Jews and Christians Speak of Jesus

This volume of essays is an example of something new and exciting that is going on in North America especially between Jews and Christians. For the first time in almost two thousand years Jews and Christians can sit down as equals around a table and reflect on their profound sameness and deep differences. In a real way this book represents another step Christians and Jews have taken together on the new road to deeper understanding.The issues surrounding the Jewish Christian dialogue are legion-the State of Israel the Holocaust (Shoah) and the Jewishness of Jesus to mention only a few. Dialogue does not mean proselytizing or conversion; instead each faith tradition recognizes and respects its own identity. Any notion that Christianity has replaced or superseded the Jewish people in Gods plan of salvation is both inadmissible and repulsive to the dialogue.One if not the central issue facing serious dialogue between Christians and Jews is Jesus of Nazareth. How can both of these faith communities speak about the itinerant Galilean whose origins and early followers were Jewish and whose subsequent followers broke away from Judaism? This volume attempts to address this question.