Jesus the Jew in Christian Memory

Theological and Philosophical Explorations
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-1-108-49889-0
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 350 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

Jesus the Jew is the primary signifier of Christianity's indebtedness to Judaism. This connection is both historical and continuous. In this book, Barbara Meyer shows how Christian memory, as largely intertwined with Jewish memory, provides a framework to examine the theological dimensions of historical Jesus research. She explores the topics that are central to the Jewishness of Jesus, such as the Christian relationship to law, and otherness as a Christological category. Through the lenses of the otherness of the Jewish Jesus for contemporary Christians, she also discusses circumcision, natality, vulnerability, and suffering in dialogue with thinkers seldom drawn into Jewish-Christian discourse, notably Hannah Arendt, Julia Kristeva, Martha Nussbaum and Adi Ophir. Meyer demonstrates how the memory of Jesus' Jewishness is a key to reconfiguring contemporary challenges to Christian thought, such as particularity and otherness, law and ethics after the Shoah, human responsibility, and divine vulnerability.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Meyer, Barbara U

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Historisch-Kritische Jesusforschung
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Neues Testament: Exegese, Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. What is Christian memory?; 2. The past; 3. The present; 4. The future; 5. After and against suffering; 6. Between Jesus, the Jew, and the other; Conclusion; Postscript.

Über Autor(innen)

Meyer, Barbara U
Barbara U. Meyer teaches Religious Studies at Tel Aviv University. She is the author of Christologie Im Schatten Der Shoah – Im Lichte Israels (2005) and numerous articles on contemporary interreligious dynamics and changing Christian approaches to Law.