Jesus Reclaimed

Jewish Perspectives on the Nazarene

Rabbi Walter Homolka (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

166 Seiten

2021
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-210-0 (ISBN)

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After centuries of persecution, oppression, forced migrations, and exclusion in the name of Christ, the development of a Jewish “Quest for the Historical Jesus” might seem unexpected. This book gives an overview and analysis of the various Jewish perspectives on the Nazarene throughout the centuries, emphasizing the variety of German voices in Anglo-American contexts. It explores the reasons for a steady increase in Jewish interest in Jesus since the end of the eighteenth century, arguing that this growth had a strategic goal: the justification of Judaism as a living faith alongside Christianity.

Rabbi Walter Homolka is the rector of the Abraham Geiger College, Germany’s first rabbinical seminary after the Holocaust, and a professor of Modern Jewish Thought at the School of Jewish Theology of the University of Potsdam in Germany. Active in Jewish-Christian dialogue, he is author of many books, including The Gate to Perfection: The Idea of Peace in Jewish Thought (Berghahn 1995), Jewish Identity in Modern Times: Leo Baeck and German Protestantism (Berghahn 1995), co-author with Rabbi Aaron D. Panken of Engaging Torah: Modern Perspectives on The Hebrew Bible (Hebrew Union College Press), and co-author with Hans Küng of How to Do Good & Avoid Evil: A Global Ethic from the Sources of Judaism (Skylight Paths, 2009).

Foreword

Leonard Swidler

Translator’s Preface

Ingrid Shafer

Preface

Introduction: The Life of Jesus according to the Sources

The Sources

The Early Years

Public Appearance

Jesus’s Message

Arrest and Trial

Death

Chapter 1. Jewish Images of Jesus prior to the Early Modern Period

Jesus in the Mishnah and Talmud

The Toldot Yeshu

Rabbinic Polemics against Jesus

Christian Talmud Criticism and Censorship

Chapter 2. The Historical Jesus since the Early Modern Period

Jesus and the Jewish Enlightenment

The Christian Quest of the Historical Jesus: A Departure from Dogma

The Jewish Quest of the Historical Jesus as Repatriation of Jesus to Judaism

The Berlin Anti-Semitism Debate

The “Jesus Scandal” around Max Liebermann

Leo Baeck and Adolf von Harnack: The Controversy

Chapter 3. The Jewish Quest of Jesus

From Joseph Klausner to Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich

Chapter 4. Joseph Ratzinger and the Jewish Jesus

That Jesus Was a Jew: A Cultural Coincidence?

The “Rabbi Jesus”: For Christians Only as Important as Christ?

“Reading the Whole Bible in the Light of Christ”: Joseph Ratzinger’s Hermeneutics

Christian Faith and “Historical Reason”

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	21.10.2021
Zusatzinfo	Bibliography; Index
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-80073-210-4 / 1800732104
ISBN-13	978-1-80073-210-0 / 9781800732100
Zustand	Neuware