Textbooks/Readings

Textbooks

This course does not require any previous knowledge of Judaism. Therefore, some students may want more information. I recommend:

Readings

1. Unanswered Questions, Ed. Roger Brooks, Notre Dame Press, 1986
2. The Church and the Nineteenth Century, Raymond Corrigan, The Bruce Publishing Company, 1938, pgs. 289-295.
3. The Apostolic Fathers, ed. by Fr. Jack Sparks, Light and Life Publishing, 1978, pgs. 263-301. (Session 3)
   
4. Melito of Sardis in The Christological Controversy, trans. and ed. by Richard A. Norris, Jr., Augsberg Fortress Press, 1980, pgs. 33-47 (Session 9)
   
5. In Answer to the Jews, Treatises on Marriage and Other Subjects/The Fathers of the Church: A New Translation, St. Augustine, ed. Roy J. Deferrari,  Catholic University of America Press, 1955,  pgs. 391-413. (Session 9)
   
6. Mekhilta de-Rabbi Ishmael Volume II/Tractate Baodesh, ed. by Jacob Lauterbach, Jewish Publication Society, http://www.jewishpub.org/product.php?isbn=0827606788 2004, pgs. 229-236. (Session 10)
   
7. Midrash rabbah, English, London, Soncino Press, 1939, pgs. 50-53. (Session 10)
8. Bavli Gittin Folio 56b-57a, Soncino Talmud, 1961, http://www.come-and-hear.com (Session 10)
9. Christianity in Talmud and Midrash, R. Travers Herford, Ktav Publishing House, Inc., 1975, pgs. 82-83, 118-119, 146-147, and 178-179. (Session 10)
10. The Jew in the Medieval World, Jacob Rader Marcus, Atheneum Publishing, 1975, pgs. 121-157. (Session 13)
    
11. Toward a Definition of Antisemitism, Gavin I. Langmuir, University of California Press, 1990, pgs. 263-300. (Session13)
    
12. Soloveitchik's article in A Treasury of Tradition, ed. by Norman Lamm and Walter S. Wurzberger, Hebrew Publishing Company, 1967, pgs. 55-80. (Session 17)
    
13. Jewish Perspectives on Christianity: Leo Baeck, Marin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, Will Herberg, and Abraham Heschel, ed. by Fritz Rothschild, Crossroads Publishing Company, 1990, pgs. 132-153, 206-226. (Session 15, 16, 18)
    
14. A Jewish Legal Authority Addresses Jewish-Christian Dialogue: Two Responsa of Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, by Rabbi David Ellenson, The Chronicle of Hebrew Union College, Volume LII, Nos. 1&2, Fall 2000-2001. (Session 17)
    
15. Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity, Essays, Abraham Joshual Heschel, ed. by Susannah Heschel, Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1996, pgs. 235-285. (Session 18)
    
16. Tractate on the Jews: The Significance of Judaism for Christian Faith, Franz Mussner: Trans. and with an introduction by Leonard Swidler, Augsberg Fortress Press, 1984, pgs. 1-52.
17. Humanity at the Limit: The Impact of the Holocaust Experience on Jews and Christians, ed. by Michael A. Signer, Indiana University Press, 2000, pgs. 63-103. (Session 20)

Websites

Students should utilize the following websites for additional bibliography. They contain documentation and articles relating to problems in Jewish-Christian relations. Additional sites can be found under “links” on the instructor’s web-page.

Jewish Christian relations

Vatican