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| Lesson | Topic | Lecture notes | Video |
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| 1 | INTRODUCTION The three "registers" of Jewish-Christian relations: "disputation, "deliberation", "dialogue". Read: Boys, Has God Only One Blessing? 5-14; Freymer-Kensky, Christianity in Jewish Terms, 1-24 |
Discussion | |
| 2 | Nostra Aetate Read: Nostra Aetate off the Vatican's website in the archives section. Read: Boys, Has God Only One Blessing? 15-74 Roger Brooks, Unanswered Questions, 13-47 (READING) |
Lecture Two: Nostra Aetate | Lecture Two Video |
| 3 | BACK TO THE SOURCES: ORIGINS OF HOSTILITY The Problem of Christian Origins and Jewish-Christian Relations Read: Boys, Has God Only One Blessing? 87-174 |
Lecture Three: The Christian Story and the Jewish People | |
| 4 | Gospels: Matthew and John Read: Di Sante, "The 'Old' and 'New' Covenants" in Hargrove's Seeds of Reconciliation |
Discussion | |
| 5 | Paul: Epistle to Galatians and Romans Read: Di Sante's "The Torah as Law in Judaism" in Hargrove's Seeds of Reconciliation |
Lectures Five and Six: Pauline Epistle Lecture Notes | |
| 6 | Paul: Epistle to the Romans Read: Epistle in the Bible Apostolic Fathers, by Fr. Sparks 263-301 (READING) |
Discussion | |
| 7 | Epistle to the Hebrews Read: Hebrews by Harold Attridge, 1-34, 198-205 |
Lecture Seven: Epistle to the Hebrews Lecture | |
| 8 | Time for Refection: Is there One Story of Origins? Read: Boys, Has God Only One Blessing? 75-86 |
Discussion | Lecture Eight Video |
| 9 | THE PARTED WAYS Jews in Ancient Christian Writers Read: Epistle of Barnabas (READING) Melito of Sardis, "On the passover" (READING) St. Augustine, "In Answer to the Jews" (READING) Cohen, Living Letters of the Law 23-94 |
Discussion | |
| 10 | The Rabbis on Pagans, Sectarians, Christians Read: Mekhilta de-Rabbi Ishmael(READING) Midrash rabbah (READING) Bavli Gittin(READING) Christianity in Talmud and Midrash (READING) "Disputations and Polemics", Encyc. Judaica: Volume 6, pgs 79-103. |
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| 11 | THE MEDIEVAL ENCOUNTER: DISPUTATION Jews and Christians in Medieval Europe Read: Cohen, Living Letters of the Law 95-218 Encyclopaedia Judaica "History" Volume 8, pgs 651-692 |
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| 12 | Private Disputation Manuals Read: Joseph Kimhi's, The Book of the Covenant (whole book, but focus on pgs 32-42) |
Discussion | |
| 13 | At the Extremes: Blood Libel, Host Desecration Read: J.R. Marcus, The Jew in the Medieval World 121-157 (READING) G. Langmuir, Toward a Definition of Antisemitism 263-300 (READING) |
Discussion | |
| 14 | The Public Disputations: Christian Evangelism and Jewish
Response Read: Maccoby, Judaism on Trial 19-150, 153-167 Katz's Exclusiveness and Tolerance, 106-113 Cohen, Living Letters of the Law 387-389 |
Discussion | |
| 15 | INTO MODERNITY: THE GERMAN-JEWISH QUESTION Martin Buber Read: "Church, State, Nation, Jewry" and "Two Types of Faith" (READING) |
Lecture Fifteen Video | |
| 16 | Franz Rosenzweig Read: "Star of Redemption" (READING) |
Discussion | |
| 17 | AFTER THE ABYSS. CONTEMPORARY DIALOGUE Disputation Continued? Joseph Soloveitchik and Moses Feinstein Read: Soloveitchik "Confrontation" (READING) and Ellensen's JewishLeglAuthAddresses (READING - this will be sideways) |
Discussion | |
| 18 | Dialogue Renewed: Abraham J. Heschel Read: "No Religion is an Island" and "The Jewish Notion of God and Christian Renewal" 235-285 (READING) |
Discussion | |
| 19 | Rethinking the Christian Relationship with Judaism Read: Boys Has God Only One Blessing?, 177-278, 18-20 Systematic Rethinking Read: Mussner, Tractate on the Jews, 1-51 (READING) Read: Pope Benedict XVI (Ratzinger), Many Religions, One Covenant: Israel, Church and the World and Introduction to "The Jewish People and Their Sacred Scriptures in the Christian Bible (2001) from the Vatican Website |
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| 20 | CONFRONTING THE SHOAH: FIFTY YEARS LATER Read: Catholics Remember the Holocaust (whole thing) Klenicki, "On Christianity: Towards a Process of Historical and Spiritual Healing" in Hargrove's Seeds of Reconciliation Signer, Humanity at the Limit: The Impact of the Holocaust Experience on Jews and Christians, "Theology from the Depths: New Directions in Germany" (READING) |
Discussion | |
| 21 | DABRU EMET AND A SACRED OBLIGATION Read: Dabru Emet "A Sacred Obligation" and BC website form (READING AND WEBSITE) |
Discussion |
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