Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations
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Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations is the journal of the Council of Centers on Jewish-Christian Relations and is published by the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning at Boston College. The Journal publishes peer-reviewed scholarship on the history, theology, and contemporary realities of Jewish-Christian relations and reviews new materials in the field. The Journal also provides a vehicle for exchange of information, cooperation, and mutual enrichment in the field of Christian-Jewish studies and relations.
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The Globethics library contains articles of Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations as of vol. 2(2007) to current.
Recent Submissions
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Magda Teter. Christian Supremacy: Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and RacismNo abstract is available.
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In the Wake of the Holocaust: Massimo Vitale, Pius XII, and the Battle over the Good Friday Prayer for the “Perfidious Jews”While the Good Friday prayer, with its reference to perfidis Judaeis, had long been a source of unhappiness in the Jewish community, the Holocaust triggered new efforts to have it changed. The recent opening of the Vatican archives for the papacy of Pius XII (1939-1958) now permits a much fuller understanding of these pressures and how the pope and those around him dealt with them. The newly available Vatican documents, together with records from Italian Jewish organizational archives, highlight the key role in this campaign played by Massimo Adolfo Vitale, leader of Italian Jewry’s efforts to determine the fate of the thousands of Jews who had been deported to Nazi concentration camps in the war. The case offers insight as well into the larger question of how the Vatican confronted the legacy of the Holocaust.
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Emily Michelson. Catholic Spectacle and Rome’s Jews: Early Modern Conversion and ResistanceNo abstract is available.
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"We Remember": A Complex NarrativeNo abstract is available.
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William S. Campbell. Romans: A Social Identity CommentaryNo abstract is available.
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Remembering the Shoah without Jewish Voices: "We Remember" as a Failure of MemoryNo abstract is available.
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Cynthia Holder Rich, Ed. Christian Zionism in AfricaNo abstract is available. 
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American Catholic Attitudes toward Jews, Judaism, and the Israeli-Palestinian ConflictThis unprecedented survey of a representative sample of American Catholics assesses their opinions about their Jewish neighbors, Judaism, Israel and Palestine, and Catholic Church teaching on these subjects. After comparing the survey's results with similar research on the views of evangelical Christians, the article focuses on implications for Catholic religious education, including the respondents' familiarity with relevant post-Nostra Aetate theological developments in papal and Vatican documents. 
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Thérèse Andrevon and William Krisel, Eds. Réflexions juives sur le christianismeNo abstract is available. 
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Robert W. Bleakney. Evangelical Interpretation After AuschwitzNo abstract is available.
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František Ábel, Ed. Israel and the Nations: Paul’s Gospel in the Context of Jewish ExpectationNo abstract is available.
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Wulfert de Greef. Of One Tree: Calvin on Jews and Christians in the Context of the Late Middle AgesNo abstract is available.
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Joseph Sievers and Amy-Jill Levine, Eds. The PhariseesNo abstract is available.
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R. Alan Culpepper. Matthew: A Commentary (The New Testament Library)No abstract is available.
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Genesis 9, Noah’s Covenants and Jewish Theology of ReligionsGenesis 9 plays an important role in contemporary Jewish theology of religions. The covenant with Noah is understood as the universal covenant, providing a balance to the particularity of the covenant with Abraham. Such an understanding is found in the works of Jonathan Sacks, Irving Greenberg, and Jon Levenson. This article offers a novel reading of Genesis 9 as a covenant of no-harm, in which both parties commit to avoid inflicting harm upon one another. It introduces a novel typology to covenant studies and undermines our ability to read Genesis 9 in line with the covenants with Abraham and Israel at Sinai. Beyond the contribution to the theological discussion, the article raises the question of the impact of biblical interpretation on theology. The final part of the article offers an alternative reading of the theological import of Noah’s covenant. It is as powerful creator that God is encountered in Genesis 9, rather than as relational partner. If one does not enter into relationship with God, one can at least know him, and the covenant of no harm becomes a means of knowing God.
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Manoela Carpenedo. Becoming Jewish, Believing in JesusNo abstract is available.