Language:
German
Year of publication:
2001
Titel der Quelle:
Zeitschrift für Neues Testament
Angaben zur Quelle:
8 (2001) 42-47
Keywords:
New Testament. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Christianity and antisemitism History To 1500
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Antisemitism New Testament teaching
Abstract:
The section of this issue called "Kontroverse" presents two separate essays, with an introduction by the editor (pp. 35-36). Weiss's "Noch einmal: Zur Frage eines Antijudaismus bzw. Antipharisäismus im Matthäusevangelium" (pp. 37-41) is a response to an essay by von Dobbeler (published in ZNW 91, 2000) which is summarized in the editor's introduction: it interprets the mission for the conversion of the Gentiles in Mt. 28 and the mission for the reconstruction of Israel in Matthew 10 as complementary and not anti-Jewish, as asserted by Weiss and others. Weiss states that he does not read anti-Judaism into Matthew, but rather anti-Pharisaism. The conflict with Pharisaic Judaism caused the Early Church to repress the abstraction of Matthew's doctrine regarding the lasting mission of Israel; for the sake of post-Auschwitz Christian-Jewish dialogue it is important to revive this pro-Israel stance in the Gospel. In "Wo liegen die Wurzeln des christlichen Antijudaismus?" (pp. 42-47), von Dobbeler responds that New Testament texts that reflect intra-Jewish controversies and are not anti-Jewish in their original intention, are often misused and have given rise to anti-Jewish traditions that are as important as the original text. Ascribes the growing distance and hostility between Judaism and the Early Church to this internal strife; to Jewish rejection of Jesus; to practices unacceptable to Jews arising from the opening of the Church to pagans; and to the suppression of diversity in Judaism. Michael Bachmann, in "Zur Entstehung (und zur Überwindung) des christlichen Antijudaismus" (ZNT 10 (2002) 44-52), comments on the essays by Weiss and von Dobbeler, arguing that the passages to which they refer are not only not anti-Jewish (as they argue); they are not even the roots of later anti-Judaism. Anti-Jewish interpretations are not inherent in these passages but are the product of the sociological change from a
Abstract:
Church of Jews and Gentiles to a Church almost entirely of Gentiles.
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