The Resurrection of Jesus/Jesus in Two Perspectives/The Sermon on the Mount:
Buren, Paul M. van
at the University of Bern. Jewish as well A positive Jewish theology of the...
...Mary's "miraculous" fall Small gestures, large patterns on the ice at school, for another, a fall that produces a pattern the teaching nuns THE BEET QUEER The novel itself reveals a complicated proclaim as the face of Jesus), the women Louise Erdrich web of relationships from which no char- are unremittingly prosaic...
...They seem bound by fate, and so Book Critics Circle award for her orphaned when their mother abandons do their men...
...Wallace bevibrate, throwing out invisible follow their lives from 1932, when Mary comes a respected businessman, and his strings and catching them, weav- comes to Argus, to 1972, when Celes- own sexual encounter is, briefly, with ing its own tensile strand...
...In seek signs and portents to guide their in seeing in Jesus the bond between the Lapide's case, I would call it a glorious lives...
...thor with whom I am familiar, including relationship...
...It's were not deluded or deceivers...
...foundly grateful, precisely as a believing we are out on the cutting edge of the Lapide's book on the resurrection of Jew...
...acter can extricate herself...
...In reading him, level...
...rible past history of hatred for the Jews siah will bring, so he cannot have been Dr...
...novel Love Medicine, Louise Erdrich al- them by flying off with a carnival stunt Karl, Celestine's friend Wallace Pfef, ready had gained acclaim as a poet...
...tributing much in recent years to the dis- been the original language behind the covery of the Jewishness of Jesus, his Greek text, and putting the material in the Paul PS...
...In those forty years, Mary his secret safely hidden...
...He is able to come to this conservative than his Christian respon- developing rabbinic Judaism and the litreasoning by starting from the fact that dent, who is professor of New Testament tle church that the Jesus movement had Commonweal: 564 become...
...How could a Jew argue the Testament evidence that Jesus did not tant to listen to him with care...
...Each of the books the worship of the God of Israel to bil- Christian theological and devotional lanunder review is a product of that determi- lions of Gentiles...
...Does Sita, irascible as ever...
...It all had to do with been reached...
...She themselves enacting...
...It Mary, Sita, and their friend Celestine the community explains his refusal to moved so quickly that it seemed to James are the focus of this novel, and we marry by his undying love...
...For that work of guage that has made his work of prime nation...
...If the char24 October 1986: 565...
...Small gestures of seductive even than the movement of the Karl, the other brother, runs from Mary individuality help them to survive, but do plot...
...Adare), is named Beet Queen during a to the town's unattached women, with A web was forming, a complicated local festival...
...The original author having Jewish ecumenist...
...The men and and naming her, Mary remarks about women who people The Beet Queen are Celestine, "was the first thing Celestine bound by ties that they only partially un- ever did out of the ordinary," and apparLinda Simon derstand, and they live out patterns that ently the last...
...He is build- and slowly goes crazy...
...No more than any of his structed from other Jewish sources...
...Lapide makes a Pinchas Lapide has published in German to become a Christian...
...There could scarcely be a Christian a major Protestant or Catholic theolo- show that Jews have never associated preacher, pastor, or layperson who gian, but even they bear...
...aunt and uncle...
...Despite the often grotesque events in their lives (the Adare children's abandoment, for one...
...Jesus is surely his most provocative and In the second book, Jesus in Two Per- When he seems to misunderstand Chriscost him many a friendship among his spectives, Lapide argues from the New tianity, therefore, it is all the more imporown people...
...fails as a restaurant owner because the rabbis, after the disastrous church as a vital piece of the history of (Chez Sita...
...using the method associated with the soPinchas Lapide and Ulrich Luz Readers should be aware that Lapide is called Jerusalem School of New TestaAugsburg, $8.95, 174 pp...
...It is a novel that throbs, at times, and sets off on his own...
...He lives his life as an escort tine watched as it began to happen...
...vaa Bursa disciples, and the early witness of the context of first-century Jewish life and Jesus movement that was to become the thought, as well as this can be reconWI rH the publication of The Sermon Gentile church...
...The on the Mount, we now have in Eng- Jewish colleagues does Lapide think that subtitle of this study is "Utopia or Prolish translation five of the ten books that his conclusion is the least reason for him gram for Action...
...More daringly, challenge, and stimulate anyone who dates of future events, and dreams ominhe has advanced beyond any Jewish au- cares at all about the Jewish-Christian ous dreams...
...No, in both cases it is a matter well be referring to any of the three Christian church, but it is painful to see a of speaking on behalf of a future greatly women...
...the ordinary" means "as an act of free BEFORE she won the 1984 National Mary Adare and her two brothers are will...
...Mary, most overtly, believes in church and the Jewish people, because he illustration of undying Jewish mes- forces that defy human intervention: she is correct historically in seeing him as a sianism, which cannot help but irritate, reads palms, spits on bricks to determine Jew in a Jewish context...
...Only Mary not alter the patterns which they find with the intensity of its small vignettes...
...Sita, married, divorced, there are luminous moments...
...Wallace, for In one deceptively quiet scene, a mother is welcomed by her aunt and uncle, but example, when he discovers he is nursing her infant daughter notices a resented by her cousin Sita, who even as homosexual, prominently hangs a porspider in the baby's fine hair: a child has aristocratic pretensions and trait of a young woman in his house...
...What he did bring was a Hebrew in the Church (German original, tive relationship between the church and movement that has spread the name and 1976, Eerdmans, 1984), a sensitivity to the Jewish people...
...The three children, one an infant, and Russell Kashpaw, an Indian who collection of her poetry, Jacklight, was set off for their aunt's house in Argus, fought in the Korean War and now, a also published in that year...
...Half of them precisely because he thinks that Chris- with strong arguments against the usual (represented by the second volume here tians are committed to the belief that ways of "getting around" the hard sayunder review) were jointly authored with Jesus is the Messiah, and because he can ings...
...most Christian scholars...
...It was a delicate thing, close to little tolerance for other people...
...Jesus terpreter could open up the text for Chrismove out from under Christianity's hor- brought none of the fruits which the Mes- tians...
...the establishment is called - war with Rome, assumed responsibility God's covenant and so a matter for Mary pronounces it to rhyme with Pez), for reconstructing the Jewish community Jewish prayer and concern...
...Whose case that those Jewish disciples of the identify himself as the Messiah, was not fault is it, one must ask, that he should Jew Jesus of Nazareth, in proclaiming rejected by his people, and did not him- think that belief that Jesus is the Messiah that God has raised Jesus from the dead, self reject them...
...house, that Celestine could not grows up to become a butcher, like her Within these bleak lives, however, bring herself to destroy...
...Many a so- tians, as if the Apostle to the Gentiles had despite many errors and much confusion, called educated Christian, however, not taught us that "Christ" is a proper has carried the central message of Israel might well profit from reading Lapide's name...
...Having a child Henry Holt, $16.95, 338 pp...
...The Beet North Dakota...
...For these women, "out of seem unalterable...
...so-called Jewish-Christian dialogue...
...But for a Jew this in no way shows should not be surprising if a Jewish ining, Orthodox Jew, he is determined to that Jesus was the Messiah...
...Celestine raises around faithfulness to Torah and a life ing a positive Jewish theology of the her daughter alone, requesting that the based on that, and as a consequence, but Christian church which challenges the troublesome Karl stay away...
...What is unorthodox Easter faith is perfectly possible for a been a Jew speaking only to Jews, it about him is that as a committed, believ- Jew...
...On the way, the baby is quadriplegic, who wastes away in a Queen is very much a poet's novel, and taken by a young man who wants to con- wheelchair, also seem characters to the texture of the prose finally is more sole his wife for the loss of their infant...
...On the contrary, thought-provoking case for the latter, over the past ten years...
...he speak for the Jewish people in doing When Celestine says of Mary that she If these are misunderstandings, as I am this...
...Here is ecumenism at a daring praeparatio messianica Lapide is pro- ecumenical importance...
...not alone among Jewish scholars of the ment exegesis: careful attention to the TEE SERMON ON TEE MOUNT New Testament, largely but hardly ex- idiom and imagery of the first-century Pinchas Lapide clusively in Israel, who have been con- Hebrew and Aramaic that must have Orbis, $9.95, 148 pp...
...movement the church had become...
...These theses, rebutting is what makes a person a Christian...
...Not given to reflection, trusting Jew sharing them...
...whom life happens...
...arrives, telling her improbable tale...
...Jewish convictions about the God of Is- The last book, The Sermon on the rael and what had happened in the events Mount, is a careful study of Matthew 5, JESUS IN TWO surrounding that remarkable rabbi from the opening of the Sermon on the Mount, PEIRSPECTITES Nazareth...
...Would his Christian counterpart be "tries to get her imagination to mend the convinced they are, they are first of all speaking for the church in rising to his holes in her understanding," she could misunderstandings on the part of the challenge...
...A pilot...
...different from the past in which both in a visceral response to the world, they Lapide is surely correct theologically Jews and Christians are deeply mired...
...Augsburg, $8.95, 160 pp...
...the distinctive resurrection with the Messiah, to believe would not learn from Lapide's book a stamp of this Orthodox Jewish New Tes- that something authentic actually hap- new respect for this text and for its origitament scholar and rather unorthodox pened "on the third day" that produced nal author...
...His an- staples of the anti-Judaic tradition of the as if the Jewish concept of Messiah came swer is this: "as a faithful Jew, I cannot church, however, are by now shared by near to defining what Jesus is for Chrisexplain a historical development which...
...In fact, the separation occurred even Franz Rosenzweig, in seeing the and remarried...
...Lapide showed with his first book, and build the foundations for a new posi- the Messiah...
...She is taken to be his dead fiancee, and transparent, with long sheer legs...
...No Gentile agreement on Lapide's three theses has Pinchas Lapide had any part in them...
...Again, who has led Lapide to befrom Jerusalem into the world of nations, clear refutation of long-held beliefs, not lieve that differences over Jesus were the as the result of blind happenstance or least because he is critically much more cause of the parting of the ways between human error...
...Jewish as well A positive Jewish theology of the church as Christian readers will be interested in Luz's suggestions that the real issues beTEE RESURRECTION the Easter experience and Easter faith tween Jews and Christians remain after OF JESUS were totally Jewish matters...
...Celes- tine's daughter, Dot (fathered by Karl Karl Adare...
...Eventually, a secondary matter, they were concerned church to come up with a positive Chris- she and Mary find themselves caring for to fend off the increasingly Gentile tian theology of the Jewish people...
Vol. 113 • October 1986 • No. 18
