A Shadow of Glory: Reading the New Testament After the Holocaust

by Tod Linafelt

Overview

The writers of the New Testament were largely Jewish and laying the blame for the Holocaust at their feet would be absurd. However, the later cultural origins of anti-semitism means that reading the New Testament after the event calls for a new ethics of interpretation. These essays address this grave issue in detail,

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415937931
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/04/2002
Pages:	270
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Tod Linafelt is Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies at Georgetown University. He is the author of Surviving Lamentations (2000).

Table of Contents

Introduction: Tod Linafelt Part I: Issues in Interpretation 1. The Holocaust as Touchstone for Biblical Interpretation: Luke Timothy Johnson 2. Specters: Overtures to a Biblical Hauntology: Timothy K. Beal 3. Historical Criticism after the Holocaust: Mark George 4. The Role of the Old Testament in Ancient Christianity and the Problems of Anti-Semitism: Pamela Eisenbaum 5. Was Christianity Murdered at Auschwitz?: Rolf Rendtorff 6. Responsibilities and Opportunities for Doing New Testament Theology after the Holocaust: Lloyd Gaston 7. The Meaning of Saturday in Christian Scripture and Liturgy: Walter Brueggemann 8. Judaism in New Testament Scholarship Since the Holocaust: Craig Hill 9. Interruption: Against the Seamlessness of Reading: Gary A. Phillips Part II: Engaging Texts 10. The Trial of Jesus: John Dominic Crossan 11. When Jesus was an Aryan: Susannah Heschel 12. Women as Witness in Post-Holocaust Perspective: Margie Tolstoy 13. The Passion of Jesus After Auschwitz: A Literary Approach: Tania Oldenhage 14. Blood on our Heads: A Jewish Response to Saint Matthew: Stephen L. Jacobs 15. Jesus' Use of Psalm 22 in Light of Claude Lanzmann's Shoah: Jane D. Schaberg 16. The Jew Paul and His Meaning for Israel: James D. G. Dunn 17. The Apostle and the Seed of Abraham: Richard L. Rubenstein 18. Jewish Scripture in the Epistle to the Hebrews: Jennifer L. Koosed 19. Mass Death and the Apocalypse: Kyle Keefer Appendix: Suggestions for further reading

Editorial Reviews

"These high-caliber essays provide much food for thought and may break new ground for a post-Holocaust hermeneutics." — Shabbat Shalom
"This provocative collection of essays follows the lead of its subtitle...the reader who works through these essays will clearly benefit from the urgent and serious way their authors have raised the issue." — The Bible Today May/June 2003
"[An] excellent set of seventeen essays...I highly recommend this book as required reading for all in the field of Christian Testament studies, to help us begin to set the data and the questions right and to help us interrogate courageously the texts and our own interpretations for any trace of the 'the teaching of contempt' and of the avoidance of the big questions raised here." — Journal of Biblical Literature

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