Christianity in Jewish Terms

by Frymer-Kensky, Tikva; Novak, David; Ochs, Peter; Sandmel, David Fox; Signer, Michael A.

• ISBN13: 9780813337807
• ISBN10: 0813337801
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-09-01
• Publisher: Westview Pr

Summary

Over the past few decades, there has been a dramatic and unprecedented shift in JewishChristian relations, including signs of a new, improved Christian attitude towards Jews. Christianity in Jewish Terms is a Jewish theological response to the profound changes that have taken place in Christian thought. The book is divided into ten chapters, each of which features a main essay, written by a Jewish scholar, that explores the meaning of a set of Christian beliefs. Following the essay is a response from a second Jewish scholar and a Christian scholar. Designed to generate new conversations within the American Jewish community and between the Jewish and Christian communities, Christianity in Jewish Terms lays the foundation for better understanding. It was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Book of 2001.

Author Biography

Tikva Frymer-Kensky is Professor of Hebrew Bible at the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. David Novak holds the J. Richard and Dorothy Shiff Chair of Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. Peter Ochs is the Edgar Bronfman Professor of Modern Judaic Studies at the University of Virginia. David Sandmel is the Jewish Scholar at the Institute for Christian and Jewish Studies in Baltimore. Michael A. Signer is Abrams Professor of Jewish Thought and Culture in the Department of Theology at University of Notre Dame. Tikva Frymer-Kensky is Professor of Hebrew Bible at the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. David Novak holds the J. Richard and Dorothy Shiff Chair of Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. Peter Ochs is the Edgar Bronfman Professor of Modern Judaic Studies at the University of Virginia. David Sandmel is the Jewish Scholar at the Institute for Christian and Jewish Studies in Baltimore. Michael A. Signer is Abrams Professor of Jewish Thought and Culture in the Department of Theology at University of Notre Dame. Tikva Frymer-Kensky is Professor of Hebrew Bible at the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. David Novak holds the J. Richard and Dorothy Shiff Chair of Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. Peter Ochs is the Edgar Bronfman Professor of Modern Judaic Studies at the University of Virginia. David Sandmel is the Jewish Scholar at the Institute for Christian and Jewish Studies in Baltimore. Michael A. Signer is Abrams Professor of Jewish Thought and Culture in the Department of Theology at University of Notre Dame. Tikva Frymer-Kensky is Professor of Hebrew Bible at the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. David Novak holds the J. Richard and Dorothy Shiff Chair of Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. Peter Ochs is the Edgar Bronfman Professor of Modern Judaic Studies at the University of Virginia. David Sandmel is the Jewish Scholar at the Institute for Christian and Jewish Studies in Baltimore. Michael A. Signer is Abrams Professor of Jewish Thought and Culture in the Department of Theology at University of Notre Dame. Tikva Frymer-Kensky is Professor of Hebrew Bible at the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. David Novak holds the J. Richard and Dorothy Shiff Chair of Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. Peter Ochs is the Edgar Bronfman Professor of Modern Judaic Studies at the University of Virginia. David Sandmel is the Jewish Scholar at the Institute for Christian and Jewish Studies in Baltimore. Michael A. Signer is Abrams Professor of Jewish Thought and Culture in the Department of Theology at University of Notre Dame.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Acknowledgments	xv
A Jewish Statement on Christians and Christianity	xvii
Abbreviations	xxi
Introduction: What to Seek and What to Avoid in Jewish-Christian Dialogue	1	(6)
David Novak
Christian-Jewish Interactions over the Ages	7	(18)
Robert Chazan
The Shoah and the Legacy of Anti-Semitism	25	(24)
Judaism, Christianity, and Partnership After the Twentieth Century	25	(11)
Irving Greenberg
Christian Theology After the Shoah	36	(13)
Christopher M. Leighton
God	49	(36)
The God of Jews and Christians	49	(20)
Peter Ochs
A Jewish View of the Christian God: Some Cautionary and Hopeful Remarks	69	(8)
David Ellenson
God as Trinitarian: A Christian Response to Peter Ochs	77	(8)
David Tracy
Scripture	85	(30)
Searching the Scriptures: Jews, Christians, and the Book	85	(14)
Michael A. Signer
The Writings and Reception of Philo of Alexandria	99	(7)
Hindy Najman
Postmodern Hermeneutics and Jewish-Christian Dialogue: A Case Study	106	(9)
George Lindbeck
Commandment	115	(26)
Mitsvah	115	(12)
David Novak
Another Jewish View of Ethics, Christian and Jewish	127	(8)
Elliot N. Dorff
Christian Ethics in Jewish Terms: A Response to David Novak	135	(6)
Stanley Hauerwas
Israel	141	(34)
Judaism and Christianity: Covenants of Redemption	141	(18)
Irving Greenberg
Israel, Judaism, and Christianity	159	(8)
David Fox Sandmel
Israel and the Church: A Christian Response to Irving Greenberg's Covenantal Pluralism	167	(8)
R. Kendall Soulen
Worship	175	(28)
Jewish and Christian Liturgy	175	(14)
Lawrence A. Hoffman
Liturgy and Sensory Experience	189	(7)
Ruth Langer
Christian Worship: An Affair of Things as well as Words	196	(7)
Robert Louis Wilken
Suffering	203	(36)
On the Suffering of God's Chosen: Christian Views in Jewish Terms	203	(18)
Leora Batnitzky
Suspicions of Suffering	221	(8)
Robert Gibbs
The Meaning and Value of Suffering: A Christian Response to Leora Batnitzky	229	(10)
John C. Cavadini
Embodiment	239	(30)
Judaism and Incarnation: The Imaginal Body of God	239	(15)
Elliot R. Wolfson
The Christian Doctrine of the Incarnation	254	(8)
Randi Rashkover
Embodiment and Incarnation: A Response to Elliot Wolfson	262	(7)
Susan A. Ross
Redemption	269	(24)
How Ought a Jew View Christian Beliefs About Redemption?	269	(6)
Menachem Kellner
Redemption: What I Have Learned from Christians	275	(10)
Nancy Fuchs-Kreimer
A Christian View of Redemption	285	(8)
Clark Williamson
Sin and Repentance	293	(28)
``Turn Us to You and We Shall Return'': Original Sin, Atonement, and Redemption in Jewish Terms	293	(12)
Steven Kepnes
Exile and Return in a World of Injustice: A Response to Steven Kepnes	305	(8)
Laurie Zoloth
The Lamb of God and the Sin of the World	313	(8)
Mirslav Volf
Image of God	321	(36)
The Image: Religious Anthropology in Judaism and Christianity	321	(16)
Tikva Frymer-Kensky
Tselem: Toward an Anthropopathic Theology of Image	337	(10)
David R. Blumenthal
The Image of God in Christian Faith: Vocation, Dignity, and Redemption	347	(10)
William Schweiker
Epilogue: Concluding Visions	357	(18)
What of the Future? A Christian Response	357	(9)
George Lindbeck
What of the Future? A Jewish Response	366	(9)
Tikva Frymer-Kensky
David Novak
Peter Ochs
David Fox Sandmel
Michael A. Signer
Notes	375	(28)
Glossary	403	(6)
Selected Bibliography	409	(4)
About the Editors and Contributors	413	(4)
Index	417