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{en} Barbara U. Meyer, Jesus the Jew in Christian Memory: Theological and Philosophical Explorations (Cambridge, UK; and New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2020).

Abstract

"Jesus the Jew is the primary signifier of Christianity's indebtedness to Judaism. This connection is both historical and continuous. In this book, Barbara Meyer shows how Christian memory, as largely intertwined with Jewish memory, provides a framework to examine the theological dimensions of historical Jesus research. She explores the topics that are central to the Jewishness of Jesus, such as the Christian relationship to law, and otherness as a Christological category. Through the lenses of the otherness of the Jewish Jesus for contemporary Christians, she also discusses circumcision, natality, vulnerability, and suffering in dialogue with thinkers seldom drawn into Jewish-Christian discourse, notably Hannah Arendt, Julia Kristeva, Martha Nussbaum and Adi Ophir. Meyer demonstrates how the memory of Jesus' Jewishness is a key to reconfiguring contemporary challenges to Christian thought, such as particularity and otherness, law and ethics after the Shoah, human responsibility, and divine vulnerability"--Publisher description.

Contents

Introduction: The Jewishness of Jesus as a Theological Challenge -- 1. What Is Christian Memory? -- The Interreligious Dimension of Christian Memory -- Ethics of Memory between Jews and Christians -- The Presence of Memory in Liturgy -- Theology between Communities of Memory -- 2. The Past: History of Halakhah and Dogma -- Remembering Second Temple Judaism -- Jesus and the Law: Bound and Binding -- Only Jesus: Uniqueness and Belonging -- The Historical Jesus and Christian Dogma -- 3. The Present: Jesus and Jewish Continuity -- What Does It Mean to Say That Jesus Is Jewish? -- Blackness and Jewishness -- Jewishness between the First and the Twenty-First Centuries -- Jesus the Jew between the First and the Twenty-First Centuries -- 4. The Future: Regarding the Human -- The Future of Our Humanity -- The Future of Our Divine Spark: Natality -- Covenant Continued: Circumcision -- Like Us but Different: Two-Natures Christology -- 5. After and Against Suffering -- Against Pathodicy: After Levinas -- The Cross and Jewish Suffering -- The Suffering of the Other -- Against Redemptive Suffering -- 6. Between Jesus, the Jew, and the Other -- Otherness as a Christological Category -- After the End of the Law: Telos of Torah -- Jesus, the Jew, and Islam -- Vulnerability in Dogma and History -- Conclusion -- Postscript: Interreligious Christology.

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