Jewish Receptions

doi:10.1017/9781009307987.011

10 - Jewish Receptions

from Part II - The Christological Reception

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 September 2025

Barbara U. Meyer

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Timothy J. Pawl and

Michael L. Peterson

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Timothy J. Pawl: Affiliation:
University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis
Michael L. Peterson: Affiliation:
Asbury Theological Seminary, Kentucky

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Summary

This chapter focuses on contemporary Jewish receptions of Christology, featuring four scholars with extraordinary knowledge of christological discourse. Harry Austryn Wolfson, the philosophers Peter Ochs and Emil Fackenheim, and the New Testament professor Amy-Jill Levine all encourage Christian theologians to address difficult questions – about the unity of God, about evil, and about Jewish–Christian relations – in the specifically Christian language of Christology.

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Judaism and Christology Jewish–Christian Relations post-Shoah Christology Harry Austryn Wolfson Jesus the Jew Judaism and Christian doctrine Peter Ochs

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Type: Chapter
Information: The Cambridge Companion to Christology , pp. 162 - 179

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009307987.011 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2025

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Boys, Mary. Has God Only One Blessing? Judaism as a Source of Christian Self-Understanding. New York, 2000.Google Scholar

Brill, Alan. Judaism and Other Religions: Models of Understanding. New York City, NY, 2010.CrossRef Google Scholar

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Fackenheim, Emil L. To Mend the World: Foundations of Post-Holocaust Jewish Thought. New York, 1989.Google Scholar

Flusser, David. Jesus. Jerusalem, 2001.Google Scholar

Kessler, Edward. An Introduction to Jewish-Christian Relations. Cambridge, 2010.CrossRef Google Scholar

Korn, Eugene. “Rethinking Christianity. Rabbinic Positions and Possibilities.” In Jewish Theology and World Religions, edited by Goshen-Gottstein, Alon and Korn, Eugene, 189–215. Oxford, 2012.Google Scholar

Levine, Amy-Jill. The Difficult Words of Jesus: A Beginner’s Guide to His Most Perplexing Teachings. Nashville, 2021.Google Scholar

Levine, Amy-Jill. Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi. New York, 2014.Google Scholar

Meyer, Barbara U. Jesus the Jew in Christian Memory: Theological and Philosophical Explorations. Cambridge, 2020.CrossRef Google Scholar

Ochs, Peter. “The God of Jews and Christians.” In Christianity in Jewish Terms, edited by Frymer-Kensky, Tikva, Novak, David, Ochs, Peter, Sandmel, David Fox, and Signer, Michael A., 49–69. Boulder, CO, 2000.Google Scholar

Wolfson, Harry Austryn. The Philosophy of the Church Fathers: Faith, Trinity, Incarnation. Cambridge, MA, 1976.Google Scholar

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