Has any relationship between world faiths been more fraught with ambivalence than that between Christians and Jews? Christian identity contains within it a unique challenge, in that it both rests on, and derives from, Jewish identity. As a result, Judaism simultaneously grounds and undermines Christian life, pushing Christianity toward two opposite claims: either to supersede (...)
March 09, 2007
Books
Stories Have Consequences
Christ KillersThe Jews and the Passion from the Bible to the Big ScreenJeremy CohenOxford University Press, $29.95, 336 pp.
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