Healing the Jewish-Christian Rift
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Healing the Jewish-Christian Rift

Growing Beyond Our Wounded History

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Healing the Jewish-Christian Rift

Growing Beyond Our Wounded History

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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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Publisher
SkyLight Paths
Year
2013
ISBN
9781594735332
Edition
1
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Comparative Religion

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. All Will Be Well
  7. Introduction
  8. 1. What Is a Messiah?
  9. 2. A Miraculous Birth?
  10. 3. A Homicidal Jewish King
  11. 4. A Maverick Mentor
  12. 5. The Message and the Messenger
  13. 6. A Program for Jewish Renewal
  14. 7. A Master of Metaphor
  15. 8. Continuity and Discontinuity
  16. 9. Anger, Adultery, and Divorce
  17. 10. Opposing Evil without Emulating It
  18. 11. The Most Challenging Practice
  19. 12. The Lord’s Prayer
  20. 13. True Treasure, True Vision, and True Worth
  21. 14. A Golden Rule and a Narrow Path
  22. 15. Teaching with Authority and Healing
  23. 16. Those Wonderful Romans!
  24. 17. Redeemer or Reminder?
  25. 18. Sin as Paralysis
  26. 19. The Wrong Sort of People
  27. 20. How New Is This Wine?
  28. 21. Good News?
  29. 22. Enemies at the Door
  30. 23. A Challenging Kind of Peace
  31. 24. Mixed Messages
  32. 25. Jeshu the Lawbreaker?
  33. 26. Those Terrible Pharisees!
  34. 27. Jews Seek Signs
  35. 28. What Makes Us Unclean?
  36. 29. Identity Issues
  37. 30. Jeshu the Rabble-Rouser?
  38. 31. Jews as Rotten Tenants
  39. 32. A Damning Diatribe
  40. 33. Christianity’s Greatest Lie
  41. 34. A Final Meal
  42. 35. The Unbearable Curse
  43. 36. Worse Than Liars
  44. Invitation to the Reader
  45. Notes
  46. Suggestions for Further Reading
  47. About the Authors
  48. Copyright
  49. Also Available
  50. About SkyLight Paths
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