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Jesus was a Jew and not a Christian. That affirmation may seem obvious, but here an international cast of Jewish and Christian scholars spell out its weighty and often complex consequences for contemporary Jewish-Christian dialogue. Soundings in the Religion of Jesus contextualizes Jesus and the writings about him that set the stage for Jewish-Christian relations for the next 2000 years. Of equal importance, this book considers the reception, celebration, and (too often) the neglect of Jesus' Jewishness in modern contexts and the impact such responses have had for Jewish-Christian relations. Topics explored include the ethics of scriptural translation, the ideological motives of Nazi theologians and other quests for the Historical Jesus, and the ways in which New Testament portraits of Jesus both help and hurt authentic Jewish-Christian dialogue.

Bruce Chilton is Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Religion at Bard College. He has authored numerous books on Jesus in his Jewish context, including A Galilean Rabbi and His Bible (1984), Rabbi Jesus: An Intimate Biography (2002), The Way of Jesus: To Repair and Renew the World (2010), and, with Deirdre Good, Studying the New Testament: A Fortress Introduction (Fortress Press, 2010). Anthony Le Donne is a founding member of the Jewish-Christian Dialogue and Sacred Texts consultation of the Society of Biblical Literature. He is the author of The Historiographical Jesus: Memory, Typology, and the Son of David (2009) and The Historical Jesus: What Can We Known and How Can We Know It? (2011) and coeditor of The Fourth Gospel in First-Century Media Culture (2011). Jacob Neusner is Distinguished Service Professor of the History and Theology of Judaism at Bard College and the author of a great number of books on Judaism and Jewish history, including, from Fortress Press, A Short History of Judaism (1992), Recovering Judaism: The Universal Dimension of Judaism (2000), and, with Bruce Chilton, Jewish-Christian Debates: God, Kingdom, Messiah (2000).

Contributors	p. xi
Foreword	p. xv
Introduction: Allowing Historical Study to Serve Interfaith Dialogue	p. 1
The New Testament Jesus and Exclusionary Boundaries
Translating Jesus and the Jews: Can We Eradicate the Anti-Semitism without Also Erasing the Semitism?	p. 11
A Jewish Teaching: Jesus, Gentiles, and the Sheep and the Goats (MATTHEW 25:31-46)	p. 29
A Dogmatic Jesus	p. 47
Early Jewish and Gentile Perspectives on Jesus
The Distribution of Jewish Leaders in the Synoptic Gospels: Why Wariness is Warranted	p. 61
Viewing the Jewish Jesus of History through the Lens of Matthew's Gospel	p. 81
The Trial of Jesus and the Temple: Sadducean and Roman Perspectives	p. 97
Jesus Research before and after German National Socialism
Remapping Schweitzer's Quest through Jewish-Christian Polemic, Apology, and Dialogue	p. 111
The Dissimilar Jesus: Anti-Semitism, Protestantism, Hero-Worship, and Dialectical Theology	p. 129
Jesus within Judaism: The Political and Moral Context of Jesus Research and Its Methodology	p. 143
Jesus in Jewish-Christian Dailogue
The Importance of Jewish-Christian Dialogue on Jesus	p. 161
Jesus in Jewish-Christian Dialogue	p. 175
Conclusion	p. 189
Notes	p. 205
Bibliography	p. 235
Index of Modern Authors	p. 253
Index of Ancient Sources	p. 259
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Soundings in the Religion of Jesus

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