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Teaching the Historical Jesus in his Jewish context to students of
varied religious backgrounds presents instructors with not only
challenges, but also opportunities to sustain interfaith dialogue
and foster mutual understanding and respect. This new collection
explores these challenges and opportunities, gathering together
experiential lessons drawn from teaching Jesus in a wide variety of
settings-from the public, secular two- or four-year college, to the
Jesuit university, to the Rabbinic school or seminary, to the
orthodox, religious Israeli university. A diverse group of Jewish
and Christian scholars reflect on their own classroom experiences
and explicates crucial issues for teaching Jesus in a way that
encourages students at every level to enter into an encounter with
the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament without paternalism,
parochialism, or prejudice. This volume is a valuable resource for
instructors and graduate students interested in an interfaith
approach in the classroom, and provides practical case studies for
scholars working on Jewish-Christian relations.
Teaching the Historical Jesus in his Jewish context to students of
varied religious backgrounds presents instructors with not only
challenges, but also opportunities to sustain interfaith dialogue
and foster mutual understanding and respect. This new collection
explores these challenges and opportunities, gathering together
experiential lessons drawn from teaching Jesus in a wide variety of
settings-from the public, secular two- or four-year college, to the
Jesuit university, to the Rabbinic school or seminary, to the
orthodox, religious Israeli university. A diverse group of Jewish
and Christian scholars reflect on their own classroom experiences
and explicates crucial issues for teaching Jesus in a way that
encourages students at every level to enter into an encounter with
the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament without paternalism,
parochialism, or prejudice. This volume is a valuable resource for
instructors and graduate students interested in an interfaith
approach in the classroom, and provides practical case studies for
scholars working on Jewish-Christian relations.
Confronting Genocide: Judaism, Christianity, Islam is the first
collection of essays by recognized scholars primarily in the field
of religious studies to address this timely topic. In addition to
theoretical thinking about both religion and genocide and the
relationship between the two, these authors look at the tragedies
of the Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide, Rwanda, Bosnia, and the
Sudan from their own unique vantage point. In so doing, they supply
a much needed additional contribution to the ongoing conversations
proffered by historians, political scientists, sociologists,
psychologists, and legal scholars regarding prevention,
intervention, and punishment.
Confronting Genocide: Judaism, Christianity, Islam is the first
collection of essays by recognized scholars primarily in the field
of religious studies to address this timely topic. In addition to
theoretical thinking about both religion and genocide and the
relationship between the two, these authors look at the tragedies
of the Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide, Rwanda, Bosnia, and the
Sudan from their own unique vantage point. In so doing, they supply
a much needed additional contribution to the ongoing conversations
proffered by historians, political scientists, sociologists,
psychologists, and legal scholars regarding prevention,
intervention, and punishment.
Torah for Today is composed of a series of articles written by
Esther Taus for the monthly Temple publication, the Bulletin.
Compiled over 22 years of writing, this work deals with the
practical application of biblical principles and contemporary
concerns. The essays are both informative and challenging. They
mediate between the technical world of contemporary religious
scholarship and the everyday reality of ethical decisions and
piety. The order of presentation of the essays follows the reading
program of Reform Judaism, which starts with the High Holy Days
(usually in September), and continues for a twelve-month study of
the Pentateuch (Bible). Every year different sections of the Bible
are studied, and the cycle is repeated. While the book addresses
primarily secular readers, people of all faiths and backgrounds are
encouraged to discover, or re-discover, the understanding of
religions through this extensive analysis of Judaism.
Our Only Hope is based on correspondence between Eddie Weisz, a
German Jew who emigrated to the U.S. in 1938, and his family
(father, mother, and brother) who remained behind, first in Berlin
and then Prague. Like many German Jewish families, Eddie's parents
sent their eldest child to America hoping that he could pave the
way for the rest of the family to follow. The story is a deeply
personal account of how the Nazi phenomenon affected a single
family. It gives voice to victims of the Holocaust, people whose
experiences are typically told through the eyes of survivors and
perpetrators. Through this narrative, Our Only Hope illuminates an
ironic and tragic dualism: the steady deterioration of life's
circumstances for the Weisz family that is left behind, countered
by the transformation of Eddie Weisz into an independent adult and
American citizen.
The "Midrash Group" of the Scholar's Conference on the Holocaust
and the Churches has met annually over the last decade to discuss
ways for Christians and Jews to find meaning and direction in and
from sacred texts after the Holocaust. Post Shoah Dialogues is a
sample of four different dialogue sessions of the "Midrash Group."
The idea for a Jewish-Christian dialogue on texts grew out of an
ongoing conversation between the four scholars represented in this
volume, due to the profound affect the Shoah had on the theological
thinking of both groups. The essays, focusing on texts matched from
Hebrew and Christian scriptures, allow Christians and Jews to read
the texts together in such a way as to respect the authentic
identity of each other, respect the deep questions arising from the
Shoah, and to open avenues for more dialogue.
Edith Stein's murder at Auschwitz is a topic of intense controversy
among members of the Jewish and Catholic faiths. Some observers,
both Jews and Christians, insist that Stein was sent to the gas
chambers because of her Jewish heritage and faith, and that it
would be inappropriate to declare her a saint in the Christian
religious tradition. Yet, others of both faiths find in Stein a
healing symbol for our time of the atrocities committed against
Jews in Christian nations during World War II. In this volume,
members of the Jewish and Christian religious traditions speak to
this deeply divided debate.
A companion volume to Methodology in the Academic Teaching of
Judaism (UPA, 1987), this book seeks to address the central issues
of human life and meaning in the post-Holocaust world. Though
representing a variety of disciplines and religious backgrounds,
the authors are united by a fundamental recognition that after the
Holocaust, the entire enterprise of being human has been called
into serious question. Co-published with Studies in Judaism.
The Jewish Role in American Life examines the complex relationship
between Jews and the United States. Jews have been instrumental in
shaping American culture and Jewish culture and religion have
likewise been profoundly recast in the United States, especially in
the period following World War II.
The questions posed by the Holocaust force faithful Christians to
reexamine their own identities and loyalties in fundamental ways
and to recognize the necessity of excising the Church's historic
anti-Jewish rhetoric from its confessional core. This volume
proposes a new framework of meaning for Christians who want to
remain both faithful and critical about a world capable of
supporting such evil. The author has rooted his critical
perspective in the midrashic framework of Jewish hermeneutics,
which requires Christians to come to terms with the significant
other in their confessional lives. By bringing biblical texts and
the history of the Holocaust face to face, this volume aims at
helping Jews and Christians understand their own traditions and one
another's.
Mel Gibson's film, The Passion of the Christ, was released on Ash
Wednesday, February 24, 2004 to capacity audiences in theatres and
auditoriums across the U.S. and other countries. Prior to the
film's release, a groundswell of controversy filled the airwaves
and media outlets. Some religious groups protested the film, while
others embraced it. Mel Gibson focuses on the Passion not the life
nor resurrection of Christ. By doing so, he leaves out most of the
elements of the Jesus story familiar to Christians and consequently
he adds non-biblical gruesome details foreign to the Gospels. Mel
Gibson's Passion: The Film, the Controversy, and Its Implications
exposes the flaws of Gibson's cinematic Christ and lays out
assertively and persuasively the rationale of Jews and Christians
in how to grasp and comprehend the passion and execution of the
Christian savior known scripturally as the "King of the Jews."
This insightful volume represents the "hands-on" experience in the
world of academia of two Jewish scholars, one of Orthodox
background and the other a convert to the Jewish faith. As a series
of separate but interrelated essays, it approaches multiple issues
touching both the historical Jesus (himself a pious Jew) and the
modern phenomenon of Messianic Judaism. It bridges the gap between
the typically isolated disciplines of Jewish and Christian
scholarship and forges a fresh level of understanding across
religious boundaries. It delves into such issues as the nature and
essence of Jesus' message (pietistic, militant or something of a
hybrid), and whether Messianic Jews should be welcome in the larger
Jewish community. Its ultimate challenge is to view sound
scholarship as a means of bringing together disparate faith
traditions around a common academic table. Serious research of the
"great Nazarene" becomes interfaith discourse.
This insightful volume represents the "hands-on" experience in the
world of academia of two Jewish scholars, one of Orthodox
background and the other a convert to the Jewish faith. As a series
of separate but interrelated essays, it approaches multiple issues
touching both the historical Jesus (himself a pious Jew) and the
modern phenomenon of Messianic Judaism. It bridges the gap between
the typically isolated disciplines of Jewish and Christian
scholarship and forges a fresh level of understanding across
religious boundaries. It delves into such issues as the nature and
essence of Jesus' message (pietistic, militant or something of a
hybrid), and whether Messianic Jews should be welcome in the larger
Jewish community. Its ultimate challenge is to view sound
scholarship as a means of bringing together disparate faith
traditions around a common academic table. Serious research of the
"great Nazarene" becomes interfaith discourse.
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