The Elder Brother: A Christian Alternative to Anti-semitismUniversity Press of America, 2005 - 92 pages The Elder Brother addresses the significant issue of anti-Semitism from a Christian perspective. Each of the book's chapters is based on a separate study that investigates the issues that obstruct inter-faith dialogue. Initially, the book addresses the motif of the elder brother as a representative of the Jewish people. Then, the parameters of the Christian faith are set forth in a direct manner. Also considered is the concept of a "chosen people" and the differences between normative Judaism and the "fifth sect," a designation recalling the Christian Movement before it was associated primarily with Gentiles. It concludes with an account of the Holocaust, a brief epilogue, and a short appendix concerning the troubling question: "Why the Jews?" |
Contents
A Bibical Motif | 1 |
The Parameters | 4 |
The Chosen | 17 |
The Fifth Sect | 25 |
No Other Name | 33 |
The Promised Land | 41 |
Pauline Texts | 49 |
Normative Judaism | 59 |
Sifting Through the Ashes | 69 |
Epilogue | 77 |
Why the Jews? | 81 |
Endnotes | 83 |
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Index | 91 |
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