Language:
English
Year of publication:
1987
Titel der Quelle:
Immanuel; a Journal of Religious Thought and Research in Israel
Angaben zur Quelle:
21 (1987) 89-98
Keywords:
Jesus Death
;
New Testament teaching
;
Christianity and other religions Judaism
;
Christianity and antisemitism History
Abstract:
A lecture delivered at the Ecumenical Theological Research Fraternity in Jerusalem, February 1986. Discusses the difficulty encountered by many Christians in dealing with the role of the Jews in the death of Jesus. Many scholars and theologians refuse to accept that there is a link between the Gospels' account of the Passion and subsequent antisemitism which was based on traditional Church teachings that dispersion and suffering is the Jews' punishment for deicide, even theologians like Barth and Bonhoeffer. Advocates a new reading of the Gospel accounts, in which Jesus is handed over to the Romans by the Jewish leaders (not the people) for practical political reasons. Presents Jesus as a symbol of the suffering of the oppressed in general, and of Israel in particular, and confirms the divine calling of the Jewish people.
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