Anti-Judaism in Christian Theology:
Pawlikowski, John T.
school teacher who spent his time writing can predict with certainty Yugoslavia's that she tends to focus heavily on the obscure Marxist volumes and...
...But he is right for the sake of the Yugoslavs Dr...
...Her scientific scholarship continues to prop- THE concern is rooted in many years of ex- agate them as gospel truth...
...Klein in her new work...
...As a consequence, unbiased approach to Judaism, heavy reading at times, the overall condestruction visited the Jewish People as a what is absolutely necessary is a clusion of the study cannot be ignored by just punishment...
...Klein's study...
...church...
...As ally continue to depict the centuries beshe makes clear in chapter six of this tween the Babylonian exile and the Translated by Edward Quinn volume, after lecturing for months on a emergence of Christianity as a time of Fortress, $8.95, 176 pp...
...tion of Judaism ought to be ideally...
...It highlights the major problikewise display a better knowledge of tament...
...and not at second hand...
...Only recently the "Law and Legalistic Piety in Judaism...
...This particular approach meant JOOUILEOAT 30 March 1979: 187 and the prophetic message was forgotten...
...had distanced himself from the people question with bluntness: Must the This she attributes to the pervasive antiChristian message forever remain anti- Judaism in the continental theologians IMAGE BOOKS 25th Jewish...
...Some of the educated foolishness observance could thus only lead to tion towards building support for such is funny, as when Merton writes (August human perdition...
...The dustbin of history...
...such as Gregory Baum, Rosemary the general reader, they cast some light They are the total misunderstanding of Ruether, Monika Hellwig and A. Roy on previously neglected aspects of Merdevelopments in Torah teaching during Eckhardt have challenged fundamental ton's personality: his wit, his gregariousthe Second Temple period and the con- Christian assumptions about Judaism on ness, his diverse friendships...
...Its continual Theology makes an important contribu- shared...
...school teacher who spent his time writing can predict with certainty Yugoslavia's that she tends to focus heavily on the obscure Marxist volumes and recently future...
...But traces of the historically true...
...Or is the negation of Jewish exis- and biblical scholars whom these stu- ear tence an ideological distortion of the dents used as resources...
...world of biblical scholarship, primarily died...
...London and at Georgetown University in served as resource materials for her stuWashington...
...He has done a splendid bers for freedom only to remain without on the continent, has made very few adjob, even though he admits that no one it in victory...
...The title of the book is the fact that he is much of the time away stubbornly resist any pressure, external thus somewhat misleading since she convalescing from real and feigned ail- or internal, to bring them back into Mos- treats only in passing a few of the major ments...
...This situation requires immediate The situation in the Anglo-American reconcile this presentation then with and profound correction...
...This is the fundamental issue the overwhelming body of supposedly raised by Dr...
...And, even more impor- understand the Pharisees and scribes only though it leaves to others the actual task tantly, one finds in their writings a con- through the eyes of the gospels is "the of building a new framework...
...The i perspective from which she judged the Anglo-American biblical community and Temple Judaism for these interpret- deficiencies of the scholars ,in question represented by such names as W.D...
...thematic areas: How Christian biblical the closet is the fact that as a young man And yet, in gloomier moments, one scholars view (1) "Late Judaism" and he joined ,the Hitler youth, which is despairs of Yugoslavia's ability to gov- "Jewish Religious Community...
...Ac- has on the whole remained peripheral to lived in semi-isolation at the Trappist cording to the Christian scholars she Christian theological reflection and bib- monastery, Gethsemani, Kentucky, they examined, the Torah tradition had be- lical scholarship...
...vances in rethinking the Christian-Jewish relationship on a theological plane...
...Instead of exclusive great but not impossible task of her- summary fashion her own understanding dependence on Schurer and Strack/ meneutics which is already being at- of what Christianity's theological percepBillebeck, English-speaking scholars tempted by some individuals...
...This book was in large part Paperbound, $6.95 dents...
...a classic...
...Klein, to attempt to lems with clarity and precision, even Jewish sources...
...She contends truth of salvation which the church has that, it is very difficult for an individual been able to recognize only after the teacher to break such stereotypes when THE BIRTH OF Holocaust...
...They no sor Eva Fleischner, Judaism in German in offering an unfavorable interpretation longer were recipients of divine help and Christian Theology Since 1945, this volof Judaism than their German and French grace...
...Klein divides her study into four according to Doder, Dolenc's skeleton in and of European peace...
...Written betinuation of the stereotypical picture of a theological level during the past dec- tween 1962 and 1967, as Lax began a the Pharisees by most authors as rigid ade...
...contain reminiscences about Columbia come mired in one-sided observance, no Thus Anti-Judaism in Christian University professors and friends they longer part of the covenant...
...This stone in the construction of a new Chriscritical stance towards the New Testa- portrait is based almost exclusively on tian theological understanding of ment's portrayal of Judaism...
...As for the Pharisees, they are de- ume constitutes an important steppingcolleagues...
...Some...
...The Bible Today...
...and serves as the party secretary...
...She show a familiarity with the research of -Anti-Judaism in Christian Theol- claims her task is only to surface the pioneering scholars such as R. Travers ogy problem...
...Another is the Croat hope-is that the Yugoslavs have be- a special chapter on the Anglo-American Vladimir Bakaric, now in his late '60s, come so much a part of the West in their scene is included in this English edition who owes his long political survival to life style and aspirations that they will of the volume...
...But some understanding of the Herford and George F. Moore...
...It is regrettable world was found to be considerably bet- the statements of the gospel is a that the author failed to lay out at least in ter by Dr...
...liam Barclay...
...cow's orbit...
...ern itself in freedom...
...traditional anti-Jewish stereotypes con- Dr...
...But the general conclusion of this self-imposed exile on the Greek islands legalists, as an exclusivist sect that stood study is that such theological rethinking of Patmos and Kalymnos and as Merton for everything Jesus condemned...
...They the description of them in the New Tes- Judaism...
...Doder makes a guarded bet systematicians such as Karl Rahner and Two other possible contenders for that Yugoslavia will move towards Paul Tillich and omits entirely others Tito's crown are Defense Minister greater democracy after Tito, and that such as Hans Kung, Edward SchilLjubicic, a Serb, who has passed the Djilas, whom he much admires for his lebeeckx and Paul Van Buren who have mandatory retirement age, and a courage and intellect, will play an impor- at least begun to address the ChristianSlovene, Stane Dolenc, who is younger tant part in this process...
...but is now a dissident, put it this way: overwhelming impression which Doder seeks answers to Yugoslavia's "What kind of a people are we, what emerges from Dr...
...But for Dr...
...new understanding of the Christian- decadence, of internal and external deJohn T. PawVkowski Jewish relationship, she would inevita- cline for Judaism...
...He was supposed to be Tito's suc- His personal belief-or perhaps on French and German authors, although cessor as President...
...The names who still dominate the scene in Stereotypes and scholarship terms of biblical interpretation, 4 Bultmann, Dibelius, Eduard Meyer, AATI-JUDAISM IN CHRISTIAN TREOL- provoked by the attitudes displayed to- Emil Schurer, Benoit, Jeremias, OCT wards Judaism in her university classes, Bomkamm, to name only -a few, generCharlotte Klein especially in course examinations...
...They reveal a much more picted as the archenemies of Jesus...
...To tianity...
...2) hardly appropriate for a Yugoslav leader...
...It ceased to have any bly discover students falling back into history properly speaking, its faith had I N HIS BRIEF introduction to this vol- classical stereotypes of Judaism in their become externalized and rigid, its God ume Gregory Baum poses a basic course assignments and examinations...
...And, anyway, if Tito lives another few Serbian novelist Dobrica Cosich, who (3) the Pharisees and Scribes...
...Judaism in Christian education, basic Although the private nature of their Two especially disturbing trends in theological issues .have hardly -been language makes these letters between Christian biblical scholarship's image of touched...
...and (4) years, all of them may be relegated to the was himself once a Communist Partisan Jewish Guilt in the Death of Jesus...
...sciousness of a living Jewish community same thing-mutatis mutandis-as to to whom an injustice has been done by put together an image of Jesus from the the deicide charge, during the Nazi Talmudic sources and to regard this as In brief period in particular...
...The definSion and in a special way in her teaching teachings on Judaism among those itive commentary on the Infancy Narraexperiences at the Open University in scholars whose writings most frequently tives in Matthew and Luke...
...Christian theologians Merton and Lax relatively inaccessible to Judaism emerge from Dr...
...Let us hope that Jewish question in an initial way...
...Klein attributes this resolution on the part of Old and contemporary Christian scholars: the bischolarly distortion to the almost uni- New Testament scholars to examine blical scholarship that has shaped much versal reliance by Christian biblical afresh their own attitudes and objec- of modern Christian theological reflecscholars on the Strack/Billebeck collec- tively to present Jewish teaching and tion is seriously deficient in its undertion of materials for their knowledge of the Jewish way of life between the standing of the Second Temple period in Judaism and the virtually total lack of two Testaments in the light of their Judaism that provided the context for the acquaintance with serious Jewish schol- study of the original Jewish sources message of Jesus and the birth of Chrisarship on the period...
...The problem with Sec- theological reformulation within the 12, 1966): "Here if you wish to make a Commonweal: 188...
...Caird, began to rely on their own efforts in car- Along with the earlier study by ProfesJ.C...
...While its "catalogue" style of In short, Judaism misunderstood and If we are ever to reach a fresh, presenting viewpoints makes it a bit failed in its real task...
...ers was that the Jewish people of this era would have proven useful...
...perience in the Christian/Jewish Her classroom experiences led the au- Raymond L Brown dialogue as a member of the Sisters of thor to do a thorough investigation of the "A premier event in biblical publishing...
...Fenton and others is less automatic rying out the commandments...
...Davies, Norman Perrin, G.B...
...Klein's catalogue of bewildering and complex problems in the kind of men are we...
...Klein's volume clearly demon- A CATCH of ANTT-LETTERS, by Thomas tinue to plague some of the popular strates that despite the progress made Merton and Robert Lax, Sheed, Andrews Anglo-American authors such as Wil- since 11 Vatican in the portrayal of and McMeel, $8.95, 116 pp...
...We are capable of authors' views on Judaism is that the peoples' national ethos, their history and sacrificing our lives in such great num- community of biblical scholars, at least their character...
...Klein...
Vol. 106 • March 1979 • No. 6
