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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.net library contains articles of Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations as of vol. 2(2007) to current.
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Donald M. Lewis. A Short History of Christian ZionismNo abstract is available.
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Munther Isaac. The Other Side of the Wall: A Palestinian Narrative of Lament and HopeNo abstract is available.
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Reorienting “Settled Identities”: Rethinking a Course on Jewish-Christian RelationsThis article is a retrospective description and analysis of a course on Jewish-Christian relations offered jointly to students of Jewish Theological Seminary and Union Theological Seminary by a faculty member from each institution. The initial section lays out the fundamental contours of the course in 2020, with greater detail provided on the initial sections. The second explores areas in need of further refinement; a final section explores the potential of integrating threshold concepts, a way of opening new perspectives on topics, and proposes several such concepts that might guide future iterations of the course.
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John E. Phelan, Jr. Separated Siblings: An Evangelical Understanding of Jews and JudaismNo abstract is available.
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Prayerbook of the Bible, and the Reichsschrifttumskammer (RSK): Reassessing the Historical RecordThis article examines Geffrey B. Kelly’s argument that, in 1941, the Reichsschrifttumskammer (RSK) prohibited Bonhoeffer from publishing because the agency objected to the ostensibly pro-Jewish and anti-Nazi content of Prayerbook of the Bible: An Introduction to the Psalms. The primary sources show that Kelly’s claims are unsupported by the historical record, as there is no evidence that Prayerbook figured into the deliberations of the RSK. If Prayerbook has implications for post-Holocaust Jewish-Christian conversations, then these implications must be demonstrated with reference to the text itself and not by recourse to its supposed reception by Nazi authorities. Kelly’s account exemplifies a problematic tendency to interpret Bonhoeffer, in the context of Jewish-Christian relations, through a misleadingly heroic or hagiographical lens.  
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John J. R. Lee. Christological Rereading of the Shema (Deut 6:4) in Mark’s GospelNo abstract is available.
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Marvin R. Wilson. Our Father Abraham, 2nd EditionNo abstract is available.
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“Supersessionism”: The Political Origin of a Theological NeologismThis article proceeds along three primary lines. First, through an examination of the writings of Roy and Alice Eckardt and Franklin Littell, it demonstrates that the categorizing of ancient and modern Christian thinkers under the umbrella of “supersessionism” (along with the label for its proponent, the “supersessionist”) originated not in scholarly works of theological history or systematic theology, where the concepts now most frequently appear, but in the political environment of burgeoning American Christian support for the State of Israel’s military superiority. Second, this article foregrounds the way that these writings opposed themselves to Eastern Christians, Arabs, and church fathers. Third, it shows that, in light of their approach to both “traditional” theology and Christian (especially Orthodox) and non-Christian Arabs, the Eckardts, Littell, and other likeminded pioneers of American Christian-Jewish relations did not so much overcome the “supersessionism” myth that they identified and rejected as much as they redirected its principal elements toward a new cast of characters. The article concludes by briefly considering the common role played by “supersessionism” as a sort of “gateway” into Jewish-Christian relations for non-Western theologians, with the hope of reshaping a historically problematic aspect of Jewish-Christian relations that has tended to hinder, rather than facilitate, more frequent Orthodox and other Arab Christian participation in Jewish-Christian dialogue.
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Gabriele Boccaccini. Paul’s Three Paths to SalvationNo abstract is available.
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Christopher Stroup. The Christians Who Became Jews: Acts of the Apostles and Ethnicity in the Roman CityNo abstract is available.
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Tim Dowley. Defying the Holocaust: Ten Courageous Christians who Supported JewsNo abstract is available.
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Revisiting the Parable of the Good SamaritanThe parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37) is among the best-known Gospel texts. It may also be one of the most mis-interpreted texts in the Gospels. The story of a traveler who comes to the aid of a victim of crime has inspired Christians for centuries to establish agencies to render assistance to those in need. The popular acclaim for the parable can cloud the meaning and significance of the story recounted in Luke’s Gospel. The ways the parable has been presented to and read by Christians represents a stumbling block in relations between Christians and Jews. This article surveys contemporary scholarly literature published for an English-speaking audience to determine what limitations and possibilities exist for understanding this parable. A close and careful reading of Luke’s text can reveal story elements that challenge traditional interpretations of this significant parable.
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Daniel G. Hummel. Covenant Brothers: Evangelicals, Jews, and U.S.-Israeli RelationsNo abstract is available.
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Carol Rittner and John K. Roth, Eds. Advancing Holocaust StudiesNo abstract is available.
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Barbara U. Meyer. Jesus the Jew in Christian Memory: Theological and Philosophical ExplorationNo abstract is available.