Christian-Jewish Relations Through the Centuries

by Porter, Stanley E.; Pearson, Brook W.R.

• ISBN13: 9781841270906
• ISBN10: 1841270903
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-08-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury T&T Clark

Summary

Christian-Jewish relations have had changing fortunes throughout the centuries. Occasionally there has been peace and even mutual understanding, but usually these relations have been ones of tension, often involving recrimination and even violence. This volume addresses a number of the major questions that have been at the heart and the periphery of these tenuous relations through the years. The volume begins with a number of papers discussing relations as Christianity emerged from and defined itself in terms of Judaism. Other papers trace the relations through the intervening years. And a number of papers confront issues that have been at the heart of the troubled twentieth century. In all, these papers address a sensitive yet vital set of issues from a variety of approaches and perspectives, becoming in their own way a part of the ongoing dialogue.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	9	(4)
List of Contributors	13	(2)
Introduction: Christian-Jewish Relations into the Next Century	15	(5)
Stanley E. Porter
Brook W.R. Pearson
Part I Christian-Jewish Relations in the Ancient World
Root Causes of the Jewish-Christian Rift from Jesus to Justin	20	(16)
Craig A. Evans
Ancient Understandings of the Christian-Jewish Split	36	(16)
Stanley E. Porter
Brook W.R. Pearson
Wisdom Christology and the Partings of the Ways between Judaism and Christianity	52	(17)
Crispin H.T. Fletcher-Louis
Resurrection in Jewish-Christian Apocryphal Gospels and Early Christian Art	69	(24)
Brook W.R. Pearson
Felicity Harley
I Enoch among Jews and Christians: A Fringe Connection?	93	(23)
Lawrence Vanbeek
The Concept of `Works of the Law' in Jewish and Christian Literature	116	(32)
Jacqueline C.R. De Roo
Was Paul a Good Jew? Fundamental Issues in a Current Debate	148	(27)
Stanley E. Porter
Moses and Hebrews 3.1-6: Approach or Avoidance?	175	(27)
Cynthia Long Westfall
Misguided Missals: Is Early Christian Music Jewish or Is It Graeco-Roman?	202	(26)
Wendy J. Porter
Jews and Christians in Antioch at the End of the Fourth Century	228	(11)
Pieter W. Van Der Horst
`This Stone Shall Be a Witness' (Joshua 24.27): Jews, Christians and Inscriptions in Early Mediaeval Gaul	239	(16)
Mark Handley
`Colonizing the Old Testament' or `Representing Christian Interests Abroad': Jewish-Christian Relations across Old Testament Territory	255	(29)
Yvonne Sherwood
Part II Christian-Jewish Relations in the Modern World
`Inhabiting What Remains of Judaism': Jewishness and Alterity in the Fiction of Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, and Bernard Malamud	284	(14)
Kevin McCarron
The Statement: A Literary-Historical Reflection on Catholic-Jewish Relations	298	(13)
Liam Gearon
After Fagin: Jewishness and Children's Literature	311	(18)
Pat Pinsent
Images of Anti-Semitism in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Popular Culture	329	(22)
Irene Wise
Philosophy of Psychotic Modernism: Wagner and Hitler	351	(36)
Arthur Gibson
Metaphysics and the Holocaust	387	(13)
Louis P. Blond
The Nature and Significance of Relations between the Historic Peace Churches and Jews during and after the Shoah	400	(26)
Melanie J. Wright
From Nostra aetate to `We Remember: A Reflection on the Shoah'	426	(20)
Michael A. Hayes
Back to the Future: A Century of Jewish-Christian Relations in Poland	446	(19)
Sue Jackson
The Sense of Mission in Judaism and Christianity	465	(8)
Armida Veglio
Why Teach Judaism?	473	(10)
Anne Clark
Index of References	483	(11)
Index of Authors	494