Christian-Jewish Relations through the Centuries

by Stanley E. Porter; Brook Pearson

Publisher:

T&T Clark

, 2000

Overview

Christian-Jewish relations have varied throughout the centuries; at times they have been peaceful with a semblance of mutual understanding, but occasionally these relations have been ones of tension, often involving recrimination and even violence. In Christian-Jewish Relations through the Centuries, the contributors address a number of major questions which have been at the heart and the periphery of these tenuous relations through the years. This important discussion begins with the emerging first-century Church as it began to define itself in terms of Judaism, then traces this relationship through the intervening years, including modern issues regarding anti-Semitism and the Holocaust. In its own way, this book becomes a part of the ongoing dialogue, tackling sensitive yet vital topics from a variety of approaches and perspectives.

Product Details

• Title: Christian-Jewish Relations through the Centuries
• Editors: Stanley E. Porter and Brook W.R. Pearson
• Publisher: T and T Clark
• Publication Date: 2000
• Pages: 503

About the Editors

Stanley E. Porter, who received his Ph.D. from University of Sheffield in England, is President, Dean, and Professor of New Testament at McMaster Divinity College in Canada. Porter has taught for sixteen years in post-secondary institutions in Canada, the USA, and the UK. He has published more than eight books and over 100 journal articles; he has also edited or co-edited over 40 volumes, including Baptism, the New Testament and the Church Historical and Contemporary Studies in Honour of R.E.O. White. A well-known and respected expert in Greek and New Testament studies throughout the world, he has contributed several books to the Studies in New Testament Greek and JSNTS Collection (16 Vols.), the Hermeneutics Collection (12 Vols.), and the Library of NT Studies: JSNTS on Paul (17 Vols.). He is the author of Idioms of the Greek New Testament, Second Edition.

Brook W. R. Pearson was senior lecturer in theology in the department of theology and religious studies at the University of Surrey Roehampton, London. Pearson is the author of Corresponding Sense: Paul, Dialectic, and Gadamer.

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Top Highlights

“The destruction of the Temple proved to be a significant loss of common ground shared by Gentile and Jewish Christians.” (Page 21)

“The Jewish wars for liberation from Roman control and the hopes for rebuilding the Temple tended to pit Gentile Christians against Jewish Christians. For Jewish Christians this proved to be especially difficult, often forcing them to choose between their faith in Jesus on the one hand, and loyalty to their nation and people on the other.” (Pages 22–23)

“the divinity of Jesus. The tendency of the Greco-Roman church to deify Jesus” (Page 21)

“Justin Martyr, a contemporary of Simon, relates that the Jews ‘count us foes and enemies; and, like yourselves, they kill and punish us whenever they have the power, as you can well believe. For in the Jewish war which lately raged, Bar Kokhba, the leader of the revolt of the Jews, gave orders that Christians alone should be led away to cruel punishments, unless they should deny [that] Jesus [is] the Christ and blaspheme’” (Page 22)

“the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple in 70 ce and the later Bar Kokhba defeat (135 ce),” (Page 21)

Product Details

• Title: Christian-Jewish Relations through the Centuries
• Authors: Stanley E. Porter, Brook Pearson
• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Print Publication Date: 2000
• Logos Release Date: 2009
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Christianity and other religions › Judaism--Congresses; Judaism › Relations--Christianity--Congresses
• ISBNs: 9781841270906, 1841270903
• Resource ID: LLS:CHRJEWRELATN
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2025-02-10T21:17:32Z

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