Mature Christianity in the 21st Century: The Recognition and Repudiation of the Anti-Jewish Polemic of the New Testament, Vol. 5
It is a common phenomenon in the history of religions for a new religious community to break away from its parent community, often with scorn and rejection. But in the case of Christianity and Jewish religion, anti-Jewish polemic in the sacred scriptures of the newer religious community has provided for later generations the theological basis for oppressive and dehumanizing treatment of those who have continued to adhere to the old religion. Now that the new religion has itself attained...
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Acknowledgments9Abbreviations of Periodicals10Prologue11Introduction to the Revised Edition16Preface54Introduction: The Role of Polemic in the Sacred Scriptures of Religious Communities571Focusing on the Issue672Anti-Jewish Polemic in the Letters of Paul753Anti-Jewish Polemic in Later Pauline Traditions1174Anti-Jewish Polemic in Mark1325Anti-Jewish Polemic in "Q"1686Anti-Jewish Polemic in Matthew1747Anti-Jewish Polemic in Luke1998Anti-Jewish Polemic in Acts2419Anti-Jewish Polemic in John and in the Johannine Epistles28510Anti-Jewish Polemic in the Remaining New Testament Documents31311Conclusions, Implications, and Future Agenda for a Mature Christianity in the Twenty-first Century321Appendix A: An Illustrated Diagram of the History of the Synoptic Traditions and of the Relationships and Interrelationships of the Synoptic and Johannine Traditions as Perceived in This Study329Appendix B: A Diagram of Our Access to God through Various Major Religious Systems Operative Today332Bibliography334Bibliography for Christian-Jewish Studies346Glossary353Index of Scripture Passages354Index of Authors and Subjects368
