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Book
Amy-Jill Levine · 2007
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What this book knows
Jesus was a first-century Jew; misreading that fact has fueled centuries of Christian anti-Judaism that dialogue must now undo.
belonging
a friend on the school bus said to me, 'You killed our Lord.' 'I did not,' I responded with some indignation.
TMJ-RC-003Jews and Christians, although using the same language, imbue the terms with different connotations and so talk past, rather than with, each other.
TMJ-RC-162obedience-and-authority
Jesus tells the Jews 'who believed in him,' 'You are from your father the devil' — origin of the view that Jews are literally 'children of the devil.'
TMJ-RC-088Paul writes of 'the Jews, who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets' — the earliest document in the New Testament, 1 Thessalonians.
TMJ-RC-082faith-and-doubt
The 'Messiah' proclaimed by Christianity, Jesus of Nazareth, is not the messiah proclaimed by Judaism; even our customs differ.
TMJ-RC-196'If you do not know what gives me pain, how can you say that you truly love me?' — to love truly means to know what brings pain to your comrade.
TMJ-RC-100Illuminates
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