An important contribution to the welcome
growth of
religious understanding and cooperation between Jews and Christians.
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.
“Erudite and eloquent, fair and
dispassionate, a timeless classic on a subject never more
timely than today.”
—Rabbi
Michael J. Cook, PhD, Bronstein
Professor of Judeo-Christian Studies, Hebrew Union
College–Jewish Institute of Religion
“Speaks eloquently to the heart of
the questions that continue to exercise us in our current
Jewish-Christian conversations.”
—Ron
Miller, coauthor of Healing the Jewish-Christian Rift: Growing
Beyond Our Wounded History
“A thoughtful examination of the
Jewish Jesus that links Jews and Christians in the fascinating
question of who Jesus really was. One of the great classics in
the study of religion.”
—Prof.
Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth
College; author of Abraham Geiger and the Jewish
Jesus
