Table of Contents
Contributors xi
Foreword Adele Reinhartz xv
Introduction: Allowing Historical Study to Serve Interfaith Dialogue Anthony Le Donne 1
Part 1 The New Testament Jesus and Exclusionary Boundaries
1 Translating Jesus and the Jews: Can We Eradicate the Anti-Semitism without Also Erasing the Semitism? Leonard Greenspoon 11
2 A Jewish Teaching: Jesus, Gentiles, and the Sheep and the Goats (MATTHEW 25:31-46) Joel N. Lohr 29
3 A Dogmatic Jesus Anne Lapidus Lerner 47
Part 2 Early Jewish and Gentile Perspectives on Jesus
4 The Distribution of Jewish Leaders in the Synoptic Gospels: Why Wariness is Warranted Michael J. Cook 61
5 Viewing the Jewish Jesus of History through the Lens of Matthew's Gospel Donald Senior C.P. 81
6 The Trial of Jesus and the Temple: Sadducean and Roman Perspectives Eyal Regev 97
Part 3 Jesus Research before and after German National Socialism
7 Remapping Schweitzer's Quest through Jewish-Christian Polemic, Apology, and Dialogue Anthony Le Donne 111
8 The Dissimilar Jesus: Anti-Semitism, Protestantism, Hero-Worship, and Dialectical Theology Dagmar Winter 129
9 Jesus within Judaism: The Political and Moral Context of Jesus Research and Its Methodology Gerd Theissen 143
Part 4 Jesus in Jewish-Christian Dailogue
10 The Importance of Jewish-Christian Dialogue on Jesus James D. G. Dunn 161
11 Jesus in Jewish-Christian Dialogue Amy-Jill Levine 175
12 Conclusion Bruce Chilton Jacob Neusner 189
Notes 205
Bibliography 235
Index of Modern Authors 253
Index of Ancient Sources 259