We Jews and Jesus: Exploring Theological Differences for Mutual Understanding

by Samuel Sandmel, David Sandmel (Preface by)

Overview

An important contribution to the welcome growth of religious understanding and cooperation between Jews and Christians.

Filled with warm sympathy for Christianity but also with sturdy intellectual honesty and loyalty to Judaism, this classic work continues to clearly and forcefully guide both Christians and Jews in timely, relevant discussion of the relationships between their faiths. Examining the Jewish views on Jesus throughout history and today, Rabbi Samuel Sandmel introduces the perspective of a rabbi of the liberal wing of Judaism, and presents the scholarship of the last century and a half as pursued by both Christians and Jews.

Without prejudice but admittedly partisan, this book explains why Jesus is of cultural and historical interest to Jews, though not of direct religious interest. It drives home one of the most important lessons of our time—that Christians and Jews can be worlds apart theologically, but also very close in mutual understanding and in cooperation toward desirable human goals.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781594732089
Publisher:	TURNER PUB CO
Publication date:	07/01/2006
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	2.36(w) x 3.54(h) x 0.48(d)

About the Author

Rabbi Samuel Sandmel was professor of Bible and Hellenistic literature at Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion, and was author of many highly regarded books in the field of Jewish and Bible studies.

Rabbi David Sandmel is the son of Samuel Sandmel and professor of Jewish studies at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. He is also the rabbi of KAM Isaiah Israel Congregation.

What People are Saying About This

Ron Miller

Speaks eloquently to the heart of the questions that continue to exercise us in our current Jewish-Christian conversations. (coauthor of Healing the Jewish-Christian Rift: Growing Beyond Our Wounded History )

Susannah Heschel

A thoughtful examination of the Jewish Jesus that links Jews and Christians in the fascinating question of who Jesus really was. One of the great classics in the study of religion. (Dartmouth College; author of Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus)

Rabbi Michael J. Cook

Erudite and eloquent, fair and dispassionate, a timeless classic on a subject never more timely than today. (Bronstein Professor of Judeo-Christian Studies, Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion)