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The first volume provides the historic background for what became burning issues for the Christian Church after World War II, namely the fate and destiny of historic Israel and Christian guilt in respect to the Jewish people.
What is theologically important about Jesus being a Jew? This book is about the theological implications of Jesus Jewish identity as well as philosophical questions raised by the ongoing presence of Jewishness within Christian ethical and dogmatic discourse. Unlike many of the historical accounts of Jesus the Jew, which focus on Jesus Judean ...
An Introduction to Jewish–Christian Relations sheds fresh light on this ongoing interfaith encounter, exploring key writings and themes in Jewish–Christian history, from the Jewish context of the New Testament to major events of modern times, including the rise of ecumenism, the horrors of the Holocaust and the creation of the state of Israel.
It developed into Rabbinic Judaism and has persisted to the present. But one other contemporary Jewish group can be compared with it in continued influence. It is the one that arose in response to Jesus of Nazareth, his life, death and resurrection, and ultimately evolved into the Christian Church. The origins of Christianity are immensely complex.
Jewish Believers in Jesus is a formidable collection of articles examining the original ethnic-cultural-religious community that surrounded Jesus and formed the earliest Christian church, along with nuanced investigations about those who most closely adhered to this heri-tage when Christianity began its multicultural expansion throughout the
history of Jewish-Christian relations and to the interpretation of the Bible is essential for authentic dialogue and mutual understanding between Christians and Jews.
Christianity emerged as a separate religion only in the centuries after Jesus’ death. Virtually all of what is known about the historical Jesus comes from the four New Testament Gospels — Matthew, Mark, Luke and John — which scholars believe were written several decades after Jesus’ death.
