Jesus Reclaimed (eBook)

Rabbi Walter Homolka is the rector of the Abraham Geiger College, Germany’s first rabbinical seminary after the Holocaust, and a professor of Modern Jewish Thought at the School of Jewish Theology of the University of Potsdam in Germany. Active in Jewish-Christian dialogue, he is author of many books, including The Gate to Perfection: The Idea of Peace in Jewish Thought (Berghahn 1995), Jewish Identity in Modern Times: Leo Baeck and German Protestantism (Berghahn 1995), and co-author with Hans Küng of How to Do Good & Avoid Evil: A Global Ethic from the Sources of Judaism (Skylight Paths, 2009).

Foreword
Leonard Swidler

Translator’s Preface
Ingrid Shafer

Preface

Introduction: The Life of Jesus according to the Sources


The Sources

The Early Years

Public Appearance

Jesus’s Message

Arrest and Trial

Death


Chapter 1. Jewish Images of Jesus prior to the Early Modern Period    


Jesus in the Mishnah and Talmud

The Toldot Yeshu

Rabbinic Polemics against Jesus

Christian Talmud Criticism and Censorship


Chapter 2. The Historical Jesus since the Early Modern Period


Jesus and the Jewish Enlightenment

The Christian Quest of the Historical Jesus: A Departure from Dogma

The Jewish Quest of the Historical Jesus as Repatriation of Jesus to Judaism

The Berlin Anti-Semitism Debate

The “Jesus Scandal” around Max Liebermann

Leo Baeck and Adolf von Harnack: The Controversy


Chapter 3. The Jewish Quest of Jesus


From Joseph Klausner to Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich


Chapter 4. Joseph Ratzinger and the Jewish Jesus


That Jesus Was a Jew: A Cultural Coincidence?

The “Rabbi Jesus”: For Christians Only as Important as Christ?

“Reading the Whole Bible in the Light of Christ”: Joseph Ratzinger’s Hermeneutics

Christian Faith and “Historical Reason”


Conclusion

Bibliography
Index