tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8299409348701300460.post5165188763270125713..comments2023-05-25T09:14:35.702+01:00Comments on The Vernacular Vicar: And So It BeginsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08268991293847325315noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8299409348701300460.post-56512315092687116212011-04-13T21:34:00.792+01:002011-04-13T21:34:00.792+01:00Of the NT writings, John's gospel is the one t...Of the NT writings, John's gospel is the one that apparently gives us the impression of blanket condemnation of "the Jews", although it is Matthew, the most "Jewish" of the Gospels that gives us those blood-curdling words, "His blood be upon us and upon our children." However, a careful reading of John's Gospel also suggest that the author may have had "Judeans" (ie Jewish residents of the area around Jerusalem) in mind when he uses the word.<br /><br />One of the encouraging things about recent NT studies of both Jesus and Paul is the recovery of them as Jews in a Jewish context, and the emergence of Christianity within Judaism. Most of the NT writings can then be seen as part of an intra-Jewish debate, especially immediately pre- and post-Temple destruction in 70CE.<br /><br />Much of this scholarship has,of course arisen in the context of recognising that more traditional Gentile Christian views made their contribution to the context of the Holocaust/Shoah. It is tragic that it has only been in this context that the Churches have reviewed their theology of Jews and Judaism in a more positive light. My worry is that much of this, as in with other areas of Jewish-Christian relations, has being sidelined since 9/11. Since then both sides have re-directed the focus of their attentions to relations with the Islamic world.Revsimmyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06723218589040920365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8299409348701300460.post-24709798844497710992011-04-11T11:22:02.006+01:002011-04-11T11:22:02.006+01:00Once you see it once, you notice all the other ins...Once you see it once, you notice all the other instances, sadly.<br /><br />I agree that it's very difficult to try to explain away the anti-Jewish aspects of the NT, but that doesn't excuse us from trying to at least put them properly in context and understand the motivation behind both the ant-semitism and what the Jews actually did.Perpetuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01214396019726161983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8299409348701300460.post-27106238119216026692011-04-11T11:11:24.937+01:002011-04-11T11:11:24.937+01:00I confess that I only read some of her books when ...I confess that I only read some of her books when I was younger, so missed that completely. Sadly, in many ways, much of what is written in the New Testament is, by definition, anti-semitic, more especially when it contends with pharisees and the like.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08268991293847325315noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8299409348701300460.post-58197822385960728092011-04-11T10:26:37.182+01:002011-04-11T10:26:37.182+01:00I used to wrestle with tis whenever I had to prepa...I used to wrestle with tis whenever I had to prepare sermons and addresses for Passiontide. Not sure if I got the balance right, but hope so.<br /><br />I can remember being shocked when I first read the detective stories of Dorothy L. Sayers to see her casually anti-semitic references to any Jewish characters. I doubt she realised she was doing it, which is in itself symptomatic of the pervasiveness of a generalised anti-semitism in our culture then.Perpetuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01214396019726161983noreply@blogger.com