Christians & Jews: starting over: why the real dialogue has just begun.

From: Commonweal | Date: January 31, 2003| Author: Johnson, Luke Timothy | Copyright information

How should Christians think about Jews? Or better, how should Christians think about themselves with reference to Judaism? This will always be a necessary question for Christians to ask, and will never be an easy question for them to answer.

It is a necessary question because Christians and Jews each lay claim to the same body of sacred texts and the story found in them, but do so in such different terms that each claim appears to challenge the other. It is necessary as ...

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