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In his well-known but controversial A Jewish Theology, Louis Jacobs argues from the historical and cultural heterogeneity of the scriptural texts that the Bible is the record of how human beings have been confronted by and respond to God. Revelation does not mean that God conveys detailed propositions to human beings but rather that God enables us to have an encounter with God in a “specially intense form.” “It is God Himself,” he says, “who is disclosed in revelation. Revelation is an event not a series of propositions about God and his demands.”1
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Louis Jacobs, A Jewish 7 Theology (London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 1973), 203.
Emil Fackenheim, To Mend the World (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982), xlviii.
Walter Brueggernann, Theology of the Old Testament (Minneapolis. MN: Fortress Press: 1997), 413.
The quotation is from a lecture: Jules Isaac, “The Chrisdan Roots of Antisemitism” (London: Council for Christians and Jews, 1965), 7.
Isaac, The Teaching of Contempt: The Christian Roots of Anti-Semitism (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964).
See particularly Daniel Boyarin, Border Lines: The Partition of Judaeo Christianity (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004)
James Dunn, especially The Partings of the Ways (London: SCM, 2006).
Daniel Boyarin, The Jewish Gospels (New York: New Press, 2012), 6–7.
See especially Gabriel Flynn and Paul D. Murray, Ressourcement: A Movement for Renewal in Twentieth-Century Catholic Theology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012).
See J. Oscar Beozzo, “The External Climate.” in History of Vatican II, vol, 1, ed. Giuseppe Alberigo (Maryknoll. NY: Orbis, 1995), 393.
John Connelly, From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews, 1933–1965 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012).
Karl Rahner, “Towards a Fundamental Theological Interpretation of the Second Vatican Council,” Theologien! Studies 40 (1979): 716–27.
See, for example, essays collected in Emmanuel Levinas, Difficult Freedom (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 1990)
Levinas. In the Time of the Nations (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994).
Michael Barnes, Theology and the Dialogue of Religions (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), 109.
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Barnes, M. (2016). Reading Together. In: Latinovic, V., Mannion, G., Phan, P.C. (eds) Pathways for Interreligious Dialogue in the Twenty-First Century. Pathways for Ecumenical and Interreligious Dialogue. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137507303_5
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