ABSTRACT
The writers of the New Testament were largely Jewish and laying the blame for the Holocaust at their feet would be absurd. However, the later cultural origins of anti-semitism means that reading the New Testament after the event calls for a new ethics of interpretation. These essays address this grave issue in detail,
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |3 pages
Introduction
part |1 pages
PART I: THE HOLOCAUST IN THE HISTORY OF INTERPRETATION
chapter |15 pages
The Christian Canon and the Problem of Antisemitism
chapter |15 pages
Reading Jesus as a Nazi
part |1 pages
PART II: READING AS JEWS
chapter |11 pages
Blood on Our Heads: A Jewish Response to Saint Matthew
chapter |21 pages
The Apostle and the Seed of Abraham
chapter |13 pages
Double Bind: Sacrifice in the Epistle to the Hebrews
part |1 pages
PART III: READING AS CHRISTIANS
chapter |12 pages
Reading from the Day "In Between"
chapter |11 pages
Woman as Witness in a Post-Holocaust Perspective
chapter |14 pages
Did Christianity Die in Auschwitz?
part |1 pages
PART IV: JEWS AND GENTILES, IN THE NEW TESTAMENT AND TODAY