The opportunity to meet and interact with faculty from other Jewish and Christian seminaries with an intentional interfaith focus was an enriching experience. It offered us as faculty members the opportunity to engage in a dialogue that at our institution is afforded primarily students. The sessions at the ICJS Consultation on Seminary Education were rich to the degree that the participants were theologically sophisticated with years of seminary teaching experience upon which to draw. Indeed, each of the sessions could easily have been much longer in order to probe in greater depth the nuances of the many questions that were raised.

It is difficult to summarize the most meaningful aspects of the program because there were so many rich presentations fol-lowed by thought-provoking questions and discussion of such variety. One phrase in particular that struck a chord with the GTS participants was David Gordis' use of Peter Berger's term "epistemological modesty" as the appropriate stance from which to approach other religious traditions. Although such modesty may come more easily to those of some traditions than others, the phrase seems a distilled expression of the necessary caution enjoined on Western Christians in light of the past two millennia of intermittent anti-Semitism and anti-Judaism.

From the perspective of a Christian scholar of the Hebrew Bible, the most meaningful aspect of Jewish-Christian dialogue is not simply discussing contemporary theological issues but the ways in which we can learn from each other as we pursue scholarship. One of the signal advances of the last thirty years or so in biblical studies has been the level participation of Jews of most affiliations and Christians (Protestant and Roman Catholic) in critical scholarship.

As both Don Juel and Alan Segal illustrated, Christian-Jewish scholarly dialogue in New Testament studies is crucial for both traditions, for fully appreciating the Jewish character of the literature and for tentatively dating different layers of the Mishnah. But what was fascinating was to hear the intra-Jewish responses to Alan Segal's paper.

Deidre Good is Professor of New Testament and Judy Newman is Associate Professor of Old Testament at General Theological Seminary in New York.