Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-393) and index.
Contents:
Section 1: Reflections on the Jewish Jesus, 1. The Jewish Jesus: A Partisan's Imagination / Zeb Garber - 2. The Kabbalah of Rabbi Jesus / Bruce Chilton - 3.The Amazing Mr. Jesus / James F. Moore - 4. Jesus the "Material Jew" /Joshua Schwartz - 5. Jesus Stories, Jewish Liturgy, and Some Evolving Theologies Until ca. 200 CE: Stimuli and Reactions / Ziony Zevit - 6. Avon Gilyon (Document of Sin, b. Shabb.116a) or Euagelon (Good News) / Herbert Basser - 7. Psalm 22 in Pesiqta Rabbati: The Suffering of the Jewish Messiah and Jesus / Rivka Ulmer - Section 2: Responding to the Jewish Jesus 8. What was at Stake in Parting of the Ways Between Judaism and Christianity? / Richard L. Rubenstein - 9. The Jewish and Greek Jesus /Yitzchak Kerem - 10. Jewish Responses to Byzantine Polemics 9th-11th Centuries / Steven Bowman - 11. A Meditation on Possible Images of Jewish Jesus in the Pre-Modern Period / Norman Simms -12. Typical Jewish Misunderstandings of Christ, Christianity, and Jewish Christian Relations over the Centuries / Eugene Fisher -Section 3: Teaching, Dialogue, Reclamation: Contemporary Views on the Jewish Jesus - 13. How Credible is Jewish Scholarship on Jesus? / Michael J. Cook - 14. Taking Thomas to Temple: Introducing Evangelicals to the Jewish Jesus / Christina M. Smerick - 15.The Historical Jesus as Jewish Prophet: Its Meaning for the Modern Jewish-Christian Dialogue / Sara Mandell - 16. Before Whom Do We Stand? / Henry F. Knight - 17. Edith Stein's Jewish Husband Jesus / Emily Leah Silverman - 18. Can We Talk? The Jewish Jesus in a Dialogue Between Jews and Christians / Steve L. Jacobs - 19. The New Jewish Reclamation of Jesus in Late Twentieth Century America: Re-Aligning and Re-Thinking Jesus the Jew / Shaul Magid.
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