We Jews and Jesus: Exploring Theological Differences for Mutual Understanding
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.
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Book details
- Author
- David Sandmel, Benjamin Sandmel, Charles Fox Sandmel
- Imprint
- SkyLight Paths, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback
- Subjects
- Religion › Judaism
- Topics
- Jewish-Christian relations · Judaism · Jesus in Jewish thought · Jewish theology · comparative religion · interfaith dialogue · religious history
- ISBN-13
- 9781594732089
About the author
RABBI SAMUEL SANDMEL was a biblical scholar and the author of more than twenty books, including Philo of Alexandria, We Jews and Jesus, and A Jewish Understanding of the New Testament.
Sandmel served as Distinguished Service Professor of Bible and Hellenistic literature at Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion, where he was also Provost from 1956 to 1965, and later held the Helen A. Regenstein Professor of Religion chair at the University of Chicago Divinity School. He received his doctorate from Yale University in 1949 and served as president of the Society of Biblical Literature in 1961. He was general editor of the Oxford University Press Study Edition of the New English Bible.
Sandmel was born in Dayton, Ohio, and died on November 4, 1979, in Cincinnati, Ohio.