Lectures

Session numbers, lectures notes, video links

Lesson	Topic	Lecture notes	Video
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	Lecture Three Video
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	Lecture Nine Video
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.	Lecture Ten: Rabbinic Judaism and Late Antiquity	Lecture Ten Video
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	Lectures Eleven through Fourteen: Medieval Europe
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: Stepping Stones to Modernity	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	Lecture Nineteen: Systematic Approaches
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

Citation: Signer, M. A. (2007, January 29). Lectures. Retrieved November 23, 2009, from Notre Dame OpenCourseWare Web site: http://ocw.nd.edu/theology/jews-and-christians-throughout-history/sessions-lecture-notes-video.