How did a Jewish teacher, healer, sage and mystic become the
vehicle for so much hatred and harm directed against his own
people?
Dialogue is demanding and difficult. It is often painful. It
entails deep listening, letting others define themselves and being
willing to confront and transform deep-rooted prejudices in
ourselves. It requires the courage to re-envision absolutely
everything we tend to cherish and protect, and to relinquish our
entrenched vainglorious ego attachments, our inflated sense of I,
me and mine. This challenge to grow beyond tribalism, to approach
others in a fair and reasonable way, is an essential step in our
human evolution. from the Invitation to the Reader
Judaism and Christianity have had a volatile relationship in
their two-thousand-year history. Anger, rivalry, insensitivity,
bloodshed and murder have marred the special connection these two
Abrahamic faiths share. In the last several decades, scholars,
activists, laypeople and clergy have attempted to expose and
eliminate the struggles between Jews and Christians.
This collaborative effort brings together the voices of
Christian scholar Ron Miller and Jewish scholar Laura Bernstein to
further explore the roots of anti-Semitism in Christian faith and
scripture. In a probing interfaith dialogue, Miller and Bernstein
trace the Jewish-Christian schism to its very source in the first
book of the New Testament, the Gospel of Matthew. Illuminating the
often misunderstood context of Matthew s gospel a persecuted
Christian minority writing some sixty years after Jesus s death
this examination of a foundational Christian text discerns the ways
in which the Jewishness of Jesus was forgotten and Jews and Judaism
became Christianity s foil. More important, it takes a renewed look
at Matthew with contemporary retellings that present a new and
better future of conciliation and compassion between the two faith
traditions.
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