Interaction Between Judaism and Christianity in History, Religion, Art and Literature

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-90-04-17150-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 17, 562 Seiten, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 1202 g

Reihe: Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series

This volume contains a variety of essays that deal with the complex relationships between Judaism and Christianity. From the Jewish side, particularly in Orthodox circles, there is a position maintaining the independence of Judaism from outside influences including Christianity. Traditional Christian theology, on the other hand, held a supercessionist view in which Judaism was seen merely as a historical preparation for the later revelation of Christianity. Was there no real interaction? When and how did Judaism and Christianity become two distinct religions? When did the 'parting of ways" take place, if indeed there really was such a parting of ways?

The present volume takes a bold step forward by assuming that no historical period can be excluded from the interactive process between Judaism and Christianity, conscious or unconscious, as a polemical rejection or as tacit appropriation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Poorthuis, Marcel

Schwartz, Joshua J

Turner, Joseph

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Dialog & Beziehungen zwischen Religionen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Über Autor(innen)

Marcel J.H.M. Poorthuis, PhD (1992) in theology, Catholic Theological University of Utrecht, is lecturer in Rabbinics and Jewish Christian relations. He has published on the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, on Jewish history and on the interaction between Church Fathers and Rabbinics.

Joshua Schwartz, Ph.D (1981), Jewish History, Hebrew University, is Director of the Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies and the Schulman Center for Basic Jewish Studies at Bar-Ilan University. He has published extensively on the historical geography of ancient Israel and Jerusalem.

Joseph Turner, Ph.D (1993) is Senior Lecturer in Jewish Thought and Philosophy at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem. He has published on Franz Rosenzweig, Hermann Cohen, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik and Yehezkel Kaufmann among others. His current project is in the philosophy of Jewish existence, focusing on attitudes toward Zion and the Diaspora in 20th century Jewish thought.