Tonias Abraham in the Works of John Chrysostom (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2014), paperback, xiii + 223 pp. keywords: abraham; christian; chrysostom cache: scjr-8661.pdf plain text: scjr-8661.txt item: #438 of 511 id: scjr-8700 author: Zellentin, Holger title: Michal Bar-Asher Siegal. Early Christian Monastic Literature and the Babylonian Talmud date: 2015-04-28 words: 1432 flesch: 41 summary: Bar- Asher Siegal manages to present the shared values and the narrative affinities between Syriac and rabbinic literary culture at the same time as she maintains the essential distinctness and independent historical depth of both traditions. Impressively, Bar- Asher Siegal reads this story alongside the Sayings, and espe- cially with the story of John the Dwarf and the repentant prostitute Paesia. keywords: christian; siegal; talmud cache: scjr-8700.pdf plain text: scjr-8700.txt item: #439 of 511 id: scjr-8808 author: Millen, Rochelle L. title: Katherina von Kellenbach. The Mark of Cain: Guilt and Denial in the Post-War Lives of Nazi Perpetrators date: 2015-06-25 words: 2435 flesch: 47 summary: And if wrongdoing were indeed recognized, Christian forgiveness would readily be forthcoming. Subsequent documents, such as the request that the Landsberg inmates re- ceive amnesty, were based on prioritizing Christian forgiveness over justice. keywords: cain; christian; guilt; kellenbach; pohl; war cache: scjr-8808.pdf plain text: scjr-8808.txt item: #440 of 511 id: scjr-8809 author: Sandmel, David Fox title: Alan L. Berger, Ed. Post-Holocaust Jewish-Christian Relations: After the Flood, Before the Rainbow date: 2015-06-25 words: 1093 flesch: 51 summary: They cover theology, hermeneutics, the practice of interreli- gious dialogue, and the politics within and between the Jewish and Christian communities. Through post-Holocaust understandings of human dignity rooted in praxis rather than abstract ideology, Jews and Christian can develop a dialogue in which “human values can be explicated more fully” (p. 142). keywords: christian; relations cache: scjr-8809.pdf plain text: scjr-8809.txt item: #441 of 511 id: scjr-8851 author: Brody, Samuel Hayim title: Michael L. Morgan and Steven Weitzman, Eds. Rethinking the Messianic Idea in Judaism date: 2015-07-30 words: 1133 flesch: 28 summary: They address a spectrum of related topics, including: the transformations of messianism in late antiquity and its emergence as a trope capable of dividing “Judaism” from “Christianity”; the claims of messianic figures throughout history; the messianic figure and hopes for a future redemption in modern Jewish thought; and contemporary controversies over messianic rhetoric as it is deployed by reli- gious Zionists. The Theopolitical Radicalization of Religious Zion- ism”), Motti Inbari (“Messianic Religious Zionism and the Reintroduction of Sacrifice: The Case of the Temple Insti- tute”), David Shatz (“The Muted Messiah: The Aversion to Messianic Forms of Zionism in Modern Orthodox Thought”), and Menachem Kellner (“‘And the Crooked Shall Be Made Straight’: Twisted Messianic Visions, and a Maimonidean Corrective”) all confront the contemporary reality of a politi- cally empowered Jewish messianic settler movement and its role in promoting oppression and violence against Palestini- ans. keywords: idea; judaism; messianism; volume cache: scjr-8851.pdf plain text: scjr-8851.txt item: #442 of 511 id: scjr-8852 author: Probst, Christopher J. title: George Faithful. Mothering the Fatherland: A Protestant Sisterhood Repents for the Holocaust date: 2015-07-30 words: 815 flesch: 44 summary: Faithful finds that Schlink’s views of peoples, nations, and ethnicities were derived in the main from the Hebrew Bi- ble and from (chiefly nineteenth and twentieth century) German views of nationalism. Even so, open resistance to Nazism and secret assistance for Jews living under Nazi op- pression and threat of murder were found among small groups of German Protestants. keywords: german; sisterhood cache: scjr-8852.pdf plain text: scjr-8852.txt item: #443 of 511 id: scjr-8853 author: Fredericks, James L. title: Gavin D’Costa. Vatican II: Catholic Doctrines on Jews and Muslims date: 2015-07-30 words: 1468 flesch: 54 summary: But this book, at least in what it has to say about Council teachings about Judaism, is very much an ar- gument against the views of the former head of the Vatican’s Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews Cardinal Walter Kasper (who is never mentioned in the book) and oth- er Catholics who insist the Catholic Church should not seek to convert Jews to the Catholic faith. Second Vatican Council marks a disavowal of the Church’s teaching on the Jews at the Council of Florence (1431-1449). keywords: council; d’costa; jews cache: scjr-8853.pdf plain text: scjr-8853.txt item: #444 of 511 id: scjr-8968 author: Barnett, Victoria J. title: Franklin Sherman, Ed. Bridges: Documents of the Christian-Jewish Dialogue date: 2015-09-19 words: 1354 flesch: 44 summary: The statements are organized by tradition, with sections devoted to Protestant, Roman Catholic, Ortho- dox Christian, ecumenical Christian, joint Jewish-Christian, and Jewish documents. There were certainly Christian pioneers in the first half of the twenti- eth century, such as James Parkes in England and Mildred Eakin at Drew University in the United States, who were al- ready doing critical studies of anti-Judaism in Christian history and teachings. keywords: documents; relations; statements; volume cache: scjr-8968.pdf plain text: scjr-8968.txt item: #445 of 511 id: scjr-8980 author: Menke, Martin R. title: Lauren Faulkner Rossi. Wehrmacht Priests: Catholicism and the Nazi War of Annihilation date: 2015-10-02 words: 1547 flesch: 52 summary: Faulkner Rossi’s work is a part of a growing scholarly analysis of German Catholic priests during the Nazi era. Of these, Faulkner Rossi offers the best analysis of Catholic priests and seminarians in the Wehrmacht. keywords: faulkner; nazi; priests; rossi cache: scjr-8980.pdf plain text: scjr-8980.txt item: #446 of 511 id: scjr-8981 author: Schnitzer, Merav title: Josef Shatzmiller. Cultural Exchange: Jews, Christians, and Art in the Medieval Marketplace date: 2015-10-02 words: 1020 flesch: 54 summary: The second part (chapters 4-5) examines the way in which the holding of these objects led to a transformation of aesthetic values in Jewish communities. It was a sphere in which Jews were willing to adopt the aesthetic values of Christian society, even when those were in contrast with ha- lakha (Jewish law). keywords: christians; jews; shatzmiller cache: scjr-8981.pdf plain text: scjr-8981.txt item: #447 of 511 id: scjr-9052 author: Garroway, Joshua title: David R. Wallace. Election of the Lesser Son: Paul’s Lament-Midrash in Romans 9-11 date: 2015-11-05 words: 1006 flesch: 51 summary: Joshua Garroway, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion The God Paul describes in Romans 9-11 can appear partial, arbitrary, and manipulative: Partial insofar as God chooses Jacob over Esau to receive the divine promise; arbitrary inso- far as no grounds are given for that choice; and manipulative insofar as God hardens the hearts of both Pharaoh and the Israelites in order to provoke the disobedience that moves sal- vation history forward. Wallace's reading of Rom 9-11 unfolds in five chapters, each examining a successive passage in Paul’s so-called “lament- midrash”: (1) “Paul’s Grief for Israel,” 9:1-5; (2) “God’s Faith- ful Election of Israel,” 9:6-29; (3) “Israel’s Failure to Hear,” 9:30-10:21; (4) “The Grace of God for Israel,” 11:1-32; and (5) “Paul’s Praise to God,” 11:33-36. keywords: god; paul cache: scjr-9052.pdf plain text: scjr-9052.txt item: #448 of 511 id: scjr-9070 author: Cathey, Robert; Moses, Jay title: Donald E. Wagner and Walter T. Davis, Eds. Zionism and the Quest for Justice in the Holy Land date: 2015-11-19 words: 1481 flesch: 45 summary: Historic teachings about Jewish election and covenant are lifted up as the main culprits in these ethno- religious divisions. As the incarnation of Jesus became the “scandal of particularity” in modern times, so the election of the Jewish people as described in the Bible re- mained a scandal for liberal Christian universalism (cf. e. e. Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations SCJR 10 (2015) 3 www.bc.edu/scjr cummings’ line: “How odd of God…to choose the Jews”). keywords: christian; god; israel; theological cache: scjr-9070.pdf plain text: scjr-9070.txt item: #449 of 511 id: scjr-9078 author: Stegman, Thomas D. title: Mark D. Nanos and Magnus Zetterholm, Eds. Paul within Judaism: Restoring the First-Century Context to the Apostle date: 2015-11-24 words: 1132 flesch: 49 summary: Given the au- thors’ insistence on a thorough historical analysis of first- century Judaism, including end time expectations, it is surpris- ing to see an end time scenario that is claimed to offer the key motive for Paul’s missionary activity not be better substantiat- ed. This volume consists mainly of essays presented at and devel- oped from the “Paul and Judaism” session at the Society of Biblical Literature annual meetings starting in 2010. keywords: judaism; paul; question cache: scjr-9078.pdf plain text: scjr-9078.txt item: #450 of 511 id: scjr-9120 author: Green, Arthur title: Shaul Magid. Hasidism Incarnate: Hasidism, Christianity, and the Construction of Modern Judaism date: 2015-12-08 words: 1311 flesch: 59 summary: I learned a great deal from it, both about Jewish perceptions of Christianity in the twenti- eth century and about ongoing scholarly disputes around the meaning of obscure and subtle Jewish mystical texts. Arthur Green, Hebrew College My friend and mentor, the neo-Hasidic Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, in searching for a creative and sympathetic Jewish way of understanding Christianity, often referred to Jesus as the rebbe from Nazareth. keywords: god; magid; rebbe cache: scjr-9120.pdf plain text: scjr-9120.txt item: #451 of 511 id: scjr-9173 author: Pettit, Peter A. title: Walter Brueggemann. Chosen?: Reading the Bible amid the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict date: 2016-01-13 words: 1517 flesch: 46 summary: It is in his engagement with contemporary Israel that he most clearly contradicts his mantras regarding the danger of ideolo- gy and the need for a hard-nosed dealing with reality. And he takes no account of the distinction between Israel’s 1.7 million Palestinian citizens and the larger Palestinian popula- tion that lives under military occupation and the Palestinian Authority; the Palestinian Arab Israeli citizens simply disap- pear from his view of the situation. keywords: brueggemann; israel; palestinian cache: scjr-9173.pdf plain text: scjr-9173.txt item: #452 of 511 id: scjr-9174 author: Devillers, Luc title: Gerry Wheaton. The Role of Jewish Feasts in John’s Gospel date: 2015-01-13 words: 1018 flesch: 59 summary: Michael Glazier, 1989) and Michael A. Daise (Feasts in John: Jewish Festivals and the Jesus’ “Hour” in the Fourth Gospel. For John, Jesus is “the goal and ful- fillment of the great salvation of God expected by [the] Scriptures” (p. 34). keywords: jesus; john; wheaton cache: scjr-9174.pdf plain text: scjr-9174.txt item: #453 of 511 id: scjr-9175 author: Tafilowski, Ryan title: Inclusive Quarantine: The Pathology and Performance of Jewish Existence in the Erlangen Opinion on the Aryan Paragraph date: 2016-01-13 words: 9288 flesch: 52 summary: However, for facility of reference, the essay will proceed using the language of “Jewish” and “German” because Althaus and Elert accept these terms. 12 Gotthard Jasper, Paul Althaus (1888-1966): Professor, Prediger und Pa- triot in seiner Zeit (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013), 235-38. 13 Karlmann Beyschlag, Die Erlanger Theologie (Erlangen: Martin Luther Verlag, 1993), 163. 29 Althaus, “Kirche und Volkstum,” 131. 30 Althaus, “Kirche und Volkstum,” 139. 31 Paul Althaus, Leitsätze zur Ethik (Erlangen: Merkel, 1929), 47. keywords: althaus; church; erlangen; german; god; israel; jewish; jews; kirche; opinion; question; scjr; und; volk; volkstum cache: scjr-9175.pdf plain text: scjr-9175.txt item: #454 of 511 id: scjr-9185 author: Slotemaker, John T. title: Omnis observator legis mosaycae iustus est apud Deum: Robert Holcot’s Theology of the Jews date: 2015-01-26 words: 13279 flesch: 57 summary: And, finally, 41 For a rather different approach that examines Holcot’s anti-Jewish state- ments as if related to actual Jews of the fourteenth century, see Nancy L. Turner, “Robert Holcot on the Jews,” in Chaucer and the Jews: Sources, Contexts, Writings, Sheila Delany, ed. (Cambridge: Cam- bridge University Press, 1982), 315–334, and 335–341. 56 Hoffmann, Die theologische Methode, 18–19, 276–277, 280–281, and 346–355; Gelber, It Could Have Been Otherwise, 151–190; and Hester Goodenough Gelber, “Robert Holcot, Obligational Theology, and the In- carnation,” (forthcoming), have discussed the importance of the obligational arts for understanding Holcot. keywords: ages; appendix; augustine; century; christ; christian; coming; covenant; god; grace; holcot; jesus; jesus christ; jews; latin; law; living; lombard; new; robert; salvation; scjr; text; theological; theology; truth cache: scjr-9185.pdf plain text: scjr-9185.txt item: #455 of 511 id: scjr-9223 author: Moses, Jay; Ficca, Dirk; Sawyer, Nanette; Cathey, Robert; Folan, Jill; Rains, Katie title: Why Would Presbyterians Turn to a Catholic Document? date: 2016-03-16 words: 2291 flesch: 48 summary: Jay Moses, Hope Presbyterian Church, Wheaton Dirk Ficca, Interreligious Initiative for Middle East Peace Nanette Sawyer, Fourth Presbyterian Church, Chicago Robert Cathey, McCormick Theological Seminary with Jill Folan and Katie Rains Introduction On November 21, 2015, the Assembly of the Presby- tery of Chicago meeting at First Presbyterian Church of Lake Forest, Illinois, unanimously adopted in an omnibus motion “‘…In our time…’ Throughout this time, and especially in our day, the Presbyterian Church looks to the miracles of the past, and the continuance of its intentions in Nostra Aetate, and in its shadow, to speak to the Jewish people, in peace and hopeful healing, in “our time.” keywords: catholic; chicago; church; jewish; presbyterian; time cache: scjr-9223.pdf plain text: scjr-9223.txt item: #456 of 511 id: scjr-9224 author: at First Presbyterian Church of Lake Forest, IL, Presbytery of Chicago Meeting in Presbytery Assembly, 21 November 2015, title: ...in our time... A Statement on Relations between the Presbytery of Chicago and the Jewish Community in Metropolitan Chicago date: 2016-03-16 words: 6469 flesch: 43 summary: 10 B. Our Commitment to Change In light of this history, and ongoing spiritual kinship with Jewish people, we must recommit ourselves to more accurate biblical and theological scholarship and Christian education in all our congregations and institutions regarding the treatment of Jews, Judaism, and the history of God’s relation with the Jewish people in the past and present. In terms of our spiritual kinship to the Jewish community, it is especially important in our analysis and critique of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to be vigilant against employing language, rhetoric and lines of argumentation that introduce harmful stereotypes, anti-Jewish motifs, and classic Christian anti-Judaic theology into nevertheless critically necessary discussions. keywords: chicago; christians; god; israel; jewish; jews; people; presbyterians; relationship cache: scjr-9224.pdf plain text: scjr-9224.txt item: #457 of 511 id: scjr-9225 author: Phan, Peter C. title: Reading Nostra Aetate in Reverse: A Different Way of Looking at the Relationships Among Religions date: 2016-03-16 words: 4865 flesch: 41 summary: Though the declara- tion does not mention other Indian religions such as Jainism and Sikhism and Chinese religious traditions such as Confu- cianism and Daoism, and other living religions, it is safe to assume that NA’s fulfillment theology applies to them as well. The precariousness of its gestation is well expressed by Cardinal Franz König who said that NA “almost did not happen” and that it was “almost a miracle that it was ever passed.” 2 Nor will I survey the history of the impact of NA on the Roman Catho- lic Church, the other Christian churches, and other religions. keywords: christianity; church; dialogue; fulfillment; god; non; religions; theology cache: scjr-9225.pdf plain text: scjr-9225.txt item: #458 of 511 id: scjr-9226 author: Sherman, Franklin title: Protestant Parallels to Nostra Aetate date: 2016-03-16 words: 3961 flesch: 55 summary: 23 See especially its major statement, “A Time for Recommitment: Building the New Relationship between Jews and Christians” (Berlin, 2009), ibid., http://www.leuenberg.eu/sites/default/files/publications/lt6.pdf SCJR 10 (2015) 13 both Roman Catholics and Protestants is the Christians Schol- ars Group on Christian-Jewish Relations, the U.S. group that prepared and issued “A Sacred Obligation: Rethinking Chris- tian Faith in Relation to Judaism and the Jewish People,” a response to the pivotal Jewish document “Dabru Emet: A Jew- ish Statement on Christians and Christianity.” 24 Increasingly, too, the Council of Centers on Jewish-Christian Relations (CCJR) 25 , an association of more than forty academic centers and institutes in the United States, with affiliate members over- seas, provides a significant venue for Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish scholars and leaders to compare experiences and dis- cuss matters of common interest. Millions of Jews—men, women, and children, a third of the total Jewish population worldwide—were destroyed by us. keywords: christian; church; churches; jewish; jews; people; scjr; statement cache: scjr-9226.pdf plain text: scjr-9226.txt item: #459 of 511 id: scjr-9227 author: Von Kellenbach, Katharina title: In Our Time: Civil Rights, Women’s Liberation, and Jewish-Christian Dialogue Fifty Years After Nostra Aetate date: 2016-03-16 words: 6893 flesch: 42 summary: But the frequency of such experi- ences has convinced me that the discussion of Christian theological supersessionism has been impacted, if not hi- jacked, by the rise of new political discourses. 43 “Anti-Zionism,” concludes Robert Wistrich in A Le- thal Obsession, serves as an “indispensable cover under which prewar anti-Jewish amalgam could be resurrected.” 44 The rise of Zionism as a diversionary vehicle to carry forth feelings of contempt for Jews required intellectual innovation and the de- liberate transfer of religious and ideological tropes. keywords: abortion; anti; christian; church; crime; dialogue; frontlash; israel; jewish; jews; movement; new; political; rights; scjr; weaver; women; zionism cache: scjr-9227.pdf plain text: scjr-9227.txt item: #460 of 511 id: scjr-9230 author: Suomala, Karla title: Introduction: What Happened in 1965? date: 2016-03-16 words: 1490 flesch: 56 summary: Sherman pro- vides a roadmap to the variety of statements that so many Protestant church bodies, primarily in North American and Europe, produced in their efforts to come to terms with their own historical positions toward the Jewish people, affirming new understandings of this relationship, and committing them- selves to new relationship. In the wake of this major turning point in Catholic- Jewish relations, the Christian Scholars Group on Christian- Jewish Relations (CSG) was formed in 1969. keywords: church; relations; religions; time cache: scjr-9230.pdf plain text: scjr-9230.txt item: #461 of 511 id: scjr-9297 author: Pettit, Peter A. title: Gilbert S. Rosenthal, Ed. A Jubilee for All Time: The Copernican Revolution in Jewish-Christian Relations date: 2016-04-20 words: 1517 flesch: 38 summary: Among them are notable Roman Catholic and Jewish leaders in inter- faith affairs, who support and celebrate the legacy of NA but also bring a critical perspective to it. Eugene Korn makes the strongest case for rethinking Jewish theology in light of NA, and Irving Greenberg synthesizes his thirty years of work in re-thinking Christianity from a Jewish perspective. keywords: book; catholic; church; relations; scjr cache: scjr-9297.pdf plain text: scjr-9297.txt item: #462 of 511 id: scjr-9327 author: O'Toole, James M. title: Nostra Aetate in Boston date: 2016-05-04 words: 5427 flesch: 61 summary: This prompted a public dispute in the 1890s when Harvard announced that it would no longer ad- mit Boston College students to its law school on the grounds that a Boston College degree was not a “real” academic degree. 1 SCJR 11, no. 1 (2016): 1-10 Nostra Aetate in Boston JAMES M. O’TOOLE james.otoole@bc.edu Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 Historians and theologians are just now concluding observance of the fiftieth anniversary of the Second Vatican Council. keywords: boston; catholic; church; college; coughlin; council; feeney; jews; new; students; vatican cache: scjr-9327.pdf plain text: scjr-9327.txt item: #463 of 511 id: scjr-9328 author: Blidstein, Moshe title: Carol Bakhos. The Family of Abraham: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Interpretations date: 2016-05-04 words: 1131 flesch: 46 summary: The “family” in the title refers at first instance to the actual family of the biblical Abraham--Terah, Sarah, Hagar, Isaac and Ishmael—and to the parallel characters in Islamic traditions. Many have written on Abraham, Sarah, Hagar, Isaac, and Ishmael, in the Bi- ble and in subsequent traditions. keywords: abraham; family cache: scjr-9328.pdf plain text: scjr-9328.txt item: #464 of 511 id: scjr-9329 author: Coolman, Holly Taylor title: Matthew A. Tapie. Aquinas on Israel and the Church: The Question of Supersessionism in the Theology of Thomas Aquinas date: 2016-05-04 words: 1145 flesch: 52 summary: Within the field of Aquinas studies, furthermore, Tapie’s work elaborates our understanding of the Common Doctor’s thought. Matthew A. Tapie’s Aquinas on Israel and the Church 2 of Aquinas, is the claim that “Christ’s fulfillment of Jewish ceremonial law ren- ders its continued observance obsolete and indeed damnable” (p. 20). keywords: aquinas; law; tapie cache: scjr-9329.pdf plain text: scjr-9329.txt item: #465 of 511 id: scjr-9330 author: Levine, Amy-Jill title: Mary Marshall. The Portrayals of the Pharisees in the Gospels and Acts date: 2016-05-04 words: 1315 flesch: 51 summary: Marshall shows how the evangelists dis- play distinct redactional concerns regarding not only Pharisees and complementary Jewish topics including Torah and Temple, but also issues of Christology, ecclesiology, ethics, and discipleship. Marshall’s literary-critical observations also cut through scholarly apologet- ics seeking to diminish the Pharisees’ negative portraiture in the New Testament. keywords: acts; marshall; pharisees cache: scjr-9330.pdf plain text: scjr-9330.txt item: #466 of 511 id: scjr-9331 author: Calaway, Jared C. title: James H. Charlesworth, Ed. Jesus and Temple: Textual and Archaeological Explorations date: 2016-05-04 words: 1256 flesch: 54 summary: He also considers ideas such as the community as temple, acts of mourning for the temple, and the eschatological temple. Attridge finally turns to 1 Clement, which uses temple and priestly imagery to establish a system of authority, and the Gospel of Judas, which rejects such imagery. keywords: charlesworth; herod; jesus; temple cache: scjr-9331.pdf plain text: scjr-9331.txt item: #467 of 511 id: scjr-9332 author: Poling, Jason title: Marvin R. Wilson. Exploring Our Hebraic Heritage: A Christian Theology of Roots and Renewal date: 2016-05-04 words: 831 flesch: 52 summary: Exploring Our Hebraic Heritage serves as an apt successor to Wilson’s 1989 volume Our Father Abraham: Jewish Roots of the Christian Faith (Eerdmans), which has gone through over two dozen printings. Wilson’s sixth chapter, “Thinking Theologically about Abraham,” addresses themes of election, covenant, faith, and mission as they have been treated with re- spect to Abraham in both the Jewish and Christian traditions. keywords: abraham; wilson cache: scjr-9332.pdf plain text: scjr-9332.txt item: #468 of 511 id: scjr-9333 author: McGarry, Michael title: Zev Garber, Ed. Teaching the Historical Jesus: Issues and Exegesis date: 2016-05-04 words: 1451 flesch: 48 summary: Some Issues in Teaching Jesus; and III. Especially compel- ling is Joshua Schwartz’s “Teaching Jesus in a Halakhic Jewish Setting in Israel: Kosher, Treif, or Pareve?” keywords: garber; jesus; section; teaching cache: scjr-9333.pdf plain text: scjr-9333.txt item: #469 of 511 id: scjr-9334 author: Sievers, Joseph title: Peter Schäfer. Anziehung und Abstoßung: Juden und Christen in den ersten Jahrhunderten ihrer Begegnung / Attraction and Repulsion: Jews and Christians in the First Centuries of Their Encounter date: 2016-05-04 words: 1164 flesch: 57 summary: After briefly reviewing the image of Enoch in Genesis (MT and LXX), he passes to the “non-canonical” Enoch. In the first and perhaps earliest part of the Ethiopic Book of Enoch (1 En.), the protago- nist mediates between God and the fallen angels. keywords: christianity; enoch; rabbinic; schäfer cache: scjr-9334.pdf plain text: scjr-9334.txt item: #470 of 511 id: scjr-9335 author: Frojmovic, Eva title: Sara Lipton. Dark Mirror: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Jewish Iconography date: 2016-05-04 words: 1460 flesch: 55 summary: 1 SCJR 11, no. 1 (2016): 1-3 Sara Lipton Dark Mirror: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Jewish Iconography (New York: Metropolitan, 2014), xxi + 390 pp. She concludes that despite the well-known anti-Jewish ele- ments in the developing cult of the Virgin Mary of which Chartres was a center, there is no single meaning to figures marked as Jewish. keywords: jews; lipton cache: scjr-9335.pdf plain text: scjr-9335.txt item: #471 of 511 id: scjr-9444 author: Hames, Harvey J. title: Elisheva Baumgarten and Judah D. Galinsky, Eds. Jews and Christians in Thirteenth-Century France date: 2016-05-25 words: 934 flesch: 53 summary: Jessica Marin Elliott, in “Jews ‘Feigning Devotion’: Christian Representa- tions of Converted Jews in French Chronicles before and after the Expulsion of 1306,” looks at a variety of Christian chronicles written in France and the low- lands in the late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries dealing with Jewish converts. Is thirteenth century France, if it can be said to exist, the same for the Jews and Christians of the title? keywords: christian; france; jews cache: scjr-9444.pdf plain text: scjr-9444.txt item: #472 of 511 id: scjr-9467 author: Dziaczkowska, Magdalena title: Susan Katz Miller. Being Both: Embracing Two Religions in One Interfaith Family date: 2016-07-13 words: 929 flesch: 52 summary: This study is unique in that this work was written to some extent on behalf of interfaith communities in order to present the movement to a wider audience, to advocate for them, and to dispel many wide- spread misconceptions about interfaith families and dual-faith religious education. In Being Both, journalist Susan Katz Miller advocates for and studies a grass- roots movement of interfaith families in the United States who choose to raise their children in both the Jewish and Christian religions. keywords: families; interfaith cache: scjr-9467.pdf plain text: scjr-9467.txt item: #473 of 511 id: scjr-9470 author: Limor, Ora title: Ryan Szpiech. Conversion and Narrative: Reading and Religious Authority in Medieval Polemic date: 2016-07-18 words: 1355 flesch: 45 summary: From among the vast corpus of conversion narratives, Szpiech chooses only those with an explicitly polemical thrust. Szpiech aims to show that there is a fundamental connection between conversion stories and medieval polemical writings and to understand their usefulness in presenting polemical arguments. keywords: century; conversion; szpiech cache: scjr-9470.pdf plain text: scjr-9470.txt item: #474 of 511 id: scjr-9473 author: Kertzer, David I. title: Jacques Kornberg. The Pope’s Dilemma: Pius XII Faces Atrocities and Genocide in the Second World War date: 2016-08-01 words: 1027 flesch: 55 summary: Yet, at the same time, he argues that Pius XII, like his most recent predecessors, fulfilled his role as pope “in exemplary fashion” (p. 5). While Kornberg defends Pius XII from some of his harshest critics, he gives no comfort to the pope’s most ardent defenders. keywords: pius; pope cache: scjr-9473.pdf plain text: scjr-9473.txt item: #475 of 511 id: scjr-9475 author: Slater, Bethany title: Ephraim Meir. Interreligious Theology: Its Value and Mooring in Modern Jewish Philosophy date: 2016-08-03 words: 1368 flesch: 44 summary: Meir claims that “trans- different” theology is methodologically distinct from comparative theology, be- cause comparative theologians are engaged in trying to articulate “objective” comparisons, whereas “trans-different” theology tries to find theological insights through interreligious learning (p. 182). Meir’s description misses the subtle relationship that exists in comparative theology between dialogical and confessional theology. keywords: meir; theology; trans cache: scjr-9475.pdf plain text: scjr-9475.txt item: #476 of 511 id: scjr-9477 author: Merback, Mitchell title: David Stern, Christoph Markschies, and Sarit Shalev-Eyni, Eds. The Monk’s Haggadah: A Fifteenth-Century Illuminated Codex from the Monastery of Tegernsee, with a Prologue by Friar Erhard von Pappenheim date: 2016-08-08 words: 2078 flesch: 46 summary: Judged solely by this final argument, or by his resort to long-standing tropes of theological anti-Judaism, not to mention his willingness to credit confessions about Jewish ritual cannibalism extracted under torture, Erhard von Pappenheim would seem to be in the same league as hardened polemical opponents of Judaism such as Petrus Nigri (1434-84), the Dominican controversialist with whom Erhard presumably collaborated during the Trent trials; or those early sixteenth-century Jewish converts to Christianity who agitated for the destruction of Jewish books while providing expert “testimony” to the perfidy of the Jews, such as Victor von Carben (1442-1515), Johannes Pfefferkorn (d. 1523), and Anthonius Margaritha (b. c. 1500). To corroborate his descriptions of key aspects of the ritual, such as the preparatory search for leaven (bedikat hametz), Erhard supplied information gleaned from late medieval Jewish books of Merback: Stern, Markschies, and Shalev-Eyni’s The Monk’s Haggadah 2 customs (sifrei minhagim). keywords: book; christian; erhard; haggadah; jewish cache: scjr-9477.pdf plain text: scjr-9477.txt item: #477 of 511 id: scjr-9482 author: Vehlow, Katja title: Michael Meerson and Peter Schäfer, Eds. and Trans. Toledot Yeshu: The Life Story of Jesus date: 2016-08-15 words: 1228 flesch: 53 summary: The editors suggest that group I, a cluster of Aramaic texts, represents the earliest layer of the Toledot Yeshu versions. One chapter looks at Toledot Yeshu traditions in the Christian-Jewish encounter. keywords: jesus; texts; toledot; yeshu cache: scjr-9482.pdf plain text: scjr-9482.txt item: #478 of 511 id: scjr-9483 author: Zaas, Peter title: Herbert W. Basser and Marsha Cohen. The Gospel of Matthew and Judaic Traditions: A Relevance-based Commentary date: 2016-08-15 words: 1336 flesch: 53 summary: Herbert Basser has been forthright about his own assumptions in the various projects that have made his work known among scholars of Second-Temple Judaism and its various aftermaths. It might be best to describe both of Basser’s Matthew volumes as imaginative attempts to put the text of the First Gospel into conversation with the classical literature of Judaism. keywords: basser; matthew; rabbinic cache: scjr-9483.pdf plain text: scjr-9483.txt item: #479 of 511 id: scjr-9486 author: Korn, Eugene title: Ronald Kronish, Ed. Coexistence & Reconciliation in Israel: Voices for Interreligious Dialogue date: 2016-08-19 words: 884 flesch: 42 summary: This is not a scholarly book, but an important and accessible read for anyone interested in understanding the reali- ty of relations in Israel and what is required for Israeli Jews, Muslims, and Christians to ultimately live in peace and understanding with each other. Third, while Israel is a pluralistic democracy, Israeli living patterns conform to those of other Middle East countries. keywords: dialogue; israel cache: scjr-9486.pdf plain text: scjr-9486.txt item: #480 of 511 id: scjr-9497 author: Cathey, Robert title: Robert C. Holub. Nietzsche’s Jewish Problem: Between Anti-Semitism and Anti-Judaism date: 2016-08-29 words: 1195 flesch: 38 summary: By rereading Nie- tzsche against the background of cultural anti-Judaism and the antisemitic political movements of the late nineteenth century, Holub discovers just how deeply embedded anti-Jewish ideas, images, and tropes were in Nietzsche’s dis- course, both before and after his membership in Richard Wagner’s inner circle. To discover anti-Jewish stereotypes in Nietzsche’s writings when the author’s repu- tation is built upon his freedom from conformity, his rejection of Christianity (which had long provided theological rationales for anti-Judaism in its doctrines and practices), and his undermining of conventional morality as “the herd morali- ty” may come as a shock to many readers (p. 190). keywords: holub; judaism; nietzsche cache: scjr-9497.pdf plain text: scjr-9497.txt item: #481 of 511 id: scjr-9498 author: Skiles, William title: “The Bearers of Unholy Potential”: Confessing Church Sermons on the Jews and Judaism date: 2016-08-29 words: 16059 flesch: 51 summary: Keep in mind, this sermon comes after the Nazi regime already began its persecutions against German Jews, such as the Nazi-sponsored boycott of all Jewish shops on April 1, 1933, and the passage of the Civil Service Law of April 7, 1933, effectively prohibiting Jews and socialists from national, state, and local civil service employment, including for example, school teachers, professors, and government officials and employ- ees. Nazi Policy toward German Jews 1933-1939 (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1990); Christopher Browning, with contributions by Jürgen Matthäus, The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939- March 1942 (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska, 2004); and Ian Kershaw, Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008). keywords: anti; christian; christianity; church; church pastors; churches; confessing; german; god; hitler; jews; judaism; nazi; nazi germany; new; pastors; people; persecution; prejudice; press; regime; sermons; university; war cache: scjr-9498.pdf plain text: scjr-9498.txt item: #482 of 511 id: scjr-9499 author: Bookbinder, Judith title: Synagoga and Ecclesia In Our Time: A Transformative Sculptural Statement in Traditional Form date: 2016-08-29 words: 3850 flesch: 49 summary: Bookbinder: Synagoga and Ecclesia In Our Time 6 Opposite this imposing image is the panel of Synagogue (figure 4). The title of the work, Synagoga and Ecclesia In Our Time, points backwards and forwards chronologically: “Synagoga and Ecclesia” refers to the long-standing Christian tradition, born in thirteenth-century Europe, of depicting the Church as a confi- dent and victorious female figure in contrast to the defeated and broken female figure of Synagogue; 2 “In Our Time” translates the declaration’s opening Latin words, “nostra aetate.” keywords: church; ecclesia; figure; koffman; sargent; sculpture; synagoga; synagogue; time cache: scjr-9499.pdf plain text: scjr-9499.txt item: #483 of 511 id: scjr-9519 author: Borelli, John title: Philip A. Cunningham. Seeking Shalom: The Journey to Right Relationship between Catholics and Jews date: 2016-09-08 words: 1416 flesch: 48 summary: This collection of thirteen essays by Philip A. Cunningham, arranged in two sections (“Scripture” and “Theology”), on how a “right relationship” is develop- ing between Catholics and Jews is informative and useful. It is a superb resource for teaching Catholics and other Christians about their relationship with Jews, for presenting this information to Jews and all interested readers, and for assisting Christians in reading the scriptures in light of biblical scholarship since Vatican II and the achievements of NA and subsequent documents and statements on relations be- tween Jews to Christians. keywords: christians; cunningham; jews cache: scjr-9519.pdf plain text: scjr-9519.txt item: #484 of 511 id: scjr-9520 author: Zoref, Arye title: The Influence of Syriac Bible Commentaries on Judeo Arabic Exegesis as Demonstrated by Several Stories from the Book of Genesis date: 2016-09-09 words: 10519 flesch: 64 summary: It has already been generally recognized that Syriac Bible commentaries in- fluenced Judeo Arabic biblical exegesis, primarily thanks to Sarah Stroumsa’s studies on the subject. 4 However, the case of Syriac Bible commentaries and Judeo Arabic commentaries is different, given that these are two separate corpuses divided not only by religion and language, but also by time. keywords: arabic; bible; century; commentaries; commentary; commentators; descendants; ephrem; explanation; genesis; god; ham; influence; ishodad; judeo; midrash; moses; nimrod; noah; qirqisani; sons; sources; syriac; tamar; tradition; writers; yefet cache: scjr-9520.pdf plain text: scjr-9520.txt item: #485 of 511 id: scjr-9525 author: Nanos, Mark D. title: “The Gifts and the Calling of God are Irrevocable” (Romans 11:29): If So, How Can Paul Declare that “Not All Israelites Truly Belong to Israel” (9:6)? date: 2016-09-09 words: 10045 flesch: 49 summary: When read together, verses 10-13 con- firm that in spite of performance, good or bad, God’s word of promise to the specific descent line of Israelites—from which those Israelites Paul has been de- fending as Israel in spite of their present disagreement with him and his addressees about the meaning of Jesus—that they are entrusted with God’s words, remains guaranteed. The nature of the argument Paul commences may suggest that he wants to gainsay what might be inferred from the conclusion of the argument in chapter 8 about the certainty of God’s commitment to those chosen in Christ, including those from the nations making up Paul’s target audience. keywords: chapter; christian; god; israel; israelites; jesus; jews; nations; ones; paul; verse; word cache: scjr-9525.pdf plain text: scjr-9525.txt item: #486 of 511 id: scjr-9530 author: Barker, James W. title: Matthias Konradt. Israel, Church, and the Gentiles in the Gospel of Matthew date: 2016-09-23 words: 805 flesch: 50 summary: Conversely, Konradt establishes a mediating position, offering a helpful correc- tive to interpretations of Matthew whereby Jesus sharply breaks with, or supersedes, Torah (e.g., Donald A. Hagner). According to Konradt, Matthew creatively associates Jesus’ healing ministry with the Davidic messiah, since miraculous healings demonstrate Jesus’ care for his people. keywords: jesus; konradt cache: scjr-9530.pdf plain text: scjr-9530.txt item: #487 of 511 id: scjr-9587 author: Ruff, Mark Edward title: James Bernauer and Robert A. Maryks, Eds. “The Tragic Couple”: Encounters between Jews and Jesuits date: 2016-11-21 words: 933 flesch: 61 summary: Yet at the same time, Tacchi Venturi assisted in the rescue of Italian Jews, and not just converts to Christianity but even those remaining true to their faith. 1 SCJR 11, no. 1 (2016): 1-2 James Bernauer and Robert A. Maryks, Eds. “The Tragic Couple”: Encounters between Jews and Jesuits (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2014), 357 pp. keywords: jesuits; jews; volume cache: scjr-9587.pdf plain text: scjr-9587.txt item: #488 of 511 id: scjr-9588 author: Weissman, Deborah title: Jackie Feldman. A Jewish Guide in the Holy Land: How Christian Pilgrims Made Me Israeli date: 2016-11-22 words: 1010 flesch: 54 summary: Also confusing is Feldman’s lack of precision in describing how he has been affected as a result of guiding Christian groups, conflating changes in his Jewish and his Israeli identities. Second, some of them may still possess traditional Jewish anti-Christian attitudes, grounded in the unfortunate shared history of the two communities, and may not be aware of recent positive developments in Jewish-Christian relations. keywords: christian; feldman; guide cache: scjr-9588.pdf plain text: scjr-9588.txt item: #489 of 511 id: scjr-9590 author: Deutsch, Celia title: Journey to Dialogue: Sisters of Our Lady of Sion and the Writing of Nostra Aetate date: 2016-11-22 words: 19971 flesch: 52 summary: 100 While Cahiers Sioniens and Échos de Notre Dame de Sion were under the di- rection of the Fathers of Sion, sisters were involved. Since the full title of the Sisters of Sion is “Congregation of Notre Dame de Sion” or “Congregation of Our Lady of Sion,” the term “Congregation” will be used in this article. keywords: aetate; catholic; chapter; christian; church; congregation; conversion; council; dame de; de sion; dialogue; félix; general; israel; jewish; jews; judaism; les; marie; mother; new; nostra; notre; paris; people; relations; sion; sisters; studies; vatican; work cache: scjr-9590.pdf plain text: scjr-9590.txt item: #490 of 511 id: scjr-9725 author: Rogers, Justin M. title: Origen in the Likeness of Philo: Eusebius of Caesarea’s Portrait of the Model Scholar date: 2017-02-15 words: 6689 flesch: 59 summary: 53 Jerome followed Eusebius in portraying Philo as the model scholar (see Vir. ill. 8, 11, which is mostly a paraphrase of Eusebius’ Ecclesiastical History), but resisted drawing explicit comparison between Philo and Origen. I also point to the tension Eusebius felt between Philo Christianus and Philo Judaeus, a tension detectible in his presentation of the Therapeutae, a group about whom Philo reported and whom Eusebius considered to be the first Egyptian Christians. keywords: alexandrian; caesarea; christian; christianity; clement; eccl; eusebius; greek; hebrew; hist; history; origen; philo; term; therapeutae; tradition; καὶ cache: scjr-9725.pdf plain text: scjr-9725.txt item: #491 of 511 id: scjr-9726 author: Gorman, Michael J. title: E. P. Sanders. Paul: The Apostle’s Life, Letters, and Thought date: 2017-02-15 words: 1263 flesch: 57 summary: Sanders repeatedly claims that Paul’s main point is normally quite clear, even when his argumentation and / or ultimate rationale are not, so Sanders also wants to explain the reasons behind those conclusions and arguments. E. P. Sanders is widely identified as one of the principal architects of the “New Perspective” on Paul that emerged in the late 1960s to the early 1980s. keywords: book; paul; sanders cache: scjr-9726.pdf plain text: scjr-9726.txt item: #492 of 511 id: scjr-9727 author: Johnson, Hannah title: David Nirenberg. Neighboring Faiths: Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in the Middle Ages and Today date: 2017-02-15 words: 1174 flesch: 35 summary: Readers of Nirenberg’s previous works may see a certain continuity of em- phasis in these pages on historical, local specificity and a refusal of a teleological view of inter-religious relations, in which early beginnings predict much later his- torical developments. In this context, the title should perhaps be imagined as a heuristic device, referencing the major terms that appear in these pages, certainly, but also signaling the book’s ambition to open up a more nuanced and wide-ranging analysis of what Nirenberg calls the “copro- duction” (p. 5, et passim) of religious identity between these different faith traditions, particularly in medieval Iberia. keywords: chapter; identity; nirenberg cache: scjr-9727.pdf plain text: scjr-9727.txt item: #493 of 511 id: scjr-9734 author: McCruden, Kevin B. title: Albert Vanhoye, S.J. The Letter to the Hebrews: A New Commentary date: 2017-02-28 words: 1046 flesch: 48 summary: Vanhoye begins by engaging the principal literary and historical questions long associated with Hebrews in contemporary scholarship. The epistolary character of chapter thirteen, the personal reference to Timo- thy in that chapter, and the early association of Hebrews with Paul in the East suggest to Vanhoye that Paul plausibly wrote the concluding section of Hebrews (13:22-25) in order to offer his endorsement of Hebrews’ theological assessment of Christ. keywords: hebrews; vanhoye cache: scjr-9734.pdf plain text: scjr-9734.txt item: #494 of 511 id: scjr-9782 author: Simkovich, Malka Z. title: Richard Kalmin. Migrating Tales: The Talmud’s Narratives and their Historical Context date: 2017-03-23 words: 1199 flesch: 55 summary: Kalmin’s work also raises important questions regarding parallels between non-rabbinic legends in the Greek, Latin, Syriac, Persian, and Arabic texts and legends that also appear in the Babylonian Talmud. In his lucid and accessible writing style, Kalmin examines eight cases of Talmudic legends which show parallels to non-rabbinic sources. keywords: kalmin; non; rabbinic cache: scjr-9782.pdf plain text: scjr-9782.txt item: #495 of 511 id: scjr-9792 author: Cunningham, Philip A. title: The Sources behind “The Gifts and the Calling of God Are Irrevocable” (Rom 11:29): A Reflection on Theological Questions Pertaining to Catholic-Jewish Relations on the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of Nostra Aetate (No. 4) date: 2017-03-29 words: 23850 flesch: 58 summary: Stressing once again the unique sta- tus of this relationship within the wider ambit of interreligious dialogue, theological questions are further discussed, such as the relevance of revelation, the relationship between the Old and the New Covenant, the relationship between the universality of salvation in Jesus Christ and the affirmation that the covenant of God with Israel has never been revoked, and the Church’s mandate to evange- lize in relation to Judaism.  “By the third century, however, a de-Judaizing process had set in which tended to undervalue the Jewish origins of the Church, a tendency that has surfaced from time to time in devious ways throughout Christian history” (NCCB, 1975). 13 Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations 12, no. 1 (2017) Church of Jesus Christ which was now the true ‘new Israel’, the new chosen peo- ple of God. keywords: catholic; christ; christian; church; covenant; dialogue; faith; god; israel; jesus; jesus christ; jewish; jews; judaism; kasper; new; paul; people; relationship; salvation cache: scjr-9792.pdf plain text: scjr-9792.txt item: #496 of 511 id: scjr-9796 author: Cunningham, Philip A. title: Gifts and Calling: Coming to Terms with Jews as Covenantal Partners date: 2017-03-29 words: 9172 flesch: 44 summary: How different that Jewish Messiah is from the Christian Messiah, who has already come...[and has] been identified with Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified as a criminal and rebel.... 43 It would also have given added theological heft to the social justice goals described in G&C in §§46- 49 with the inspiring idea that Jews and Christians both have the “responsibility to prepare the world for the coming of the Messiah.” 44 4. keywords: christ; christian; church; dialogue; g&c; god; israel; jesus; jewish; jews; mission; salvation cache: scjr-9796.pdf plain text: scjr-9796.txt item: #497 of 511 id: scjr-9797 author: Langer, Ruth title: “Gifts and Calling”: The Fruits of Coming to Know Living Jews date: 2017-03-29 words: 5394 flesch: 48 summary: 1 SCJR 12, no. 1 (2017): 1-10 “Gifts and Calling”: The Fruits of Coming to Know Living Jews RUTH LANGER ruth.langer@bc.edu Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 Background: Nostra Aetate and its Implementation– From Constructed to Living Jews On June 13, 1960, Holocaust survivor Jules Isaac challenged Pope John XXIII to include a new teaching about Jews and Judaism in the work of the Sec- 1 See Jeremy Cohen, Living Letters of the Law: Ideas of the Jew in Medieval Christianity (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999), “Introduction.” keywords: catholic; christians; dialogue; g&c; god; jews; judaism; living; new; understanding cache: scjr-9797.pdf plain text: scjr-9797.txt item: #498 of 511 id: scjr-9798 author: Madges, William title: Covenant, Universal Mission, and Fulfillment date: 2017-03-29 words: 6890 flesch: 39 summary: http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/chrstuni/relations-jews- docs/rc_pc_chrstuni_doc_19741201_nostra-aetate_en.html 4 “God entrusted Israel with a unique mission, and He does not bring his mysterious plan of salvation for all peoples (cf. 1 That was indeed the effect this book had, and its translation did indeed in many respects further accen- tuate the universalistic trait in Israel’s religion—not least, in its picture of God, since the name of God, JHWH, no longer appeared as such but was replaced by the word Kyrios, ‘Lord’.” 7 The faith of Israel, translated into Greek thought forms, was successful in attracting many of the enlightened minds of the ancient world. keywords: christ; christians; covenant; fulfillment; god; israel; jews; judaism; mission; people cache: scjr-9798.pdf plain text: scjr-9798.txt item: #499 of 511 id: scjr-9799 author: Pawlikowski, John title: The Uniqueness of the Christian-Jewish Dialogue: A Yes and a No date: 2017-03-29 words: 6968 flesch: 45 summary: It is not meant to pronounce on the overall theology of the Church’s Relationship with Judaism but rather was intended to support the still fragile faith of Jewish Christians. No Jewish leader I know would define Jewish identity as cen- trally rooted in a bond with Christianity. keywords: christian; christianity; christology; church; dialogue; jesus; jewish; jews; judaism; relations; spirit cache: scjr-9799.pdf plain text: scjr-9799.txt item: #500 of 511 id: scjr-9800 author: Procario-Foley, Elena title: Fulfillment and Complementarity: Reflections on Relationship in “Gifts and Calling” date: 2017-03-29 words: 6245 flesch: 41 summary: 27 Fuchs Kreimer explains that the New Testament writings of Paul co-opt Sarah for Christians and therefore also claim the election of the children of Sarah while designating the Judaizers (Jewish Christians) as children of Hagar who should be excluded from the community. We see this through the text’s engagement with Jewish sources, the honest statements of an historically painful relationship (§§6, 14) and the direct recognition of the Shoah in various places in the document (§§1, 6, 8, 40, 47). keywords: christian; complementarity; covenant; document; fulfillment; jewish; jews; judaism; new; relationship; theological cache: scjr-9800.pdf plain text: scjr-9800.txt item: #501 of 511 id: scjr-9801 author: Sandberg, Ruth title: Rethinking the Notion of Universality in Judaism and its Implications date: 2017-03-29 words: 3828 flesch: 44 summary: If Judaism rejects Christian triumphalist universality, which insists that the only path to salvation for humanity is through Christ, then Judaism must also re- ject its own triumphalist universality in which the only path to salvation is through the Torah and conversion to Judaism. The theme of Christian universality is also prominent in Section 6, dealing with the Church’s mandate to evangelize. keywords: christ; christian; god; israel; judaism; salvation; universality cache: scjr-9801.pdf plain text: scjr-9801.txt item: #502 of 511 id: scjr-9802 author: Tapie, Matthew title: Christ, Torah, and the Faithfulness of God: The Concept of Supersessionism in “The Gifts and the Calling” date: 2017-03-29 words: 9591 flesch: 50 summary: Novak concludes that this mild form is acceptable since it need not denigrate Judaism: “Christian supersessionism need not denigrate Judaism . . . Christian supersessionism can still affirm that God has not annulled His everlasting covenant with the Jewish people.” keywords: christian; church; covenant; g&c; god; isaac; israel; jews; judaism; law; people; supersessionism; teaching cache: scjr-9802.pdf plain text: scjr-9802.txt item: #503 of 511 id: scjr-9811 author: Sandmel, David Fox title: André LaCocque. Jesus the Central Jew: His Times and His People date: 2017-04-02 words: 871 flesch: 58 summary: There are chapters devoted to “Jesus the Messiah,” “Jesus Son of Man / Son of God,” “Jesus as Healer,” “Jesus and Torah,” “Jesus and Moses,” and “Jesus and Israel.” In this thoroughly researched and carefully argued book, LaCocque sets out to demonstrate that Jesus was “totally and unquestionably” a Jew (p. 8). keywords: jesus; lacocque cache: scjr-9811.pdf plain text: scjr-9811.txt item: #504 of 511 id: scjr-9815 author: Staples, Jason A. title: A. Chadwick Thornhill. The Chosen People: Election, Paul, and Second Temple Judaism date: 2017-04-07 words: 1236 flesch: 48 summary: In this revision of his 2013 Liberty University dissertation (directed by Leo Percer), Thornhill examines the concept of election in the Pauline letters and in a variety of early Jewish texts. The topical structure of the book may make it more accessible to readers less familiar with early Jewish texts. keywords: election; thornhill cache: scjr-9815.pdf plain text: scjr-9815.txt item: #505 of 511 id: scjr-9816 author: DesRosiers, Nathaniel title: Susan J. Wendel and David M. Miller, Eds. Torah Ethics and Early Christian Identity date: 2017-04-07 words: 1216 flesch: 50 summary: Reinhartz concludes that Torah ethics in John are not explicit but rather inferred by readers historically. Torah Ethics and Early Christian Identity (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2016), ix + 271 pp. keywords: jesus; law; torah cache: scjr-9816.pdf plain text: scjr-9816.txt item: #506 of 511 id: scjr-9940 author: Moses, Jay title: Faydra L. Shapiro. Christian Zionism: Navigating the Jewish-Christian Border date: 2017-05-01 words: 1516 flesch: 52 summary: She wryly notes that for Christian Zionists “minimally, the ‘right kind’ of Jew is one with a sense of [his] Jewishness To study the phenomena of Christian Zionism, she studies and attends events held by several well-known Christian Zionist organizations: Christians United for Israel (CUFI), The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ), Bridges for Peace, and The International Christian Embassy Jerusalem (ICEJ). keywords: christian; judaism cache: scjr-9940.pdf plain text: scjr-9940.txt item: #507 of 511 id: scjr-9952 author: Clooney, Francis X. title: Robert McKim, Editor. Religious Perspectives on Religious Diversity date: 2017-05-10 words: 1289 flesch: 43 summary: In “The Role of Religious Diversity in Meaningful Religious Belief,” Basinger explicitly draws on his long experience in teaching to argue that stu- dents learn best both when informed about other religions and ideally in the presence of members of other religious traditions. She explores how students learn differently when others in the class, coming from other traditions, provide them with information about their tradition as well as offer deeper insights into their beliefs. keywords: diversity; religions; traditions cache: scjr-9952.pdf plain text: scjr-9952.txt item: #508 of 511 id: scjr-9967 author: Gregerman, Adam title: Amy-Jill Levine. Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi date: 2017-05-16 words: 2627 flesch: 52 summary: 1 SCJR 12, no. 1 (2017): 1-5 REVIEW ESSAY Amy-Jill Levine Short Stories by Jesus: This review was adapted from an invited panel presentation “A Review of Amy- Jill Levine’s Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi,” sponsored by the Jewish-Christian Dialogue and Sacred Texts Group at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting (Atlanta, GA; November 2015). keywords: christian; jesus; levine; parables cache: scjr-9967.pdf plain text: scjr-9967.txt item: #509 of 511 id: scjr-9968 author: Johnson, Luke Timothy title: Amy-Jill Levine. Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi date: 2017-05-16 words: 2320 flesch: 48 summary: Is it possible that the necessary—or at least, preferable—starting point for conversa- tions among Christians and Jews concerning the stories of Rabbi Jesus is not a hypothetical historical Jesus but a very definite Jesus of the Gospel? 1 SCJR 12, no. 1 (2017): 1-5 REVIEW ESSAY Amy-Jill Levine Short Stories by Jesus: keywords: jesus; levine; luke; parables cache: scjr-9968.pdf plain text: scjr-9968.txt item: #510 of 511 id: scjr-9969 author: Merz, Annette title: Amy-Jill Levine. Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi date: 2017-05-16 words: 5445 flesch: 54 summary: It found its classical formulation in Joachim Jeremias’ comparison between Matthew’s parable, which represents “the world of merit,” and the rabbinic funerary parable that honors the untimely death of Rabbi Bun bar Hiyya, which represents “the world of grace.” 13 The whole body of Jewish parables about recompense and grace shows that Jesus and the rabbis do not differ regarding their views of God as a generous yet de- manding boss. On the other hand, the story itself and its imagery also provide clues, and placing the parable in the context of discussions about “just recompense” is in full agreement with later Jewish parables that stereotypically compares working (and payment) to the fulfilment of the Torah (and recom- pense). keywords: book; example; jesus; levine; meaning; parables; rabbinic; readings; stories cache: scjr-9969.pdf plain text: scjr-9969.txt item: #511 of 511 id: scjr-9970 author: Sandmel, David title: Amy-Jill Levine. Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi date: 2017-05-16 words: 1578 flesch: 54 summary: Despite their differences, both Klausner and Levine recognize the profundity of Jesus’ stories. Sandmel: Amy-Jill Levine’s Short Stories by Jesus 2 I want to situate Levine’s work in this context. keywords: book; jesus; levine cache: scjr-9970.pdf plain text: scjr-9970.txt