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National Jewish Scholars Project

Christianity in Jewish Terms

Editors: Tikva Frymer-Kensky, David Novak, Peter Ochs, David Fox Sandmel, Michael A. Signer

Table of Contents

A Jewish Statement on Christians and Christianity

Introduction: What to Seek and What to Avoid in Jewish-Christian Dialogue, David Novak

Christian-Jewish Interactions over the Ages, Robert Chazan

The Shoah and the Legacy of Anti-Semitism
Judaism, Christianity, and Partnership After the Twentieth Century, Irving Greenberg

Christian Theology After the Shoah, Christopher M. Leighton

God
The God of Jews and Christians, Peter Ochs

A Jewish View of the Christian God: Some Cautionary and Hopeful Remarks, David Ellenson

God as Trinitarian: A Christian Response to Peter Ochs, David Tracy

Scripture
Searching the Scriptures: Jews, Christians, and the Book, Michael A. Signer

The Writings and Reception of Philo of Alexandria, Hindy Najman

Postmodern Hermeneutics and Jewish-Christian Dialogue: A Case Study, George Lindbeck

Commandment
Mitsvah, David Novak

Another Jewish View of Ethics, Christian and Jewish, Elliot N. Dorff

Christian Ethics in Jewish Terms: A Response to David Novak, Stanley Hauerwas

Israel

Judaism and Christianity: Covenants of Redemption, Irving Greenberg

Israel, Judaism, and Christianity, David Fox Sandmel

Israel and the Church: A Christian Response to Irving Greenberg’s Covenantal Pluralism, R. Kendall Soulen

Worship

Jewish and Christian Liturgy, Lawrence A. Hoffman

Liturgy and Sensory Experience, Ruth Langer

Christian Worship: An Affair of Things as well as Words, Robert Louis Wilken

Suffering
On the Suffering of God’s Chosen: Christian Views in Jewish Terms, Leora Batnitzky

Suspicions of Suffering, Robert Gibbs

The Meaning and Value of Suffering: A Christian Response to Leora Batnitzky, John C. Cavadini

Embodiment
Judaism and Incarnation: The Imaginal Body of God, Elliot R. Wolfson

The Christian Doctrine of the Incarnation, Randi Rashkover

Embodiment and Incarnation: A Response to Elliot Wolfson, Susan A. Ross

Redemption
How Ought a Jew View Christian Beliefs About Redemption? Menachem Kellner

Redemption: What I Have Learned from Christians, Nancy Fuchs-Kreimer

A Christian View of Redemption, Clark Williamson

Sin and Repentance
"Turn Us to You and We Shall Return": Original Sin, Atonement, and Redemption in Jewish Terms, Steven Kepnes

Exile and Return in a World of Injustice: A Response to Steven Kepnes, Laurie Zoloth

The Lamb of God and the Sin of the World, Miroslav Volf

Image of God
The Image: Religious Anthropology in Judaism and Christianity, Tikva Frymer-Kensky

Tselem: Toward an Anthropopathic Theology of Image, David R. Blumenthal

The Image of God in Christian Faith: Vocation, Dignity, and Redemption, William Schweiker

Epilogue: Concluding Visions
What of the Future? A Christian Response, George Lindbeck

What of the Future? A Jewish Response, Tikva Frymer-Kensky, David Novak, Peter Ochs, David Fox Sandmel, Michael A. Signer


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