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Zev Garber (ed.), The Jewish Jesus: Revelation, Reflection, Reclamation (Shofar Supplements in Jewish Studies; West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press,2011).

Abstract

"There is a general understanding within religious and academic circles that the incarnate Christ of Christian belief lived and died a faithful Jew. This volume addresses Jesus in the context of Judaism. By emphasizing his Jewishness, the authors challenge today's Jews to reclaim the Nazarene as a proto-rebel rabbi and invite Christians to discover or rediscover the Church's Jewish heritage. The essays in this volume cover historical, literary, liturgical, philosophical, religious, theological, and contemporary issues related to the Jewish Jesus. Several of them were originally presented at a three-day symposium on “Jesus in the Context of Judaism and the Challenge to the Church,” hosted by the Samuel Rosenthal Center for Judaic Studies at Case Western Reserve University in 2009. In the context of pluralism, in the temper of growing interreligious dialogue, and in the spirit of reconciliation, encountering Jesus as living history for Christians and Jews is both necessary and proper. This book will be of particular interest to scholars of the New Testament and Early Church who are seeking new ways of understanding Jesus in his religious and cultural milieu, as well Jewish and Christian theologians and thinkers who are concerned with contemporary Jewish and Christian relationships."--Publisher description.

Contents

• Section 1: Reflections on the Jewish Jesus, 1. The Jewish Jesus: A Partisan's Imagination / Zeb Garber -- 2. The Kabbalah of Rabbi Jesus / Bruce Chilton -- 3. The Amazing Mr. Jesus / James F. Moore -- 4. Jesus the "Material Jew" /Joshua Schwartz -- 5. Jesus Stories, Jewish Liturgy, and Some Evolving Theologies Until ca. 200 CE: Stimuli and Reactions / Ziony Zevit -- 6. Avon Gilyon (Document of Sin, b. Shabb.116a) or Euagelon (Good News) / Herbert Basser -- 7. Psalm 22 in Pesiqta Rabbati: The Suffering of the Jewish Messiah and Jesus / Rivka Ulmer

Section 2: Responding to the Jewish Jesus 8. What was at Stake in Parting of the Ways Between Judaism and Christianity? / Richard L. Rubenstein -- 9. The Jewish and Greek Jesus /Yitzchak Kerem -- 10. Jewish Responses to Byzantine Polemics 9th-11th Centuries / Steven Bowman -- 11. A Meditation on Possible Images of Jewish Jesus in the Pre-Modern Period / Norman Simms -12. Typical Jewish Misunderstandings of Christ, Christianity, and Jewish Christian Relations over the Centuries / Eugene Fisher -Section 3: Teaching, Dialogue, Reclamation: Contemporary Views on the Jewish Jesus -- 13. How Credible is Jewish Scholarship on Jesus? / Michael J. Cook -- 14. Taking Thomas to Temple: Introducing Evangelicals to the Jewish Jesus / Christina M. Smerick -- 15. The Historical Jesus as Jewish Prophet: Its Meaning for the Modern Jewish-Christian Dialogue / Sara Mandell -- 16. Before Whom Do We Stand? / Henry F. Knight -- 17. Edith Stein's Jewish Husband Jesus / Emily Leah Silverman -- 18. Can We Talk? The Jewish Jesus in a Dialogue Between Jews and Christians / Steve L. Jacobs -- 19. The New Jewish Reclamation of Jesus in Late Twentieth Century America: Re-Aligning and Re-Thinking Jesus the Jew / Shaul Magid.

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